30.Aug.2010 What the fuck is wrong with surfing?
I’m watching the ridiculously small waves of the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo, and Jordy just did a judo air, on his back hand. Maybe get a browser open with a wikipedia page open or something. Or one of Billabong’s skate team on skype, that could work. What’s Bucky Lasek up to right now? It’s the highlight of the first round, maybe even the week of lay days the contest has been plagued by. A big, perfect move over ridiculously dangerous reef. The commentators don’t know what to call it, the judges don’t know how to score it. They’re calling it the first one ever done in competition. Manoa Drollet and CJ Hobgood get typical barrels and the judges are screwed, cos they have no idea how to compare the old school’s barrels with what Jordy just did.
Where is the dillemma? A move never done at this break, done practically to perfection, followed by turns as good as anyone else. Jordy just did something no-one else can do, and yet Manoa is right behind him with a mediocre barrel and turn in the smallest swell you could possibly run a Teahupoo contest in. The judges have given Jordy the lead, but it seems almost grudging.
Kustom Footwear offer up $50 000 for a single move, and when Chippa Wilson submits a backhand bigspin some surf media refer to it as a 360
17.Sep.2010
Hey Dorin, Ive followed Iain’s link to this article on the BOMB, I managed to get the first comment in and was reminded about that blog following Flynn Novaks Custom Airstrike win.
Iains blog doesnt have the “keep me informed feature” so I dont know that you’ll get my latest comment, its there but I’m also pasting it here if you wouldnt mind commenting?
regards
Jono J
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Jono on 17 September 2010
Who gets notified of updates to the comments? Iain? coz i dont, can we have that option?
So I just saw that Flynn Novak won the $50 000 Custom Air Strike Prize for a Double handed [some variation of it at least] ‘flip’ or twist-flip as i see it. They’re calling it a “Flynnstone Flip” obviously after Flynn?!
What i would like to know is whether this move already has a name and if Dorin could shed some light on it for us.
then generally speaking whats the deal with laying claim to moves using your own actual name or naming an already named move with a new name…. considering that Flynns move may previously have been called something like a “tuck-knee-frontside-grab-backflip’ or merely a “frontside-double-grab-backflip” [if i analyse it according to these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabs_%28skateboarding%29
noone's name is in them but Flynn wasn't the first on to do it.
Further, should surfing adobt skating names when originally skating mimiced surfing? I'm not going back to the original comment of calling everything a "Sick-air" [sic] but if Flynn is the first surfer to do it can he claim it? whether he can claim the move and name or not he’s claimed 50k and that’s no half-cab i mean bad.
17.Sep.2010
Heya Jono
As far as I know Flynn’s the first to stick this variant but i’m no fountain of knowledge. As for naming stuff after yourself, I think the general rule of thumb is that if the trick is different enough from a fundamental move that it is something new entirely then it deserves it’s own name (think Speciation in an evolutionary sense) and if you’re the guy to do it, it’s yours to name. Personally I think naming it after yourself is egotistical but that’s my 2c. Tony Hawk invented the Stalefish grab at Woodward and allegedly named it after the smelly farts guys did there because of the food. Which brings me to renaming grabs that already have names. Boardsports are all standing sideways with a toe and heel side rail, using their front and back hands to grab, so why further complicate things with new names? If every other sport calls a back hand on a toeside rail and indy, why would surfing call it an Archibald? Keep it simple i say.