It took two days to make the clip you see at the bottom of the page here (RIP and thank you David Bowie), and I then realized before the end credits were added that it would pair nicely with an edit about the atmosphere-destroying amount of hot air surfers have collectively exhaled over the decades while trying to describe, to ourselves and others, the tuberiding experience. 

Dear Reader, I ask you to try and imagine what kind of zombie-level THC load was circulating through Rory Russell's bloodstream when he said, on record, that a tuberide means "Mother Earth has you in her womb, in her cathedral, and you're totally free, and she's taking care of you."

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture—not sure who said that, Dorothy Parker maybe—and evidence suggests that talking about the tube presents an even higher level of rhetorical difficulty. Rory's comment reminds me that there's a video interview somewhere out there with George Greenough, and when the greatest surf-world innovator ever born is asked what makes tuberiding so special, he thinks for a moment, then in that Rainman-meets-Spicoli voice replies, "Well, it's really difficult." 

Like a brick through a cathedral window. As if we didn't already have enough reason to love Greenough.

TUBERIDING: SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNSPOKEN

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