Kelly Slater revealed as secret BeachGrit
user in shock video that has surfing fans reeling!
By Derek Rielly
Online sleuths with magnifying glasses show Kelly
Slater using BeachGrit as a special in-your-pocket
encyclopedia!
You don’t have to dig too far into the ol archives to
realise that Kelly Slater, greatest athlete of all time
with the possible exception of Rickson Gracie, ain’t a
fan of your ol pals at BeachGrit.
Anyway, online sleuths, have foiled Kelly Slater’s supposed avoidance of all things BeachGrit
in an Instagram post by Bob Hurley, the “razor sharp surf
magnate”.
It’s an innocuous enough post.
Kelly Slater talks about a surfboard Florida’s Matt Kechele had
made for the Typhoon Lagoon wave pool, which is now in his
possession. It is five-foot five long and featured on the
cover of Surfing in 1988. Subsequently, it was owned by the Malloy
brothers and used as a learn-to-surf tool by their kids.
Adam Fincham was a research professor from the Department of
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Southern
California. When Kelly came knocking in 2006, swinging his idea of
a barrelling man-made wave.
Fincham had worked mostly in Europe and didn’t know who
Slater was. But Fincham “pulled together a team of colleagues and
undertook a pilot study in 2007.
They decided that, yes, it was possible.”
Two years later, Fincham was director for science at KSWC,
working out of a lab in Culver City, just of out of LA, and using a
1/15th model scale for testing.
Kelly Slater referencing BeachGrit while at his pool? His
essential guide to all things surf? Kelly Slater’s portable
reference tool?
Readers ask: does this suggest better days ahead for the two
spearheads of surfing?
Israeli surfer who organised surfboards for
Gazans warns pro-Hamas west, “How will you react when evil breaks
down your door?”
By Arthur Rashkovan
Sixteen years ago, Dorian Paskowitz said, "God will
surf with the devil if the waves are good.” He was wrong.
Like any other Israeli surfer, me and my bro Alex’s life
revolved around the surf and skate park at Hilton Beach in
the eighties and nineties.
But that childhood as an Israeli surfer had a wild background, a
background of a country seeking peace on one hand and constant
threat on our lives from the other.
Our dad gone for months in the early eighties to fight radicals
in Lebanon.
The scud missiles being shot from Iraq in the early
nineties.
Buses exploding in the heart of Tel Aviv in the mid-nineties.
Stabbings and shooting on the streets in the 2000’s.
Always the feeling, what next?
But there was always a great trust in our protective might, the
IDF army and its leaders and the eternal motto of the Jews “Am
Israel Chai” or “The people of Israel live.”
In August 2007, two years after Israel disengaged from Gaza,
forcefully evacuating Jewish families who lived there, the people
of Gaza chose Hamas, whose very charter called for the
extermination of the Jewish state, as their democratically
elected rulers.
It was a true volatile situation, even worse than before if that
was possible.
The animosity on both ends always existed but we believed we
could create a little love in people’s hearts and show them that at
the grassroots level, with no politicians, we could make a
change.
Maybe it was only in our hearts to start with but we hoped we
were planting the seeds of trust through surfing.
We are not clueless nor oblivious to the ongoing situation or
history. Our Dad owned a restaurant that employed workers from Gaza
and at times if needed they would stay in Tel-Aviv due to blockades
and sleep in our beds.Yes they were our
family!
But they also stole from us. We always kept in mind, do the best
you can to show you’re willing to co-exist but know who the other
side is.Our
parents raised us on the values of mutual respect and that giving
starts the receiving process.
The bottom line of this story that most Israeli’s strive for
peace until we cannot anymore and war is inflicted up on us. The
world points the finger at us but the river of anti-semitism flows
through the capitals of the world.
After all these years we realize this hate is on a subconscious
level. We see student clubs from top universities in the US protest
against Israel all the way to LGBTQ organizations and porn stars,
people who would be executed in
Gaza.
We see Greta Thunberg protesting against Israel, without even
understanding who Hamas is.
We do believe that both the world will eventually say NO to
radical Islam and appreciate the effort made by Israel, the only
liberal nation in the middle east and the only productive nation in
the region.
Our people created a miracle in the desert in 75 years. We do
not believe we are the chosen people but we are chosen now to sound
the alarm of the risk of radical Islam to the world.
Wake up and smell the dead bodies of October 7. The bodies
mutilated. The women raped. The children shot.
With our country again under threat let me ask. Will the
atrocities of October 7 free the people of Gaza?
The dream is dead.
When we stood at the Erez Crossing with the boards in our arms
Dorian said, “God will surf with the devil if the waves are
good.”
Sixteen years later, I’m happy Dorian can’t see this because the
devil doesn’t want to surf.
Instead the devil chants, “From the river to the sea” which
means erasing Israel.
That Devil is now fuelled by an open river of antisemitism of
the non-Muslim world which justifies the Hamas actions, people
rejoicing after October 7.
The only question left is, how will you react when evil breaks
down your door.
Editor’s note: Posted above is a little movie I made on
my first trip to Israel in 2014 to document the little state and
the Israeli surfer. Shortly after it was released, I split Stab to
start BeachGrit with dear ol Chas Smith, whom you know. After
supposed pressure from readers, Stab cut the opening couple of
minutes of the film which included footage of the death camps and
the 1948 War of Independence, there as a little scene setting to
explain why the joint was created in the first place, along with
two important quotes.
First, from JFK: “Israel was not created in order to disappear –
Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the
home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor
demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it
honors the sword of freedom” and, second, from the Mufti of
Jerusalem Mohammed Amin al-Husseini on Radio Berlin, “Arabs! Arise
as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you
find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your
honor. God is with you.” Gotta remember, the mufti’s quote came
before Israel existed.
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Surf industry magically discovers nearly
100 more people to fire!
By Chas Smith
Where were they hiding?
In a move shocking business analysts worldwide,
the surf industry has magically unburied nearly 100 more people to
fire. The Orange County
Register is reporting that Authentic Brands Group
sacked 84 souls. The New York City based management company
completed purchase of the surf industry less than two months ago.
Quiksilver, Billabong, RVCA, DC Shoes and more.
The acquisition celebrated at
Costcos country-wide.
Before the sale, “Boardriders,” as the surf industry was then
called, canned what it thought was everyone. Nearly 7000
hard-working surf industry employees sent to the bread lines.
Surf industry questions swirl
As the dust settles, business analysts are wondering where the
84 were hiding. The human resources operative in charge of handing
out pink slips insists that all bathroom stalls were thoroughly
checked. Also underneath all desks and break room closets.
Covid work-from-home rules might be to blame. Quiksilver,
Billabong, RVCA, DC Shoes and more managers still practicing “an
abundance of caution.”
One likely culprit may be the warehouse where Kelly Slater’s K
brand stored its unsold wears.
Now that the entire surf industry has been fired, business
experts are wondering if #surfonomics will also disappear.
According to the Surf Industry Manufacturers
Association, “The surf industry is driven by a
growing, passionate, and vibrant customer base of participants in
the United States. #Surfonomics is how we define the financial
scale and impact of surfing on the global economy.”
It seems extremely likely.
Here, in any case, is a collection of inspirational quotes by
people who have been fired.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from
Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The
heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of
being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to
enter one of the most creative periods of my life. -Steve Jobs
My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday.
I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they
fired me for being late. -Cardi B
That should do. I hope you feel better now.
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Surf world rallies behind Griffin Colapinto
after title contender endures same hip surgery as Kelly Slater
By Derek Rielly
"I got an MRI and now I’m waking up today with a
fresh labrum surgery from one of the goats Dr Warren Kramer."
Only one month ago, Kelly Slater revealed he’d just
undergone gruelling hip surgery for a “shredded” labrum.
The hip labrum, if y’didn’t know, is a ring of cartilage that
lines the rim of the hip joint socket. It deepens the socket, which
gives stability to the joint, acts a sorta shock absorber when you
rum and jump and helps lube the joint. A small but real important
part of the machine.
Slater, who’s fifty-one, said his hip has been real bad ever
since he did the splits on a wipeout at Sunset thirty-two years ago
and thought he’d snapped his femur. A few years later he was towing
in Tahiti and doing flips off the back of waves when he landed
weird, hurt his hip, and then in the summer of 2000 he went in for
surgery to clean up the mess.
Slater employed the noted orthopaedic surgeon Warren Kramer for
a complete Labral
reconstruction, the doc using a dead man’s labrum to replace
Slater’s old beat-up cartilage.
“Warren got in there and said it looked like a war zone, said he
had to get in there and chop through the woods,” said
Slater.
Last night, the world title contender Colapinto, who is almost
thirty years younger than Slater, got his Labrum surgery from
Kramer, too.
So, turns out this last half of 2023 I’ve been surfing with
a torn labrum in my right hip. I did it during one of my heats in
Wetsern Australia when I hit one of the scary Margaret River end
sections and as I landed I compressed the bone up into my laybrum
tearing it from 11 to 1 o’clock. The pain wasn’t that bad so I
thought it was something to do with my muscle, and maybe it was a
pinching thing going on but obviously I’m no doctor haha.
I surfed the rest of the season trying to figure this thing
out until the season finally finished I got an MRI and now I’m
waking up today with a fresh labrum surgery from one of the goats
@drwarreng
. Thank you @drwarreng 🙏. So
word on the streets is recovery could be anywhere from 2 to 4
months for athletes. So now ill start a new journey to hopefully
come back better than ever and ready to compete at pipeline with my
brothers in 2024!
To Colapinto, Selema wrote simply, “Captain
Resilience.”
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Avida places his son Carmel's board on his
casket.
Teenage surfer killed during Hamas attack
on Israel gets dying wish to be buried with his surfboard
By Derek Rielly
Surfer killed in terrorist raid on civilians
described as "like ISIS on steroids".
Back on October 7 Hamas commandos went on a wild Jew-killin’
spree, ostensibly as as strike on their Zionist enemy, but also
‘cause Hamas sure do like killing Hebes.
Little boys and girls shot dead while cowering under tables
families burned in piles, dancers at a music festival gunned down
like hogs as they fled the killers, a terrorist rage described as
“like ISIS on steroids.”
It drove the west nuts, but not as you’d expect – sympathy,
let’s catch the bastards – but in a frenzy of Palestinian
pride.
In front of the Sydney Opera House lit up with the Israeli flag
Australians screamed “Gas the Jews!”
In Times Square, an African-American preacher delighted at the
killing of “hipsters.” Stores in London vandalised. Green and red
fireworks filling the night skies in all cities.
Even trans-in-sports and equal-pay-for-gals activist Lucy Small
got into the action, posting vision of a Hamas gunman in his
paraglider en route to slaughter innocents with the caption,
“Palestinians in Gaza made history as they escaped the world’s
largest prison”.
Anyway, all that don’t matter to fifteen-year-old Carmel Bachar
and his mum and dad. As he lay bleeding to death, Carmel asked to
be buried with his surfboard and alongside his mama, Dana, also
killed by Hamas.
His Dad Avida, who lost both his legs in the attack, arrived to
the double funeral of his son and wife, in a
wheelchair.