Friday, February 19, 2010

“It's hard to explain . . .



                    .    .    .    h   o   w     m   u   c   h     w   a   t   e   r     .    .    .

.    .    .    w   a   s   .    .    .

                                                                       .    .    .    m   o   v   i   n   g    .    .    .

                           .    .    .    a   r   o   u   n   d    .    .    .

                                                                      .    .    .    o   u   t    .    .    .

                                               .    .    .    t   h   e   r   e    .    .    .    .”



turbo-pack

backside

              B  O  M  B

scooby doo fog

the swing around

           caught
inside

taking some donuts
make it around the corner

       pop
               outside

doggie door entry
under the lip snap
right in the spit
rag-dolled

         frothy carnage

mackin’

sick
            drop

pulling crazy air

quiet charger

      D  E  T  O  N  A  T  E

                   u
                   p

                     and

           r    i    d    i    n    g

kick-out
          barrel slash
                                    mutant
                                           wave
              back-end
                              crazy

                                         d


                                         r


                                         o


                                         p



                         m    a    u    l    e    d






The quotation at the head of the post was spoken by Chris Bertish, of South Africa, after he won the 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest, February 13, 2010. All other words in the post were spoken by the contest announcers, names unknown, during the approximately five hour live webcast. All photos from SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle. For more on the wondrous argot of surf, see The Surfin’ary: A Dictionary of Surfing Terms and Surfspeak (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2001).

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30 seconds from the
Mavericks Surf Contest
February 13, 2010



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1 comment:

Inutile said...

Nice work, Steven...

Drop me a line, what's been going on since we last discussed Lamantia, quite a few years ago.

J. Karl Bogartte