You’re a young kid and you’re dreaming of shaping your own board/fins, but you can’t, not easily anyway. Is it because the materials are too expensive? Is it because of firecode - you can’t have all that flammable stuff hanging around your house? Is it because mom won’t move her SUV out of the garage? Is it because of toxic waste and your neighbors will report you? Is it because they’ll think you’re running a meth lab? OR… Is there a darker element at work here? Have we lost the energy, the imagination of the shortboard revolution? Have we lost the desire to explore? Has everything been explored? Are we just going to keep riding what everyone else is riding because that’s what we know? IS THIS ALL JUST A SPECTATOR/CLONE SPORT NOW??? -------------------- I can’t except that a certain percentage of the surfing population lacks the inherent skill, lacks curiosity, lacks the willingness to fail, lacks the desire to try their own stuff. And that’s not to say there doesn’t exist any of this type of activity at all. It does exist. But is it being maximized to it’s full potential? ARE WE REALLY ALIVE??? -------------------- “Hell, there are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something!” (Thomas Edison)
It is a spectator sport now, everyone is busy trying to find the cheapest and fastest way to make…pop-outs! Not surfboards. Surfboards used to be innovative etc. Oh, well