Surfers On Steem: This One's For You!
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. - Stephen R. Covey
Surfers on Steem, let's pave our way.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and thanks to another amazing conversation with @sircork today's morning (well you unconsciously inspired me to do this, Cork :-)), the day has come to share a new idea with you.
There are a lot of surfers and Ocean lovers in general in this network, and I want to set up a project that unites all of us, enabling us to share our common passion, talk about what we love, creating synergy potential, grow the community of surfing on Steem and also advertize Steem in other surf communities outside the blockchain.
It's supposed to be a win-win for all participants.
I know that the upcoming community layer Hivemind will be the ideal basis to create such a sub-community on the blockchain, but I don't want to wait for it :-)
The vision has been growing for longer in my head, the project itself - on an operational level - is still in its infancy, but I'm glad I have already been able to acquire some like-minded people who are going to be on board.
Now if you feel that you'd like to be part of a steemy surf project, too: then today is your lucky day :-)
Let me know if you wanna join us.
Sand & Sea - surfing has many faces
It's not just about riding waves
Surfing is much more than just controling a - however shaped and designed type of - surfboard.
To many surfers, the whole world of surfing is (almost) a religion.
I don't want to go that far, but to me spending time at the beach, being in the water, meeting like-minded people onshore and in the lineup is definitely a lifestyle.
Now I'd love to bring all the like-minded surfer souls in this network together, leveraging the Steem blockchain as an extended arm of our real life surf environment.
I have multiple ideas in my mind on how to set up the project, but I want this to be our project not just mine.
So if you like the idea and want to be part of it, please reach out to me.
You can either leave a comment with your discord handle in the comments or reach out directly to me: surfermarly#8679.
As long as the core idea of the project is not public, I want to keep the conversations private. We will reach out the whole Steem community and present more details soon!
Mood:
The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun. - Phil Edwards
See you on the block.
Much love,
Marly -
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This blog was created in July 2016, aiming to provide thought-provoking content for open-minded people who go on adventure, step out of comfort zones and embrace the new.
Thanks for being part of the journey!
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I am intrigued :)
Yay! I was hoping you'd find this post quickly :-)
Reach out on discord whenever you want, then I'll send you more information.
I couldn't find you on discord :( I am intrepidsurfer #7374
Alright, I will reach out :-)
EDIT: sent.
Hey @sufermarly, I live here on the 3rd coast, in the not so sparkling city by the sea Corpus Christi, TX. I love reading your blog, mostly because every time I do I keep telling myself I need to go to the beach. Silly living in a beach town and never going there. I guess it's acclimation. I work on the island, a lot, and still I find reasons not to go. The city of Corpus Christi took over the maintenance out there and every time I go I just want to cry because of what they have done to it. They have turned it in to a landfill. Nothing g but bulldozer tracks and sand dunes covered in scooped up trash piled as high as they can pile it. It's truly sad.
I was one of the last lucky ones, I lived out there, on the beach, homeless and free, freer than I've ever been. Now I'm a slave to the hiarchy, beaten into submission and despair by the overlords of progressivism, they know what's best, for the citizens attitude of the city council. God help us all.
Anyways. Reading your post, seeing your passion for your new found love of sailboarding... It gives me hope, and a desire to go play in the soft powder sand, to bathe in the warm salt water, to dream and remember the best of times I've ever had at the beach. So thank you and hang in there, it may look like summertime flatness at the moment but the winter swell is sure to come and won't that be fun to ride.
Hey @spozone! Thanks a lot for your kindness and thought-provoking story. From the botton of my heart I can only recommend everyone on this world spend as much time as possible on the beach - to me it's become kind of a security zone, a place where I'm free (as you perfectly stated).
They might be able to build walls arround us but, they won't ever be able to take away our love for the Ocean :-)
Have a great day!
Seriously. I spent 5 yrs living on the beach in a make shift gypsy wagon of sorts. The memories will certainly last a lifetime. The saying "stay by the sea, safe as can be" has real meaning to me. So many nights, lulled to sleep by the incessant roar of the waves. So many mornings awoken by the laughter of the sea gulls. With hindsight I realize how truly blessed I am to have lived such a romance. I became such a part of the scenery that the mother deer was OK with her farm eating right outside my window and the Cheshire coyote pup would come visit each night in search of a handout and just sit there staring at me as if he wanted to talk.
I cursed the cold, I cursed the wind, I screamed ugly nasty things at God and He laughed at me alongside the gulls. I lost everything I held dear to me there including my sanity. In the end I walked away one day, left my house and took only a small bag of belongings and a new improved version of me, a version uniquely modified by the sands of time indeed.
In closing this thought I bid you blessing and brighter days of joy for hope does spring eternal and I leave you this picture of one of those mornings when I woke up, stepped foot outside my door and said Wow! Thank you God for another day so full of possibilities.
I´m in!! Hab zwar noch paar Tage viel um die Ohren aber ab nächste Woche endlich wieder unterwegs in Thailand und ab Ende Okt endlich wieder ein Brett unter den Füßen in Australien.
Hab dir eine discord Anfrage gesendet. Bin gespannt!
Großartig! Na dann pass in Australien aber schön auf die Haie auf - oder ist das nur ein Mythos?
Anfrage auf discord: received! Schicke Dir in Kürze mehr Info :-)
super, dann bin ich mal gespannt.
Nein, leider kein Mythos, an der Ostküste gibt es schon relativ viele davon. Bisher ging es immer gut. 😬
Hab Dir schon einen Link via discord geschickt...
Pass auf Dich auf! :-)
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Of course I'm in surfer! 🤙
Of cours you are. I would like to participate as well. How ever, I feel like I don't know enough about steemit just yet. To help you guys out.
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Already told I would ask you tomorrow! You ruin it :P
I'll help you out, will talk about it tomorrow while enjoying dinner 😎
You don't need to know much about steemit, you can only talk about surfing :-))
@guchtere will tell you more.
Why am I not surprised? :-)))
Check your discord account for more...
I'm in! Through his contests @intrepidsurfer knows a bunch of steemit surfers as well :)
Yeah I know, I was happy to see him commenting above :-))
Send me a message on discord, then I can provide you with more information.
Great initiative, you @surfermarly are a real visionary!!!
Cheers!
/FF
Hehe, thanks for the flowers, but I just want to help us surround ourselves with some nice, like-minded people :-)
Great idea!!!
/FF
Nice - I just sent you a message on Discord. 🤙
Yeah, found you there! :-)
Cool to have you on board.
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