Tears in Santa Monica.
Oh but certainly you’ve seen it, by now, and many multiple times. Jordan Anast’s stunning image of a longboarder mid-contest, at famed San Onofre, and that juvenile great white shark shooting skyward in the background. Snapped October 22, the photograph has taken on a life of its own, being featured in every major and minor media across the globe, most recently CNN.
Anast told the left-leaning service, “I didn’t know until I looked closely after, and saw the structures of the fins. Then I realized it was a great white shark.”
Wonderful and, officially, the most viral snap in surfing’s history.
The problem?
Well, the longboarding contest was not a sanctioned World Surf League event, rather a local San Onofre Surf Club shootout, thus leaving the “global home of surfing” far away from the glorious spotlight.
As you know, the World Surf League has been on a campaign to radically alter surfing’s past, present and future since its establishment in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Top officials quickly declared that it was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1976, and dipped into various Wikipedias to burnish the narrative.
Kelly Slater’s first WSL championship, for example, came in 1992.
Sixteen years before the WSL came to be.
In any case, the most viral moment in non-Stalinist WSL history was when Mick Fanning became entangled with a great white shark during a contest in South Africa.
The moment was flashed on screens, globally, including CNN and World Surf League brass did their best to leverage into the stratospheric growth we are witnessing today.
Numbers to the moon.
Not, though, as high as this newest San Onofre sensation.
The question, I suppose, will the World Surf League absorb the San Onofre Longboard Club in order to lay claim or is Santa Monica’s hatred of longboarding more powerful?
Currently more questions than answers.
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Who the hell wrote the title? That’s a complete clusterfuck.
That’s stupid, waiting for his reaction to who she dates next. Who cares, good luck to both extremely attractive rich people. I doubt either one will cry for long.
Interesting NF’s on thruster but the stock Padillacs only come as quads.
I think some famous filosofurs once writed:
“ You feel my heat, I’m just a moment behind
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo”
But also, more to the point:
“ I smell like I sound, I’m lost and I’m found
And I’m hungry like the shark”
But I could be wrong.
About the precise specificity of the poetical contents.
“In demand knowledge,” 😆 🤣 😂 Languages, probably, and only.
‘Liberal studies’…not until you’ve mastered a real skill for which markets will pay real money. Otherwise you’re just competing to fill another useless, overpaid government slot used to justify increased budgets…
to whom: got a 20-shot sequence of calaquervo/$20 bucks a pop = $400. past due!
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Beachgrit shamelessly going jf Hollywood for clicks. Hopefully this makes you tens of thousands anything less and you’re just a cunt
Not a shark that’s a missile shot from the water. That
nucularnewclearnuclear plant on the beach is really a top secret Naval base.Huge galapagos shark surfaced right next to me last week. Paddled straight for the rocks and got rolled on the reef by the set of the day. Haven’t entered the water since. Sharks winning.
Ever since Fonzie first jumped the shark, sharks have been showing that they’re accomplished jumpers too.
And now that they’ve become aware of potential earnings (since Poopies was bitten trying his Jackass shark jump) they’re getting themselves on camera more than ever.
This N.Z. Mako has already featured on morning TV news and in online articles after leaping onto a fisherman’s bow yesterday afternoon.
Was this a planned stunt ?
Will YouTube and TikTok fortune await ?
Who was the toilet paper for ?
More questions than answers (as usual)…
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never has a roll of asswipe been more strategically placed
depends…not yeti
put a lot of thought into that…fillets?
It’s great to have some real news back.
“the left leaning…”
yep, the all-inclusive club wielding its machete-of-divisiveness…
and leaving us with two voting choices (for mayor of lib-la-la city)…
black wetsuit or white shark?
another funny,
stupid story, written by pro~feeser Mr. Chassie Smith,
hahaha…
hmmm…
Gabe finally broke the Saquarema curse
Oooeee!!
2 scores at the end.
just nabigate…
I imagine Handy Eric goes through the same mental machinations as you, Chas, when confronted by a surf adjacent news event.