Surfline issues a harsh edict to the World Surf League!
Surfing’s most storied, albeit dull, forecasting website had harsh words for its partner, the World Surf League, yesterday. “Stop blogging dogshit and calling it a garden gnome!”
The incendiary phrase was lobbed from Surfline’s Huntington Beach headquarters toward WSL CEO Paul Speaker’s Santa Monica office in response to a Facebook video of 1x World Champ Gabriel Medina pitching an air to the flats. Surfline writer Matt Pruett wrote:
I’ve seen Gabriel Medina’s backside flyaway to crash in the flats a dozen different ways by now. It’s not an epic moment. It’s not even an epic fail. It’s garbage. It’s a vanity clip more appropriate for a first-year skimboarder than a World Champion. Yet, on Monday, the WSL proudly posted the clip on their Facebook feed, and actually captioned it with the following: “Counting the minutes for more of that!” Embarrassingly, they even replayed the catastrophe in slow-motion…
Come watch the offending clip HERE
And such fire! Surfline and the WSL have enjoyed a cozy relationship since the very beginning. Peter Mel regularly, and lovingly, discusses the “purple blobs” etc. which throws the rage into stark relief and also begs the question, has it become de rigueur to bash the WSL? Is it a necessary component of modern surf coverage? Does it make you feel a little bit sorry for the hapless league or do they deserve unbridled scorn from even the most prosaic of corners?
iTunes?
Yes.
Why is Tony Hawke straddling an old Microsoft computer in the last photo? And why is he wearing a knitted sweater and pleated pants instead of being dressed like a 14 year old from the 90’s like he usually is?
What, Chas, your FCS post was too edgy?
24 million viewers can’t be wrong
The irony is they chose a Medina fly off air to “rag on” when the WSL and ASP was posting roughly 9 billion cut backs or lip taps in 3 foot onshore shit for more than 20 years.
Way to step up Surflies.
Forget that! What I am hoping to learn is: why does Joey keep calling Leo “Layo”?
The same reason he calls Coolangatta, “Coolangutter”. The same reason we call him Turdpel. He needs a bullet in him quick.
Because he Italian! All the romance peoples get funky accents Nìck!
Because he’s not Leo Sayer.
Because, Daylight come and me wan’ go home
maybe’cause that’s how his name sounds in his home language, as well as in other latin idioms, not like lee-onardo as lazy english speakers think that is… try and see the world outside your casket, dumb self-absorbed anglo…
Surfline doesn’t even fucken work down here. Surfline is dog shit. Swellnet all day cunt.
SeaBreeze has the goods — especially wind-wise
Willy Weather for life son.
I love the WSL, there I have said it, sure it could do with a few tweaks, but if it was garbage I wouldn’t watch it!
Nothing is perfect….Surfline has a shit format with good content, stab has a modern format with pathetic content, beachgrit is like the guy who drinks beers on the cliff when the waves are firing….making fun of all the kooks in the water….but never paddling out
So BeachGrit is the Corona from where you’d rather be? When they do paddle out they just use their 5 foot twinnie as a kick board and float around on the shoulder hooting at other people getting bazzed.
i would. i do, cause its current. but they’re butchering some talented people’s talents with this shit. nobody was that impressed with the old ASP but i can’t think of a single improvement from this Ziff Cap ownership situation. Remember the Barra contest, Danny Wills? we’ve gone backwards.
It’s at moments like this I wish I could write the sound of slurping cock.
slurp slurp slurp!
Surfline is that kid that everyone cheats off of in high school who ends up going to THE party that one year, drinks his first beer, starts making fun of his real friends, ends up puking all over the head cheerleader while drunkenly thinking this is his shot, then gets kicked out of THE party by the varsity football captain.
Be honest, is that you own true story?
I mean…
Loved Can’t Hardly Wait.
I went and watched the video and, well, I liked the 30 second sponsored ad about cheese.
two words: adblock plus
But why block the wonderful cheese, Jackie?
Imagine if there was an ads-block (adriano de souza block) and it replaced all written and photographic things of ADS on the web?
“Has it become de rigueur to bash the WSL?”
Yes, even wannabe journalists with Masters in Applied Linguistics are compelled to be in on it!
P.S. If someone blogged about a garden gnome made out of dogshit, then what?
I thought Ross’s analysis was astute. Is anyone else bored by all the bashing?
Sometimes I think that Ross’s analysis is an ass toot. WSL bashing is not only entertaining, it’s usually well earned.
As someone that has surfed in competitions in the past and I did pretty good even through all the bias judging and interference calls and harassing in the water and it’s so much better now and it’s so hard to watch people bash the WSL because God you should’ve seen how it was before people think they know but they really don’t know
Ok.
Holy shit bro can I have your autograph?
Is it also really hard to write down everything you really want to say but nevermind the fucking punctuation because man it’s so hard to express that you’re some pretty hot shit without coming across like a total cock and God people think they know but they don’t really know so who knows what you know except fuck full stops
And where’s my fucking meatloaf?
kook