The Gentlemen's Hour

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Kansas.

See “flatter than.”

Like the ocean this August morning in Pacific Beach, San Diego, California.

Aka Kansas.

As the Dawn Patrol gives way to the Gentlemen’s Hour.

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Earth, air, fire, and water.

The four elements, right?

Let’s let air go for a minute—except in LA, it’s pretty much a given. Fire’s not the topic either—for now, anyway.

Leaving earth and water.

They have more in common than you’d think.

For example, they can both look static on the surface, but there’s always something going on underneath. Like water, earth is always moving. You can’t necessarily see it, you might not feel it, but it’s happening anyway. Beneath our feet, tectonic plates are shifting, faults are widening, quakes are tuning up to rock and roll.

So that dirt we’re standing on, “solid ground”?

It’s moving beneath us.

Taking us for a ride.

Face it—whether we know it or not, we’re all always surfing.

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Boone Daniels lies face up on his board like it’s an inflatable mattress in a swimming pool.

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