Outside Magazine, from Santa Fe, dreams of Olympic inclusion. Yuck!
Outside Magazine, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, loves to wade into the surf like all inland peoples do. They love the wash of saltwater on their sunburned skins! They love being beachy! They love feeling the sand between their toes and their Teva sandals! And today they published a treatise on why surfing should be included in the Olympics (read here).
The author argued, I think (I’m drunk!) that surfing should be in the Olympics because Samsung sponsors the WSL for some totally sham amount that Paul Speaker has made up (don’t forget that Kelly Slater earns lots more than 20 mil a year) and that Go-Pro’s kook founder Nick Woodman surfs and Go-Pro is worth billions but mostly because high quality artificial waves are a distinct possibility.
Have you ever seen one (an honest quality artificial wave not a Paul Speaker or Nick Woodman)? Me neither. But Outside‘s author ends his passionate bit by writing:
“Why not give the thousands of talented young surfers with Olympic dreams the chance to express their art form, be it in salt or chlorinated water?”
Viva Rick Kane! Viva New Mexico!
(PS. The maligned surf legend is none other than Matt Warshaw. I think. I’m drunk!)
At London I heard a Gold Medalist sailor talking about his 10 year campaign to win the medal. A few days later Andy Murray described his week at the Olympics as ‘a relaxing time spent hanging out with family.’
The wave pool in Japan was pretty good probably still the best artificial waves ever made. It’s funny how the other article cites wadi wave pool an wave garden as being quality waves saying that it’s possible to create head high barreling surf. Um ? Wadi looks like a flat day at my home break and wave garden about the same.
Fuck the games.
Only if Hawaii gets to compete as its own country rather than part of the U.S. would I be down for surfing in the Olympics.
Bring on the Reebok wetsuit.
With Rick Ross endorsement?
The Olympics is a terrible way to go, I have said it before, and here it is again. Noa Deane was right. I will still watch the WSL though
If it weren’t for the Olympics, then there would be no Duke (who BTW wanted it as an Olympic sport) in Australia or Cali (those poor fishermen would have died unleashing some crazy butterfly effect), no ambassador of Aloha, and lord only knows what else. Embrace the games. Grow the market. Sell more stuff.