If it looks like you’ll be spending a land-locked summer at home, live vicariously on the waves with MTV’s reality show “Surf Girls,” which airs at 9:30 p.m. Mondays on Sunflower Broadband Channel 57, and is shown again throughout the week.

Two of our Journal-World Teen Advisory Board members offer their take on the show:

If you have no idea what the ASP is, you obviously haven’t been watching “Surf Girls,” the latest addition in the string of reality shows invading your television screen these days. The basis of the show is this: Fourteen young female surfers are flown to exotic locations around the world to display and hone their skills in the water. They also subjected to physical tests to show their strengths. Each week, two girls are voted out, and the last one standing will be offered a wild-card spot on the Roxy Pro Team.

The show sometimes seems more like a soap opera than a surf show, and more camera time is spent in the common house than on the waves. But if you like reality shows, this is a good one for you. And by the way, the ASP is the Association of Surfing Professionals (the NFL of surfing).

— Jessica Foulke is a senior at Free State High School.

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Competitive surfing, catfights and girls in bikinis are some aspects of MTV’s new show “Surf Girls” that attract the masses. This real-life show may not interest an audience tired of the plethora of reality shows that offer networks new programming minus quality writing.

When 14 girls are put in the same beach hut, fights begin and cliques are made. In the water, though, the girls put all aside and compete instead for the best wave. The interviews give a closer look at how hard competing truly is.

“Surf Girls” is the perfect summer show. It is one that you can mindlessly watch while you happily veg out in front of your television. While doing so, be sure to give these girls credit for competing so hard for what they have always dreamed of doing.

— Laura Parkinson is a sophomore at Lawrence High School.