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Is Kanoa Igarishi the most uninspiring surfer in WSL history?
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The boringest heat of all time. Coughing Coffin and Japson_dope in the same heat. 1 foot trash in Asutralia!
Pretty much. i am lucky and am able to own a spot here but I too am thinking of packing it up and leaving.
Bunch of my friend have had enough and just said they are over it and sold everything and moved mainland.
In some of the Caribbean islands I've heard they actually have laws against the foreign rich buying up all the housing supply. Being a third-gen Californian, I feel some of your pain.
Someday I'll tell the story of a Chinese couple from Shanghai buying a house on my street and renting it out to some people who made a lot of late-night exchanges (and broad daylight) and threats.
Funny. I was in Costco the other day and the Jerry Lopez boards were in stock along with the Wave Storms. Family was pointing, picking both up,seeing how they felt, carry, etc.
They picked 3 Wave Storms ...... because the the WS's, were cheaper ...
if you need a pro surfer for inspiration, maybe surfing is not the thing for you.
Webster's alternate definition of inspiring:
create (a feeling, especially a positive one) in a person.
"their past record does not inspire confidence"
Basic English vocabulary - as a teacher you should know this - using words in various ways, etc.
He's just not really that great to watch IMO.
Regardless-
If you were never inspired by someone's surfing you probably never surfed.
And if you never drew inspiration from someone's surfing you probably never surfed either.
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All this time I thought it was about living the dream. Getting paid to surf and you get a bunch of free stuff.
That's for influencers.
Pro surfing is about competitive drive.
The desire to be the best.
Breeding little competitive machines to become big competitive machines.
As one pro surfer recently put it, "(If the WSL dies) it will be the day surfing dies."
And I don't think a Mini/Dane edit would've fixed it.
Yeah some homies have moved to Florida, Texas, Oregon and buying beautiful homes for $500K (or LESS!) in good public school systems with a diverse economy. Hard to argue with all of that.
Lived, The Dream. Never got a check.
Shorts, that eventually ripped out. Mahalo Duke Boyd and HangTen Surf Wear for being there.
Paid for my surfboards (Dewey Weber & etc)
Will be 75 in a few weeks. 60 years, in the ocean. Dusty trophies, six surfboards, 2 SUP's and a few paddles, pair of swim fins. Not much, in one's life after dedicating yourself to a "lifestyle".
These "young guns" hopefully, will have something to fall back on or they'll be sleeping under the 405 taking selfies and trying for a Go Fund Me page.
Ho cuz! And you famous li dat?
I got boards from Ricky James, who you probably ran across in your South Bay days, at cost plus shaping fee (everybody paid shaping fee) and all the gear that was available back then at wholesale. Living the dream right there in the 204 bowl.
Yup. I knew Ricky James. Remember well one evening with Ricky and a few hundred more, hooting and drinking in the middle of the street in Hermosa when the U S of A landed on the moon.
Kenny Tilton, Larry Felker (RIP) Donald Takayama (RIP), etc were making $15.00 to $20.00 shaping per board with Jacobs surfboards in 1960. Good $$$ then I suppose when I was washing dishes for .75 cents an hour at the Hibachi Restaurant in Manhattan Beach and all the food I could cook and eat.
Kenny Tilton, Larry Felker (RIP) Donald Takayama (RIP), etc were making $15.00 to $20.00 shaping per board with Jacobs surfboards in 1960. Good $$$ then I suppose when I was washing dishes for .75 cents an hour at the Hibachi Restaurant in Manhattan Beach and all the food I could cook and eat.
Free? I’m trying really hard to remember anyone that got anything other than friendship for free from RJ. The gang at cost. Marlene wouldn’t have it any other way.
Who shaped? Billy’s brother? Shane’s dad? That would have been earlier. Who ran the shop? Mainline laminating then? Billy was a sander?