I am as shocked as you!
If you don’t go to www.worldsurfleague.com like, totally every day then you are missing out. The powers that be at BeachGrit do not believe in the zero-sum game (be damned John Forbes-Nash!). We love (or don’t love) other websites because there is room enough for everyone (except The Inertia) but we love love love www.worldsurfleague.com.
In any case, just yesterday www.worldsurfleague.com did a fab piece on Dane Reynolds receiving the coveted wildcard slot for the upcoming Fiji event. It was titled “Reynolds: Cloudbreak Is Intimidating.”
There were lots of hyperbolic adjectives used (as expected. MDMA flows like Dasani water, apparently, in the Santa Monica offices) but the best sentence read, “Few figures in modern surf history have been more popular, and subsequently more polarizing, than the 29-year-old.”
Polarizing? Dane? Do you know what “polarizing” means? The Webster’s Dictionary shall tell you. “To divide in sharply opposing factions.” That means some people LOVE Dane and some people HATE Dane. Do you know anybody on the street that HATES Dane? I can’t think of any. Do only people in the www.worldsurfleague.com offices HATE Dane? I think yes because he told them to take the tour and shove it. Did they tip their hand in writing this piece by saying they are the only people on earth that HATE Dane? For sure! Which is why I go every day.
Likely the oversight of an overworked (or unskilled, but who am I to presume) wordsmith or lazy editor. Chas what sort of editorial oversights do you have in surf journalism? I know its not the New Yorker or anything, but someone has to look things over first, right?
complaining about the contents of a free surf blog is the height of insanity. That said, the entity “pro surfing” that we all know and love has shown itself to be as amateur as they come, so why not assume they’re petty too?
Slater hates Dane for not stepping up as a world title rival.
Surf News has been slow, huh? Now chas has to invent things to write about?
Are you new?
Oh the speculation
This is just getting pathetic now.
Come on ., don’t be so 🙁
Get fucked Michael Newman. but yeah ., has been on a bit of a hate spree recently.
Now you’re just being a .|.
., is a rage account, what else would you expect
Met Dane at Haleiwa a few years ago and if he is the WSL’s idea of polarizing then surely Bobby is the anti-Christ and responsible for plagues, famine, etc. etc, right? But hey…if a few more guys drop out of Fiji then maybe we can have a 2nd round Darth Surfer heat with Dane and Bobby.
Maybe they meant polar-bearizing, ‘cuz he’s such snuggly teddy.
Hmmm…watch how you use the term bear. Dane just had a baby (presumably) the good old fashioned way so don’t go spreading any rumors. Yet. But, you know, there’s nothing wrong with that even if he is a bear.
i see stabmag is yet to post anything about it either a full day later.
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa