Where is the color?
Rio is running right now, minus many stars/waves but I cannot be bothered watching because I am in Mexico, half margarita hungover, half looking out past cactus and palm upon the gorgeous sea.
Mexico may well be my favorite country on earth, save Djibouti. Its people, food, waves, variety, geography, liquor all inspire and do you remember when the World Championship Tour was also inspired and ran a contest here at Barra? It was one of the best ever.
But they have not been back and why? Why is mainland Mexico not a stop? Why is Indonesia, for that matter, not a stop? What about Namibia, Nicaragua, Morocco? It is a very racist tour when one pauses and looks. The first three stops are in the whitest country on earth then Rio (dark), Fiji (dark), South Africa (white), Tahiti (dark-ish but let’s be honest), California (white), France (white), Portugal (white), Hawaii (unfortunately white).
Rio and Fiji are the only real dashes of racial diversity in the whole stew. Tahiti-ish. And why can’t the Tour be a little more reflective of our colorful earth? Why can’t it come back to Mexico? Why couldn’t it go to Papua New Guinea? I find it all very Trump.
Hmmm…Seemed fitting!
Thanks for the diagnosis Dr. Lecter!
Are you fucking idiots Chas and fellow Beachgrot’s? Mentioning South Africa as white is either indicative of your mental pigmy status or you’re the racist fuckwits as compared to who you try to degrade. Check the population spread of Sth Africans.
Hey I had nowhere else to go after your mom kicked me out
My tour of Australia was pretty white washed except for the one very blacked-out -drunk Aboriginal fellow (is that the PC term?) that stumbled upon the YHA one night. Maybe I was in all the wrong places..
Hahaha.
Hmm. I wonder what impact it will have on the surf there. It might only be pretty minuscule. Nicaragua is paradise now, I’ll be sad to see it turn out like Costa Rica or worse.
I love how Americans have this idea of Australians being racist or at least all white. It’s kind of unbelievable considering their own history. Socioeconomic differences aside, I would like to think we’re all equal regardless of race. I’m not exactly white but probably get thrown in with that group more so than others. Race is a pretty fluid thing and if you keep pigeon holing people it just further segregates us and it leads to the socioeconomic differences continuing. Ignore race. Especially white people. White people need to stop trying to pander to other races or they will end up bottom of the food chain themselves. Treat everyone the same and just fucking get along.
knowledge
education, I still think OZ is one of the most racist countries on earth! but that’s just my personal experience!
We like darkish people so much we pay foreign countries $1 Billion per year to babysit them indefinitely
All true, but on the beach we’re still pretty white.
Not so white on the Footy field or in the custody of Corrective Srevices, unfortunately, but, if you see Australia through the spyhole of Surfing, white, white, white.
Any African-(mainland) Americans surf???
thats cause only rich white people can live close to the beach
In January/February. I thought they were still talking about doing the canal and hadn’t decided yet? That’s a fucking tragedy if they do it. Not to mention the fucking thing is full of bull sharks.
I had heard they were cautious of going to Indo due to the difficulty of getting insurance but half the tour spend half their lives in Indo anyway. Seriously it can’t be any more dangerous than Brazil or South Africa. They just need a sponsor to pony up the cash to make it happen. Companies like Volcom, Oakley, Redbull, CI, RVCA, Reef, Oneill e.t.c are making fortunes of surfing and should be sponsoring some these locations.
Sorry Chas, but how drunk were you when you wrote this story….?? The tour is actually Greenwashed if you actually take a second to step out of your drunken stupor… The tour goes where the money goes……… And btw, the average American doesn’t consider the Portuguese “white” and your are completely out of your knowledge base on Hawaii… It’s Asian in case you were wondering…. You sound so much like Trump in your twisted rant it’s scary…..
Mexico really is one of the coolest places on earth. And the women, they keep their figures 15+ years longer than their northern counterparts, for the most part. My ex’s mom still had a ridiculously nice ass/legs in her late 50’s. My ex was a keeper, too bad i blew it like the donkey i am.
Whitebread sport, whitebread tour. What d’ya expect?
White bread and vanilla paste, with Jimmy Buffet as the hard core rock act.
i dont care if they do it in SOMALIA (SUPER BLACK) or in south Carolina (SUPER WHITE)….I WANT TO SEE THE BEST SURFERS ON BEST WAVES!!!!!!!
South Carolina has the bestest super white waves in the world and the bestest surfers are supposedly whiteys so win win!
Here’s what you’re missing, but it was funny when Italo said ‘Focus’ a few times.
I missed it! Was it like four-kuss? Italo gets me super sto-ked.
More “fuck-us’, which of course was funny.
Paul Speaker has built a wall 100 meters high around this tour!!!
I’m calling for Yemen to be a tour stop. Tell me THAT wouldn’t be exciting?! Fantasy surfer teams would be in disarray!
Who would go? Who wouldn’t? Who would die? Who wouldn’t? Who would become a pirate? Who would find oil? Who would be the colonizer and who would be the colonized? Would Kalashnikov’s be involved? Who would get lost in a paradise of philosophizing while chewing Qat? Who would be the first whitey to post a selfie of them-self chewing qat to demonstrate their ‘faux rebelliousness’?
whats qat and where can I get some?
Barra comp was epic
Best comp I ever watched, and I’ve watched at least 5 or 6.
That first wave of Taj when he got about 38 barrels on one wave and got spat out of the last section whilst the camera crew were still setting up was unforgettable.
I see you didn’t really have anything to post, just wanted to let everyone know you’re so cool, being in Mexico and all. Faux rebel.
But I’m being serious! Don’t you wish for more cultural diversity on tour? Didn’t you love that Barra stop? They have the whole world to play in and they do a poor job, really. Or do you disagree?
There are 10 brazzos on tour thats enough diversity
ahhh the ol serious card!!! Barra was great but as you know , the amount of people who went there after, really pissed off the locals to the point no-one is allowed to film there , I think its even policed by the Govt.
is it racism or religious vilification , as a lot countries you mentioned are Muslim ,or is there a safety issue?
You might actually have a possible new tour idea , man up , pack ya M4’s ,Glocks, flak vest and get down and dirty , and dare I say would you be the commentator for the “Global Man Tour!”
…and didn’t the local Mayor run off with all the money, or was that Arica?
I do wish for more cultural diversity, but how do you pay for this diversity? How would a country like El Salvador or Ghana be able to hold an event, when even events in Australia require government subsidies to run?
I call bullshit on not going to waves due to ‘infrastructure’ and ‘fan support’. If thats the case why bother going to Fiji? Rio is purely about making cash, webcast numbers and high grade gack. It has nothing to do with wave quality or performance. In fact if they want better gack they should go to Peru.
In all honesty I’ve seen the backwash wave going up the river in San Sebastian better than the shit they’re currently surfing.
I’m voting for Peru, Chile, Durban and Keramas (for fucks sake).
it’s a give and take, money wise. they can only do fiji because they do rio.
today were some of the worst waves ever in competition though, holy shit. that was atrocious.
We can get rid of all Australian stops cos they’re all shit. Don’t go to Nicaragua because I don’t want Nicaragua ruined. That place is a little gem. One other thing…. the last thing we want is stops decided on the skin color of the general populace that lives there. That would be quite a fucked up reflection of the current state of political correctness.
Need more Russians.
There’s all kinds of third world countries that produce some of the best athletes in baseball and basketball but you don’t see the NBA or MLB going there because the playing conditions are horrible. It’s not a matter of forcing diversity. It has to justify the visit. You’re implying that we possibly replace an epic wave in a “white” country to go to some shit spot just to show diversity? Because we all know that the WSL sure as shit can’t afford to add venues. You’d have to take one away.
Get rid of the women’s finale at Honolua. Hold the women’s title showdown at Sunset – they should be proven in large surf too. Plus the WSL and women will benefit from added exposure by competing with the men. Take the holding period for Honolua and push that back to next year. Start the Men’s and women’s tour in Hawaii at Honolua. There is no added expense for WSL.