I saw this guy posting social media updates from the lineup, pulled out his phone and ordered roses for his anniversary in between sets. These people have cameras strapped to their head, in their mouth, on their board, on the beach with auto focus. In my shredded head unless your wotw it's kookery, and almost makes them burn worthy, if a set roles in and your texting your girl, you lose your wave. Most people with cameras on them can't surf and I judge them accordingly, like longboarders or soft toppers. Actually I'm in the lineup right now.
The scary part is iv actually seen this too. Forget being burn worthy or judging. These people should be wiped off the face of the planet. People are glued to there phones waaaaaay to much as it is, on land. Now people are doing it in the line up. I believe we should take a break from all these advances in technology. Just a little breather. Or we can just unleash stank and yank on these kooks. I hear they're (like that apostrophe stank?) not to fond of millennials
I look forward to seeing on YouTube a guy who almost drowns because he wasn't paying attention. Too busy on his phone to keep a eye on the horizon and gets ruined by a clean up wave! This will happen,just have to be patient! It's a definite convienance but kids can't stop looking down! Put it fugging down and go steal some wood and make a fort!
pretty sad if u have to bring ur phone in the water lol,i don't even bring my phone on the beach il leave it in the car.
Man your not kidding. When i was going to college i was a server at a restaurant. I can not tell you how many kids would come in, clearly on a date with a chick, and they're both just looking down at there phones. Skills in Tyne lady department gotta be way down. Sometimes the chick would be just as interested in her phone as the dude. But the ones that weren't and were just sitting there looking bored. I'd start talking to them and watch the dude get mad.
Is this serious? Please tell me your joking? I see enough of the braindead cellphone zombies on land.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Harbisson And checkout this guy. Friend saw him last week and in fact his skull has completely molded around his antenna.
I had the original solo shot. I never had a picture of myself surfing so I thought it would be cool to get one. In the beginning it was, when it worked. I got some good pictures and video but I learned a few lessons. First, just like hearing your voice on a recording you really don't want to see yourself surf. Second, you become a slave to the thing and sessions will be ruined. Third, if the session is not ruined during, it will be when you get home and see that it wasn't aimed at you 70 percent of the time and it missed your best waves. End result you feel like an idiot and realize your surfing, playing up to a camera rather than enjoying it for its own thing.
one day in lbi this fall, there was a guy with a soloshot, on a SUP getting many many waves, he drifted over by me and I said 'hey, is that the solo shot'? 'yes', 'can it see you from here' (we were about 75 yards downbeach of where it was set up) 'well yes, I think so' 'Can it see me giving it the finger?' 'Well, I guess maybe it COULD, but your glove blah blah blah' (paddles away) WIN
That's funny. Thankfully I never used it around other people other than Mitchell a few times and another buddy. Here was morning that Mitchell and I walked way up the beach at Assateague, early summer morning and fun waves. I set it up and we surfed that spot for about an hour befor moving to a much better spot. I set it up and we surfed another 2 hours or so before the tide filled in. I went home thinking I had the best footage ever. Turns out the camera was pointing off to the right just enough that when I caught a wave and went right it barely filmed the drop before I raced out of frame.
Technology is a blessing and a curse. Just the other day I had a conversation with a coworker of the same age about being kids climbing trees, wrist rockets, forts, etc. Then it dawned on me about one of the helpers on the job. He's pale, chubby, and in his leisure time he watches movies, sports games, plays video games, and hangs at the bar with friends and eats ****ty food. He mentioned one day that he heard the saying, "Don't sit too close to the TV" and couldn't understand why someone would do that in the first place. I said, "Dude, when I was a kid there was no such a thing as a remote control". Pretty soon they will have implantable chips so you won't even need a phone or computer and people that have grown up with all this tech around will give in to it. Uh welcome it. Fuged up. I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
This reminds me of the time I went to see TOOL several years ago with a buddy. We had frickin sick seats next to the stage and the sound was awesome. At one point the music overtook me and I just let out a huge hoot/howl. My buddy was like, "What What?" He was too busy taking video and posting on FakeBook and talking on FB about the show at the show. Then he turned to our other buddy who was doin the same and said, "Let's go see them in Connecticut tomorrow". I was shaking my head. I don't even hang with him anymore even though we were best friends growing and surfing together since we we 5. I have no time for the idiocracy.
Yeah Archy why do you think I been trolling SI so hard? I deleted Facebook and now can piss off people I have something in common with again
