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Stand-up paddleboarder (pictured) molesting a child. Photo: Instagram
Stand-up paddleboarder (pictured) molesting a child. Photo: Instagram

New York Times confirms stand-up paddleboarders terrify children

"Every October, hundreds of witches appear on bodies of water across the United States, floating on lakes and bays, ponds and harbors."

The true nature of stand-up paddleboarders is finally crystal clear. When Laird Hamilton introduced the concept to the masses, some decade-plus ago, some considered a regal. There he stood like Poseidon on the sea. Dipping his stick into the waters. Others thought they might like to try. Imagining themselves to be like him.

Majestic.

Then stand-up paddleboarders began appearing in lineups. Their pilots, gangly and awkward, caught waves they had no business catching. They would stand wide, furiously stroking the sea only to stand wider, gracelessly steering their mid-sized ocean vessels. Surfers in their way feared for their very lives. The whole thing entirely messy.

Then a man from Oklahoma with a magical wetsuit of armor appeared. Erik Logan stormed onto our scene, paddle in hand, as the president of the newly formed WSL Studios. He was open and flamboyant about being a stand-up paddleboarder, littering his social media feeds with pictures and videos of his barbarian days.

A SUP life.

Logan was promoted to CEO of the aforementioned WSL though continued to be loud and proud about his affinity for the Great Ugly. His fall from grace not even dinging his dong as the first sighting of him, post-firing, was stroking through the Manhattan Beach pier.

Are SUPs Satanic?

While considered dangerous and unfortunate for much of the past five years, there are new questions as if to stand-up paddleboarding is actually evil. The New York Times, bastion of modern liberalism, recently celebrated godless SUPers in an eerie think piece titled Something Wicked Paddles This Way.

It begins:

At first, the silhouette looked familiar — a person in a pointed hat with a long robe holding a broom-shaped object. But the setting felt out of place.

What would a witch be doing on water, of all places, let alone with an entire coven?

Every October, hundreds of witches appear on bodies of water across the United States, floating on lakes and bays, ponds and harbors. Instead of brooms, they glide on stand-up paddle boards. And while these events are known as witch paddles and number in the dozens, the participants are not on the water to menace. Some of the witches are paddling for charities, and some are just having fun.

Having fun terrifying children which, in most countries, is considered abuse.

Or worse.

Might the time be ripe for us to fund a Sound of Freedom except anti-SUP instead of anti-baby trafficking?

I think yes.

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Picard Madeoff

Hey no ringworms or other infections lately so I have that going for me…

@surfads

East coast aus about to fire up too with a combination of out of season tropical depression and turbo charged southern ocean swell

Picard Madeoff

And yet we are looking at 2-3 in OC this weekend…I’m growing tired of this norm as my 2 years as a born again semiVAL surfer bro has brought me nothing but heartache since mid-July when the waves died. I need my childhood back, yes the simple days of G&S and Logan Earthski skateboards…

Waterproof Polo

This is most definitely all Laird’s fault.

Rich Marx

Brief beachgrit vignette:

Sunday morning I decided to surf Malibu. I’m paddling out through a waist high set at third point and I see this guy a little bit further out than me edit: on a funboard. Not directly in front, but close enough to it that I took a few strokes sideways to get away. The dude ends up bailing his board.

I pop up and look to see what happened to him and make eye contact. “Typical malibu shit” I think as I’m paddling away. 10 seconds later I realize it was Jonah Hill.

I didn’t get any waves. He may have cursed me.

ValiantScorn

Call Chas, he could make a (5) article series about it.

7dollarsurfboard

Jonah is over the Hill
Nick Cage is all the rage

channelbottom

Can I get your autograph?

Sean Connery

You should be able to spot him before he even makes it to the water. Look for a red flag attached to the end of his board that sticks out 5 ft beyond his Rivian’s 4 ft bed.

JoJo the Dog Faced Boy

The curse from whats-her-name to him has been now passed on to you. Enjoy.

@surfads

SUPs have fallen down a couple of rungs in my surf hatred ratings, replaced by the various iterations of foils, SUP foils, tow in foils etc that now plague lineups. Clueless kooks flying towards you with a 4 foot scimitar attached to the bottom of their board. But don’t worry! They’re wearing a gath and padded vest so they will be safe.

Keep it 250m away from me and the rest of us.

ValiantScorn

This sounds like the waverunners at Todos. Don’t fear, the f’rs have helmets, and vest on if they crash into ya….they’ll be ok.

channelbottom

“A LITERAL SAMURAI SWORD…” I believe was the quote.

Tom

There is semi longer ones that even worse – 1/2 way between foil and clubbie board – fuck me so bad

Huckleberry

Excellent summation of the SUP , Chas.

tim_nelsen

this shot shows Hawaii getting blasted from the south? https://upload.wikimedia.or…

Stick man

Paddlephiles…all of ’em!

tim_nelsen

mis information or a dis to keep us amused? Gaussian mathematics at its finest!

tim_nelsen

the final’s picture…where retired enviro-consultants and washed-up CEOs end up… https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4SFR…

Beef & Beer

meh
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Sup witches ain’t got shit on this guy when it comes to scaring kids…

tim_nelsen

shakin up the trouser trout snout or who’s cooking who or tandem companions or which is the man? which is the beast?

7dollarsurfboard

Chas Myth, Man or Smith

Beef & Beer

Take some time out from sup witches to check out the latest show to hit FTL tv live.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The previously untold story, don’t miss it…

Strider's Gobble Neck

The stand up foiler is upon us. Being cooked up in a lab as we speak.

uncool bob

How about this kite foiler getting stuffed by a whale…
https://twitter.com/OurNatu…

JohnsKnees

Guys who wear hats in the lineup are as equally terrifying as SUPers

Manuka

Or have skin problems

JohnsKnees

Having skin problems isnt an excuse to be a kook in the lineup

Manuka

What about not giving a shit about how people look….in the lineup?
Dificult for fashion victims, but give it a try.

JohnsKnees

My comment has nothing to do with how they look, its just an observation that guys wearing hats tend to be dangerous, much like SUPers. Calm down bud.

Manuka

It’s all good. Today i had my 3rd skin cancer removed, so I guess I’m sensitive.
I encourage everyone to use a hat, without regards to how other people see them. I’m so happy to wear one. It is helping me continue to surf despite the adversities.

JohnsKnees

Sorry to hear that, hope your recovery is going well. Keep wearing that hat and be respectable in the ineup and you will help shred that stereotype. Pun not intended.

@surfads

They’re already among us.

Edit: this was in response to strider’s post about SUP foils


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