Death To 'Functional Manoeuvres'... Do Fruity Shit!
Death To 'Functional Manoeuvres'... Do Fruity Shit!
You don’t want to be one of those surfers that only looks OK-ish from behind the wave, when one is not actually able to see the horrid contortions. That vein-popping strained fight stance between every turn, which themselves look a bit like a blindfolded drunk trying to judo a grizzly bear. Please, not that. The thing with manoeuvres (in the traditional sense) is that they are best done by people who can actually do them, if you catch the drift. Thus trying to angrily emulate what you just saw Slater do will be unpalatable at best and at worst, actually unfair on those members of the surfing tribe unfortunate enough to witness it. Yeah, we said it, surfing ugly is selfish. Thus, a slight change of approach from functional moves might pay golden dividends. Bring back non-functional manoeuvres, bring back (oh shit I’m gonna say it) self-expression. Take the soul arch. It’s fruity. It’s frivolous, self-indulgent, it scores no points on the WSL criteria… it’s GREAT.
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