Dig it! When the last time you said “far out”?

335clone said:
Yes, Far Out is the precursor to Outa Sight.

Tubular comes from The Tubes live shows. For Halloween and New Years, there was a costume contest with prizes for 1) most exotic 2) most erotic and 3) most tubular.
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Yeah not sure about your last one given it’s a common surfer term from the 50s. But if that were also a source that would be wild and random.


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Local beach thuggery is another thread. My hippie talk volume is thin. I'm more of a 'rad' , 'bad ass' generation.
 
I use late 80's to mid 90's skater slang. Far out was way before my time.
My favorite is a term describing how someone almost got hurt in a bad way. I stole it from the Bones Brigade. "You almost shackwackled your dillon all over the place man!"
See also, gnarly, rad, etc.
 
MonkeyZero said:
I use late 80's to mid 90's skater slang. Far out was way before my time.
My favorite is a term describing how someone almost got hurt in a bad way. I stole it from the Bones Brigade. "You almost shackwackled your dillon all over the place man!"
See also, gnarly, rad, etc.
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Somehow I think gnarly and rad sound much more out of touch than far out. It’s cyclical. I don’t see rad coming back for another decade or two.


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Andrew Sak said:
I grew up with hardcore surfers that looked like Spicoli.
So you know how those in Huntington felt about the 'Vals'. They were seen as neon colored wearing litter bugs. Posers.
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LOL! My buddies and I got called Vals in Santa Cruz, on a road trip we did where we drove to San Diego, stopping in South Carlsbad at a used board shop to buy boards, then worked our way north from San Diego. I don't think we even tried Huntington. To be clear, I am not a good surfer. But I tried to learn over the years. My favorite wave ever is a point break on a little cove in Oregon, where the wave had some more transition and energy and was less Toady and steep as I found most of the So. Cal surf to be, at least that year a long, long time ago. On that trip, I purchased my used board poorly and should have had something with more volume and wider. Now, if I try to surf, it is on a big ass long board with lots of volume, pretty much on a shore break with no coral or reef to worry about.

Most folks were pretty friendly on our trip, and we tried to stay out of the way of locals who knew what they were doing more. And we did not litter. But the group of Santa Cruz guys we ran into didn't even want us around at all.
 
As far as "Far Out", unless I am referencing John Denver, about never, other than to say something like how far out did you ride, how far out did you sail, paddle, etc.
 
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rickenvox said:
Somehow I think gnarly and rad sound much more out of touch than far out. It’s cyclical. I don’t see rad coming back for another decade or two.


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I didn't know 'Rad' left.
sunvalleylaw said:
LOL! My buddies and I got called Vals in Santa Cruz, on a road trip we did where we drove to San Diego, stopping in South Carlsbad at a used board shop to buy boards, then worked our way north from San Diego. I don't think we even tried Huntington. To be clear, I am not a good surfer. But I tried to learn over the years. My favorite wave ever is a point break on a little cove in Oregon, where the wave had some more transition and energy and was less Toady and steep as I found most of the So. Cal surf to be, at least that year a long, long time ago. On that trip, I purchased my used board poorly and should have had something with more volume and wider. Now, if I try to surf, it is on a big ass long board with lots of volume, pretty much on a shore break with no coral or reef to worry about.

Most folks were pretty friendly on our trip, and we tried to stay out of the way of locals who knew what they were doing more. And we did not litter. But the group of Santa Cruz guys we ran into didn't even want us around at all.
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The poor Vals. The hate towards them was widespread and unwarranted.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
LOL! My buddies and I got called Vals in Santa Cruz, on a road trip we did where we drove to San Diego, stopping in South Carlsbad at a used board shop to buy boards, then worked our way north from San Diego. I don't think we even tried Huntington. To be clear, I am not a good surfer. But I tried to learn over the years. My favorite wave ever is a point break on a little cove in Oregon, where the wave had some more transition and energy and was less Toady and steep as I found most of the So. Cal surf to be, at least that year a long, long time ago. On that trip, I purchased my used board poorly and should have had something with more volume and wider. Now, if I try to surf, it is on a big ass long board with lots of volume, pretty much on a shore break with no coral or reef to worry about.

Most folks were pretty friendly on our trip, and we tried to stay out of the way of locals who knew what they were doing more. And we did not litter. But the group of Santa Cruz guys we ran into didn't even want us around at all.
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Did you hit San Onofre? That was the hot surfing spot back in the day.


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