"I think you’d better know that my current motto here at the mag is..."
The sun rose in Southern California, this morning, with the region’s Subaru-driving 7S Superfish enthusiasts near ecstasy. Certainly there was reason for sads. Kelly Slater, a great hero even though he has recently allied with toxic male Kid Rock, has been forced into the elimination round at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach with the end of an illustrious career one Connor O’Leary x Carlos Munoz loss away. And new favorite surf scribe Emily Morgan had been brutally disappeared by Surfer magazine’s new robot regime but a bright light still emanated in their very souls.
High vibrations.
For Buddha-like Sam George had, once more, dawned the door of surfing and outdoor enthusiasm’s safest space, The Inertia, in order to officially cancel secret spots.
Back in 2003 I got the call that just about every other surfer in the world dreamed of: an invitation to join the Quiksilver Crossing, and a berth on the Indies Trader as it made its way down the largely unknown coast of Nicaragua. Granted, I was editor of SURFER magazine at the time, yet it was still to be like no other surf trip I’d ever experienced. Not exploring a remote coast by boat — I’d been fortunate enough to do that a number of times before — but for being asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement before joining the ship.
“While the basic route is outlined,” read the project’s official website. “no specific references are given in regards to surf spots. Everyone connected with the project respects keeping known and unknown surf spots a mystery.”
Everyone but me. Seeing as how on my watch at the top of SURFER’s masthead, my editorial policy concerning exotic travel stories was to place the trip on a map without necessarily drawing a map, I took exception to this particular ethic.
“That sounds great,” I said, in discussion with Martin Daly, the eminently colorful and opinionated skipper of the Indies Trader. “You want us to reveal the place, promote the place to the benefit of Quiksilver’s brand, but not say where it is. I think you’d better know that my current motto here at the mag is, ‘Death To Secret Spots.’”
After the world’s most important explorer George owned Daly, the piece meanders sensually through a history of exclusion, un-chill behaviors, etc. and back to the preeminent guru’s original position that “secret spots” are bad but, and here’s the orgasm… he wants fellow safe spacers to weigh in. Wants to nestle their voice next to his.
Hit the comment section and let us know how you feel about constantly being shown sponsored surfers riding perfect, empty waves and not being told where they are. Are you inspired? Irritated? Indifferent? Here’s your chance to speak your mind, with your opinion perhaps being one of those featured in the upcoming ”Death To Secret Spots: Part 2”. So stay tuned.
Glory be.
Where is it? Asking for Sam.
erkle is fighin’ for us all! SOS & shit…
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The orginal owners of the ripquickbong gang in the 80s went out of their respective ways to exploit and fuckover every decent surf break on the planet , Nat Young did his best to fuckover every single locals surf spot in Australia with his surfing Australia book sponsored by a fuckin oil company Wayne Lynch was the driving force behind The Search all the time pretending to be some sort of rural survivalist, except for hand shapers the surf industry was and is fucked .
“Most” food gors to raising cattle? Get a grip mate. Not everywhere is grain fed cattle and you can hardly call grass food gicen that humans can’t digest it.
Sure we can populate the globe more if you dont care about loss of habitat.
Most of the increase in ghg emissions comes from the developing world. Thats right, those schmucks in africa with 5 kids per woman.
Secret enough spot.
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Time to put Sam George to bed ,what a flog ,everytime he pens anything
Hey ease up. Chas was never relevant.
Being the protector of a secret spot that is mainly protected by sharks is the only safe bet. Most people I know of who are heavy locals can also fight and are strapped. Even they only surf those spots on marquee days. As far as naming and documenting secret spots for sponsored surfers, not really acceptable. There is an old story that got published in the 80’s about the best left hander in North America that showed up in a magazine. The crew who documented it offered the locals a chance to quash its publication but they decided to slash tires and generally harass the pros. It was then published.
Tomales bay or seaside? Btw I worship Sam George.
There actually is a decent point here but Sam George manages to fuck it up so because he wanted to present his own idiosyncrasies as social justice.
There is nothing I hate more than people who post photos of sensitive waves while emphasizing that the spot is fickle or a secret for social media clout. Sam George made a mistake by saying this is “exploiting” surf mag readers or instagram likers because it’s clearly not.
But the decision to post and name, post but not name, or not post at all should be made by the people who live and surf there. Sam George just wants neo-colonialism where he gets to decide who can and cannot exploit Nicaraguan waves.
While Sam George has his issues—I believe Zac and the Inertia staff–are by far the biggest surf sell-outs from the beginning of recorded surf history—twist almost any story to meet their twisted views and to try and rake in a few more bucks—slime of the surf web-site world.
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Da one Wahine writer not too bad though.
I have been trying to say this for a while now.
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Yes, I had my suspicions also.
An infiltrator maybe?
Well, what should we do?
Let Negs ban him?
Give him a chance?
Magic seaweed isn’t far off either , Matt rote does the same shit
My official stance is that secret spots should only be revealed to marginalized groups. White men should have to find them on their own.
But the bleeding heart liberal (aka Sheesha) handbook says read Surflie, write for the Nertia, and post stupid ass shit on BG that nobody gives a flying fuck about.
I think the appropriate response would be to publish the address of Sam George’s residence and see how well he likes it.
phuck both Georges.
Too many dipshits write for the Nertia.
Too many people on this planet.
say the people who already have their spot … even my fuzzy lib loving heart couldn’t upvote this one. Now if you had said too many Sam George article sightings, SUPs in the lineup, EP credits for ELO, contests at Lemoore, BG articles referencing KS11’s ex girlfriends/IG likes/Pod appearances, surf ‘instructors,’ Teslas …
Google “overpopulation climate.” Click the first non-sponsored link. Should be Center for Biological Diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost….
Jeff Bezos owns the Post.
The Washington Post should be honest with readers about a big conflict of interest: The newspaper’s new owner Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon — which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA.
It’s the law of unintended consequences.
Save the starving masses in Africa and they no longer die like flies. But keep breeding like rabbits.
This is why pipe dreams such as cold fusion are a bad idea. All they will do is lead to massive overpopulation. We might be able to lower emissions but where’s the food gonna come from?