Sometimes you just gotta bail.
That’s what one surfer did during a recent session in Mexico, hitting the eject button, but the wave wasn’t having it. Instead, it took the surfer down with it.
Check out the clip below:
The clip comes from Kook Slams, by way of Gabriela Madrigal, with the former captioning it:
“Flew a lil too close to the sun.”
And yeah, the Icarus analogy is a good one, with the surfer going really big, but perhaps too big. Then, at the last second, realizing his mistake and attempting to pull out…but it was too late by then. The damage was done. Burnt by the sun.
Perhaps Persephone would be more apropos in this situation, however.
Persephone, of course, was the daughter goddess Demeter. She was sweet, beautiful, and pure. In fact, she was even friends with the ocean nymphs. But one day, Hades came along and, smitten by her beauty, decided to kidnap her down to the underworld. The best part? She went on to become queen of the underworld.
Pretty badass. And appropriate, no?
A kind, gentle, naive soul being swept down to the underworld?
Anyway, I digress.
Comments on the clip were as follows:
“Pretty sure that was a 900”
“He had a good line confused why he tried to bail out”
“I’ve never seen someone try to bail over a lip and end up having the wave dekembe Mutumbo thier ass to the ocean floor like that!”
“That was not the appropriate exit strategy”
“Whoa, Icarus got melted”
“That’s no kook, but he did get slammed”
Long live, Kook Slams. And keep the Greek mythology comin’.
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