A photo of a California teacher demonstrating the physics of surfing has been bouncing around in the internet’s spin cycle for years. It shows a young teacher crouched on a table with a crazed smirk.
He’s in the middle of one of those classroom performances that are just as theatrical as pedagogical, one that makes a rousing performance out of nothing but the stale air of a high school classroom. Behind him is a chalkboard filled with a scrawled rip curl and the cryptic equation “1 + 1 = tube.” I wasn’t quite sure how that math worked — it seemed like it was either a pun on “two” or some profound new discovery in wave dynamics (is it a series of tubes all the way down?).
