Surfing’s most dominant competitor Kelly Slater advises on trans athlete debate currently roiling extreme sport world: “Make a trans division and we don’t have this confusion (shrug emoji).”

Warshaw on the softening of Make or Break, “Filipe Toledo’s title-snatching aversion to heavy waves is mentioned but not examined” and the rise of the “aggressively impractical” black surfboard!

"Filipe Toledo’s all-black Sharp Eye quad looked like a panther sprinting through a gallery of Diebenkorn landscapes while listening to Charli XCX’s Pink Diamond."
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Power Rankings Power Ranking: Of all the illustrious surf journalists to partake in the cynical art form, from Lewis Samuels to Matt Warshaw to Sean Doherty, who is the GOAT?

Plus Karl Von Fanningstadt.
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Post-Margaret River and pre G-Land Power Rankings, “He has a desperate bravado, a last-standedness which extracts some vitality, like clotting blood, from defunct options!”

A tour breakdown that employs both the BPEL and NBPEL measurements and many disdainful pinpricks.
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World’s most beloved surf influencer Ben Gravy leaps over two bodyboarders in stunt that leaves all but social media darling Anastasia Ashely utterly flabbergasted!

Thanksgiving.
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Warshaw on the softening of Make or Break, “Filipe Toledo’s title-snatching aversion to heavy waves is mentioned but not examined” and the rise of the “aggressively impractical” black surfboard!

"Filipe Toledo’s all-black Sharp Eye quad looked like a panther sprinting through a gallery of Diebenkorn landscapes while listening to Charli XCX’s Pink Diamond."

Power Rankings Power Ranking: Of all the illustrious surf journalists to partake in the cynical art form, from Lewis Samuels to Matt Warshaw to Sean Doherty, who is the GOAT?

Plus Karl Von Fanningstadt.

Post-Margaret River and pre G-Land Power Rankings, “He has a desperate bravado, a last-standedness which extracts some vitality, like clotting blood, from defunct options!”

A tour breakdown that employs both the BPEL and NBPEL measurements and many disdainful pinpricks.

World’s most beloved surf influencer Ben Gravy leaps over two bodyboarders in stunt that leaves all but social media darling Anastasia Ashely utterly flabbergasted!

Thanksgiving.

German male’s lower leg becoming new standard of wave measurement the shockingly obvious truth currently rocking surf world!

Das Big Wave.

Harrowing scenes as surf instructor saves French couple caught in “killer riptide” at once iconic surf spot, “Panicked, the young man uses the girl like a buoy to keep from drowning!”

Ain't no chivalry on the cusp of death!

World Surf League Head of Competition jubilant as toxic powerhouses U.S., Australia, Brazil undone at just-wrapped Sydney Pro: “I truly believe that surfing is a global sport and that our next generation will come from all over (strong arm emoji).”

A wonderful shift!

After 18-month delay, World Surf League and Guinness Book of World Records certify Sebastian Steudtner’s Nazare bomb the largest wave ever ridden!

Wunderbar.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Bill Finnegan profiles tycoon-friendly Kai Lenny for the New Yorker, “(His) most elaborate billionaire bromance has been with Mark Zuckerberg. They went foiling together on Kauai, and the paparazzi caught Zuckerberg looking extra silly.”

And, among other revelations, Kai says, "The big-wave tour sucks" and "I want to surf like Ethan Ewing."

Open Thread: Live Chat Gender-Inclusive Final’s Day of the Great Wall Motors Sydney Surf Pro presented by Rip Curl!

Ask. Receive.

In eerie nod to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” decapitated championship tour surfers roar through challenger series Sydney Pro feasting on hopes and dreams of children!

Chilling.

Surfing’s reactionary core laid bare as Momentum Generation funnyman and Kelly Slater bandmate wades into trans-athlete imbroglio,“Stay out of women’s sports where you miraculously win after being an average performing man”

“Women’s sports is not a back-up plan.”

From the archives:Living surf legend Kelly Slater rallies to defense of big wave pal Shane Dorian after he is accused of transphobia on hot-button abortion thread!

Surfing’s most dominant competitor Kelly Slater advises on trans athlete debate currently roiling extreme sport world: “Make a trans division and we don’t have this confusion (shrug emoji).”

Warshaw on the softening of Make or Break, “Filipe Toledo’s title-snatching aversion to heavy waves is mentioned but not examined” and the rise of the “aggressively impractical” black surfboard!

Power Rankings Power Ranking: Of all the illustrious surf journalists to partake in the cynical art form, from Lewis Samuels to Matt Warshaw to Sean Doherty, who is the GOAT?

Post-Margaret River and pre G-Land Power Rankings, “He has a desperate bravado, a last-standedness which extracts some vitality, like clotting blood, from defunct options!”

World’s most beloved surf influencer Ben Gravy leaps over two bodyboarders in stunt that leaves all but social media darling Anastasia Ashely utterly flabbergasted!

Warshaw on the softening of Make or Break, “Filipe Toledo’s title-snatching aversion to heavy waves is mentioned but not examined” and the rise of the “aggressively impractical” black surfboard!

Power Rankings Power Ranking: Of all the illustrious surf journalists to partake in the cynical art form, from Lewis Samuels to Matt Warshaw to Sean Doherty, who is the GOAT?

Post-Margaret River and pre G-Land Power Rankings, “He has a desperate bravado, a last-standedness which extracts some vitality, like clotting blood, from defunct options!”

World’s most beloved surf influencer Ben Gravy leaps over two bodyboarders in stunt that leaves all but social media darling Anastasia Ashely utterly flabbergasted!

German male’s lower leg becoming new standard of wave measurement the shockingly obvious truth currently rocking surf world!

Harrowing scenes as surf instructor saves French couple caught in “killer riptide” at once iconic surf spot, “Panicked, the young man uses the girl like a buoy to keep from drowning!”

World Surf League Head of Competition jubilant as toxic powerhouses U.S., Australia, Brazil undone at just-wrapped Sydney Pro: “I truly believe that surfing is a global sport and that our next generation will come from all over (strong arm emoji).”

After 18-month delay, World Surf League and Guinness Book of World Records certify Sebastian Steudtner’s Nazare bomb the largest wave ever ridden!

Pulitzer Prize-winning Bill Finnegan profiles tycoon-friendly Kai Lenny for the New Yorker, “(His) most elaborate billionaire bromance has been with Mark Zuckerberg. They went foiling together on Kauai, and the paparazzi caught Zuckerberg looking extra silly.”

Open Thread: Live Chat Gender-Inclusive Final’s Day of the Great Wall Motors Sydney Surf Pro presented by Rip Curl!

In eerie nod to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” decapitated championship tour surfers roar through challenger series Sydney Pro feasting on hopes and dreams of children!

Surfing’s reactionary core laid bare as Momentum Generation funnyman and Kelly Slater bandmate wades into trans-athlete imbroglio,“Stay out of women’s sports where you miraculously win after being an average performing man”

From the archives:Living surf legend Kelly Slater rallies to defense of big wave pal Shane Dorian after he is accused of transphobia on hot-button abortion thread!

US doctor responds to insane fury after solo-surfing Jeffreys Bay during Coronavirus lockdown: “I hate that I provoked such anger!”

Iron Fist: Manhattan Beach surfer cops $1,000 fine for “disrespecting a lifeguard” during “Reign of Coronavirus Terror!”

Photographer captures up-close image of Great White shark’s “sinister sneer” thereby proving apex-predators’ penchant for “sadism and evil!”

Hawaii’s queen of crazy Mason “Dirty Nell” Ho releases final, epic sequence from hair-raising month-long romp through Scotland, “His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul!”

Mason Ho ditches gloomy Scotland for rock-and-cock POV tubes on a barely habitable island in Fiji, “I stick to what the audience needs, which doesn’t really change all that much!”

Mason Ho in his wildest Scottish adventure yet, “The ghost of Dirty Dick is still in search of Little Nell!”

Witness: The Great White “was going like a rocket straight at us. I can see it so clearly, its mouth was open. I lifted my feet, grabbed the board…”

Watch: Jackie Dorian, Badger Daddy and Pals in “Pretty People Oughta Hitch Up with Pretty People!”

Watch: Big Daddy Ho and chillun in “Hush up your blasphemin’, Lucifer, and let me loose!”

Surfing’s most dominant competitor Kelly Slater advises on trans athlete debate currently roiling extreme sport world: “Make a trans division and we don’t have this confusion (shrug emoji).”

Warshaw on the softening of Make or Break, “Filipe Toledo’s title-snatching aversion to heavy waves is mentioned but not examined” and the rise of the “aggressively impractical” black surfboard!

Power Rankings Power Ranking: Of all the illustrious surf journalists to partake in the cynical art form, from Lewis Samuels to Matt Warshaw to Sean Doherty, who is the GOAT?

Post-Margaret River and pre G-Land Power Rankings, “He has a desperate bravado, a last-standedness which extracts some vitality, like clotting blood, from defunct options!”

World’s most beloved surf influencer Ben Gravy leaps over two bodyboarders in stunt that leaves all but social media darling Anastasia Ashely utterly flabbergasted!

From the archives:Living surf legend Kelly Slater rallies to defense of big wave pal Shane Dorian after he is accused of transphobia on hot-button abortion thread!

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