Strange Beginnings
Thursday 01/08 93
If surfing was meaningless activity I suppose nose-riding was its quintessence, pointlessness added to meaninglessness, but I could never embrace it. With shortboards there was an immediate sense of drama. You had to keep moving. To stand and pose, no matter how careful the arrangement of your arms, was to invite disaster. The only way to surf was to drive from rail to rail. There was also a sense of limitless possibility.