It was the best of times.
The dreams and manifestations of World Surf League Chief Executive Erik Logan are becoming the stuff of legend. But who could have ever imagined that a boy from Oklahoma with a Jaws-induced fear of the ocean would be gifted a wetsuit of armor, conquer the blue and set his course to sit at the very height of professional surfing power?
Who would have ever thought that his second wish, as a child, was to become a fighter pilot, zooming across the skies in a jet plane, locked and loaded just like Tom Cruise’s Maverick and that he would achieve similar success in realizing?
All true as Logan spent two days very near Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, in Fresno, throwing shakas from cockpits.
Per his very popular Instagram:
What a weekend! Wonderful experience to be with the 194 Fighter Squadron the Griffins all weekend as they went through drill. Meeting the men and women who are defending our country, working to keep these F-15 Eagles in the air, and have dedicated their lives to our safety is beyond humbling. Hearing the stories, and witnessing the family of this figher wing was very speical. Thank you to Col Rob “Tigger” Swertfager for having me on base, and my good Friend Scott “Buzz” Anderson for reaching out to me with this opportunity. More to come from this epic trip! #boyhooddream #f15eagle #liveyourdream. See you at The Merge
Amazing but what do you think is “more to come?”
A Surf Ranch Pro flyover?
Sitting champion Filipe Toledo receiving an opportunity to overcome his fear of heights?
What do you think?
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World Skydiving League the next big thing. Finals day over Trestles.
Elo, Giselle, Jonah Hill, and a shark walk into a bar….
I couldn’t come up with a punch line, but Beachgrit is definitely a joke lately.
ELO never took flight…it was staged just like this.
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somebody posted a “Brokeback Mountain” ELO reference…can’t find it or it was deleted, but with that thought (not in my mind, maybe DR’s)
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When we gathered over Zoom to plan stories about LGBTQ+ lives, Esquire’s Market Editor Alfonso Fernandez Navas said something so profound and significant that we will quote it in full:
(I can just imagine this coming out of the WSL’s CEO mouth)
“Can we, like, have fun?”
Not where I would like to see my tax dollars go.
Kook Yeager!
“See Oprah, I’m not a nerd like you always said.” ~ Oprah’s bitch
FUN FAKT:
Kenny ‘Kenneth’ Loggins took his stage name ‘Kenny Loggins’ from the fact that he was always ‘caught short’ in his senior year of high school between French and Shop Class at Plumbus High School in Cuzinluvon Alabama. The area between the last fire extinguisher on the left and the Shop Class door is still known to this day as the “Highway to the Dangerzone”.
Only E Lo could have friends with the nicknames ‘Tigger’ and Buzz’
Fits the role of goose perfectly.
pisssant/ where’s there air show?
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“got a DUI and you?”
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*just a reminder
With 4 percent of the world’s population, the USA spends as much on the military as the rest of the world combined.
Fully support this. I think the Red Bull Air Race could do with a new CEO.
Elo diminishes women! Let’s cancel Elo!
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After seeing that photo I vow to try and never do a ‘shaka/hangloose’ hand symbol again.
Admittedly it won’t be easy after 40 yrs of throwing it casually on a regular basis, but I’ll try my hardest.
I’LL TRY MY HARDEST…
I evolved to the middle finger years ago as it is easier with broken down arthritic fingers and generally generates a smile from friends and family
I agree with you 100% being a guy from the Gulf Coast I can do better than that him being a bitch ass billionaire you think he would have took lessons from Roy Russell ..Lopez or buttons
It’s so bad. Everytime I see it I get Douche chills.
This morning was surfing a bank that got invaded by a horde of VALs. One was particularly heavy on the hooting and hollerin’, and mf commentated his whole session to his ten friends. Dude looked for all money like ELO. I hated him.
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Hah! I had a full VAL come and sit on me this morning on a terrible bank i was surfing to escape crowd. He then dropped in on me, fell off, board almost hit me, and proceeded to tell me it was his wave because he was paddling first. This is the world we now live in.
I was confronted during a recent session by superVAL for taking a wave he thought should have been his because he was in the water before me
It has to end
Soon. – V. Putin
Fuck. I forgot the best bit! He told me I had a “nice backhand cutback”. I paddled off wondering if he was trolling me.
Forgot to ask, what was your response?
Started having a good go at him but then took a breath and remembered it was 1 foot rubbish. Still have him a thorough schooling on surf etiquette (which is ironic coming from me) but no yelling at old ladies as per Chas
Did he take it well? Full report should be written and published to spare us from Gisele stories.
I think he be Goose
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Cockpits
Isn’t there a line in the new top gun when the foxy fighter pilot “phoenix” meets nerd “bob” and goes “ugh, arent you from lemore?”
“Bob? You’re my new backseater? From lemore? Looks like it”