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The Surfer's Path

 

 

Let's get one thing straight: The so-called act of "surfing the web" has nothing to do with surfing.

Web "surfers" don't have to paddle and probably couldn't. Web "surfers" can't get caught inside by a reef-draining set wave and pummeled till they almost can't remember what breathing was like. Fundamental to all, there is no surf on the web.

In truth "surfing the web" is nothing more than a weak metaphor for cyberpotatoes who think carpal tunnel syndrome is a sports injury.

Surfers do not refer to browsing the internet as surfing. If you do, you are not a surfer. Surfers are not confused between cyberspace and set waves.

On this site you'll find stuff related to surfing. The menu will grow as time allows

"Life is a wave, and your attitude is your surfboard. Enjoy the ride!"

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Angle of attack: Brad McCaul at Rights and Lefts,
Hollister Ranch, California, February 1970

"Surfing is the deceptively simple act of riding a breaking ocean wave on a surfboard. In reality, as a fundamental physical feat, surfing on a wave is a phenomenal conjunction of forces; the mathematics of it are profoundly complex. However, as an expression of the essential relationship between man and nature, surfing is unique in its clarity. And as a metaphor for life and just about anything life throws at us, it is unparalleled. Life is a wave. Albert Einstein even said so."

Stoked: A History of Surf Culture

 

 

© Drew Kampion, 2006