The Green Room Stinks It Up
What happens when your hometown hero doesn’t place first in a shaping contest? If you are the Santa Cruz Sentinal’s Sentinel’s Leo Maxam you bag the guy who won because he’s from the East coast, where the surf always sucks and the shapers are amateurs. I bet Andreini cringes with embarrassment when he reads this crap.
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October 28th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
It’s spelled “Sentinel,” with an “e” as in one who looks out and keeps a vigilant watch. Again, our town’s newspaper is the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Thanks. Too bad editors focus on spelling and grammar and not tact.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Kudos to RC for shaping a beautiful blank, but even he would tell you that a classic single fin gun won’t get much use around Satellite Beach, Florida. In fact on his own website, Carroll refers to his gun shapes as “travel” boards because, “your (sic) most likely going to have to travel to find waves that this board works in.” Don’t believe it? On your next surf trip, go to the East Coast, or just check out his website:
http://www.rickycarrollsurfboards.com/shortboard.htm
Irony isn’t necessarily a negative thing. Carroll’s win was ironic in the same sense that a kid from Cocoa Beach (Kelly) becoming one of the greatest Pipeline surfers of all time was ironic. Cheers to all the East Coast underdogs. I just wouldn’t want to live out there.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hey, I agree, irony isn’t necessarily negative, but the article sure ended that way.
Another way to look at East coasters successes is to recognize the extreme dedication, perseverance and a love of surfing and or shaping that compelled them to make it. I think that would have been a less negative and more appropriate ending to your article.
Thanks for stopping by to comment though. I’ll do you a favor and not delete it, even though you guys deleted my trackback on your article. Once again, very classy.
No hard feelings though. Hope you are getting swell.