Surfing As You Once Knew It Is Doomed

Lee I often ponder the van thing as well...get a cap for the bed of my truck, sell all my sh!t, load up the animals and boards, and just go.

 

Hahaha I think about this every day... I'm always browsing camper vans on Craigslist. I wonder how upset my business partner would be if I told him I was going to work remotely from a van from now on....

 

It seems most people can come up with enough money to do what they want to do or "need" to do. My household took a 25K pay cut. Still surf, drink too much, but those two doors I should have replaced this early fall? I'll just put some calk and insulation tape on them so I can afford booze and surf supplies this winter. Surfing is a drug.

 

Mr. Screwby- Glad I'm not the only one, your DIY approach sounds very similar to mine

Mr. Tetus- Go for it and ask! Ya never know until you try!

*Alright, now Wayne has me paranoid that I'm posting too much, so I'll try to refrain for a while.

 

Its just a glorified fitness product in the shape of a surfboard in order to add a cool image to it. Get used to it people, the surfing image has marketed all over the place these days. Its kind of an interesting product with balance as a key element, but I wouldn't throw down $550 for the board.

 

thats exactly my point, no matter how much you spend whether its on this fitness board or a hawaiin surf coach your still not going to know the right way to approach good waves. and i dont care how many hours a week you work thats your own decision but you still suck at surfing. just because you can throw your fins over the lip and not ride away doesnt mean your a good surfer. but it does mean that the quiksilver T-shirts fit you nicely.

 

This isn't what makes breaks crowded, it may add, but you can blame all the companies like quicksilver, billabong, oneil, ripcurl, lost, rusty, roxy, redbull, hurley and any others I am forgetting that advertise the **** out of surfing for that.

 

It's never too late. Well...

If you have your dream job or a woman you can't part with, or maybe a home you cannot sell or rent, or if you have little mini-me bastards running around... then you've got an excuse. Debt can be a factor too.

If you don't have any of those things, you have no excuse. Just go forth...

Maybe you will even leave a trail of little Lee's across the nation. Someone has to balance out the growing excess of Waynes and Roys in this world. Midwesterners can't surf for the most part, so give em something to do, raise a little junior hellion with some E.C. blood. M.I.S. probably has illegitimate clones running rampant... maybe 'make it stop' means the child support payments.That would keep you from stepping out into the world.

Someone needs to remind the Silicon Valley douche a**holes that there's more to life than filling a screen with numbers so that you can line the coffers with green pieces of paper and f*ck some Brazilian chick, despite the fact that you have social skills that make a DMV employee's seed seem like a viable option.

So when you're living out of a van, and they're business-chatting you up out in the lineup, tell them "Hey I've got an awesome billion-dollar idea about a surf fitness product F*CK YOU." Then scream gibberish until the next wave and snake it to shore. Leave a bar of wax to melt on their convertible with a dog turd in the middle if it, get in the van, and go to the next spot.

*human turds work too

 

Haha I blame surf-video editing. If every time someone wiped out or went over the falls, the video kept running with timer on the screen showing how long they're being held down for without being able to breathe, I think a lot less people would want to start surfing...

 

Haha! Yeah, show the surfers expending huge amounts of energy trying to muscle through the break, and chasing twice as many waves than they actually catch. Show all that crap too...we don't want folks to get the wrong impression.

 

They should integrate this thing into an x box kinnect game that lets you surf pipeline from our tv. Thus keeping the kooks away from the beach and at the couch