What would Miki Dora think?
Surfers used to be rebels, man. Used to be good for nothing derelicts wasting working hours in the water being all disobedient and unmanageable. All disreputable and disagreeable. There was a time when you’d tell a surfer, “Hey, get your woody off my lawn…” and he, or she, would respond by sneering and not doing it.
Well, that was then, this is now and, today, we have the largest surf media provider, Surfline, bending without apparent fight to the will of the International Olympic Committee by censoring its Teahupo’o cam ahead of the Games.
Tahiti-based surfers who might want to “know before they go” are met with a simple message on the blacked out screen reading, “This camera is currently paused due to broadcasted competition but will return on August. 7, 2024.”
The Olympics hasn’t even started yet, man, and the surfing component will likely not last all the way to August 7. This is pure kowtowing. The abdication of cool.
But what do you think Miki Dora would have done if a bunch of suits told him and his band of Malibu malcontents what they could or couldn’t do with the ocean? You think they would have pulled a Surfline and answered, “Yes, sir, right away, sir, whatever you say sir…”?
No way, man. They would have pulled a Terje Haakonsen and told the IOC what it could do with its “broadcasted competition” while keeping that camera defiantly streaming.
Well, whatever. I’m gonna go find a breakfast smørrebrød to pair with my americano.
Later.
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I’d rather be Kowtowing Chopes, being a coward and not letting go of the rope.
Probably paddle out, catch a wave, and moon them, (and the Wsl crew), for starters.
Apparently he mooned the judges in a contest at the Bu.
”I don’t like bullhorns going off, and people giving me orders on how to ride, how to do certain maneuvers”.
Dora would probably laugh and flip off the weenie surf jounalists and pundits who weren’t even born when he ruled Malibu.
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Why don’t you ask Jonah Hill, didn’t you tell us a million times that he was Dora reincarnated? Or did he tell you guys to fuck off and leave him alone?
USSService is looking to put a sniper cam on a slanted roof…to keep eyeballs on the judges stand! Have already cased it with a drone and a range finder.
That cam sucks anyways…too far away. Watch a wave fold and spit…maybe see a little ant get blown out in channel. Wow.
Pretty sure Swellnet would leave it on…
Micky and crew would paddle out from the other side of the bay, butt naked and bare all in front of the Olympic broadcast and the entire world, then would pee on anyone that tried to remove them from the water….while griff journals.
I wake up everyday at 5am. Meditate for 30 mins. Work out for an hour. A mixture of cardio and weights. Then I do breath work for a 1/2 hour. Then I wrap it up with 30 minutes of journaling while drinking my decaffeinated green tea. I’m kidding. I have a job. Wake up. Coffee. Shit. Off to work I go!
Fucking legend.
in my very limited experience, Dora was a surly demon with a ping pong paddle in his hand, at least when he thought he had better things to do but some obnoxious kid asked him for a game. But he kept his clothes on.
I’m just impressed with the way you’re keeping up this whole “I’m in Paris for the Olympics” thing going from your Cardiff by the Sea backyard.
Nicely done.
P.S.
“get your woody off my lawn” is straying dangerously into Dezza (doing a 1970’s period piece) territory, which is probably best left alone, by anyone, not only you…
P.P.S.
I hope you can get some good enough chicken nuggets to pretend that you really are eating foie gras.
Cheers
insert “I hate me” here and there and everywhere…but keep coming back for more BeachGras w/ Chas.
(Cocaine & Sharks)Fuck the ISA and Surfline too. I hope the surf is tiny and that Pip wins doing turns.
So you won’t be waving a flag out of your car window during the Olympics?
I hope it’s so small that people have to resort to the Huntington Hop.
quick Beach Grit, get a crew down there stat.
set up a cam, and live stream the entire event….or have Byron Mcloughlin swim it and live stream for you.
He owes you for all the coverage you’ve given him.
Old Byron getting reamed out by his “peers” over at STAB.
How’s Mikey C. running the joint?
any change from Assgoblin?
short-sighted. Put a fucking olympics logo in the bottom corner and live stream every second of free surfing in addition to the comp. I’ll watch (or at least have it on in the background.) Run ads throughout and make some money. Why does everyone “in charge” of surf events overlook the value of free surfing?
maybe they paid them to turn it
off?
yea, I saw that today when I went to have a look at Chopes.
i thought – hmm ISA throwing weight around with Olympic anal pressure to own all images. What a pack of cuntards was my next thought. Then, Surfline gobbling dick and kowtowing was next – and then, ah who fucken cares anyway, it’s all just wankery.
Who cares? you’ll be tuning in, drinking beers on the couch yelling at the TV.
I like drinking beers yelling at the couch and sitting on the TV
Anytime
I was referring to the Surfline blackout but you raise an interesting point. My preferred method of consumption is weighted heavily toward the internet. I watch fuckall tv. I mean next to nothing.
So in the absence of clouds or other local phenomena to shake a fist at I usually go and read that piece of crap NZ news aggregator, Stuff – with its half arsed pos reporters. All of whom should be given the humpty coz they all should be writing for Woman’s Day. Stuff normally gets me in a suitably foul mood to then start posting over here on BG …
Surely you stream the internet on your TV though??
And yeah I’ve gone from stuff to RNZ for the local cloud yelling.
Not often, only when YA is around – like now.
Watching France v USA football booting off right now.
Radio Hauraki still worth a listen.