{"id":53389,"date":"2018-12-15T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53389"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:09:50","slug":"nick-carroll-rides-dirk-ziffs-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53389","title":{"rendered":"Nick Carroll Rides Dirk Ziff&#8217;s Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/carroll_bg.png\" class=\"wp-image-53390 alignnone size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/carroll_bg.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/carroll_bg-200x111.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Carroll<\/strong>, a writer who surfs well, gives his take on <strong>Dirk Ziff\u2019s<\/strong> wave pond in a really, really long story on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2018\/12\/nick-carroll-riding-kelly-slaters-pool-cured-me-of-a-vague-existential-horror\/\">BeachGrit.com<\/a><\/strong>. Deja vu. As much as we love Nick, and cherish his contributions to surfing lit, we again didn&#8217;t read the entire story, however, we don&#8217;t think he mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=William+finnegan\">William Finnegan<\/a><\/strong> nor <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=the+new+yorker\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine. He did however offer up an epic butter-em-up-then-poop-on-their-plate overview of the place in the last few paragraphs. Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You ride waves, but that\u2019s it. . .\u00a0And ultimately, this is dissatisfying. The WSL Surf Ranch is an ideal venue for major pro surfing competition. It\u2019s an epic showcase for pros, and a theme park for good surfers. It\u2019s almost impossibly original, and fun as hell. I\u2019m flabbergasted by what Kelly has done up there at Lemoore; at some moments I think maybe it outdoes all his world championships. After all, people won world titles before him, and they continue to do so since; none, however have built anything like this. . .\u00a0But as a surf experience, it just doesn\u2019t hit the spot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re assuming you can learn how Nick arrived at this conclusion by reading the entire piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2018\/12\/nick-carroll-riding-kelly-slaters-pool-cured-me-of-a-vague-existential-horror\/\">BeachGrit<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boardrap.com\/surfing-wave-pools-can-cure-you-of-existential-horrors-read-the-story-the-surfers-journal-rejected\/\">BoardRap<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Carroll, a writer who surfs well, gives his take on Dirk Ziff\u2019s wave pond in a really, really long story on BeachGrit.com. Deja vu. As much as we love Nick, and cherish his contributions to surfing lit, we again didn&#8217;t read the entire story, however, we don&#8217;t think he mentioned William Finnegan nor The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/53389"}],"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=53389"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53398,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53389\/revisions\/53398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}