“Ninety-nine percent of surfers are f**kwits. Straight up. You know I'm right."
The Gold Coast-based MMA featherweight Zac O’Brien, an aggressive five-seven, one forty five pounder, went viral over the course of the last week after posting a damning treatise on the emotional makeup of surfers.
Speaking after a surf session that has gone poorly, O’Brien says,
“Ninety-nine percent of surfers are fuckwits. Straight up. You know I’m right. I swear, they are the most egotistic, ego-driven people out there.
“So fucking entitled.
“Would I be making this video if I caught a wave? Probably not.
“It’s had to come across a good, nice super that shares, that doesn’t drop in, that doesn’t think the ocean is there’s.
“You know, fuck off man, blow in this, blow in that.
“Just be nice. There’s enough waves for everybody.”
Responses in the comment pane were a who’s who of surfing and surf media, including our own Charlie Smith, comedy team The Greenroom Times, Gaza Boy Ricky Basnett etc.
It’s a wonderful troll and got the lightly trafficked fighter’s IG account 2400 likes and 559 comments. The post was even shared by transgender surfing icon Sasha Jane Lowerson’s account.
O’Brien, who is twenty five and a bit of a first round knockout lord, followed up the post by replying to a follower who’d suggested boxing gloves be available at every beach so conflict could be resolved with a little ring time.
“There would be no need to have boxing gloves on the beach if every single person who surfed trained marital arts,” says O’Brien. “If you train martial arts you know that if you have an ego, that that ego is getting dropped and deflated on the mats.
“One hundred-percent. If you surf with ego, there’s not many people to hold you accountable.
“And that’s the problem, that’s the ninety-nine percent of people I’m talking about in my previous video. I reckon the answer is everyone needs to start training martial arts.
“Ok sounds silly but it’s true. All you surfers that disagreed with me on previous video I’ll shout you a free session at my gym or you can come and training with me.”
There’s merit in O’Brien’s argument, I think. Getting belted three nights a week by chubby Asian university students, ancient daddies, twinks, girls etc, with very little respite or even success after six or so years has made me exceptionally gun-shy in the surf.
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I can only speak for the MMA/UFC community in the U.S.A. and not Australia of course (Americans shouldn’t be criticizing any other nation at the moment for sure).
This is a sad, sad community of broken men who never came to terms with emotional and self esteem issues from their high school wrestling days… and take it out on each other in their 20s and early 30s.
Plenty of other communities that can and should rip on us “egotistical f{%#kwit” surfers… but guys in tights punching, kicking, biting each other in cages?
No way. Never.
MMA… is GAY
do you put the frangipani behind you ear ,before sculling the hipster brown fizzy foamy wet the whistle stuff…..asking for a friend from Byron…?
Arrr another Instaflog cunt. You fight in a weight class maybe pick a surf spot within your skillset. Maybe also featherweight up at Miami, you might have more fun and catch more waves. And us poor cunts wont have to listen to you sook.
Does little cartoon boy know that fighting has been legislated out of beach regulation?
Everyone should inundate IG cartoon boy and accept his training offer, he won’t have time for business or getting burned on the bank
Mostly surfed the Alley/backbeach, and then Superbank/Dbah with regular jaunts down to Cabarita. Had one day I was surfing the next spot north of Caba headland, was head high and fucking roping and surfed it virtually by myself for two hours. Gray day. No mind on the sharkies then. Was worth serving all that Avo toast to botoxed cunts in Currumbin.
Miami and then Currumbin/Palmy , 10 min fast walk to the alley crossing GC highway, north side of the bridge.
Would’ve been cute as!
Should be thereabouts in the next year. Maybe we’ll hate each other and you’ll realize that I’m another seppo softcock but alas that’s the game we play with internet strangers <3
cunt
well back inn the day a OG Goldy would have only sculled XXXX , not like you knew age wankers with your V fucken B.
Fuck maaaaate , Vb was always our drink back in the old days…if no VB , it was Melbourne bitter with the red can…….as for 4 XXXX , undrinkable….but worst beer , biggest hangover beer…emu bitter,LOL….
yea well you are from Vico mate what do you expect. but yea EB has to be hands down the most vile mass produced beer in OZ.
I kinda get what he is saying given its the Goldy, if ever there was a place full of 99% fuckwit surfers it has to be the goldy , they love a crowd they love a surf comp any sort of comp as long as its a comp , they love a surf school , they love soft as butter waves and they love hogging waves , simply the biggest collection of 99% fuckwit surfers in OZ. now if they would just stay there and stop migrating around the rest of OZ with their shit attitude no one would actually give a fuck about em.
But no the cunts have to share their shit everywhere they go.
In the words of Colonel Kilgore: “You can either surf, or you can fight!
I guess, but what if we feel like we don’t want to wrestle on a mat and feel tough, what if we just want to read a book and listen to the birds
From my time on the GC that I will refer back to ad nauseum to the end of time like a person who just came back from their study abroad, I noticed that the zone is filled with some of the most internet-brain-rotted cunts on the planet who love nothing more than to rip on IG about any and all topics. They all have gorilla brows and tats, love wearing all black or all white, and have a penchant to rant on about spirituality and being “awakened.”
Cunts controlling the weather, a grand plan to neuter humanity, and the like are the big boogeymen.
I could, of course, be projecting on this dude because really I am just a teeny bit embarrassed to have gotten the rot in my own brain at one point. I think it’s the unearned sense of confidence he has on a topic that gets to me. If I can draw on my experience hanging around dudes like this on the GC, I’d venture to guess he has no fucking nuance or understanding how much of a barney he must be despite being a ripper athlete in his own sport.
Did I mention that I lived on the Gold Coast?
what era mate?
Spring 2022-Spring 2024. Just two years
Have you seen louis theroux manosphere doc?
Rings a few bells
Not as gnarly with all the sex trafficking/pimping stuff but just a few tiers off!
I thought it was spot on.
I’m not going to fuckwit it…
I went to the local jiu jitsu dojo (?) the other day for a beginner session and got mad at the people who’d been practicing for years and were way stronger than me because they kept kicking my ass, but you don’t see me crying about it on IG.
hahahahaha
Neck / face tattoos and I’m definitely giving ya the benefit of the doubt on a few waves.
Neck and face tattoos simply tells you that no one will ever hate them as much as they hate themselves.
As a marital artist I also find it had to come across a good, nice super that shares.
“ A slave doesn’t dream of freedom, but of his own slaves – Cicero” – Gladiator 2.
Every time you hear these complaints it’s people who want to change the rules so they’re getting more waves. Since surfing crowded waves is zero sum it will come at someone else’s expense.
Who is ZOB?
Hahaha. Also. All the evidence is in 5’7” and the lack of ability to understand the irony on bragging about a lack of ego…whilst filming oneself. Ffs aye.
P.S. love my short kings mmwhhaaa.
Xox
Hey everyone look at how little ego I have!
It’s so wild.
Xox