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Surfing...more sport or religion?
« on: August 19, 2017, 07:52:42 AM »
My surfing "guru" Catherine sent a link to this Atlantic article. Interesting how surfing has captured my imagination and become much more than a physical sport for me.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/is-surfing-more-religion-than-sport/533721/?utm_campaign=7.27+Summer+Clearance+cont%27d+%28PqMXNx%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ZR+Official+-+The+Newsletter+%28Canada%29

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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2017, 08:35:16 AM »
Addiction.
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2017, 10:27:30 AM »
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2017, 12:43:44 PM »
It's not surfing per say for me. It's being on, in or around saltwater for me. I got my first taste of the saltwater environment when I was 7 years old. That was 60 years ago.

When it comes to saltwater; it doesn't matter what I'm doing whether it's pier fishing, surf fishing, crabbing, clamming, kayaking, prone surfing, supping, sailing and last but not least, piloting a boat. Being on, in or around saltwater just gives me a nice "feeling" which I can't really describe. Even the smell of the salt in the air gives me this feeling.

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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2017, 01:05:49 PM »
Its like Therapy for the Soul  !!!!
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2017, 05:53:45 PM »
Hard not to believe in a Higher Power when it is beating the snot out of you.
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2017, 06:40:51 PM »
Yes, all of the above.  When I sprained/broke my ankle last Sunday, I asked God to please carry me safely back to my Jeep.  He said, can't you see I've got my hands full with PonoBill and his bro Stoneaxe? ;D
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2017, 06:42:42 PM »

^^^ Funny Bean  ;D ;D ;D

If it's religion.... it's a cult, cuz there's no getting out.


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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2017, 07:02:25 PM »
Quote from: Night Wing on August 19, 2017, 12:43:44 PM
It's not surfing per say for me. It's being on, in or around saltwater for me. I got my first taste of the saltwater environment when I was 7 years old. That was 60 years ago.

When it comes to saltwater; it doesn't matter what I'm doing whether it's pier fishing, surf fishing, crabbing, clamming, kayaking, prone surfing, supping, sailing and last but not least, piloting a boat. Being on, in or around saltwater just gives me a nice "feeling" which I can't really describe. Even the smell of the salt in the air gives me this feeling.

With you Night Wing.....been arranging jobs, girlfriends, (then wives and kids) , and priorities to be by the sea for years,,, (except when i cheated on mother ocean and moved to Park City to snowboard.... )

Now settled nice and tight to get my saltwater fix as much as I want here at the NJ shore.

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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2017, 08:01:44 PM »
Quote from: PDLSFR on August 19, 2017, 01:05:49 PM
Its like Therapy for the Soul  !!!!

I'm not a surfer but am an avid paddle boarder, and the above is the best description for me.
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2017, 05:12:07 AM »
"...they feel increased amounts of unity, reverence, and happiness in the water".

apparently the author hasn't surfed in a place where territorial nut jobs scream at you for even thinking about taking a wave. from my experiences, if surfing is a religion, it's most like ISIS.
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2017, 05:33:52 AM »
Like the ten blind men and the elephant, everybody's experience depends on where you touch it.  I was out in the waves with a guy on a Sunday morning when he said he had to leave soon tho go to church.  I looked all around us and asked "you mean THIS isn't church?"
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2017, 06:04:39 AM »
As Ship Frye once said:  Worship the Creator, not the Creation. 
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2017, 09:06:40 AM »
The ocean is my medicine. The surf an addiction.

And it's definelty a religious experience some days.
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Re: Surfing...more sport or religion?
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2017, 11:49:42 AM »
All of the above. Just wish I could get to the altar more often. Maybe if I sprinkle some coppertone around and pray to the Laird.
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