surfers are not athletes...

Those times are pretty beastly. Just completing that paddle is uber-impressive, but the times that guy posts...freaking unbelievable.

 

My high school star quarterback took up surfing toward our junior year. He would go out on the Cocoa Beach small stuff. Saw him on a Tropical Storm 5 ft groundswell day the following year. He was stuck in the shorebreak & could not get out. Later in the parking lot he asked me how we did it. Kinda cool telling the star jock he had to be in shape.

 

Good story, duuuuuude. And then you went out & threw the football, what, 60 yards in the air & on the money into the hands of an incredible athlete racing down the field at warp speed....?

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Respect the sport

So check out ,me and my surfing bud ARGUE with this one dude he works with all the time.This guys like 50ish and has NEVER surfed in his life but being he's almost a scratch golfer and WAS an athlete back in his day he tells us he's that he can just go right out there his first time and start surfing.So we haven't set a date yet but it will happen this year and guess who's bringing the video camera.O yea you know it!

 

doubt the high school qb did either. are you as d i c k ish in real life as you are here? probably so , huh? yankees suck.

 

I think I would rather watch Obama give our money to his wall street ahole friends than watch football. I never understood a game of inches with guys who can't add to 10.

 

Exactly, people have no idea. You will get the fat sloth that thinks if he can play baseball, he can surf. Well baseball can be played by 300 pound fat ****s. Surfing you have to be in top shape. Paddling alone will turn most athletes arms into noodles. It just takes time and most people in this country want immediate results. Please post the video of this guy. You probably only have to put him in chest high ground swell and he will **** his pants, lol.

I always have these old guys on the beach who are just spectators telling me that the other surfers are two jettys down and that's where it looks good. I say settle down, grandpa, I'm fine hear getting barrelled. They can surf the soft crumblers two jettys down.

 

Many surfers are in shape & are athletic. And we all know that you're going to achieve your best sessions not fat, not hungover, not sucking wind.

However. That's not to say that 'in shape' surfers can throw a ball, shoot a jumper, hit a pitched baseball, go 3 minutes in the ring x 10 or perform any one of a number of other sports activities. The comparisons seem useless.

Agreed: the fat chair-surfer boyz on the beach are talking stoopid when they comment on surfing. This is no different than the same tools commenting on any sport from their a s s imprinted barstools.

This 'debate' strikes me as pointless. Many surfers are in shape & athletic, yes, but many surfers are incapable of doing anything but surfing. I've seen many ripped surfers who throw a ball as well as Oprah Winfrey does. Brutal.

As well, I've seen some bloated dudes who can surf pretty decently, but who would croak if they had to run to 7-11 for their beer or if they had to ride a road bike over to their local Arby's.

Every sport is different. Them that can, do. Them that can't.....talk.

 

Word. Shawn Briley is an amazing surfer...I would seriously doubt his ability to do much else aside from a no-holds barred street fight.

 

is laird hamilton athletic?

 

Laird hamilton is god of the ocean

 

and if youre in ****ty shape you get your ass whupped

 

he strikes me as kind of a "one punch and done" kind of guy, which certainly doesn't make an "athlete" per se...though I would never hold an interest in sparring with Butter Bean.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrf93aLQXBE

This guy...I dunno, he's very large and stylish on the waves. Pretty amazing actually.

 

Wow. Well said, Senor Aloha. Well, there you go, fellas....that big ol' fellaman can surf, there's no doubt at all. Looks like he stunned the lineup, as well.

However.

Running a half mile? Playing tennis beyond 3 points? Running out a triple, assuming he could even hit a pitched baseball ? Boxing beyond 90 seconds in the ring ? Cycling 20 miles at a pace above a 10 mph crawl? Running up & back 3x the length of a lacrosse field & shooting on goal?

Uh..... highly, highly unlikely.

Which, I gotta say, supports my case in re: "in shape surfers' as stated earlier.

Just one man's 2 cents, duuuuudes.

 

"Garcon ! Garcon! Bitter party of one, please !"

 

Maybe I am. What of it. Do you think I care about your negative man-hating female opinions, Elmer Fudd ? What are you, brain-damaged from the fumes in the kitchen at Popeyes?

In basic response to your feeble online bleatings, it must be said that you're the type of online negative shadow stalker where, in person, the only thing needed for a quick extinguishment is bare hands, which may come as a complete shock to any little feeb in this sad era of mouthy twits turning & running for mama or for a weapons stash.

Understand that it's just opinions on this board. So get off my arse. Of course, if you have a problem with me, then put up or STFU sporty.

 

Point taken.

 

I'm kind of surprised of the responses on this thread. First off, i love sports. I watch every eagles game and as many phillies and flyers games as i am able. I played 2 sports in high school. I love being competitive and feeling a will to bet an opponent. What draws me to surfing (overly drawing) is that I'm competitive with myself and it's a humbling experience being in the ocean. Surfing is what ruined my future for my other athletic aspirations such as playing soccer in college, because I couldn't bare play the damn sport during hurricane season. It made me quit all the sports I played when i was younger, so many of my peers thought i wasn't as athletic or as good as them at that particular sport, and most thought surfing is all about balance and not a whole lot about athleticism. Surfing is a mind game, like golf, except in golf the variables are as severe (flatness, cold, type of waves, kooks, ect). We are athletes, just a different breed; a weird breed i might add, but i like that.