There’s an old South Park episode where Cartman gets a bright idea to shine a light on the town’s growing population of homeless people: he’s going to jump over them. The stunt becomes a spectacle and eventually Cartman claims he’s able to jump as many as 30 homeless people at once.
Welp, now we have that stunt — the skateboarding pastime of lining up your neighborhood friends against a ramp and launching over them — taken to wave pools. I’ll admit that when I first saw this clip of Olympian Leon Glatzer launching over a section of five surfers (on soft tops, I think), I thought he was legitimately navigating a wave crowded with surf school attendees. Blame it on the freeze frame of several people pointing it toward the beach on their bellies, but I think that’d be a fair representation of how many surfers imagine wave pool life these days.
But alas, Glatzer wasn’t vibing a group of “Vulnerable Adult Learners.” It’s an intentional stunt that started with an air over one person and progressively grew until the Hawaiian-born Olympian cleared five people in one section.
Think Cartman could’ve cleared 30?
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