Poll: who's your favorite active surfer? and why?

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Rant - Poll: who's your favorite active surfer? and why?

Here's a half dozen of the usual suspects:

1) Kelly Slater: not a whole lot more needs to be said about this guy, he's done it all.

2) Laird Hamilton: incredible all around waterman, popularized tow-in surfing, at the forefront of pimping SUP to kooks who can no longer paddle in.

3) Stephanie Gilmore: four time ASP champ and she's only 22.

4) Alana Blanchard: from the beach she's got the best looking frontside bottom turn in surfing history.

5) Bethany Hamilton: still surfs competitively after shark took her arm. How can anyone not respect that?

6) @piss-shiver: only man brave enough to hit Mavericks on his 5'8" fish when it's quad overhead.

feel free to add others not on this short list. This poll is not serious and will in all likelihood not affect the presidential election in 2012 (unless KoK runs vs. Sarah Palin)

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Kooktastic
1 year ago

I'll have to go with Bethany Hamilton. I find her refusal to let fate dictate to her to be so admirable. A close second is @piss for his balls of steel and complete lack of brains.

piss_shiver
1 year ago

Ahw shux..you gotta be dumb to be tough! So thanks....:D
For mine own part, I do admire quite a few of the locals here at our own breaks.
They've shown me quite a bit, and given me support throughout the 2010 year, and made me a better surfer.
I still got miles to go, but whom I go surfing with...and actually SEE out there on a daily basis...thems who I admire more than some centerfold. Those images are good and somewhat aesthetically pleasing, but it's a constructed reality.
I'm choosing what's real, and closer.

Dingo
1 year ago

@piss. I'm misting up here! Balls of steel and heart of gold!

King of Kooks
1 year ago

Rory Russell or Mark Richards. Has anything new happened since their single and twin fin attacks respectively? I don't think so.

The Extreme Scene
1 year ago

On the men's side, without question Kelly Slater. Tom Brady, hope you're enjoying Slater's sloppy seconds.

Obvz answer on the chick side, Alana MotherfuckingAsstastic Blanchard.

pickle_sf
1 year ago

on the older side: Rasta and on the younger side: Sterling Spencer. watching either of them surf gets me all crazy like.

mr.pebbles
1 year ago

gotta go with myself of that one
because I have the most fun.

Hodad
1 year ago

Who's my favorite active surfers? The ones that stay home when I'm out. LOL!

paddleout
1 year ago

Sean Thompson because he had real personality and was the first king of the tube. Slates rates a mention, he's the alltime best (still is). Gilmore seems nicely grounded, but that's a perception going out to bubbleland. Jay Moriarity was a truly nice guy who really charged. The nice ones really stand out.

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