Hi, honarable members of this forum,
It’s with pain in my heart that I post this link for your appreciation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ZuNRiM8C8
I don’t know about you, but I will pray for the resting in peace of this sacrificed soul…
i recently broke one of my favorite boards in half…surfing. i think that’s the only way a surfboard should die…with honor. i hate it when someone takes a perfectly ridable board and buries it in the garage, or hangs it up on the wall. surfboards should be ridden!..these people should be shot.
soulstice there is a time in the life of a surfboard where it can and should be retired. My fathers lightening bolt for instance or his MR. Each sustain dings each time they go into the water not from hitting things but simply riding them. But a board sould never be desecrated like that.
i understand your point of view…but i disagree. i think a LB or MR would look great hanging up on the wall…and if you’re never going to ride it again, then why shouldn’t it be in two pieces…and have an even better story behind it.
The guy obviously never shaped a board. Or if he did, well, we don’t belong to the same world.
That made me cringe. Ya never know when you might want to surf that old favourite again. Or pass down to your kids.
Ado
…or pass down to ANY KID for that matter.
A few months ago, I sent ten old boards to SIERRA LEONE through a friend of mine who is a pilot for a belgian company and who flies down there on a regular basis. Those were beaten down and outdated boards by OUR standards, but I tell you they are gold for kids down in Africa. Or anywhere else where a surfboard is still a kid’s dream.
This guy just makes me sick. It’s so egotistic and a complete loss of respect for the shaper, glasser, sander… But I’m afraid he wouldn’t even understand what I’m talking about…
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In the name of art (or stupidity)?
I don’t get it so I must be stupid.
Art
Hi everybody,
Thanks for sharing the same annoying feelings like me. It will give me strength to carry on. KILL THE BASTARDS!!! :)))))
lame. & sad. definitely not art.
I was deeply disturbed… kind of made me feel sick to my stomach…
Started thinking about the kid who will never get a free board to learn to surf on…
… about the environment…
…about how much money this guy must have to destroy a board for fun…
…the arrogance to video it and post it…
… the stupidity of our human condition in general…
God help us.
Howzit Jeff, well that’s one way to get rid of a board that probably was a dog. But I agree it could ahve gone to a novice who wouldn’t know the difference.Aloha,Kokua
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...or pass down to ANY KID for that matter.A few months ago, I sent ten old boards to SIERRA LEONE through a friend of mine who is a pilot for a belgian company and who flies down there on a regular basis. Those were beaten down and outdated boards by OUR standards, but I tell you they are gold for kids down in Africa. Or anywhere else where a surfboard is still a kid’s dream.
This guy just makes me sick. It’s so egotistic and a complete loss of respect for the shaper, glasser, sander… But I’m afraid he wouldn’t even understand what I’m talking about…
Hey Balsa,
I lived in Sierra Leone for three years from 1990-1993. I remember seeing a surfboard for sale in a Lebanese shop in Freetown. It was like $300. I wanted to surf so bad that I actually thought about buying it. But then I thought about how a local school teacher makes about $30 a month…well…that would be like spending over $30,000 for a board back home in the States! that board could feed a family of 10 (extended families are the norm there) for 10 monthes.
Detached in our first world paradises we lose perspective. But I was living there and the surfboard became what it really is in a global sense- an obscenely expensive luxury.
We should always be mindful (as the Campbell Brothers say) and what those guys did in that video clip was anything but mindful.
that sucks . . . I saw a guy do that. He was having major issues catching waves. It was a 3-4 foot day, he was on a surftech or pop out type board. Caught waves but he’d slide out. People drop in on him because he keeps blowing every other wave. He gets in screaming matches. Then he begins to direct his anger at his bouard, talking to it like it’s another person. Finally he paddles in. In a red faced fury he bum rushes the jetty, and with a giant overhead smash, the board goes fin first in the rocks. He attacks the rocks over and over. Then wedges the half in between two rocks and kicks at them. Some of the surfers cheer, “lame pop outs yeah!” others are , “dude what a waste.”
To his credit, he collects the large pieces and jogs up the beach, tosses them in the trash can, then jogs over to parking lot and reappears back in the line up with another board, this one a standard white thruster. . . I was tired and paddled in.
Hi,
This is why I still believe in the human race!!!