{"id":46754,"date":"2014-09-18T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46754"},"modified":"2014-09-18T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:47:27","slug":"thebitchycrab-on-surfings-heritage-heats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46754","title":{"rendered":"Beach Grit On Surfing&#8217;s Heritage Heats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/potz_ger.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/potz_ger.png','popup','width=1200,height=712,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/potz_ger-tm.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Potz Ger\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after watching <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> catch another magical last second wave to claim his 21st heat win over <strong>Taj Burrow<\/strong> and ending what <strong>Johnny Gannon<\/strong> later described on Instagram as &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/tEmUCDDlMO\/?modal=true\">a cunt of a day<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; we were interested to see the Heritage Heat. The APS&#8217;s idea is to allow former surf greats to get some time in the water in front of the fans. In this case, former World Champion <strong>Martin Potter<\/strong> and nude surfing originator <strong>Brad Gerlach <\/strong>were to rekindle old rivalries and settle things once and for all. What happened was something different, and as usual, no one described it better than <strong>Chas Smith<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The art of aging gracefully, and to be sure, it is an art, involves transitioning from stage to stage with taste, decorum, all deliberate speed. It does not, and I repeat DOES NOT, involve surfing in \u201cHeritage Heats.\u201d. . . Athletics (real athletics, not bocce, golf, race car driving etc.) is a field that becomes fraught with pitfalls as life\u2019s sun begins to set. Of course, people should stay fit and active at all ages and surfing is a wonderful pursuit at all ages. That saltwater soothes, that glide feels so fine. But the older surfer should practice his art quietly. He should not practice his art during a surf competition in front of judges on the same waves just surfed by Taj Burrow (forever a 12 year old).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of Smith&#8217;s insightful treatise on aging surfers, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beachgrit.com\/opinion-heritage-surfing-yuck\/\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>. For <strong>Derek Rielly&#8217;s<\/strong> interview (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beachgrit.com\/fucking-smashed-pottz\/\">How I Fucking Smashed Pottz<\/a><\/strong>) with heat winner <strong>Brad Gerlach<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beachgrit.com\/fucking-smashed-pottz\/\">click here<\/a><\/strong>. Ah, Smith and Rielly, what a pair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beachgrit.com\/opinion-heritage-surfing-yuck\/\">Beach Grit<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after watching Kelly Slater catch another magical last second wave to claim his 21st heat win over Taj Burrow and ending what Johnny Gannon later described on Instagram as &#8220;a cunt of a day,&#8221; we were interested to see the Heritage Heat. The APS&#8217;s idea is to allow former surf greats to get some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46757,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46754\/revisions\/46757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}