Surf Travel 63

After the session, I decided to research this topic a bit, and knew just the place to look: the forum at 805bbr.

I was turned on to this forum after I posted about my new mag start-up, The Booger’s Journal.

Apparently some bodyboarding enthusiasts did not appreciate my sense of humor, as evidenced by comments like this one in a thread concerning PostSurf:

“Send hate mail to that piece of shit. he’s jewish… someone with more time than me…find his myspace and other information and post it. like where he lives and stuff.”

That was from an articulate gent named “Islaphawaiians”

Anyhoo, Mr Goebbels…

In another thread on the 805bbr forum, some different users commented on my original question as follows:

“In oz, almost all thee mutant “slabs” were pioneered by boogs. In the early years of surfing, standups were looking for long, sectiony, perfect points. In our sport, our equipment isnt suited for long crumbly waves. We need fast breaking waves. Mutant dry slabs were perfect for our sport. Now it seems this is the new crave. I dont know about you guys, but if i was a standup, i’d rather go to bali and get 10 second barrels, than try scooping like a sponger on mutants and try battling the shockey for a quick 3 second square barrel. Their just trying to mimmick us. obrien doing rodeos, marzo with bank revos, and braboyz dry slab surfing. sounds a little familiar.”

You heard it here first, stand-ups: O’Brien, Marzo, and the Bra Boys learned everything they know from bodyboarders.