Surfskates are all the rage right now. The devices are marketed as a cross-training option for surfers plagued with flat days. On the other hand, detractors often make fun them for being a skateboard with wobbly trucks that let beginners feel like they’re making progress by wiggling around a parking lot. Luke Cederman of the Raglan Surf Report is in the latter camp, and released a new video adding fuel to the anti-surfskate fire.
“Sometimes the Surfline report isn’t what you were hoping for. Luckily for our surfskaters, we are finally being recognized and treated like the surfers we are pretending to be,” says Cederman at the top of the video. What follows is an advertisement for the SurfSkateline app. The dead-on parody of Surfline features reports on the top surfskate spots, with readings for how many cones one can expect on arrival.
“You should have seen it yesterday,” crows Cederman to an onlooker.
“What was it like yesterday?” he replies.
“Oh, it was exactly the same,” says Cederman.
“Because it’s concrete!” shouts the onlooker off-camera. In three words, he manages to succinctly encapsulate the reasoning behind both surfskate fans and surfskate haters.
