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I grew up going to lots of loud hardcore punk shows that at best left my ears ringing and at worst brought a stabbing pain that seemed to pierce my eardrums. It wasn’t too long before I realized I needed to wear earplugs. I got so conscientious that if I forgot my earplugs at a show — or even a nightclub with a loud sound system — I’d stuff whatever
The Komune Bali Pro got off to a great start at Keramas on Wednesday, October 8. The 13-heat opening round of the Qualifying Series (QS) and Asian Surfing Championship (ASC) event showcased great local and international surfers on 4-5 foot waves. Standouts included Indonesia’s Pepen Hendrik, who scored 9.50 on a single wave with a deep tube and Australia’s Jordin Watson, who took the day’s highest two-wave total with 16.50
Surf films keep getting artier, more trippy and more beautiful. Or were they always that way? I guess 1972’s ground-breaking Morning of the Earth basically set the bar for a certain type of surf film in the way it used nature, mood and music to highlight the “spirituality” of surfing and drive home a powerful message. DirectorJoe Guglielmino — or “Joe G” — has been making surf films for a decade. His
Last week I posted about Diah Rahayu, Bali’s only female professional surfer. One of the things Diah said about being a female surfer in Indonesia was that her friends believed it was dangerous and therefore weren’t so likely to get in the water. The modern girls of Bali aren’t the only ones to feel this way. Apparently being wary of the sea is widespread and goes back far into the
One of my favourite TV shows, Australia’s “Puberty Blues”, depicts 1970s surfing culture Down Under as a misogynistic boy’s club populated by a bunch of stupid jerks, with of course the one exception of the dreamy male lead. Girls are simply not allowed to surf and are mocked and bullied if they do. It’s a macho sport in a macho country at a macho time. So in surfing, so in
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