If you got your hands on a new iPhone 7 last month it’s already outdated. Undoubtedly, Apple is currently knee deep in getting the iPhone 12 ready for launch. If you’re still walking around with an iPhone 4, well, you can probably just stand in front of Urban Outfitters and hock it to some hipster for $200 because that brick-sized timepiece has now reached vintage status. The same probably goes for your flatscreen television and whichever laptop you have. Nowadays, if it’s more than three weeks old then it’s just old. And if it’s any older than that…some 23-year old will buy it at a thrift shop because it’s ironic.
Everything is outdated. It’s sad but it’s also awesome.
But the swing? That seemed timeless. Every kid in every generation can appreciate the swing set, whether it was a tiny chain playground set or the gnarly one hanging from a massive oak tree, daring you to one up the kid next door by flying dangerously close to a broken bone or five. Unless you were launching yourself 30 feet into the air and into a lake, there really wasn’t much room for improvement on the swing.
And then somebody decided to fuse surfing with swing sets. Designed by a surfer from South Carolina named Rob, the Swurfer was born from Rob’s need to keep his kids occupied at the beach. He’d carved a piece of wood for his children to rock on and play with while he surfed, figuring they’d develop some core balance until they were old enough to join him in the lineup. Then one day he apparently came home and had the idea to hang the board from a giant oak tree and “surf the air.” Boom. Swurfing.
As you can see this isn’t your basic swing set and no, I wouldn’t recommend it as a “surf trainer.” They run anywhere from $129-$149 for the full set and it pretty much looks like you can get as creative and crazy with the thing as you want. In the world of sometimes dumb, always random, every once in a while cool gadgets and toys that fuse surfing/skating/boardsports with goofing off, this one looks like fun. Until somebody decides to be cool and yell “look Ma, no hands!”
