Soft-Tops Snapped in Half During Chaotic El Porto Surf Session (Video)
Soft-top surfboards have come a long way.
It used to be, if you had a Wavestorm from Costco, the preferred model for squishy surfers across the spectrum, from beginners to pros, you could return your surfboard to the wholesale dystopian consumerism megastore, should any damage occur.
No questions asked. The good ol’ days.
Nowadays, there’s countless options for soft-top surfers – from super long logs, to high-performance grovelers – made by an assortment of brands. The market is flooded. Pros have their own brands (Mick Fanning). And the quality varies wildly.
The worst part? No more Costco returns, no new boards no questions asked, and no more surfboards sold alongside bulk toilet paper packages at all, in fact.
Dystopian dream turned tragedy.
A perfect example: this poor woman who broke her soft-top during a chaotic surf session at Los Angeles’ kingdom of kookiness, El Porto.
The footage comes from Los Angeles surf filmer, Brad Jacobson, who documents all the whacky, overcrowded crazy surf shenanigans in the City of Angels.
And he captions it as such:
“There's always plenty of fun action in the water at El Porto on a holiday, and Thanksgiving didn't let me down. Surfers paddled out pre-Thanksgiving dinner to hopefully work off some of the food they'd stuff down later in the day.”
Narrating the poor woman who broke her softie, Brad says:
“Uh oh…I don’t think it’s supposed to look like that. I could be wrong, but that doesn’t look right. Well, that’s not a very good thing to happen on Thanksgiving.”
Soft-tops, broken or not, something to be grateful for this holiday season.
Question: how many soft-tops will be under the tree this year in total?
Hundreds?
Thousands?
More?!?
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