![]() ![]() Following is so 2012.Īnd I would get those screenshots and I would feel that I was up to date on Slater’s various musings and goings about.Īlas, it appears I was only being served a portion of the pie, a little bite size of reality, for the truth has revealed that not only is the world’s oldest Pipeline Pro, he is also 2022’s top surf influencer.Īccording to important social media ranking site Starngage, which “tracks a total of 830 influencers in the United States with between 1000 and 10 million followers,” Slater came out on top. some time ago, I initially thought “Ha! I don’t need to follow you to see what’s going on. When the 11x World Champion originally blocked me, BeachGrit, Derek, my wife etc. Not being allowed to follow Kelly Slater across various social medias has finally but finally sunk its pearly white fangs into my bottom. We discussed various plans plus the new, reimagined Pipe Masters on this week’s chat, in any case. A good idea but will Brother Sam’s charging negatively affect the roll-out? ![]() Is “haole” really a racial slur?īut also, David Lee Scales had a wonderful idea that the homeless population encamped on many west side beaches should be shipped to the North Shore this winter so they can do the enforcement in return for being sheltered in the Volcom House. He was calling me all these racial slurs telling me because I’m haole, and I’m white I’m not allowed to be at this beach because this is where his ancestors are.”Ī few other similar instances led the Honolulu prosecutor to charge Brother Sam with harassment and second-degree terroristic threatening. “Well, I had heard there was a guy down at Makua threatening people so immediately pulled right up next to them and got out my car and said you cannot be threatening people. Visitor Emily Silge heard about his quest, though, and became real mad. They take pictures of this place and some of them put it on their websites and make money off of it,” he told Hawaii News Now. “Swimming with the dolphins, which is against the law. A sign declares “No Commercial Activity,” but was not being policed, and so Brother Sam took it upon himself. ![]() Samson Souza, or Brother Sam, is a native Hawaiian who posted up on Makua Beach six months ago after becoming infuriated by vans full of tourists coming to swim with dolphins. One brave man on Oahu’s west side, though, decided to buck the trend of worrying about lawyers this and lawsuits that and enforce the traditional way. Well, times have shifted and now we have influencers attempting to decapitate locals at Pipeline with no penalty.Ĭop calling Gogganses creating a free-for-all hell. Those who didn’t belong in lineups didn’t paddle out, or if they did, and failed to learn the consequences of their mistake naturally, would be taught on the beach by men with names that struck fear. From Kauai to Oahu, Maui to the Big One, keeping folk in line was a way of life and time honored tradition. Busted teeth.Īnd nowhere did this way of life, hierarchy of respect, present itself more poetically that on the Hawaiian islands. Certain waves used to have reputations and outsiders were not welcome, infractions in the water were dealt with through or threats of violence. Any surfer who knows anything about anything knows that the practice of “localism” has changed drastically during the past few decades. ![]()
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