The once lightly-esteemed boogie board now king of all craft?
Heroes are made, they say, not born but the adage is under scrutiny, today, as new evidence suggests six preteens and preteen-adjacents just foiled a mass drowning in Australia. Max Laird, Braith Davidson, George Griffin, Harrison Smee, Alex Norris, and Zach Marsden were getting their boogie on at Kiama Beach, a beautiful cove south of Sydney, when they heard screaming.
“My first thought was this can’t be happening,” 12-year-old George Griffin told ABC News. “It was 20 minutes after the lifeguards had packed up and we were just boogie boarding, so all six of us went over.”
They realized that two teenaged girls plus a mother and her three children and become caught in a vicious rip current that was pulling them out to sea.
Without thought for personal safety, the gang jumped into action, kicking out to the distressed. “I got to an 8, 9-year-old kid called Matt, and by the time I got to him he was completely under water, just his hand above the surface of the water, so I was pretty worried,” George continued. “It was shocking, but we just had to do what we could.”
The boys had actually been taking lifesaving classes at the local club and quickly reverted to training, saving all souls, boogie-ing them to the warm safety of land.
And if this isn’t yet another example of how the once lightly esteemed boogie has quietly become a force. I was in a local pizza spot, the other day, and a boogie video was playing on the overhead televisions. Absolute mad men belly flopping into the angriest slab monsters I have ever seen.
Completely transfixing.
Enjoy some here.
I wonder if the moment the boogie began its rebirth was when Kenny Powers kicked into a Florida lineup on one and terrorized the local surfers?
Hmmmm.
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So I settled for 59 mins
Guilty of lazy viewing so I’ll watch aggressive hetero porn for at least 60 mins today
Boogie types outsell surfboards 6-1.
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Boogie re-birthed when the creator passed.
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Bless the booger……….
They may save an Afghani from the violent seas, but they’ll never score a root in life.
Thank the heavens for OnlyFans.
Nah mate, just get you’re region in order !
Boog lyf became a force when their tour faulted and they all were doing it for core lord reasons. How long do we have?
Xox
They are just about that age where a decision needs to be made. Am I going to stand up or be a boog the rest of my life.
a fluid bell curve, a 14-1/2″ by 11″ spreadsheet, linear regression, a Ruler and a panel of experts all on a continunum…not a binary choice any more…such are The Crossroads. Layla? pencil?
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So good for the glutes
See, here’s VONR making the top shelf point. Women look great sponging because it is a natural position, laying down on their bellies to get sprayed. Dudes shouldn’t!
Is that Sasha Jane Lowerson?
I don’t know what you wrote because I didn’t read it. Nevertheless, those kids who progressed from gut sliding to drop knee but never elevated to standing on two feet were total sickos. Is that sorta what the article is about? Love, Dimmy.
I used to see Jack at Sandy’s and Makapu’u back in the late 80’s, Legend!
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And sandboarding! Pair of old sneakers stuck to an older skateboard deck and candlestick in the back pocket. Fun times.
Fuck, I could go a Dimmy aye
That is some really beautiful footage in the video there thanks.
Some really good ones but no one going. Wonder what they’re waiting for …
Oh, you know….
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How about we call those slit splitters?
In his quintessential work, ‘I Surf, Therefore I Am,’ esteemed philosopher Peter Keeft compares Morey to Gutenberg, writing that Gutenberg took the ‘elitist pleasure’ of reading and ‘democratized it.’ Per Kreeft, ‘Morey did the same thing to surfing.’
‘Morey democratized stoke. He made surfing available not only to the young, strong, athletic few but to everyone who’s not completely paralyzed when he invented the boogie board.’
Until this moment, I had always assumed I disagreed with Kreeft, notwithstanding his eloquent and lucid defense of riding waves without the hassle of the pop up. But here, today, like King Agrippa, I’m almost persuaded otherwise.
You mean “Tom” not George Greenough..
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Yes, pretty dumb mistake.
George Morey. We owe it all to him.
Chicken nuggets, chips and gravy, all round!
I am curious if you actually watched that vid Charles? I didn’t a single belly flop nor anyone riding any waves. Hmmm.
You are correct in that dick draggers do charge. Let’s not forget that Ours was a 100% draggers spot until the Bra Boys stole it from them.