http://postsurf.com Unfiltered Thoughts on Surf Culture Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're in the midst of summer doldrums.  No ASP events running, no big swells to hype, no big controversies that haven't already been covered.  Nothing to do but drink and fornicate... and endlessly gossip about Kelly Slater's new Super-Dreamy Tour. It's an understatement to say that the online speculation concerning this ... http://postsurf.com/2009/08/03/long-time-coming/ If the ASP thought outside the box, a surf contest in Brazil could achieve the same shiny pink, saccharine, end-of-days entertainment value that Reality TV provides. Picture this: The Top 45 descend on a sport-crazed, surf-fanatical melting pot, surrounded by small mountain ranges of coke and the hottest ... http://postsurf.com/2009/06/22/brazil-preview-almost-journalism/ Despite their laid-back demeanor, surfers love a little drama. On a rainy day in France last fall, CJ Hobgood and I discussed how dramatic surfing helped him get his competitive career back on track.  And on track it has remained - yesterday in Tasmania, CJ put up 18.57 points. Now, ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/25/overlydramatic/ I thought I'd close the loop with the final chapter of my revisit of Shards Still Falling, an article I wrote back in '03. (Part One Here and Part Two Here.)  It would be nice if I could spend my time researching in-depth, introspective pieces with gargantuan word-counts, like this ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/18/shards-still-falling-part-3/ I'll be honest here.  My limited wit is otherwise engaged today, trying to finish up the Power Rankings.  Writing for PostSurf doesn't pay the Vodka bills -  therefore it's rather low on my list of priorities.  So I'm posting an interview I did with Roy Powers way back during the ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/16/powers-that-be/ Here's the second part of the reprint of Shards Still Falling, an article I wrote back in 2003 when I was young and relatively idealistic.  (Read part one here.) My life was in shambles when I did this piece.  I had just spent 9 months writing a novel while muddling ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/11/shards-still-falling-part-2/ This article is a reprint from 2003. I had more time on my hands then.  Time enough to spend a few months a year in Indo, time enough to write long, sprawling, vaguely earnest articles about things I cared about.  I had more time than money - especially since no ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/06/shards-still-falling/ I interviewed Bobby Martinez last fall in Mundaka, at one of the least-attended events in ASP history (not counting every Brazilian event, of course.)  I already posted the first part of this unused interview - here's the second part of our discussion, which centered on the apathy that swept through ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/02/bobby-revisited/ The ASP season kicks off Saturday, so I thought I'd turn the hype-volume up a bit further by sharing a few words from our top contenders: Slater and Fanning.  The following quotes didn't make the QuikPro Peview I did for Surfline last week. [caption id="attachment_371" align="alignnone" width="477" caption="Kelly at Duranbah, 2006. ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/26/a-word-from-our-contenders/ Just finished a preview for Surfline of the QuikPro.  As usual, plenty of quotes don't make it into the final text. [caption id="attachment_322" align="alignnone" width="477" caption="Taj Burrow, Uluwatu. Photo: Chris Burkard /BurkardPhoto.com"][/caption] More than a couple guys in the 45 told me that Taj will be the one to challenge Kelly ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/21/taj-has-a-plan/