Me too, Lawnmower_Man is my 2nd favorite to Empire Man but these chairs are digging into the massive lead created in the catchy jingle category.
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I love boogie boarding
Growing up I went to Cocoa Beach 4-5 times a year and would boogie board the whole time.
Never did try surfing.
They had competitions there and I interviewed one of the famous boarders in middle school for my school paper but I don’t remember his name. Woulda been like 93-94.
Yeah whatever getting sponsored boogie boarding seems incredibly difficult, I’m impressed.
Btw since everyone is discussing their accomplishments I made top 16 in that tournament…one round away from a payday and two from finals. Oh well, it was a good time
You must have surfed wedge then? Ever when it was really huge?
Its been a while but sure. The biggest was below but I only got a few small side waves that day and wasn’t taking off on the huge closeouts. Once in jr. high school my dad drove me up there and I almost drowned right in front of him after I lost my board (cool kids don’t wear a leash at the wedge) and wasn’t strong enough to swim in or out and just floated in the impact zone and took 20 waves on the head. Its kind of an overcrowded closeout and its a mega hassle to get to the end of balboa peninsula and surf before 10am blackball though and if its good there its probably really good 10 minutes from my house.
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Its cheaper and safer than surfing and easier to get barreled and do airs but chicks don’t think its cool. The best surfer of all time is from of all places cocoa beach, florida
It’s a real brutal wave that can slam you right into the sand and keep you there. Had my fair share of wipeouts there when I was a kid. Most days it’s pretty tame. I guess its main appeal is the days it gets 15+ feet. It’s really amazing to watch and to watch the body surfers go nuts on those waves. That takes an amount of balls I can barely imagine.
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I remember reading this article a couple of years ago about Kelly Slater and his artificial wave pool (“Will his invention democratize surfing or despoil it?”) and not really being able to visualize what the hell they were talking about. Then I found this video which I still find mind-blowing and I don’t even surf.
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Looking around the internet a bit, I think the individual tracks were actually isolated from the stereo track. Never knew that could be done so well.
That explains why the drums sounded a bit melodic, that must have been a bit from the bass bleeding over.
This track sounds a LOT like the one we heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9iy910oXdo
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I always do this when I go to Hawaii, it’s a blast. Is there a reason you never got into surfing when I’m assuming all or most of your friends did?
No specific reason. I have a much older brother who surfed so I got to go in the ocean pretty young, the beach we went to had a blackball no surfing zone, nobody at my small elementary school surfed, i moved in jr high and a new neighbor was a surf coach and judged surfing/bodyboarding contests and would give me rides, i did surf PE when I was 15 because an older bodyboarder offered to give me rides and him and his friends were great bodyboarders already and brought me up to their level, and just a bunch of stuff like that kept happening where I kept getting better and saw no reason to ever switch.
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I’m always afraid some dude’s arm is going to snap like a twig whenever I watch one of these.
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Yeah its basically a boat wake pulled by a locomotive engine in a foot of water. Seems pretty easy to make if you’re a billionaire magazine fortune heir who bought professional surfing for fun like Dirk Ziff, but if you’re a real company looking to build a wave machine for actual profit it looks pretty hard. Some of the newer designs
The cost of building these things is insane and it takes forever and then there’s the possibility of planning to spend a decade and half a billion dollars building a massive resort in the california desert only for some barefoot waterskiing dudes in texas to shoot a couple of air jets at each other in a regular pool and produce way more realistic and better waves for much cheaper and then nobody bothers to show up to your oasis.
If you want to see a rad wave pool video check this one out of THIRTEEN year old Jackson Dorian, son of surfing legend Shane Dorian, who is the best wave pool surfer in the world because if you’re 4’10" and 80lbs you can land any trick you can dream up apparently.
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As another obscure arm wrestling watcher I’ve learned that if they keep their eyes on their hand they almost never break an arm. If an amateur looks away it’s snap city.
Here’s an easy one. This has to be one of the most copied chairs of all time. It’s the Eames molded fiberglass side chair for Herman Miller. The HM logo is embossed on the bottom of the fiberglass but I dunno if that’s true for every period of these. One of my local second hand shops had a set of them in hunter green that were in pretty good condition. The prices were fair but the lady mentioned she had some in the back that were in “rough” shape. Perfect.
As you can see, this is the upholstered version with the stacking base which is my favorite, for two reasons. First, I like the two-tone color scheme that’s sharply delineated by the black molded edge strip (the strip holds the stitching for the upholstery making it “invisible”). Second, there’s a layer of foam sandwiched between the vinyl and fiberglass that provides a surprisingly good amount of cushion. They are extremely well built with shock mounts for the legs, and the fiberglass flexes as you lean back into it, creating a comfortable chair. The plastic copies may look similar but there’s no comparison: the flex feels great, and fiberglass looks, well, glassy, and can develop an exaggerated checking texture over time. Here’s an example:
The problem that arises with the upholstery is that it’s fitted with adhesive which can loosen and cause bubbling. You can see it in the first photo where the stitching crosses in an X pattern, but it’s actually not as bad as it looks. I’m not exactly sure how to fix this and haven’t located a single case of someone attempting it. I’ve considered squeezing some adhesive between the seams with a syringe, then clamping a second chair over it to give shape. Haven’t tried it yet because the red chair doesn’t need it, but I have another to practice on some day.
Most people just remove bad upholstery and foam. If you see one of these in bare fiberglass and the bolt holes for the base are visible in the top of the seat, that means it was originally an upholstered chair. You can see the production process in this video:
Back to the red chair. Other than the obvious dirt ring on the seat, you can see the base is pretty rough and it’s missing a glide. Buying one-off parts like glides isn’t cheap, so I bought a second chair in green that had worse upholstery but a much better base and swapped. I’m in for $60 for the pair which is a steal considering what these normally sell for. My fears about the vinyl being destroyed by the dirt ring turned out to be unfounded. It scrubbed out with a stiff brush and some cleaner and the fiberglass polished up nicely, as did the base.
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Stole my answer.
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I’ve never seen this in Japan but I imagine it would do well here. Many enthusiastic tennis and table tennis players plus a shortage of space.
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This thread is making me feel like a basic bitch. However, I was talking to my brother in law the other day, and he said he likes to read the dictionary. Just pages of definitions in order. He had an aunt that used to like to read the listings pages of TV Guide and the phone book.
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You might be interested in this podcast, where some dudes in Ohio talk to Irish sports reporter John Gunning about sumo for an hour. It’s definitely the most obscure podcast I’ve ever listened to.
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Dang that’s sick. All I’ve got is a story at a water park where they had a mini version of this. It was tough just to get on top of the wave. So anyway this girl who couldn’t have been over twelve gave it a shot, and of course she face planted as soon as she put her feet on the board.
But through some bizarre confluence of events, she plowed through the water and UNDER the plastic divider between the two water reservoirs. So half of her is on one side, and she’s trapped, and the water is still blasting and so it’s blasting her in the face. It’s not like being totally underwater, but I wouldn’t think it’s much different than being waterboarded.
So of course a bunch of people rush to help try to unwedge her and someone has the bright idea to yell for someone to shut off the water.
She’s okay now. The end.
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