To show or to no-show, that is the question.
Surfing is, obviously, an activity done shoeless though life outside of the water demands at least some attention given the foots. Now, there are two broad categories of the surfer on land: 1) The one who refuses to wear shoes and flaps around in sandals. 2) The surfer who wears shoes. And amongst surfers who wear shoes there are three subcategories: 1) The surfer who wears no socks. 2) The surfer who wears no-show or ankle socks. 3) The surfer who wears crew socks.
Yesterday, while feeling the pain of American professional surfers needing to make Thanksgiving plans but caught up in much uncertainty, I brought the issue to light and used a photograph of American surfer Griffin Colapinto to illustrate.
There he sat, slumped against a wall, head in hands, likely thinking about how much non-refundable tickets to Abu Dhabi are going to set him back and especially if he has to pay for his girlfriend’s sitter and her parents or just her parents.
Initially, I focused on the tortured expression on his face, but my attention was soon pulled south, to his feets, and there I saw something I have never before seen.
Studying the tan line striations, Colapinto appears to be a shoe-wearer but shifts between no-show socks and crew socks at a ratio of 1/3 no-show to 2/3 crew.
Unprecedented, certainly, and never before witnessed especially at the 1/3 – 2/3 numbers but it did make me wonder: If you are a shoe-wearer, do you count yourself amongst the no-show or amongst the crew?
Do you hate members from the other tribe or do you tolerate?
Back to Colapinto and his switch hitting, though. Man. Wild.
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This is an easy one. If it’s warm enough for shorts, you should have flip flops on. If it’s pants, then crew or an ankle doesn’t matter unless you are cuffing or high hem to show a bit of ankle or fancy socks
Meanwhile in Australia the debate is can you walk into the supermarket barefoot.
Fuck wearing shoes. These all-terrain 4x4s will get you anywhere ya need to go https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Exactly. Feet need to breathe. Not trapped into a stink shelter.
Why did you buy thongs three sizes too big?
Spreads the load for easier walking in soft sand (kinda like snow shoes), edge protection in rocky bits, perfect on a hot footpath when getting a summer ice-cream, and a feeling of coastal coolness for a late lunch/evening out in the city
Used to have em like that in the 80’s and 90’s
Should get some more really…
See brother thats why I rely on you for important info like this, outstanding and now I know and am better for it
Thongs are for pussies that can’t hand the heat or the grit.
(In relation to our other comments)
Nah just kidding, broken glass sucks
exactly.
Almost like the protective ring on a dodgem cart?
100% mate- buy em bigger and get the benefits.
This a proper game changer cuz me currents ones are on their last legs and about to go
The same reason you’d put 35inch tyres on your ute
It’s Friday night
What is your Purpose Gatorade?
And will Strayan Cunt engage, while a Jury of our peers watch on to keep the score.
SCUM vs CUNT
What about the one footed thong tan line you get from long scooter rides in indo?.. chicks dig it!!
Haha not you again, play nice please
I have never understood men with foot fetishes. The parts of a lady’s anatomy that rev me up are smooth and soft or supple where as feet are just so hard and angular, whatever lifts your skirt I suppose. Is it a sign that deep down they are full on cucks who love to be walked all over? Any one have any thoughts on the matter or are there in fact men amongst us on here who get fired up by Sheilas hoofs? Would love to hear Dez’s take on this delicate topic…..
Once you’ve been made aware of Quentin Tarantino’s foot fetish a whole lot of shit from his movies makes far more sense. I don’t get it either but we both know there’s crew into way weirder stuff than feet. At least they’re a human body part.
True my mate and had no idea Quentin was a “foot guy”. Love his movies but don’t know much about him except he always seemed strange. Any skeletons in the closet so to speak?
How the fuck did you not know?
Feet, There are heaps of feet
Well obviously cuz I’m dumb as fuck. It’s all so strange. I mean I wouldn’t say no to prime time Pammy Anderson rubbing her feet on my man snag but can think of heaps better parts of her for the job
BOOBS are the best
Latched onto them as a young fella, like some kind of instinct
They are incredible things and come in so many many different shapes and sizes but all so stunning in their own way!!
I am a barefooted GREMLIN with dirty and HARD soles.
I only wear shoes when I need to. Also this way, a pair of shoes last so long.
Unless the glue the 6 year old in the NIKE factory didn’t glue it properly, again…
Anyone that lines up to buy a pair of shoes is a total FUCKWIT
Workboots are a different matter, after you work those fuckers in, they are like a second skin.
I got convinced to try one of those “Foot Peel” treatments that a few here probably do weekly… (Not looking at anyone in particular)
Nothing happens, then later on, all of a sudden your feet disintegrate into something that can be added to some Ramen…..
And then it fuckin hurts to walk anywhere
But your fuckn feet look pretty
What the fuck?
Fuck ever doing that again
You had a fucking what cunt? Why would you do that? Mini thankfully is like me and HATES her feet suffocating in shoes and I have to explain to her when we go out that some joints frown upon the bare foot look. A life of being barefoot has made me nearly immune to hot sand and sharp reefs overseas so why any cunt would want to peel that off is beyond me?
I can walk on LEGO
Doesn’t sound like it after your “foot Peel” dickhead
That was 4 years ago cunt.
It still have one unopened in the box.
Like I said… Never again
Maybe I can send it to you, and you can use it on your calloused hands for a “Stranger Wank” once all the skin falls off.
Double down for the Stranger Danger Wank
Fuck me I don’t want a bar of that. I tried getting fancy with a “ButtWeiser” which is basically a beer bottle with a split rubber seal but soon grew tired of it. Nothing matches the real thing!!!
Haha, yeah at the end of the day,
an acidic foot treatment is to make your hooves look pretty is not worth it.
Lego stompers are better than pretty little feet with NO SOLE/SOUL
I bet there a few cunts here with clean, pretty little feet with no working sole/soul.
No shit, shut being in the water and walking on the sand (like pumice) is better than the chemical peeling shit.
Agreed and I want to add that my ButtWeiser is not a normal beer bottle cuz although I am not large and in charge even my little fella wouldn’t fit in a normal one. Ahhhhhh the things we do when on big nights out and sorry for the smut everyone had a few too many knock off beers xx
Found this epic old photo of Richie Collins doing a huge floater. This impressed me because I saw him doing a couple of incredible floaters on these big, dumpy sections back in my grom days. Spectacular stuff
It was a sequence in a 1992 Australia’s Surfing Life photo annual I found at a second hand book shop for 50 cents. Those old magazines were so good. I’ve got more to say on that later…
Enjoy ….soz for the fucked copy.
Don’t know him from a bar of soap but he always struck me as a proper cunt?
Listen to his surf Splendor interview and then tell me what you think
I will never get round to that my dear Bog so so give me your take bruz
He is a brand of egotistical born again Christian seppo that, while you understand he has his own circumstances and makes you feel for him, you’d question what having him in your life in any capacity would be like.
Perhaps he is a good cunt at his heart of hearts, idk.
Be an adult and have a listen you silly duff
who’s got the time to listen to these hours long poddies?
I’ve never gotten through one in my life.
Long drives, getting through chores, going on a run/any sort of cardio, having general human interest, breaking them up into chunks.
I don’t listen to podcasts full stop. Just heaps prefer listening to some good tunes
me gustan los dos
Don’t you start getting all foreign and aggro with me cunt!!
Kissies!!!
Good to mix it up. Have you tried Aint that swell?
The boys ham it up so hard they’d probably be refused entry to some Muslim countries, to the point that I’m amazed they aren’t sponnoed by the Primo Smallgoods company , but their emotional investment in our little lifestyle / sport / art is legendary
Good energy
fond of VB and Jed but can’t get through more than 5 mins of ATS
It’s so hard for me
Thats what Mindy said last time I saw her xx
Alley oop!
Those were the days before me left ACL went SNAP!!
You see one youve seen em all
I have tried them on longer drives but if I heard Jed carry on about his tough upbringing one more time I feared I was going to swerve into an oncoming truck!!
Better odds of you smashing head on if you are posting on the GRIT while driving..
I can only do the core lord podcasts. Even that is touch and go. If I hear about Breath work, meditation, saunas, cold plunge one more time I might be done done.
I’m a recent convert. Got a big reno project at home that’s perfect for them. They’re like sex….the difference between a bad one and a good one is radical.
I always wonder the same thing
Sounds fucked
Entertaining but
Nope, he’s a cunt (american definition)
Get this too…. hates his Dad, Dad is a MAGAt, but a fascinating convo until you ask him about Ritchie
Wholly unsurprising
Likewise I’ve never met the bloke.
But I saw him in the old Filthy Habits video quoted as saying shit to punters in the lineup like “ You should just be on the beach watching me surf “ and “This is my work place. How would you like if I came around to your office and fuvked around with your desk” or other such dribble. Obviously an irredeemable cock smoker…..except..
Except I also read a story in Tracks that Ol’ Richie was some pestilential God botherer that was totally anti-sucking of piss. Then one of the old school party-boy Aussies ( maybe Rod Kerr ?) rocked up to a heat, still munted from the night before, and proceeded to send Richie to the sheds. Apparently Richie went round the Aussie surfer’s hotel that arvo with a bottle of vodka and got rat-arsed with the victorious piss head Oz shredder.
Got to pay that.
Man, we groms gobbled up those tour stories.
Find a copy of
In the Wind
Seen it. Liked it, didn’t love it.
Couldn’t believe I’d stumbled over a companion piece to Green Iguana. Found it recently, that movie wasn’t a thing in Australia.
Though to be honest it was more The Silmarillion than The Hobbit alongside Lord of the rings.
Like a B side.
I’ll give it another shot just for you.
You ever see the Gripping Stuff 1 & 2 movies?
Correct, he was a cunt
But he shaped his own boards on tour and ripped the bag out of it in the water, just too many enemies in his own hood.
Shaping your own boards on tour.
Respect
the lost art of floaters, Kalani Robb and AI come to mind as true artists of the floater
Bruce is onto em i nthe clip barney posted below…sick!
I see a floater section where others see an air section
Nose guard..
Ankle socks are for goons and children.
Zionism is a death cult
Like a reposted tagline.
Boom!!
Sent from my IPhone
Actually Laughed Out Loud at that.
I’ll pay that. Time to switch it up.
Eat a bag, zio scum
You angry bro?
Zionism is a stealth cult!
What’s our position on cock socks?
Asking for a mate… 👀
Cuck socks are suck bru
In the same way a crew sock will break up the leg line and make you appear shorter …
Now you tell me.
The more you know.
I never knew such a thing existed Gil. Could ya please post a picture of yourself wearing one so I can get a visual?
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Hahahahhahahaha now I get it
My sock puppet has vast experience performing in an extensive range of porn genres
you just know chaz couldn’t hold back a shit eating grin typing out that “girlfriend’s sitter” line.
Work boots, thongs or barefoot for me xx
Crew are for regular decent blokes
No-show are for effeminate metrosexuals
And here’s Chas n Dezz’s favourite style…
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Strewth, fair dinkum cobbas
Could you pull that outfit off?
With ease Hip, I love a pair of stubbies during summer, helps the air circulate the nether regions. In fact it would probably be Sheilas pulling and ripping the outfit off me!!
Living the dream, Scunt!
Always trying my friend
translation, please 🙂
Haha. Blimey fair enough fellas
TY. I can usually decipher pretty well, but I didn’t know where to start with this one.
Regional Strayan is a beautiful language but apparently very hard to learn haha
I have to Google so much from the Aus bunch that I feel like I’ve learned a second language.
Really? Fuck that’s funny haha
Socks to be him!
Sock it to me baby !
My days are better with you back in them stick xx
Mate, I’m like you in respects that I cum on here cuz I like to laugh and talk surfy shit. Nothing more or less. Cunts!
And that is why we are like two peas in a pod. We need need Chopes to start, this joint needs a ruddy good live chat yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
First sharks now foot fetishes.
thats a legrope tan
I hear that Mitch doesn’t wear socks anymore
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I can’t help but wonder when the nation of rugged individualists became the nation that contained so many bootlickers that allowed “their” politicians to act in ways that defied their own stated beliefs. Lying to the public for a few weeks until some date passes so that there’s no need for a by-election. Truly bizarre stuff. Deeply entrenched in zero-sum territory.
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Psychological warfare, and they chipped away at them.
Xox
Speaking of chips, I’m no dentist but if I owned a dentistry this would be the first sight upon entrance.
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Oi love life !! Carrrrrnts !! Get a shed up ya !!
Oh it’s up me.
Awww yes, our Sal!
Xox
Eternal Queen of surfing lore!
Sal would do well in one of those dubbed Colgate adverts so we don’t have to hear her speak..
Man, what the fuck is going on in the USA? Australia’s political class is no less shithouse but at least they’re ( physically) operating under their own steam.
The American trend towards proper ventriloquist dolls makes the Aussie puppets look sophisticated.
Biden was absolutely cooked but they tried to get him another four year term as President!
Glaring display of the contempt the Owners and Rulers of America have for the population and the “democracy “ kabuki. They’re not even pretending anymore, it’s a blatant “Fuvk You!” to the people who still think they can vote their way out of this mes.
No Kings …..sure, sure!
it really should be expanded to “No Kings, No Retirement Communities.”
No actual rapist nazis
you mean Trump?
Oof!!
Ouch.
Donny stating the Iranians are desperate for peace just about sums it up haha
I read a piece the other day about how many times Donny has said since this began that Iran is “begging for a deal”. Then he goes and says it again today. If that motherfuckers dick was as big as his mouth he’d be a fuckin porn star.
luck Australia has King Charles to lead us!
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“Some Egyptians blamed their exit from the World Cup on a conspiracy, Americans on President Trump’s intervention over a suspended player. Now Brazilians have come up with a theory as to why they were knocked out — the growth of evangelicalism over Catholicism.
This unusual debate has inflamed social media since the five-time champions crashed out of the tournament on Sunday, after a 2-1 defeat to Norway.
“Brazil was better when their players were womanisers, drunkards and slightly out of shape. In other words, when they were behaving like Catholics,” argued one account on X, describing itself as the “Institute for Hispano Studies” a “think tank”. It claimed that “evangelical Protestant sterilisation has flattened their ball, ruined their samba and obliterated their swag.”
Can one of you share this with Joao over at SW in the comments below his wonderful, long form treatise? A simple copy and paste will do.
I’ve switched to crew from decades of ankle. The crew look used to bother me, but now I like them. Crew is having a moment.
Plus, as a redhead with a lifelong surfing and outdoors obsession, nowadays the less sun that gets on me the better. I would dress up like a beekeeper every day if I wasn’t so mortified at looking like a knob