Today’s website review is on 360Guide.info, an eXtreme sports equipment blog.  Yes, the X has to be capatalized, otherwise I have to simply call it “Xtreme Sportz!!”   360Guide has information on equipment and tips on various eXtreme sport  including Surfing, Snowboarding and Wakeboarding.  They also have a forum and a place to sell your old equipment when you realize how lame you look trying to wakeboard at the age of 50.

Probably Best To Get This Out of the Way: I hate eXtreme sports.  I have nothing against the actual activities, I have a thing against eXtreme sports as a whole.  There’s something inherently lame about calling a sport eXtreme.  And it’s fairly arbitrary.  Wakeboarding is eXtreme but waterskiing isn’t.  Snowboarding is  eXtreme but skiing isn’t.  Surfing is eXtreme but sitting on the beach and drinking a twelve pack of Corona isn’t.  Who’s the lord of sports that decided one is inherently more interesting or eXtreme than the other?  I’ll tell you who, marketing departments.  The former sports are considered eXtreme because their audience skews younger.  Therefore they must be more eXtreme than the latter ones even though they’re the same fucking sport.  Except for the beer drinking.  Way more fun than surfing.   You know what’s a real eXtreme sport?  Fighting a pack of wolves with nothing but your bare hands.  That’s eXtreme.  Putting on a wet suit and riding two foot high waves isn’t dangerous or exciting.  Stop pretending you’ve got balls when you’re really a sissy.

Excuse Me Waiter, Someone Puked on my Browser: I hope the writer of 360guide is color blind.  That would explain so very much.  The colors on this website are three kinds of green (all in the vomit spectrum), yellow, white and black.  The screen is largely dominated by the disgusting green color.  Is it supposed to remind me of the ocean in Santa Monica?  Well, it does.  Disgusting and full of shit.  The well executed drop-down menus on the top are nice though.  Good choice.  It’s fancy enough to be nice without distracting at all from the content.

Stupid Design: And while I’m discussing design I just don’t understand this trend in blogs to have everything hidden on the front page.  I assume the shortened articles are supposed make me want to click further but mostly they make me want to leave the website.  If I like what I’m reading I don’t want to leave the main page, I want to finish what I’m reading and go on to the next article, not click around a million times.

Something Busted This Way Comes: This website has a big bug in the loading process.  For some reason all three tabs load up at the same time.   After loading then they separate into their own things.  So for the first few seconds you’re looking at the website you see a bunch of text you don’t need or want to see.  Fix this shit.  I also hit a few errors in the shop.  That makes me want to buy from this guy.

What the Fuck Are You Talking About?  I’m the first to admit I’m not an athlete.  Maybe years ago, but now I sit on my computer all day either for work or pleasure.  It’s lame, but it’s my life.  I’m cool with that.  But I happen to know a lot of random things I’ve learned over the years.  One is that the purpose of a wet suit is to let in a little bit of cold water which your body then warms up and helps insulate you from the outside cold water.  I’ve worn a wetsuit several times and this fact has been repeated to me over and over again.  If it wasn’t supposed to let in water it’d be called a drysuit (and they do exist).  Apparently whoever writes this website is full of shit because in the My First Wetsuit post he says the complete opposite.   I’m no expert, but the dozen people who told me what a wetsuit does are.  This guy apparently is no expert either.  And I hate websites written by posers.

Hey Bro, Wanna Buy a Wetsuit?  I Totally Rinsed the Crotch Out First:  Slackers, stoners and other eXtreme sports fanatics love to congregate and talk about how eXtreme they really are.  This website is trying to build a community and place for losers to sell other losers their used equipment.  The community’s empty and there’s not an insane amount of used stuff to buy, but it’s a good idea and I’m sure it’ll work eventually.

Ugly, Stupid, Dumb:  This website is butt ugly.  The topic of the website is stupid.  People who call their sports eXtreme are dumb.  This site needs a redesign to not look like seaweed.  It needs to fix what’s busted.  The author needs to figure out what the hell they’re talking about.  But for the losers that eXtreme sports attracts, this could be a good website.  There are an awful lot of shitty products out there with the word eXtreme on them because someone thought they would sell, it’s a good idea to have a website to talk about what’s good and what’s not.