Come swoon.
I am near certain that you are well aware of the George Santos scandal currently roiling American politics. If not, the short of it goes something like this. Santos, a Republican congressman who just won his seat in New York, was revealed to have lied about basically everything on his resume save being gay (I think).
Not Jewish, not a graduate from Baruch College, never working for Goldman Sachs or Citibank.
Kelly Slater’s wonderful friend, and noted surfer, Tulsi Gabbard, sitting in for Tucker Carlson on Fox News obliterated the poor boy on live television, exposing the untruths and ouch.
Well, not wanting to be a George Santos, I will admit to you openly and honestly that I discovered the below clip on The Inertia. It was headlined, on my Google News feed, “Closeout Barrels in Los Angeles Can Still Be Fun to Watch.”
Catchy.
I stared at it far longer than I should have before finally clicking, immediately getting off The Inertia and arriving at the original YouTube source.
The clip, there, was headlined “Day 2: Surfing Huge Closeouts.”
What I was met with was the most amazing collection of below average skill I have ever witnessed. The waves weren’t huge, by any measure, nor were many closeouts. It is worth a watch, though, for you to measure yourself accurately against the best and brightest of World Surf League CEO Erik Logan’s home break El Porto.
Be honest.
Better? Worse? Equal?
Weekend warriors, some good waves there for sure.
You can trust me on this one—the Inertia are like the biggest sell-outs—EVER..
No, these guys at the Inertia are the worst, Bg doesn’t even come close.
Nothing really special there but it is LA after all.
just wondering for a friend , is Tulsie a love child of Herr Tucker?
She might be older than hair tucker.
thought someone would answer she’s Ruperts love child?
NonJohn watched 6 waves. It’s as entertaining as most surf “edits”. NonJohn is happy there was not slow motion.
refracted…shattered glass…”Troll. clean-up in main dining areas.” A comparison to Blacks, very interesting. But Catalina Is For Lovers gets in the way.
reparations actually came thru for the Bruce’s Beach plaintiffs…they are a multi-ethnic group with a mixed bag of trickery and sympathic enablers. Newsome for prez. fuck me!
Must get good once in a while. Ted Robinson ripped. Wonder who the last good surfer is or was to come out of that stretch of beach.
Dane was there. Later moved to VTA.
Bobbie Massie (sp?)
Best, John Mc Clure
I always thought of John Mclure as Venice but I guess It’s the same beach, just a he north end. I’m clueless how the LA spots are divided up. Never. Heard of Bobbie Massie.
I remember pics of John Mclure driving a beat up convertible all spray painted in Breakout Mag. Never saw him surf in person
You’re from Palos Verdes aren’t you?
heya!
johnnie mcClure is from Santa Monica,
alwayz wuz, but he now resides in Oxnard…
that pic that ya think of,
it wuz in Surfer, year of ’84, + he got thee cover too,:
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
i wuz included too, esh Surfer even had thee audacity,
to call me, me, randy ~ Venice ‘mainman’,
hahahaha, yow!
i,
rw, am from Venice, and i ran that ol’ surfin’ shoppe in Doggie~Town after Zephyr closed down, + z-boy Nathan got burnt out, for many a year, hahaha, good timez, dig~edddd it!!
john mcClure,
his lil’ brother dan,
are from S.M.
dig?
anywayz,
happy new year 2023,
to ya, beachie-grit boyz+girlz!!!
randy
30 days ’til JJF and Medina compete at Pipe. Fingers crossed for good surf!
Clicked on a link about “below average amazing surfers” despite the oxy moron I found an article that was political. Yet these comments appear to be about surfing. Feel like I fell for the ol’ DC dip and twirl. Did I miss something?
comments are the BG sauce/dip, just a matter of what sick clickbait article will serve as the meat / chips.
Well at least there are snacks, not the one to snub munchies.
I’m ashamed to admit that for multiple months I was totally confused by BG’s incoherent headline/article concept. Like someone wandering through MOMA wondering where all the pretty landscape paintings were. And then I realized it was just a comment (cess)pool that CS and DR kept at the top of the ‘surf industry’ web traffic standings by some genius-level concoctions of chatbot sludge using keywords targeted at the most popular news stories of the day. Which inanity leads to more bitching and wildness from the comment pit, which generates more traffic from the regulars to go with all the visitors tricked into clicking on a story they think will actually be about Giselle, which drives traffic numbers/rankings/ad revenue, etc etc etc … and even then it took more time to realize the comment section is just a horde of misogynist trolls who may or may not be actual locals on the NS or [insert SoCal spot here]. All of which speaks to my general lack of cultural intelligence, and perhaps brands me as a kook, although even I knew right away that closing the WSL season at Trestles was a terrible idea. Also, I’ve been surfing for 40+ years, I haven’t actually been a local at Rocks since the 80s, and I once surfed beautiful chest high Honolua Bay on a Wavestorm. So f all of you…happy new year
If you really think this place is full of misogynist trolls you haven’t been here long enough. Granted there’s one guy who’s nuts, one guy who’s just an arch conservative with an axe to grind and occasionally an ex-editor of a surf mag with psych problems pops his head above the parapet.
The rest of us are just guys taking the piss out of the wankers at the WSL / Kelly / the other surf web sites. Oh and taking the piss out of Chas and Derek.
Nothing’s serious here. It’s just a place to hang out and hang shit.
Fair enough. I def haven’t been here long. And the cesspool comment was meant fondly …
It’s a fitting way too end the year for bg
Chas whats the email address to send you guys content? Im gonna get a burner email and send you something (possibly made up) just to get soething original up in lights.
Finding his email is step 1 to becoming a surf journalist.
And that’s pretty much it
Sounds like when they invite you to joing the SAS. They tell you when to go but not where. If you dont know where, they don’t want you.
SAS= special army soldiers
Do you know what the hardest thing about being a surf journalist is…?
using all 10 fingers instead of thumbs?
You got the misspelling thing down so should fit right in.
I raced the Redondo outrigger Ironman(on a weekend) and after surfed the breakwater 10 times better than that with a couple guys. I can’t think of a more shit wave than El Porto. Several boats hulied that day because of swell.
on a good day it breaks like the pipe but with no exits, ever!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
u surf like gumby maybe i dont understand the layers
That’s sad!
Can you pay extra so the “ coach “ on the JetSki fucks off and your allowed surf on your own?
God I hope DR can bury a rail. As for David Lee Scales may have to go on record and assume he sucks at surfing too. Know? All this time we have been blaming the “WOZL” for surfing’s state of affairs clearly the blame is on the surf journalist.
Late 90’s early 2000’s an ex ASP surfer turned big surf brand clothing rep was spending way too much time on the golf course and got a warning: “We are not paying you to play golf we are paying you to surf.” So the rumor goes!
Raced it the whole way then blew the end barrel
In his defense, he is from Coos Bay and has never claimed to surf well. It’s the new thing, what we all think of as “kooks” is the new normal for surfing.
VAL ?????
Tulsi Gabbard accusing someone of lying is rich. I voted for her in 2014 and she did nothing for her constituents. Lying sellout of the worst kind.
State of the WSL art
Bro, you didn’t get A bad Jeep, ALL Jeeps are bad.
How else you gonna surf the sand, hills, and mountains though?
What’s the hardest thing about being a visitor to theinertia….?
Not clearing the browser history?
The Inertia—all a bunch of ‘surf-sell-outs’—(me-thinks), who would kiss anyone’s butt to make a buck or to get some more web hits, from Zach to all his little devotes, who do most of the dirty work there.