Yeah I noticed that too.
I also noticed that he tries hard to portray himself as somebody who doesn't care too much about money, but he clearly seems to have plenty of it.
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The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez (upcoming streaming film)
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I also noticed that he tries hard to portray himself as somebody who doesn't care too much about money, but he clearly seems to have plenty of it.
Plenty of people are that way.
Law of attraction?
It works.
IE: chase little painted pieces of paper for a living, and no matter how many you accumulate, it's never enough.
start your days from a place of gratitude, and you will not only appreciate what you already have, and have had, but plenty more of it will come your way too.
It's like the old Spanish saying about the handsome guy, who pulls gorgeous women, seemingly completely out of his league, without putting any effort into said pursuit...
"Este las mata callando".
He plays the yogi card pretty hard, and there are plenty of yogis who are not ascetics. Interesting character. I wonder if he takes it personally when people burn him or he gets told to leave -these days. By his own accounts, he has plenty of karma to burn off, but maybe he is past that
Maybe, like with everything else in life, a yoga master doesn't give a rats arse about much, except breathing deeply?He plays the yogi card pretty hard, and there are plenty of yogis who are not ascetics. Interesting character. I wonder if he takes it personally when people burn him or he gets told to leave -these days. By his own accounts, he has plenty of karma to burn off, but maybe he is past that
10 years, 10,000 hours, etc... to master an activity; he's been yogaing for 50 years now.
Hello?
I don't think he's trying to portray himself as a yoga master, just a guy that found something that really works for him.He plays the yogi card pretty hard, and there are plenty of yogis who are not ascetics. Interesting character. I wonder if he takes it personally when people burn him or he gets told to leave -these days. By his own accounts, he has plenty of karma to burn off, but maybe he is past that
We tend to laud competitive as$holes who win at any cost -- Jordan, Lance, Tony Hawk, Brady etc etc. I'm not sure if Gerry is cut from the same cloth.
No matter what you think of him, he seems way cooler than Slater or anyone else making a living off surfing.
Socially G-Lo is just kind of a normal dude. Of course he didnt "Have" to leave HI and is in HI quite often. Some wanna bes wannna make Shibi when there aint none. Sometimes ya got to fight for waves and how you are able to do that can make some all peas off. Pffftt. Who cares.
Watched it early this AM. They showed how badly he got destroyed at Pipe, kooking it big time on a foil before it clicked, showing the yoga poses he can't do after 50 years. Seemed pretty balanced to me, maybe with the pinnacle of his life being "one with G-land" when he stayed behind.
Balance was the theme of the entire movie: Ying/yang, yoga, good/bad
a little bit heavy-handed and plays right into his public persona, IMHO
they didn't touch him selling his name to put on foam boards, which seems to be too much for a lot of people. He presents himself as the one having the most fun(in life) always smiling and happy while doing the things he loves, even while breaking cultural rules(enabling kooks w/ equipment).
Maybe he is a yogi master, good for him if so.
I didn't see that. He was never a ripper, more a tube shooter. Do you mean he never tweaks his nose at G-land?
Nose tweaking isn't a style element for me. I think they describe it in the film as calm in a critical situation(heavy wave) which is more of the yiing/yang theme..
I think style is a little more than that, and you know it when you see it.
They didn't show much of the g-land surfing but
The nose touching is a bad habit. Just like claiming or looking back to see if everyone saw that at the end of the wave. People do neurotic little things as routine, check turns, adjusting your feet that can occasionally look cool but do it more than a couple times and it looks grotesque. Then other people do it and it looks contrived.
Maybe I don't understand the nose tweak, but tweak the tail is a nice touch. I never saw Gerry do that, and a generation loves him for it.
Maybe I don't understand the nose tweak, but tweak the tail is a nice touch. I never saw Gerry do that, and a generation loves him for it.
I never tweaked my nose. You think he consciously did that as a claim? You're on the NS so Imagine you saw him around. Stories?
I don't look back to see if anyone saw me on a wave, but I do look back because I like seeing that residual rippling/shimmering where my turns sprayed out the back of the wave. It's kind of like seeing applause.
A couple of years back a friend of mine was at G-Land when Lopez and crew showed up. Said he started off burning guys when he wanted a wave, which as noted above is no surprise. What was a nice surprise, guys started to burn him as well. From what I was told, he got the message and started to wait his turn.
Saw an early release and really loved it. Stacy Peralta did a great job. I'm lucky enough to be doing a project with him right now. He's an insanely talented dude, and a straight up surfer at heart.
Gerry is just a straight up hammer
Gerry is just a straight up hammer
A cool thing to do is to form an opinion on something before you have seen, read, or experienced it