Thank you, ancient Hawaiians.
The highly-anticipated follow-up to Black Panther, titled Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, stormed into theaters a little over a week ago thus far amassing 67 million dollars and is looking to rake in a further 40 million over the extended Thanksgiving weekend.
Critics are declaring, “Wow! You’ll say that over and over again as this mind-blowing, superhero epic unfolds. Wow!”
And, “The most unlikely Marvel film ever… they take these really small bites of grieving, and they can extend them and live in them, and still be able to tell an engaging action-oriented story.”
The story follows, I think, the fictional Afro-futurist kingdom of Wakanda as it deals with the death of its king and an adventure to the underwater world of Talokan, which is based upon the lost city of Atlantis.
But how does one prepare for life beneath the sea?
With special training from surf king Laird Hamilton of course.
(The film’s star Lupita) Nyong’o recently gave fans a taste of what that was like. In an Instagram video posted Nov. 18, the 39-year-old actress showed snippets of her underwater workouts and captioned the post, “Swimming down to Talokan was not as easy as it looked!” No kidding. Nyong’o wasn’t just logging laps or practicing her flip turn. Her training consisted of swimming drills, crawling and walking along the bottom of the pool, and walking up underwater steps — all while holding one or two dumbbells in her hands. And of course, Nyong’o did it all while holding her breath, with no oxygen tank in sight. “I felt like a crawfish,” she says at one point during the video.
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It’s not a regimen you’d attempt without some expert guidance and coaching, and Nyong’o assures us that she was “safely supervised” by Mark Roberts, a human performance specialist and trainer with XPT Fitness, a “performance lifestyle system” by former pro athletes Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece. In a 2014 article he wrote for Men’s Journal, former pro surfer Hamilton extolled the benefits of working with weights in the water, an approach he attributes to ancient Hawaiians.
As beautiful as it is helpful but… I have just one small question.
If the ancient Hawaiians developed underwater weight workouts is XPT Fitness straight cultural appropriation?
Oh don’t answer. I take it back.
Wakanda Forever.
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You had me at “human performance specialist”
this is the unfunniest article i’ve ever read
How come the Wakandans just stayed there watching European imperialism, AIDS, Ebola, the Vuvuzela happen and did nothing about it? True Swissfricans?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
If you haven’t stumbled across “the drinker recommends” / “critical drinker”, it’s worth a watch.
Wankanda Water!
i’m going to engage with the content!
saw an interview yesterday that mentioned Sigourney Weaver and other avatar 2 cast trained underwater like mad cunts. and apparently Sigourney was staying under for 6 and a half minutes… which is fucking crazy.
gwan Ripley.
Guinness all round
What is really fucked is you guys giving shit to the wsl about skewing the number’s whilst taking pride in your own skewed clicks that are generated by an incorrectly loading comments section that is all by design. All this is ramping up in conjunction with a huge amount of pop ups. Are you cunts taking the piss? Are we pawns playing our part in the big sell? The People are revolting.
They sure are !
I just realized I’m the only one standing in my street burning a backwards Beth T..
Use an ad blocker for the pop ups.
Chaz and Dez need to fix their pop up.
Yes, the people ARE revolting.
BAN THE PEOPLE !
The comment thing is beyond ridiculous. Can’t even be bothered trying most days now. Even in disqus is buggy and ad-spammed now
I’ve been waiting a news cycle but 24h later my comments aren’t as funny. Let’s face it tho, I’m only entertaining myself and by that metric, I’m nailing the KPI.
sally’s house of oars and underwater training pool. where’s the meth room?
wrong article
thank you… sincerely, Snidely Whiplash
Hold your “breath” reeeaal long!
Tim Winton reveals some awful truths in that movie aussie movie. (disclaimer: There was no drug use in the production…The kids got High on surfing and asphixiating the mentor’s girlfriend.)
I didn’t read the article as I don’t really give a fuck about Laird or Wakanda.
I will say the frustration at trying to look at the comments the past day or so has been beyond maddening. This site is all about the comments (it’s clearly not about Chas’ literary ability) and it’s fucking worthless when I try to look at the comments for Sally’s article 10x and every fucking time it takes me to the comments about fucking Zeke Lau (I won’t get into what a douchebag that guy seems to be). Then the Zeke article takes you to the comments about Slater thirst trap, Slater article takes you to the Santa Cruz article, and so on and so on and so on.
What the fuck man? NO other website has these problems!
All a ploy to get those page visits per session numbers up. The irony is that this is the first time in a long while that I was able to get to the correct comment section in the first go. You may have sparked change Barrelled!
Ha! This complaint goes so far back by so many people that it is obvious there is some weird reason it happens. You’re probably right about the clicks but this site is all about the comments section (the actual writing is typically completely worthless) so why constantly frustrate the exact people that make this worthwhile. I just don’t fucking get it and Charles wants nothing to do with the truth (that’s clear from his articles about HIS celebs that no one gives a rat shit about and Dez is way too occupied with bizarre erotic fantasies (typically male) to give a shit.
Disqus is the company that runs the comments. They are owned by a multi-billion dollar corporation that’s traded on the NY stock exchange. They suck almost as much as Expedia, the WSL’s newest sponsor.
That’s an Unholy Trinity of shit co’s, right there.
This site was constructed by a Belarussian code-sweatshop in 2014 and I very much doubt it has been looked at since.
i sense a revolution coming and whilst i don’t care much i want to be part of it
burn the beachgrit comment system to the ground!
If you’re doing it on your phone it’s because you have more than one tab open with Beachgrit. Disqus can’t handle two sets of comments open at once.
Not true. I suspected this and tried, same issues.
Nah, phone and desktop
Check out my link “12 reasons why this website it doing this”
BG Forever! Or until Chas and DR can milk the algorithms another year or two and sell to the lowest bidder.
They’ll probably sell out to WSL.
The irony, while Stab spins up their rebel tour.
Wakanda rubbish is this cunt? ffs
A shameless attempt to piggyback the search engines …. There is method in his madness.
Pretty much an AI run site. But I get it. The AI knows what is best. Wakanda never. Don’t ever say cultural appropriation- that is a term used by the brain dead leftist useful idiots.