An utter abomination.
General rage is near an all-time high, worldwide, and rightly so, I suppose, as there is currently much to hate. The billionaire class growing fatter by the day while children go hungry, AI putting people out of work while doing a horrible job at basic tasks, politics being entirely reduced to crass name-calling, news media, across the spectrum, entirely unreliable etc.
Worst of all, though, is the proliferation of mini-sawhorses in ocean-front car parks that are being used as surfboard holders.
I remember seeing my first pair not long ago and thinking to myself, “What a stupid thing,” assuming that everyone else who saw them thought the same.
Apparently, I was wrong. 50% of the longboard population, and growing, saw mini-sawhorses holding longboards and thought, “Genius.”
I have no doubt, now, the inspiration will soon spread to mid-lengthers then shortboarders.
I honestly don’t know what the point is. To keep the surfboard clean? To save an extra three inches of bending? To be able to provide a picnic table for midgets in case of emergency?
I hate them and maybe if those of us not infected can erase the scourge, the world will right itself.
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Do they put the board down to store them back in the car?
Probably says a lot about where you surf.
Lit rain drop.
Who are these dickheads????!!!!
The only thing gayer would be a wake surfboard sawhorse
Sea Saw Horses
This is extremely fucked. I already consider North County San Diego to be THE softest surf scene on the planet but this is getting fucking ridiculous. Why not just knit some little coasters for them while you’re at it.
Like long silky black pubes, little surfboard saw horses are awesome when the Japanese do it and gross on everyone else.
board in boardsock on mini sawhorse takes it to another level…
These things are not it. Changing Poncho towels on the hand are gun. No one wants to see your wrinkly little sack and hairy ass hole just because you’re too core to wear a poncho towel. But then again these are 100% the same blokes who think that the young hot longboarder will fuck them because they gave her unsolicited surf tips.
Wimps kook punchos
Have you not learned to towel change without somehow showing your asshole?
Don’t have to because I am not an insecure gay boy trying to be a core lord, looking awkward and changing slow as fuck in a towel.
I’ll drive home in my poncho towel, hood on and nuts hanging free.
never seen one in real life here.
I assumed an American thing related to hangups over nudity?
Been rocking the same one in Australia for a good 15 years with no fucks given.
Also just enjoy poking the ‘core’ community.
bingo
Never Seen one here either. Gay merican surf dude thing ?
Dont use a poncho either but have seen them , weird cross dress types
More like hangups over getting arrested.
did you just learn to surf in the past 5-10 years? What did you do before ponchos
Wtf are you 12? This site is for people whose year of birth starts with a 19. Fancy not knowing how to put a towel around your waist.
Fancy commenting on surf articles in your spare time, using abbreviations like ‘wtf’ and still thinking you’re too cool and core for a poncho towel. Sounds like you might only just fit your own criteria.
Hey noob, the interia is that way —>
Sorry to break it to you, but you’re not as core as you think.
Its a just the façade surfers like you use to act like they don’t give a fuck what people think about them while basing their whole existence on what people think about them.
Haha might be time to set your Disqus to private, core lord. What an ass licker.
P.s. stab is that way —>
Core lord in his hooded poncho towel, hiding his comments so some pretentious wanker on another surf site doesn’t judge me.
This is directly related to people selling second hand items on Facebook marketplace at 90% retail.
If Chas didn’t purport to hate these, I would’ve thought they’d be right up his alley.
zionism is a death cult
Wow dude, gay af.
More 💩 to carry.
They’re for dry-land balance practice.
I suggest you go stand on them, uninvited, with your feet close together in the middle, and jump up and down.
The owners will be impressed with your performance, and pleased that you showed them your skills…
Feel like I’m in a weird, adjacent, parallel world here. Like I’m in a zoo looking at the animals, them looking back at me, and neither of us knowing which one is captive. Why so?
These little things – sawhorses you call them ? – have been a part of Japanese surfing paraphernalia for the entire 20+ years I’ve lived here. Mostly longboarders, yes, but also shortboarders and midlengths, and foilboarders too of late. I’ve never thought anything of it.
Dunno about your parts Chas, but in my parts, almost every carpark is little more than part gravel, part rocks, part sand, part debris. What with boards being basically double price and then some for most Japanese folk wanting a name brand, that puts a Thomas Bexon longboard up around the AUD$3200 mark. Crazy, to be sure, but if I’m spending that on a board – which I’m most certainly not – I’m sure as fucken shit sticking it on a little sawhorsey thing when I wax it and change fins, and put it down to lock the car yada yada.
Not putting it on fucking rocks to appease the rage of an irate ‘Merican 20 years hehind the times…
I’d have to say one of the funniest things about surfing in Japan was seeing groups of surfers standing around in the car parks….in their full suits….in the summer.
and for those who have not been…..Japan gets crazy hot in the summer
Even better, going to the convenience store with their suits still fully zipped, buying some food, sitting down and eating it in the store, then looking at me weirdly when I look at them weirdly. Fuck knows the state of their balls (or bits) in the summer months…
Super yeasty.
Just go the the gold coast or Byron in Winter and look for all the soft cocks in their steamers. Out of the water they’ll be wearing beanies because it’s sooo cold in the subtropics.
Wearing beanies in the subtropics is lame, but wearing them in the full blown tropics is gangster…
Like the indos that keep their helmets on when they’re at the beach, in the circle K, sitting around punching darts etc. Full gangster.
water was 25-28 C all summer and it blew my mind the number of kooks wearing steamers here.
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Americans let adult learners take charge.
No no, Chas just likes to surf their spots. He must love the punishment.
His local has about as much guts as Angelsea.
I’ve literally never seen one of those in person.
Partly because so much of the surf industry is located in California.
So many people trying to make a buck off surfing and the waves are soft so kooks get a pass cause enough bros see dollar signs.
Lawyers
This is a Southern California thing. I’ve never even been there and I can say with certainty this is the only place this is happening. Just awful
Jordy Smith has vanished from the El Salvador heat draw.
injured.
Pulled his talent muscle about 10 years ago.
Damn. I was looking forward to him winning it.