Tag: anonymous surf culture

• Surfing’s Culture of Silence

  

  “Platforms are judged by the value generated by their ecosystem, not by the value the platforms directly capture.” -Dalton Caldwell (Please be advised, this post contains explicit language from Twitter feeds.) The language of surfing has long been dominated by the motion and gestures of the body. The narratives we construct, the legends, the mythologies,…

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  August 10, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Gay, History, Surfing

  Andy Irons, anonymous surf culture, Big Surfing, Bobby Martinez, Cori Schumacher, culture of silence, Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater, Paul Sargeant, power, Shea Lopez, sponsorship, sponsorship dynamic, surf culture, surfing, Ted Endo

• Manly Men: Fiji Pro, June 7th 2012

  

  The amount of references that are made to how “manly” the men on the ASP World Tour are in video commentary and elsewhere, is utterly overwhelming at times. With comments like “These dudes are manly men”, “He better man-up”, descriptions of turns as “mannish hacks”, or even references to waves as women (“approach accordingly”), it…

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  June 8, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Feminism, Media Literacy, Surfing

  anon surf culture, anonymous surf culture, ASC, ASP, Big Surfing, Cloudbreak, man-up, masculinity, NFL, Restaurants, Twitter, Volcom Fiji Pro