Shark Surfing

 

Sooo, let’s see.  I posted on Monday about surfing, and on Tuesday threw up a video that included sharks.  It only makes sense that Thursday has a video about shark surfing, no?

 

VIDEO: Variables with Kimi Werner

 

This struck me as one of those “humans attributing their feelings and emotions onto an animal that really just wants you to pass the A1 sauce (see also:  Grizzly Man)” type things.  I’m a sucker for that Hawaii girl accent and can’t clear my ears for shit thus have mad admiration for spear divers.  In the end ‘man eating shark’ and ‘man eating shark’ can have two different interpretations, right?

 

Variables with Kimi Werner from Patagonia on Vimeo.

 

#disbitchcrazy

Joel Tudor quote

 

It’s a different time. I mean the kids these days think it’s normal to take a filmer to the beach and make a video about yourself and put it up on the Internet. For some reason it is just completely cool to blow your own horn in 2012. Like there’s nothing wrong with being an egomaniac and basing your entire existence from sunup to sundown on producing yourself as a cool person. In my day, if you did that, you were done. My car would still be getting destroyed every time I parked it in the lot. Today, it’s all about yourself and how to make yourself seem cool. How much talent you have doesn’t seem to matter.

From the Surfermag interview Joel Tudor: Unfiltered.  That whole interview is filled with amazing quotes and thoughts so read it.

Fact: Joel has spent more time on the tip than you have surfing

 

REVIEW: Hobie Horizontal Rod Holder

 

Shortest review ever:  Broke while installing – hell I was just seeing if the strap would make it over the butt of my halibut rod.  Better to break in the grass than on the ocean though, would suck to lose that setup.

 

 

PMH Douche of the Week: Jackson Tyler Dempsey

 

It’s been waaaaaaaay too long since I’ve handed out a ten dick salute to someone. Today Jackson Tyler Dempsey gets his name etched in stone with other such notables as Joseph Condorelli, David J. Pfahler, parking enforcement officers and Michael J. Vandeman.

Jackson Dempsey just plead guilty to setting booby traps on national forest (aka land you don’t own asshole) land around Ashland, OR.  Among the things the PSYCHIATRIST (srsly, you can’t make this shit up) admitted to doing included stringing “nylon cord across the trails — putting nails and small trees on the paths — to try and throw them from their bikes.”  Yup, a regular ol’ shit stain on society.  Given he’s already shown disregard for right and wrong I’m sure he’ll disregard his two year ban from national forest trails, thus if spotted I suggest a thorough assbeating because, you know, he assaulted you first (your word against his, wonder who they’d believe in court…)

On behalf of mountain bikers everywhere I salute you and raise this bowl of dicks in your honor Jackson Tyler Dempsey.  May you one day trip while running with scissors!

 

 

The 5 day forecast

 

is for playin’ (see what I did there)

portland 5 day forecast

Heimo’s Arctic Refuge

 

Damn. Heimo is cut from the same (seriously high denier) cloth as Dick Proenneke. Love the kid at 18:50 holding the spinning setup upside down. And gas powered laptop? WHAT?

More Fly Rod Building

 

Welp, got ‘er shimmed up with masking tape and got the cork epoxied on.

Fly rod build

And have started the wraps. As Chris is a huge Portland Timbers fan trying to do a similar theme/color scheme on the rod. Green and yellow are tough, too much of the yellow and you start to push Oregon Ducks territory, so just doing a thin stripe of it on the ends of each guide wrap. Did the ferrule wraps in white with three green stripes, just like the shoulders of the Timbers jerseys.

Fly rod build

So far it’s coming along better than I expected though, stoked to see his face when he unwraps it in a few weeks.

TEASER: Videograss “The Last Ones”

 

Yup, it’s that time of year again (well, actually that time of year started a few months back but lazy interwebs keyboarder guy is lazy), where the ten thousand one snow porn makers start playing just the tip with your eyeballs. Inevitably most will be the same ol’ same ol’ – urban rails and sidecountry booters, some jackassery and fuckery thrown in to get the kiddies hyped and 30 seconds of steep pow to get the old crusties hyped – eventually all blending together and unrecognizable from the next. Only time will tell if the ‘The Last Ones’ will be an exception.

Top 3 moments
-Fenceplant at 1:25
-2:22 or so. When I was a kid we used our bindings *points cane*
-The duck under around 2:55. C’mon now!

THE LAST ONES: TEASER from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

Fly Rod Build

 

This should be interesting…

9' 5 weight fly rod build