Belly Slater breaks half-a-century of surfing myth-making!
For a very long time, and until recently, surfing existed in a halo of mystique. The perception was, if you could surf, you lived close to the Gods.
Many, still, cling to this myth.
Well, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which took control of mainland China after defeating Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang in 1949—forcing it to flee to Taiwan and form the Republic of China—has sent shivers down the spines of surfing core lords with proof that… anyone… can surf.
And, wait for it, surfing is…easy.
China Surf Park is an indoor surfing facility in Beijing, an urban surf simulation that uses a standing wave for year-round sessions in eighty two degree water, and not to be confused with Surfland on Hainan Island which has a PerfectSwell tank.
In the clip below, we see a corpulent Chinese boy in tracksuit, fat in the Asian sense and not in the American impossible-to-believe-someone-could-shovel-that-much-shit-down-their-greedy-throats manner, although someone in the comments had given him the epithet Belly Slater for his fat tummy and stubby legs, dancing through the gate of the pool and tearing hell out of the little stationary wave including a chop hop, a move that has eluded most surfers over 40 their entire lives.
Proof that learning to surf, and shred, is all about drills and repetition and that you don’t have to have a steely gaze and big lips and broad shoulders and hair that renders yellow at its ends. The Tim Winton Breath myth, y’might say.
And the wave pool and the arrival of tank jockeys proves that getting good at surfing ain’t no diff to becoming the best speed skater at your rollerskating rink or the king of Dance Dance Revolution in the arcades.
The coldest truth ever, yes?
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The string in my leg’s gone jack
Hahahaha….I’m much taller, and more handsome, but or much the same ball buster attitude
If you know you know.
goofy is the real natural, just sayin’…
Nah who’s leaving?
Just staying out of pointless political convos.
Except that if we do invade Iran it should be at this beach…
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You know me too well.
And another transgender mass shooter making headlines today. Nothing to see here though – transpeople are totally normal!
Always important to differentiate tween the AGP crowd and the hot T-Gals.
Stephen Colbert
LOL. Welcome to the world of “how the media works” and does the bidding of owners and political machines. You must be new here.
Or it’s blatant censorship on a convicted felons behalf
Yes, blatant censorship is the way it has worked since print and TV news and then any sort of broadcast media began.
The purpose of media is to sell advertising and do the bidding/promote the political agenda of the owners.
The agenda gets communicated on down the line. Owners communicate directly with the top editors and program directors, who then direct writers what will or will not be covered.
Nothing new here.
It’s the reason the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine was implemented.
The equal time rule would have mandated CBS/Colbert give an interview to Jasmine Crockett, also a Democrat.
Lucky the FCC never watches Fox
Fairness, pfffftttt…..
Call it what it is, but you can’t
The FCC’s Fairness Doctrine is no longer in existence.
“Call it what it is, but you can’t”
What are you talking about?
All news is biased in the direction the owner leans.
The job of the news is to do the bidding of the publisher/owner/his political allies – not to ensure the public is well informed sans bias.
They will block stories and refuse to allow certain people on the network if it goes against their objectives.
You think the White House wouldn’t allow CBS to put this guy on the air. Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re wrong. This sort of censorship has always happened. You just don’t like it because you think it’s Trump doing it.
Funny, you never cried when the Biden admin was caught censoring views they didn’t like on social media…
Is A kook!
Makes Trevor Noah sound coherent.
All the venues you mention should be replaced
The CT should be elite tracks, not 4 stop parking lots
I am reading True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey and I’m too lazy to find a comment you’ve made that parallels your almost avuncular Aussie tone but I thought I’d share this:
(To a young Ned Kelly): “This here is Bullock Creek my friend and I will tell you now it won’t never betray you. I know all your mates are fine fellows but there ain’t one that cannot be purchased by the police when the price is right and women will grow weary of you farting in their beds and dogs make good company but then they die. This old guy said he has timber 2ft. thick do you know what that means?”
Nice hooting from the shoulder!
Ah the old hot donald….
Just wait though cause Jesse Jackson died which is 100 percent sure to generate a piece of Chas and trigger some hate debate.
As for me I am out, just like watching any more WSL I am going full quit lit.
If you quit they win.
Silence speaks louder than words and non engagement means more free time…win-win!
But you’ll still dabble. You know this.
Addiction is a bitch but I’m trying.
Surfing is healthy❤️
Nothing like a good poo on live telly for your simps to lap up.
Xox
Wearing sweatpants/trainers with a soggy bum on a standing wave is the new olo surfing… sport of kings.
the key here is the knub for a center fin—would be at home in Munich if that wav ever comes back
Oh fuk I died laughing at this one you cunnnnnn’
I love the smell of napalm in the morning…
Yeah surfing is pretty easy. Commenting on surf-adjacent tabloid websites though… That’s were the real skill is.
Mao’s last supper.. No, SURFER! Mao’s last surfer!
Mao 6’1
Hahahahaha
No Australian beef boycott for this yung fella
Manu replaced Supertubes
Let that sink in
so fucked