"He chose to become a major drug trafficker, and he chose to become a killer."
There was once a time when surfing, and its surfers, were outlaws. Living on the fringes of society, man. Rejecting buttoned-up culture and “jobs” and “making a decent living” or an “honest one.” Surfers did whatever they could to keep living the derelict dream which often included trafficking cocaine and sometimes abusing it or haven’t you seen the surf masterpiece Sea of Darkness?
In any case, time moved on, surfing itself became “monetized” and Erik Logan. Still, sometimes after the sun sets, surfers gather in dusky beach-adjacent parking lots, drink beer straight out of the can and reminisce about the naughty noughties and being bad boys.
Well, all that is officially lost with the revelation that a Canadian Olympic snowboarder has been running a murderous cocaine trafficking ring that stretched all through the Americas. The FBI declared it is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of one Ryan James Wedding who, they say, is living in Mexico.
Wedding, 43, popped on the extreme scene by competing for the maple leaf at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympiad where he finished 24th in parallel giant slalom. From there, it was straight on to the delinquent life. Authorities say he organized long-haul semi-trucks to ferry the product from Colombia up to the Great White North. As things happen with cartels and whatnots, Wedding is also being charged with murder.
In speaking about the case, Martin Estrada, U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, stated, “He chose to become a major drug trafficker, and he chose to become a killer.
Erik Logan, in the meantime, chose to become a #Lifeforcepartner.
It looks like he was born into the role.
A wedding consummated in hell.
“I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts,” he said. “My name is Ryan. I inherited this ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts,………….. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.”
Cocaine + Snowboarding: A Sordid History of Snowboarding’s Greatest Love Affair
Book by Chas Smith
3.5/5 Goodreads
Does sound a bit low, the murdering would do that I would guess, but then again what the fuck do I know? Don’t answer that you pukes!
Surfer in his 70s to his mate , I gotta sell my house and move away from the beach.
Mates like why ? your loaded your house must be worth a couple of mill for starters.
Surfer in his 70s , well I don’t have any superannuation you know like I never had a “real,” job and now they track your cash transactions etc.
Mate yea bugger eh.
Snowboarders and Cocaine. A marriage made in powder heaven.
I dunno, this guy looks pretty bad ass https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
My one regret in life is not finishing Sea of Darkness when it turned up in the comments section.
congrats on a hell of a life bro
You can still find the Martin edit here and there, but its pretty shitty compared to the original, which is forever gone. Quick summary of the edited version for ya: Martin good, everyone else bad (especially Boyum).
Not gone forever. Still available, if you know where to look. 😉
How do you tell Martin version vs original..? It popped on YouTube in last month or so..
Iirc, the original version is from 2013.
Pretty sure OG is 2008, 2013 is the version MD edited.
It has a stamp at the bottom identifying as belonging to a production company. I have a copy but it’s nothing like the OG version. All incriminating shit about Martin has been removed.
The YouTube I saw was definitely stamped. The next day it said it was gone due to copyright infringement on Martin. I was confused, but now it makes sense.
Martin owns the rights to both versions so it was probably an infringement reported by him not on him.
How long is the version you have? The one I’m referencing is 85m
Not sure, I’ll have to bring it up at home and check. If there is a stamp at the bottom it’s the edited one. If there’s no stamp send me a copy please.
No stamp visible in photo (front cover image only). Too much of a gamble, since the dvd is US$55. More research is in order. The original must be the longer version.
There’s links on Reddit now for the version that’s 1:35 with a logo at the bottom that says minus something.
That’s the MD edit.
I could be wrong but pretty sure any copy you can get is the edited by Martin version. The original isn’t obtainable.
I saw the unstamped one about five years ago but it was in seperate bit torrent pieces. I was so happy I found it I bought a six pack of IPA to drink when I watched and don’t remember all of it in detail.
…and one fine line of china white and a Heinie? my gang switched channels to watch Looney Toons.
The original is gone, you can’t find it or see it unless you somehow got a copy from Oblowitz. The edited version is the one you can find here and there. Easy to tell, its stamped at the bottom with the name of Martin’s company but I can’t remember the name at the moment.
Plz help me.
Xox
From what I saw of it, Boyum sounded cool as fuck, albeit crazy. Watch the camp burn rather than turn it over. What’s not to love?
Possibly the bit where he steals a LOT of cash from the Maui boys.
And then dies not long after…
Plus the Ricky Raz thing in NY (apparently it was Boyums coke).
And lots of other dodgy shit that other people got busted for, and/or ripped off.
Ah, that must be the part I missed.
They only talk about it briefly and the Maui crew didn’t kill the guy. He died from being a freak and fasting too much.
Jeezuz.
Daly is on heaps of it talking about how he was living on the boat with a band of pirates doing ‘salvage’ of rare artifacts and could’ve become a smuggler with his mates but chose never to do it.
Though some people reckon he’s bullshitting and did some runs before giving up.
His mate Chitty is an unexpected star of the show, ever the fall guy, but not afraid to talk of their constant conquest for ‘tonnage’ of whatever type of thing they were moving at the time.
Tonnage, it’s all about the tonnage…
That’s from the version Martin edited. It was originally about obtaining a boat that had “60 feet on the waterline” in order to be able to haul tonnage of black, it was all about black (not coke, not weed), black tar heroin. The Rader is/was 63′ with 60′ on the waterline. The original movie version had plenty references by those involved to Martin being involved in the smuggling operations. After it showed at and won a few film festivals, Martin realized that he and his cronies would either have to leave Indo forever or risk going to jail forever. Soooo, Martin shelled out somewhere around $500,000 plus to buy the rights to the movie. That allowed him the ability to squash the true version and stories about him so it would never be seen by the Indo authorities. In a failed attempt to re-coup his “investment”, Martin edited the movie to make it look like everything nefarious was done by Mike Boyum (blame the dead guy) and Martin chose the honest path that he is on now. Total bullshit. That way Martin and his boys could stay in Indo and reap the benefits of what they did and what they discovered. This went deep into the surf industry at the time. How do you think they got the money to start some of those big clothing companies? Anyway, you will never see the real version made by Oblowitz, NEVER.
Asian smack aint black.
Thats mex rubbish
It was referred to as black back then Bexy. Now go try to get that Trump doll out of your ass
You said black tar
My apologies. It’s all the same to me, never sampled either.
Maybe opium, then. There’s Asian H that’s light brown, and Persian is tan. Mex tar is fine, if it hasn’t been cut too much.
China white is .. white.
Yeah
Exactly
That’s what I said but without the long-winded bits everyone already knows.
P.S.
‘Black’ refers to Nepalese hashish actually, not smack.
Black tar is from Mexico and the America’s.
Asian heroin is more refined and pale, sometimes even white…
so kelly bought THAI Stick novel written by Peter Maguire to avoid exposure of who? ya!! my friends of friends were smuggling afghani hash from Morroco and someone died. 50K and I’ll not mention their names.
P.S. TSJ Milius piece by PM mentions taking ‘Stick’ to him for possible convert into a TV SERIES.
Kinda looks like Lawrence from office space… “watch your cornhole bud!”
“Surfers did whatever they could to keep living the derelict dream which often included trafficking cocaine and sometimes abusing it or haven’t you seen the surf masterpiece Sea of Darkness?”
“In any case, time moved on, surfing itself became “monetized” and Erik Logan.”
Are either of those sentences (if that’s what they are) supposed to make sense? And Sea of Darkness sure as hell ain’t about cocaine, it’s about running black, aka heroin.
I’m more surprised Chas didn’t link to his book on cocaine and surfing. I’d say he’s slipping but can he go any lower/get any lazier?
Was thinking the same as I wrote that. How in the hell did he miss the opportunity to plug that book?
he knew one of us would do it for him
ha…i didnt miss the oppt…see below. yep…he slipped up man.
Some kook with hair uglier than what’s on JJF’s and Nathan’s face. Didn’t know it was possible.
See below…Prince Hairy.