Yes. Yes. Yes.
I’ve always been more of a @kookslams guy than a @kook_of_the_day guy. There’s often actually nothing kookish at all about the stuff that lands on one of the most hilarious Instagram pages out there. Just dudes getting smoked by the ocean, unsuspecting tourists getting absolutely throttled in shorebreak, and the occasional young lady posing for her new profile pic in the absolute wrong place at the absolute worst of times. Ok, I guess there is still a solid amount of legit kookdom going down. But at its core, @kookslams is all about the ocean handing us all some legitimate humility from time to time.
More often than not it’s a flat out moron getting ransacked by a wall of water, but you’re just as likely to find the legitimate charger or familiar pro surfer getting his or her own smack down. It’s awesome. And since there seems to be no shortage of bodyboarders getting top roped at the Wedge, now’s as good a time as any to do a roundup of some of this year’s best carnage. And we haven’t even reached Memorial Day yet.
You’re welcome.
1. Fully intact tailbones are for chumps.
2. Because asking “Dude, are you ok” makes it all better.
3. Smoked. So smoked.
4. Where’d he go???
5. Full send.
6. Those dumb “Don’t text and drive” commercials would be way more effective if they were this gnarly.
7. What even is pain?
8. “Honeyyyy, take a pictu-I’M DEAD”
9. That commitment, though.
10. I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.
11. Not even gonna lie. I would. In a heartbeat.
12. The first of 2017. And it was a gem.
