XXXXXXL.
Today, July 25, is one of the most sacred on surfing’s yearly calendar. Yes, today, July 25, is the first day of the U.S. Open of Surfing, there in Huntington Beach, the annual bacchanal wherein fi-slamma-jamma professional surfing meets music meets the glorious potential for a riot.
Tomorrow, Real Estate and the Allah-Las take the stage but, for once, the biggest bangs won’t be coming from bass drums nor will they be coming from the exhaust pipes of monster trucks driven from Riverside but from the ocean.
Surf fans, of course, know that “fi-slamma-jamma professional surfing,” south of Huntington’s famed pier, usually means waist-high waves which require much hopping to ride. This year, however, is different. Tropical Storm Bertha, or some such, is stirring the seas and creating a mega-swell that will begin presenting today before ramping up to XXXL size on Wednesday then pulsing through the rest of the week.
The U.S. Open is, also of course, stop two on the Challenger Series meaning its points are extra-valuable for those hoping to take the leap to the Championship Tour. Currently, Cole Houshmand is atop the CS leaderboard but may be distracted after the arrest of his “G,” Andrew Tate, opening the door for Weslley Dantas, Jackson Bunch or even Jarvis Earle to vault to number one.
But you, if you are Southern California adjacent, will you make pilgrimage to Huntington in order to see heroes and heroines ride, ride, ride the wild surf or will you take in the action, via webcast, from the comfort of your own home?
Either way, excitement awaits.
And/or a very angry jihadist there to protest the sacrilege of the Allah-Las.
Chris Dixon and Frank: please email [email protected] from the address you'd like your BeachGrit login on.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
My kids always enjoyed going to the Open before they hit adulthood. Now they dont care about the event. Could it be the Ronnie G event lingers?
Had some wild times there in the 00’s. If you know you know.
I can only imagine. Did people go clubbing in the nighttime, or was everyone shattered by then and just went back to a hotel room to shag and sleep away the night ?
I plead the 5th
hurray for the south and the further one goes the mo betta the buscia tacos…ain’t dat swell?
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Yum o
seat 4C, headed to a wedding on the right coast. Large bottle of duty free whiskey in the carry on. fingers crossed it’s better than whatever they’re doing in Huntington tonight
That’s my exact seat on an upcoming trip to SC. Have fun!
When did y’all decide to take your relationship to the next level, and will you be meeting at an Australian Wavepool?
😂 We plan to visit Australia and New Zealand when my husband retires in a year or two (helping our youngest through law school currently is delaying that). And sure, we’d meet Rocks or anyone at a wave pool!
longtom and strayan would lose their shit if I dropped a 2500 word bygone days take on the Gold Coast – surfads might track me down and amputate my typing fingers
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours 😉
2800~ words of love/hate
Not at all Rocks, would love to hear it mate
aisle seats for the win
No steerage class for Rocks?
stooping to go commercial , ha
I’m in the camp that unless you’re on the biggest PJs, the experience generally isnt worth the cost to fly private.
definitely same , the pull up and hop on is cool , and the long range PJs are definitely a vibe , but happy to generally leave it all to the Kardashians
Agreed. My corporate experience included flying in and out of Teterboro(mid size PJs) which had to be subject matter inspiration for White Chicks featuring over crowded FBOs and navigating around massive LV luggage. All while hoping to depart before the tragically beautiful folks lined up to take off thereby delaying our business focused departure.
ha , white chicks with LV luggage , say no more!!
Having a proper vacay? Solid weather and good times?
actually on a plane this morning , headed to the New England coast by way of Boston
Just came across this. It’s probably much better on YouTube, which is how I’m watching it at the moment, but they also made an audio version of it.
Andrew Callaghan interviewing Louis Theroux on his career of making documentaries about the craziest people in society
https://podcasts.apple.com/…
https://youtu.be/kdxgsCrEDY…
It’s on, it’s not big, it sucks, and it’s mals in the water. As expected.
*it always sucks
Who will land the winning floater?
Ke11y as last minute fill in.
…i’d rather see Beschen
Should be plenty of straight-handers to be had.
Slater’s perfect 10 at Huntington.
Would this be an 11 nowadays or a 9.9 from the judges ?
I want to downvote that for giving me an epilectic seizure…
In any other context it should have been a 6.7, but by maxxing closed out Huntington standards it’s a 10.
Seem to remember him getting a 10 for a reentry as well
This might have been the one
Or it could have been this one.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…