"Wearing knee leashes in 3ft Huntington…..y’all are embarrassing us!"
There are few things in this life as trustworthy as Joel Tudor growing irate on Instagram. The father of modern day old-fashioned longboarding will weigh with damning criticism of e-bikes, soft-tops, summer crowds, kooks and inequality. He is almost always, if not always, correct and today is no difference.
Tudor took to his social media tool of choice and posted a picture of Wile E. Coyote holding a sign reading “Stop in the name of humanity” and added, “Wearing knee leashes in 3ft Huntington…..y’all are embarrassing us!”
He was, of course, referring to the U.S. Open of Longboarding, currently in the water at Huntington Beach. Many of the competitors are, indeed, wearing leg ropes in a throwback to the middle 1990s. Agreement amongst Tudor’s 187,000 followers was universal.
“No cap. Logs shouldn’t even have leash plugs,” Chris Cote declared in a rare bit of criticism leveled at his employer.
“Spreading straight facts!! we gotta get on this issue…i’m working on a post now,” Nose Dodgers Anonymous threw in.
“So funny! Dork strap,” Chris Ruddy Surfboards stated.
Surfing Colors might have agreed but took a gentler approach, penning, “Well, in a completion it makes sense no leash, but you have to remember surf is not about a sport that you do alone. Even in a competition, have more people in the ocean, some people just care about the others… Surfboards, specially longboards can be a gun like cars… Can you imagine if every surfer decide surfing without leash? Many surfers look to you as an idol, so be careful with something so important like this subject. I hope everybody who think that surf need to be practice without leash, haves the same words when they need to take someone to the hospital. Surfing is not only about to make myself happy…”
What is your take?
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There’s no surfing style that’s more self-aware and contrived than Joel Tudor’s. The moment you recognize that, he’s painful to watch forever after. Yet he’s made himself the instagram arbiter of style?! What a hypocrite.
Let’s the kooks be influenced however their feeble minds will bend, but if there’s only a few guys out, I wouldn’t be wearing a leash. It is 100% to protect people in small conditions and 50/50 that and to protect my board when it’s big.
Wow, there’s more important things to worry about. Holy shit.
Leash NOT !
Longboarding without a leg rope was a thing… back before leg topes were invented.
This whole “logging without a leash” thing came in (or should i say back), when kooks started to think it looked so fucking cool to look retro. Like riding a fish or wraring a shirt in the water.
Tryhard wannabe kooks more concerned about how they look. And that includes our stoner world champ. Theres plenty of photos of the lord of kook wearing a leg rope on his mal.
When he said “yall embarrasing us” it was the voices in his head arguing with each other.
Ok, I am just a sometimes surfer probably call me a lifelong kook. But why is it bad to have a leash? Longboard just isn’t cool?
Idiots…these are supposed to be “professional surfers”. If they can’t properly ride a longboard without a leash you shouldn’t be allowed to surf in the contest. ANYONE WHO THINKS LEASHES ARE OK IN SMALL HUNTINGTON BEACH ON A LOG IS A FULL ON HARDCORE ULTRA KOOKY KOOK. THERE IS NO DEBATE YOU F…ING KOOKS!!!
We get it. You think not wearing one makes you look cool.
It just makes you look like a wannabe hipster.
I love Joel, I do, I left all this behind when he was Nazi’d and suspended by Logan and his 3rd reich of Surf … but leashes, I longboard, fun shape, I live in Fl with mush, and I’m not good, (I get an A for effort) but I don’t want my log knockin some guppie cuttin thru, nor do I want to chase every 3rd or 4th set … leashes work, this one … Joel, “tie one on” … it ain’t a thang … everything doesn’t have to be discussion, or protest, or a post, or content. It’s a LEASH …
I vote for Kenny, Pedro, and Joel…https://youtu.be/Ig1ytto6rNg
U can’t swim, u can’t surf.
skank?
are dangling car air fresheners still hip?
Joel started on a longboard that was like a big shortboard and when he realized all of the Ted Robinsons of the world would out short/ longboard him shifted his focus/$ real quick
Not wearing a leash is kinda like peeing on a bush in public. It gets a little embarrassing when you’re in your 40s and realize there are kids around… also it’s kinda lame when you see other people doing it. But I ignore all that when I really gotta go… 🤷
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A fucking man-cave! How lucky are those incels. Wish i had one.
People are soft and it shows up every where in today’s world. I mean everything.I learned the hard way to do anything like surfing and I didn’t start on some 10ft log.. hell to the no it was a 5’10 twin fish tail and you can get a program that will teach you to fly your radio controlled helicopter.you think that shit was around the time I had one of course not… punks can’t really learn to swim if they never have to.
JW: you mean to say you’ve never had to drag a longboard while running across the hot sand ’cause you’re arms weren’t long enough for a side carry? or weeks later placed a folded towel on the head and did a hi-wire balancing act to the beach. I swear the latter flattened my noggin. but this was only allowed after completing the 100 yard swimin the salt water lagoon to make junior lifeguards. learned to float & tread in an over- chlorinated swimmin pool. Hence, will never surf a pool. Can still smell and taste that H2O…
I also found this which seemed apt. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I’d never heard of this movie before, but there it was on the internet. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
FS-1 race driver listening to Gomer Pyle sing Our Kentucky Home before the race riots shouts…
1- too wet too race
2- KY12
3- looks like a noose
4- my girlfriend surfs…
Is this the definition of a non sequitur?
ha. yes i guess. or just a huge drop-wallex cut back…with 4 sets of ellipses/
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