Post #56349 by Geeky Tiki on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 5:30 PM

Hi, thanks for such a thought provoking thread!

I have an overlap between Tiki and surfing in my mind because I think of both as being timeless when done right. Both are somewhat outside the metronome of the modern world.

An even bigger connection between the two for me is the juxtapositioning of a modern pursuit in an environment that is really primordial.

For me, Tiki is the meeting of "the abstract furure" that is even more modern than modern with the primitive and timeless. Tiki is almost a reaction to the future, maybe.

Surfing is also a time out of the modern world kinda thing, so they seem to fit.

Heck, I'd even include alot of the current Buddha/Ganesha kind of stylings as Tiki for that same time out of time reason.

Surfing, Disc Golf, Tiki, Fine Tunes, Fine Libations.....they are all kinda Zen, too; where the activity exists for its own sake.

Anyway, the questions!

1. Are surfing and tiki more closely connected in California and Hawaii, and less so in other parts of the country?

Probably, Tiki and surfing share similar climates and manana like timing.

2. Which is stronger, the pull of the perfect wave, or the pull of the perfect mai-tai?

Mai Tai right now. The waves when the ocean is at hand.

3. How much overlap is there between the tiki and surfing crowd?

Some. Sorry for being vague.

3a) Will an average joe-surfer feel comfortable in a midwestern tiki bar in the middle of winter?

If the heater is working! Absolutely! Where else would he, if not there?

3b) Will a midwesterner, (especially one who can't swim), fit in at a surfer beach party?

If he or she is cool.

3c) Isn't it nice to have tiki as a possible link between the two groups?

Absolutely!