RFK Jr concedes to triple world champ Tudor.

“Supernaturally graceful” world surfing champ schools presidential hopeful RFK in wild online exchange over “racist” food!

“Ridiculous that you are acting like this is a one-sided problem…..it’s a nation wide problem that attacks the non wealthy!

The three-time world surfing champion and black-belt grappler Joel Tudor, described by Matt Warshaw as “supernaturally graceful”, has taken down presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy Jr in a wild online exchange over “racist” food.

Kennedy, the jacked-to-hell sixty-nine-year-old former junkie son of murdered attorney general Bobby Kennedy and nephew of murdered president John Fitz Kennedy, has been eating up the news as he chases the Democratic presidential nomination, although his vaccines-cause-autism rhetoric has given him more play on the right than the left.

Now, following an online post by RFK where he visits a black-run organic farm and claims “Urban African-American communities have become food deserts where you cannot find healthy food”, or redlining and racism is hoarding all the good food for da whites, Tudor has come out swinging.

“Awwwww it ain’t just black people who eat like this …it’s all of poor america! Ridiculous that you are acting like this is a one sided problem…..it’s a nation wide problem that attacks the non wealthy! Take a trip to any trailer park in America and you’ll find this scenario has no color!”

Tudor, who is forty-seven, found support even among RFK’s followers.

“it’s not a racial problem it’s an American problem.”

“Maybe call it proper instead of making it a black issue. It is an American issue. Every grocery store across the country has this issue.”

“Color color color… complete nonsense, every single demographic in the US has this issue. Even upper-class families eat garbage because it is damn near impossible to find farms like @whiteoakpastures.”

“I’ve made this point about a dozen times in this thread already. Bulk chicken is leaps and bounds healthier than eating McDonalds, doritos and mt dew every day. I’m not suggesting that a poor family can afford small farm organic meats regularly. I’m saying that if they just used the money they spend on junk food on bulk cheap options like rice, beans, chicken, pork, etc, they would be way healthier than eating KFC.”

“I second this motion. Come down to North Carolina and I’ll show you the same thing @robertfkennedyjr Its not a race thing. It’s just a system to keep poor people poor and more importantly sick. The drug company Bayer owns the seeds and fertilizers and bug killers that go into the crops which is designed to yet again get people sick so we can then go to their hospitals and pay for their drugs. It an evil circle that we won’t get out of until all the Lobbying stops and all the Politicians aren’t bought. Maybe if the politicians weren’t making millions from insider trading, they’d have time to actually fight for America.”

And RFK, who enjoys being everything to everyone, quickly conceded Tudor’s stunning coup de grace, although, you’ll notice, he conspicuously capitalises Native American and Latino while giving whites the short shrift I suppose the bleached devils deserve.

“You are right, the lack of access to healthy food is a widespread problem. Six percent of Americans live in a food desert today, including one in five black households…good apartheid exists all over this nation, from Native American Reservations, to white and Latino communities.”

Question: is the choice really that binary, McDonalds and Mountain Dew vs wildly expensive organic food, or can the average citizen subsist, happily and healthily on industrially farmed fruit, meat and vegetables thus nullifying the racism angle?


Sarah Brady (insert) haunting surf instructors. Photo: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Surf instructors around the world recoil in horror as Jonah Hill’s vindictive ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady tarnishes once noble profession!

"I was hoping it would get around the surf community and surf industry and I hoped somehow, maybe his fiancé would see one of the worst screenshots and feel validated."

The noble and ancient profession of surf instruction suffered heavy damage, overnight, when beloved actor/director Jonah Hill’s vindictive ex-girlfriend, and onetime surf instructor, Sarah Brady decided to double down on her public airing of dirty laundry under the name of “taking the power of her own story back” and “healing by relating to women that have had similar experiences.”

The second massive tranche of text messages released on her Instagram account features barely concealed rage at Hill for moving on six months after their relationship ended with a fashion maven though possibly sending mixed signals at some point during that process.

Gaslighting, DARVO, boundaries, manipulation and trust all make appearances.

Brady, who has moved to Honolulu, slips into pidgin from time to time.

Surf instructors, already dealing with millions of people sent their way by the universally adored congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will now have to convince their students that they won’t hold on to potentially embarrassing personal information for over a year then splash it out for the world to see.

Like, sharing about those who have unfortunate poo stances, pinch their nose when dismounting the surfboard, burp after swallowing saltwater, put wetsuits on backwards, mix up a shaka with the “I love you” sign, etc.

Extremely unchill.

Brady declared to a friend, “Honestly, originally in sharing all this publicly, I was hoping it would get around the surf community and surf industry and I hoped somehow, maybe his fiancé would see one of the worst screenshots and feel validated.”

Surf students in relationships currently freaking out.


Surfers in New York (pictured) made sad by AOC.

Local New York surfers shriek, wonder what evil they committed to deserve such punishment as universally adored congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encourages nine million residents to take up “Sport of Queens!”

Karma is my boyfriend.

It is summer in the northern hemisphere, that time of year when the ocean water warms, the sun shines and more people than should consider giving our surfing a go. Those amongst us who live in California, Florida, Hossegor are used to soft-topped hordes invading from June through August and generally know how to steer clear. Those living in New York have been spared the indignity mostly because it is such a pain to travel in The City with a surfboard.

The locals who are lucky enough to live on the strand have been able to enjoy that warm water, occasional pulses of swell, sauerkraut festooned hot dogs all by themselves.

Or, at least until just hours ago for, just hours ago, the universally adored congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, took to social media to declare, “Just took a surfing lesson on Rockaway Beach in Queens. It was great. If you’re looking for something new to try, I recommend it! You can take the A train straight there.”

Nine-ish million residents from all five boroughs are now, certainly, rushing to the A train ready to taste the sweet life. Locals shrieking, sobbing, wondering what evil they committed to deserve such punishment. Were they not grateful enough for their quiet paradise?

Too cocky?

Speaking of, did I ever tell you about the time I stole a pair of trunks from Balaram Stack’s dresser? I was in New York on assignment for Surfing magazine with the wonderful then-editor Taylor Paul. We were staying in The City but made it out to Long Beach because we heard, or rather he heard, that there was a little swell in the water. I hadn’t packed any trunks but Paul told me not to worry. We went to the Stack house and nobody was home. The door was unlocked so we went upstairs into Balaram’s bedroom. I fished around and found a pair of blue trunks with a red drawstring (pictured above) that were New York Giants branded. They were a little baggy for my taste but stealers can’t be choosers and so I wore them.

The End.


Surfing hall-of-famer Barton Lynch calls for immediate ban on booze ads in surf, “Alcoholism is a disease, alcohol is a poison!”

"I’d like to see the books after the WSL takes out all the alcohol money and see if they can stay sustainable without alcohol."

Without blowing his trumpet immoderately, it can safely be claimed that the 1988 world champion surfer, former anarchist, butterfly collector and pro surfing commentator, Barton Lynch, is a well-matured and rounded individual.

Lynch, who is fifty-nine, was surfing’s most popular broadcaster before being dumped by the WSL for, it’s rumoured, his role in the activist group Voices4Choices, which questioned vaccine mandates and the role of government during the COVID pandemic; he was called paranoid at the time, now he, and Kelly Slater for that matter, is regarded as a visionary. 

No longer bricked in by the WSL’s Stasi-esque Wall of Positive Noise, Lynch now pours his skill and insight into a lightly popular podcast called The Stoked Bloke Show, which he operates with Peter King, the musician, pro surfer and former bandmate of the aforementioned Kelly Slater.

One year ago on the show Lynch listed four reasons why surf culture had gone to hell. 

“We have our spiritual leader selling soft-tops at Costco, the world’s best surfer choosing not to go to Teahupoo and instead go on a sailing trip with his family and friends, we have the number one surfer in the world (Stephanie Gilmore) with less points than two, three, four five and we have WSL turning its back on Pipeline as a finals venue and choosing Lowers.”

An excellent tirade with points difficult to refute.

Now, and in his latest episode, Lynch has called for an immediate ban on booze advertising within the sport labelling alcohol “a poison”. 

“I would not sell alcohol through the WSL,” says Lynch. “I would recognise that what we’re doing is promoting the sport largely to children and they’re coming up through the ranks and those kids need to be guarded from alcohol. Alcoholism is a diseases, alcohol is a poison and to be promoting it through the sport, and that’s what I said to my contact on the phone when he told me times were good and money was good and it was a sustainable biz model that they had created. I said, I’d like to see the books after you take out all the alcohol money and if you can stay sustainable without alcohol. Then I went, what about the energy drinks? How good are they for people? You’re promoting drinks to people that might not be good for people’s health.” 

Where do you stand on the matter? I think if children take up drinking ’cause they saw it on a WSL broadcast, they should be examined for mental wellness.

More importantly, do you think the WSL would survive if the rumoured five thousand dollars per year Corona stipend was removed?


Premium surf blog cements surfing’s reputation as being impossibly white, straight and past its prime with un-ironic “favorite male surfers” poll results!

What's a Brazil?

Stab magazine, the premium surf publication you have known and loved for decades, is wonderful at many things but mostly wonderful at its lack of self-awareness. Writers penning passive-aggressive diatribes in the royal “we,” a modern ethos somehow centered around “if-you-ignore-it-it-goes-away,” large social media numbers with minimal behind-the-paywall engagement and, best of all, being a “voice of the youth.”

Except.

There is no youth in surfing anymore, premium or otherwise but probably especially premium as recently revealed by the august researcher Craig Sims.

That did not stop the today Oceanside, tomorrow Cocoa Beach-based surf blog from, un-ironically, posting its list of “your favorite male surfers” just hours ago.

Who are they?

You must subscribe (here) but, as a little amuse-bouche, Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater and Mick Fanning all make the top ten.

Brazilians make an appearance at twenty.

Taj Burrow beats Italo Ferreira by a large margin.

Do you like them apples?

Oh you would.