My Best Shot from the day. Rincon February 17 2011, Photo Don Jayne
Last week I wrote a surf session blog called Big Name Pros, Stupid Car Surfing and Aggressive Line Up Tactic involving super fun Rincon, my boy JD finally having a good session (probably his best of the trip) and professional surfers Kelly Slater and Sally Fitzgibbons. If you missed it I suggest clicking on the link and checking it out. It was a pretty entertaining surf blog. Occasionally I find other blogs, photos or internet type stuff that links in with a blog I wrote. When that happens I like to post it here.
This one was actually found by my former roommate and lurking partner in crime Brennan (Brennan has recently gotten some play here in the last two blogs: The Paradoxical Plight of the Eunuch Cat and The Great Escape from Mission St. those are worth a read too if you missed them, more the latter). This link comes from SantaBarbaraSurfer.com and has been featured on the both the myspace.com blog and SurfingRuinedMylife.net. I really should feature them in my link section but have been too lazy to bother with it. Its a pretty cool blog completely devoted to the Santa Barbara surfing community.
There is some text relating to the session similar to my blog on the day. If you read you will notice the author also ran up to El Capitan for a surf like myself, except he must have gotten there about an hour earlier then I did because he actually was able to get some water time. The slide show is pretty cool. It shows you how the cove was on the day in question. There are some amazing pictures of Slater, Sally Fitzgibbons, J7 friend/team rider Arson, Tom Curren’s older son and even three shitty shots of yours truly, Chris Lisanti.
In the comments he mentions something about even running a few pictures of the guys with “stinky style” when he gets the occasional shot where they are not embarrassing themselves. Im sure I fall into that category. Whatever, I have a ton of fun, even if 90% of the time I am completely kooking it, flailing around like a wounded condor. I have shots #33, 86, and 87 in the show. There are some pictures of the crazy equipment Slater was riding as well. If you got a minute I would check it out: http://www.santabarbarasurfer.com/index.php/news/article/thursday_at_the_con/.
Kelly Slater always brings out the admirers.
Here is a classic example of what they call "Stink butt style".
Surfing Ruined My Life 
UCB most revolting bodily function
UCB: You’re biggest character flaw, if you think you have one. I think I romanticize things too much, but then I’m like, maybe I’m just everyone’s unrealized dream. I don’t know.
I think its definitely the unrealized dream thing. Good topic. I will have to put some real thought into this one.
Thanks for sharing that link from the Rincon blog with me. I have been so busy I would have totally missed it.
I second Brennan’s UCB suggestion. I think it’s a really cool one.
Oh by the way, me and Brennan went out for his birthday yesterday. We had a blast. We were really wishing you were there.
Yeah I got both of you and his late night texts at 2am. I wish I could have come up too. I want to come up before you graduate and we can all go out and party.
Ha, did I really text you? I lost my phone that night, who knows who else I texted, shoot.
yeah you texted “this asshole is soo right, dammm!” ha
Jesus, I have no idea what i was talking about.