"...a destination for surfers and those seeking a surf-themed lifestyle community in Texas."
One of the earlier surf tubs in these not so United States was the NLand Surf Park very near increasingly popular Austin, Texas. The Wavegarden-powered lagoon was founded by beer baron Doug Coors and swung its gate wide in October 2016 after sorting a lawsuit from pesky environmentalists.
Success never came.
NLand was shuttered in 2017 after the lagoon became hurt then, just two years later, Coors and crew sold the whole thing off to our World Surf League.
It has sat dormant since, other than the scrapping of Wavegarden’s technology (the World Surf League owns Kelly Slater’s patented Big Papa Plow™) until just recently.
For just recently, the tractors started tractoring, the excavators started excavating and the construction men started dancing to “I will survive” in form fitting denim shorts.
The Austin Surf Club, which promises “a one-of-a-kind surf residential community where cutting-edge technology and classic surf culture converge. It is a fusion of urban energy and coastal serenity that embraces the adventurous spirit of Austin, Texas and brings the joy of surfing to your front door” has begun selling plots and according to the Austin Business Journal, Tony Hawk and Matthew McConaughey have swung in to purchase plots.
The last time we saw Hawk, he was celebrating elderly gay men with an exciting new eatery. McConaughey was helping Griffin Colapinto lose to Filipe Toledo.
According to Wave Pool Mag:
While a timeline for full project completion has not been announced, developers say the Austin Surf Club will provide a destination for surfers and those seeking a surf-themed lifestyle community in Texas. The project aims to offer a mix of surfing amenities, luxury condominiums, and recreational facilities.
What a day to be alive.
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mmmm, I smell a ex-pat with a young girlfriend.
Super supportive, everyone should move inland
I always live a surf lifestyle. Wake up, check the winds. Head to work. Sit in the parking lot longer than necessary. It’s just who I am and I will be taking this lifestyle to every edge of this earth.
Tony, of course, part of that original Bones Brigade team.
Gosh, just super inspiring – Lance Mountain, you had Steve Caballero, wow, Stacey Peralta of course, gosh, Rodney Mullen, um… Mike McGill, Per Welinder, wow, you had Tommy Guerro.
Tony then went on to form Birdhouse and they’ve had some incredible riders on their roster over the years, Andrew Reynolds, gosh, Steve Berra, Willy Santos of course, right through to Lizzy Armanto and the current generation.
Of course, we all remember that X-Games 900, wow just one those amazing, super inspiring moments.
I’m getting chicken skin just thinking about it!
Rosy, whaddya Love most about Jack Robbo?
you’re making us hate and love Joe more – I commend you
Its like you developed an AI chatbot with the very soul of Joe Turpel. Years and years of surf narration feeding the LLM beast, all in order to further mankind.
AI Turpel at events is the future
How do you feel about the homoerotic pic of the luscious McConaughey?
the inset image of Tony, looks very approving.
Had an epic street skate with those bones boys after they opened a ramp in my old
hometown back in 1989ish. They definitely showed us a few different ways to attack the walls and hills. The Search for Animal Chin played non stop on the VCR. Steve Cabellero and Lance Mountains were the town favourites in those days.
Please keep this up.
Let’s cut to a Bong/Brew break…
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Oh wow
Another “I just threw up in my mouth” moment for the surf (ever so slightly adjacent) world.
Maybe it really is ‘the beginning of the end of the world’ that so many religious zealots (and associated fruitloops and nutbags) have been raving about for years…
Buy more ammo!
Tony has finally learned to turn the tables with his 4th marriage. “Let’s see if she wants half of this!” Tony was heard mumbling to himself as he signed the paperwork.
I think he struggled to keep you know what in his pants. Hopefully he has done a full 1080.
*in his pants…..
more commonly known as Tony’s birdhouse
Charming to see that Griff has really taken seriously McConaughey‘s line from Dazed and Confused with his new girlfriend (who attends San Clemente High School): “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”
Was trying to journalism and see if she really is truly still in HS. Is that a fact?
Yes—a senior at San Clemente HS. Between this, Houshmand’s picture with Andrew Tate, and Kolohe posting photos of underage girls in bikinis on his new clothing line’s Insta, San Clemente may be turning into Epstein Island 2.0.
Probably nothing “Epstein Island 2.0” about it at all.
This is San Clemente you’re talking about, so there’s a good chance she’s another failed homeschooler in her mid 20’s and just trying to catch up to the normal high school age kids ‘reedin n riitin’ level, so she can help Griffy with ‘spalin’ in his ‘jernil’…
After some attempts to try and confirm this, I literally cannot find anything to validate this claim.
It’s out there, but I’m not naming names here.
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It appears she’s scored 4 goals on 4 shots so far this season including two against El Toro back in March!
My friend went to high school in the early eighties on the east side of Oahu and Rory Russel showed up to his high school prom with some girl in his class.
Yikes. Rory would have been around 30 at the time, no?
I don’t know how I old he would have been. Sounds about right
In high school isn’t underage or illegal. Is she 18 or older?
18 as I understand it. But also begs the question as to what her age was when Griff met her given that Griff is nearly 27.
It’s still creepy but not illegal.
the question re: legality would really depend on what age she was when they started dating.
Not trying to defend anything here but dating isn’t illegal either. Not to mention he is probably at the maturity of an 18yr old.
You’d think he has enough game and brain cells to date someone more age appropriate.
Is this a billable tenth of an hour?
all my work for the BG people is pro bono
how would you class Mohamed taking a wife at 8 yrs of age and consecrating the marriage when she was 9?
not highly, but according to some of the below the line commentators here, he’d be a “fuckin legend.”
When is prom?
Grif wins Burleigh and asks her to Prom. Kaipo chaperones
probably began about 4 years ago under the advice of Dr. Joe and Matthew McConaughey.
The relationship began as a meditative tantric experience with no sexual contact, in an effort to help Griffin transcend societal norms and achieve true spiritual presence. He met her at his book club that was group reading Richard Bach books, which lead him to meet his prior and future self and his eternal soul mate wherein age is not relevant and gal pal can continue pumping out Tik Tok videos of her lip synching to Miley Cyrus and doing teenage white girl hiphop dance moves in her pajamas, whilst Griffin dances on waves.
Were you this upset when Brigitte Auzière first banged a 15 year old Emmanuel Macron? I know I was and it still upsets me today…
ah but La France has a more liberal view of sex and politics…like the USA does now…..Macron stalked Brigitte for years…..still together even thoug it’s not usually normal for a young man to marry a much older woman…c’est la vie!
I’m struggling with who stalked or groomed who in their fairy tale romance?
Oh you are not fucking kidding me
Epstein Island 2.0! Surf journalist mode activated @disqus_nEmZsdyY0S:disqus go time!
something has always seemed off about kolohe using minors to promote his “brands”
Its fine, im sure shes read all the how to give blowjobs books in the school library
you should know these things. you live in San Clemente adjacent.
he’s tutoring her through her
journalismjournaling class.Oh you are fucking kidding me
shes 18, lets not go cock blocky although perhaps too late.
and boom goes the dynamite