A golden surf era.
Between surf champions Kelly Slater and Joel Tudor, surf chiefs Erik Logan and Jessi Miley-Dyer, surf heaven Brazil and surf hell Lemoore (see: the Satanic mirror) do you think we are right in the midst of a golden surf era? Oh sure it is easy to complain now and again, I’m certain there was grousing about lousy art in the midst of the high renaissance or grumbling about crap plays when Shakespeare was penning in his prime. People gonna people but back to Slater and Tudor et. al., we have a wonderful array of places to look, opinions to fondle, fun to have.
And let us examine the latest from Tudor. Longboarding’s GOAT, recently released from an absolutely draconian suspension for daring have an opinion contrary to the World Surf League, lit up social media this morning with a post celebrating the mass destruction of e-bikes at Lower Trestles.
“Not all cam rewinds are equal,” the jiu-jitsu master wrote “……this one of high tide lowers and all the e-bikes getting washed away might be the greatest moment in rewind history! Zoom in and enjoy.”
The video featured exactly that. Many e-bikes getting washed away.
Reaction was mixed, especially when one of the most handsome men to ever call the surf industry home, Frankie D’Andrea, replied, “Digging Deep for content these days. More surfing and heritage post, less eggy negativity Joel posts.”
Frankie is an e-bike aficionado, you see.
While many called him a “Karen” and a “barn” others agreed, wondering, “When everyone first started riding skateboards down the trail, did the old guys complain about them like Joel does the e bikes?”
Then there were the folks who just don’t jive with Tudor’s rancor.
“Crying and bitching post #233345,” wrote Papa Sunny.
“Tell me you have a e-bike without telling me you have a ebike bwhahahahhahahaha,” Tudor responded.
“An e-bike, not a e-bike. Left school at an early age I don’t blame ya. Hating must be exhausting,” Papa Sunny shot back.
“*An. We start sentences with capital letters around here. Detention for you,” Ob_toon launched in.
“Around where exactly? I wasn’t writing a sentence, I was paraphrasing one. Look it up if you don’t know what that means,” Papa Sunny swung.
“Daddy left you at a young age?” Juicwah asked Papa Sunny, getting in on the action.
“Yes he met your mom on the sidewalk and ran off the bastard,” Papa Sunny replied.
“That was deep! Never aim for the head when ya can drop em with a body shot hahahhahhhahahahaha,” Joel Tudor exclaimed, entering the chat once again.
And what did I tell you.
A golden surf era.
Enjoy.
Elo give yourself a break and shut it..I look forward to the day Ziff comes to his senses and sends you walking . you and jmd are a debacle to the sport. ..oh and stop pinching Jimmy everytime you see him looks weird to the average fellow….just stop.
Joel sure can dish it but he can’t take it nearly as well. He responds to the smallest slights that even Kelly would ignore. Anyways, more groms will have been burned in the water by Joel than the amount of ebikes that will ever be washed away at Lowers.
An E-leash would thin out some line-ups…
lol it’s still getting em!
Snorted my coffee at that lol 😂
You’re off ya head jp ….. seriously- where’d ya grow up surfing ? What was surf culture like in your beach ? Was it sophisticated, in the core sense? Bull shit it was … I’ve spoken to mates ,life long serious committed surfers on the far south coast of NSW , all without exception agree with me,Ewings 9 was best wave in semi against gabby ,your lack of scope to see this makes me think you’re simply a basic capable surfer at best ….you’re a good enough scribe -I’ll give you that ,although I’m not interested in your school kids tbh ,whatever -but after reading every one of your comp reviews,I’ve definitely picked up telltale ticks of a very basic surfer
The “E” stands for lazy cunt!
Wolverine walking the Trestles trail with the goat Joel.
https://youtu.be/wMwCLXmZMHs
Soo where ya “heading” lil fella?
I just seen this on Insta getting a coffee at work.. Then I open BG to a story about the post. Soon all my wishes will materialise and I’ll time travel back to the late 90’s and bang Denise Richards before Sheen got his aids hands all over her.
** Edit** And invent Google ala Hot Tub
“When everyone first started riding skateboards down the trail, did the old guys complain about them like Joel does the e bikes?
Skateboards help people move things namely themselves. E- bikes help dork vibe the entire planet. I hope those kooks lost their keys and all their shit they deserve it.
I sometimes regret leaving San Clemente, but the e-bike plague that has taken hold since then makes me feel better about that decision.
Skateboards and old shitty mountain bikes during my stint…
This reminds me of the Noel Salas video where he announces he’s moving to texas with his wife. You get to see the dead soulless eyes of a man sentenced to a life hundreds of miles away from the beach in the sweltering heat of an endless, culture depraved suburbia. But hey, no e-bikes. Or less anyways.
Waves are pumping!
Joel’s a bit of cunt, I can relate to that.
Joel is the champion that longboarding deserves!
And the one they have! What a win-win.
You see him laughing at the comment about fat autistic kids?
cant laugh any more
At autistic children?
I found it funny as well.
It was a salty joke that included fat autistic kids as opposed to a joke about autism
Would be funny if there actually were fat autistic kids out in the lineup at Lowers. A good joke needs a bit of truth. This just seemed rambling and hateful. Also, if you look at the surfing pics on his instagram you’d think he was one of the autistic kids requiring a “kook rope”.
You sound like one of the fat autistic kids