Surfers On Steemit: Where Are You? Building A Worldwide Surf Community On The Blockchain🏄
Associate with like-minded people, there is power in positive synergy. - Nike Adeyemi
Absolutely, Nike.
Communities were set as one of the goals for Q3/2017 in Steemit Inc's Roadmap 2017.
We wish to enable many users to build communities in parallel around curating specific types of content valuable to their audiences.
What I'd love to do in preparation for Q3 is bringing all the surfers together in order to set up a SteemSurf Community.
So who wants to be part of the 'SteemSurf World Map'? 🌎🌎🌎
Building a worldwide surf community 👊
In one of my last vlogs I mentioned that my favorite group of interest on steemit is #surfing.
However, I stopped using the tag #surfing for a while since there wasn't much engagement.
Yesterday Sharon @fitinfun left this comment in my YouTube channel:
I just looked at the #surfing tag and it looks like a lot of people are posting there. Maybe that is your community :) Subbed and liked.
I immediately jumped over to the surfing section and noticed that Sharon was completely right!
It seems that a lot of surfers have joined the platform lately and started to post under this tag. That's great news!
I started to read, upvote and comment some new entries, began to follow them and suddenly an idea came on my mind.
Why not designing a Steem World Surf Map showing all the surf spots where steemit's surfers are located?
So if you ever wanted to go on a surf trip, you might choose a destination from this map and meet a fellow steemian for a nice community surf 😊
I've seen a lot of like-minded wave seekers on steemit so far.
They've been posting from California ( @creatr ), Australia's Gold Coast ( @beachbuminvestor ), Hawaii ( @hichamwallace ) or even reporting from several spots where the WSL (World Surf League) competions took place ( @sandrino ).
Did you know that India's youngest professional surfergirl @oceanchild joined steemit lately?
Imagine that we could 'make some noise' and bring even more PRO's on the platform?!
Doors are open!
Then of course there have been several steemians blogging about their surfing holidays. One of my favorite posts was definitely Luke's ( @lukestokes) Surfing Costa Rica which was one of the very first blog posts I read on steemit after joining the platform one year ago.
Not forgetting to mention @chrisadventures who posted this fantastic surf tutorial How To Start Surfing a couple of months ago.
There is so much knowledge, like-mindedness and cool surfing vibes. Let's bundle it in a surf community!
Let's bring all these surfer souls together and build something nice! So every surfer who wants to be on the world map, just drop a message down here in the comment section, providing some info on your local spot - and then you'll be in!
I will put all the information together and design a nice SteemSurf World Map. Wham! 🏄
Then we're going to have a nice point from where to start when the community feature is set up by Steemit Inc.
Looking forward!
Have a great one,
Marly -
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Original content. Quote found on asideas.com and Surf Map illustration found on yatzer.com: Illustration by Andrew Groves, from Surf Odyssey © Gestalten 2016.
Hey! I actually did my thesis about travelling and took more than often the example of surfing spots. Fun to see people with similar ideas!
@firepower and me are still aiming to create a platform to support the conclusion which came out of my thesis :)
Surfing spots are just perfect to create a travel map. They are perfect holiday destinations for everybody. I mean just think about spots like Hawaii or Bali. A lot of people travel there to live the ambient and breath some surf vibes, even though they don't seek waves by themselves ;)
Well then looking forward to your project with @firepower!
Yes! But not only travel spots are in demand! For example, Chiang Mai does not have one but is super popular too :)
Now I see... Great idea!!
Greetings, Marly! Thank you for your invitation, I am excited to join First Steemit Surfing community! Best spot in my area is usually Nai Harn beach, Phuket, Thailand :) We have surfing's season at Phuket now. But from December- to May there are no waves at all! I am not a super active surfer this season, due to trauma that I got last year. Thank you for this wonderful idea! May be you could do an app or website soon:) Have a wonderful day!
Hey Luke! Nice that you jumped over directly :-)
Phuket, wow! I've never been to Thailand so far but it's one of the 100 destination I'd like to see soon, haha (why can't a day have 48 hours)!
Well then we've got another surfer for the next update on the steemit map. Awesome! Here's your spot: https://map.what3words.com/sunburnt.entangled.adventurous
Details here: https://steemit.com/surfing/@surfermarly/spotting-steemit-s-surfers-and-designing-the-first-community-map-here-s-my-local-wave
I won't lie: having an application would be epic! :-) I'll be working on it...
Have a great day, too!
In Austria we don't have an ocean or waves to surf on, but it was always my favorite sport that I never learned.
It's never too late to try :)
I love the idea of building communities on Steemit. Especially lifestyle ones like surfing, diving , fishing, sailing and all things natural and aquatic.
I couldn't agree more! It's the perfect way to find like-minded people and share ideas, experiences and knowledge about a certain field of interest.
Thanks for stopping by Stephen!
This is wonderful Marley! I'm so glad you took a look at #surfing and got so inspired. I've been making a point to visit people's YouTube channels from here and joining those I like. Yours made me so happy today. It's just great to see you having such a blast doing what you love.
I am a swimmer - not a surfer, but I love watching all extreme sports and you never know :) I'm pretty much a chicken, but I am a good cheerleader.
So glad to connect today. I resteemed in case I have surfer followers who want to join in. I also tweeted. Sometimes the main steemit account picks up my tweets, so maybe you will get exposure that way.
Haha, I loved that one!
Imagine, I still haven't been watching any live competition. That is something I really wanna do next year. I'm planning on doing a trip to Hawaii, being there during one of the big challenges. That would be kind of a lifetime dream!
I'm happy you enjoy my channel in such way! And again, thanks for the encouragement and great support (even via Twitter - brilliant!) :)
Have a great day, Sharon!
You too! You made my day with this one. I was in California for years and have a lot of experience watching surfing from the beach and avoiding them when swimming. I'm in Bangkok now with not a drop of nature so I will be really happy to watch your progress.
Bangkok, wow! What a change.
Sure, we're going to update you on everything :-)
I wish, never surfed in my life and live in the desert of Las Vegas 😂🙈🌵🌴🌞
That's a bad excuse, Charles! You've got the Flowrider at Planet Hollywood!!! 🤘😎😄
Nice post. That is definitely on my bucket list. Surfing in Australia.
Thank you!
I'd love to travel to Hawaii next year :)
Hello, I just wrote about how much I love surfing, and I know some good spots in the UK. And I also wanted to meet surfers from Steem! I am in!
https://steemit.com/surf/@coinkingz/surf-and-steem-finding-my-passion-through-blogging-and-surfing
That's awesome! Welcome to steemit :)
I've just upvoted your article and follow you now. So you might represent steemit's surfers in the UK though? :)
Hmmm. That would be a bit hard to say :) I am just one of the amateurs, but improving. So put me in the bucket for UK, I try to go down to surf every weekend now, so maybe somebody wants to join! Thanks for following!
I'm not a PRO either :) This is not supposed to be a network of professionals, just a group of like-minded people. Great, I count you in though!
That is a great idea. I hope you bring the surfers in.
That would be great! Thanks :)