WSL CEO Paul Speaker loves to kick men when they are down! Apparently!
It is rude to kick a man when he is down, is it not? To really bury a boot into his already beaten ribs? To just haul off and punt as he bleeds into the ground, tears streaming down bruised cheeks? Gasping and wheezing?
I think rude but what do I know! I’m not the 16 x world champion! I’m not Kelly Slater!
Let’s study the above Instagram picture and ponder the rudeness of the question asked. Does anyone… anyone at all… think that Wavegarden’s offering is even in the same league as Kelly’s? Anyone? At all?
Anyone?
It is a rhetorical question, no? And one asked to inflict maximum damage. To maybe rupture kidneys. To break two ribs at once.
Oh but wait! Let’s look a little bit closer. That’s not Kelly Slater’s Creedler doing any kicking… that’s… that’s…
…that’s WSL CEO Paul Speaker’s Sanuk (he’s taken off his Roger Goodell Rockport Essentials with ergonomic back support to try and fit in)!
Yes, the Kelly Slater Wave Co. has apparently changed its name, or at least its Instagram handle, to the World Surf League Wave Co/@wslwaveco (remember WSL purchased!) and then went looking for a fight!
It had to go all the way to Wales, England to find a man already badly beaten, laying on the ground, struggling to breathe before taking a running start and…
…BOOM!
Will you teach your children to follow Paul Speaker’s example? To pick on those already abused? To wail away on opponents who cannot defend themselves?
Do you think Paul Speaker should run for President of the United States?
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Surf Snowdonia might not be a perfect wave, but they have conceived, planned, and completed a massive project that has regenerated a former industrial site and created a pretty exciting leisure facility that provides jobs and brings in a vital boost in tourism to a beautiful area that’s pretty successfully transforming itself into a great location for a variety of outdoor/adventure activities like mountain biking, climbing, hiking, ziplining, kayaking etc, and now a bit of err.. ‘novelty’ surfing. The amount of time you bellends at BeachGrit devote to constantly slagging it off like a bunch of sad teenage slags is, quite frankly, pathetic. Surely anyone that has actually worked on anything of any genuine scale and dealt with all the bullshit that entails could only have respect for what they’ve achieved rather than spending their time whingeing and bitching from behind their keyboards. Keyboards that have probably developed a serious self-loathing complex as they’re forced to churn out what all too often reads like a load of coked-up, half drunken waffle that might (with some editing) earn them a junior internship for a TMZ gossip column. I mean seriously, I know it’s your ever-so-edgy humour and a bit of a running theme and all that, but it’s about time you considered trying a bit harder. You didn’t even manage that threesome and somehow you’ve been on a Nica surf trip and we haven’t seen a single pic of you surfing Colorados or Popoyo, or was it Rancho Santana? That sounds about right—a gated off luxury spa surf villa where you can probably get your nails painted and your hair braided by cross-dressing twinks. Or was the sand just too hot for your precious little twinkletoes? Or was that the other guy? It doesn’t even matter!
I’m so embarrassed for your keyboard right now.
Us surfers are cheap, selfish, dole bludging, sandal wearing grogs. If the KS pool is aimed at us, they are doomed. Wavegarden is better for non-surfers, the beginners, the Germans. The ones who have jobs and are afraid of the ocean.
We need both , just been checking sea level rises for the next 20-50 years , and in 50 years there will be no more beches or surf breaks , so wavegarden becomes the beginners poold and where all the surf schools are , and WSL/Kelly pools cater for the advanced surfers from the wavegarden , unless its all about world domination and power?
there will be no surf breaks in 50 years??? You do realize that sea levels dont stop waves yeah?? As long as there is ocean reaching land there will always be waves… always. This aint kevin cosners waterworld we’re talkin about haha
right? plenty of places will break good over the wreckage of multi million dollar homes
we have been doing a study here on the Surf Coast , as to the future of the area and what are the ramifications of climate change. there is one thing sticks out like dogs balls and that the sea level models show that in 50 years , probably sooner as the ice caps melt , we will not be able to surf any breaks around here because of the back wash , all beaches are gone , and in fact the Aussie life style at the beach will be gone!
With the warming of the planet to 3 degrees originally forecast for 2100 , now 2050 , in a hundred years , people will be talking about when they used to surf the oceans instead of pools.
“Wales, England”. A subtlety that will be lost on most but definitely worthy of a polite ripple from the members. Played, sir
…may as well be eh? Haha! Enjoy brexit you English wannabes
I doff my cap…
Anyone listen to the latest surf simply podcast, usually it’s worth a listen, but they were harping on about some bullshit academic paper that rated the economic benefits of surfspots to local areas based on – wanna surf? Apparently wanna surf three star waves – presumably like snowdownia, benefit local economies more than so called five star rated wanna surf spots! I hadn’t realised wanna surf was still a thing, like my idol – Paul Speaker – I love kicking a man when he’s on the ground!
Fantasy Economics is a thing these days.
PauKell’s Wave Co.
I’m imagining the amazing political theatre that a Roger Goodell/Paul Speaker Presidential ticket would’ve brought. Fuck Donald Trump, that would’ve been incredibly entertaining (and frightening).
Reminding Wavegarden that their creations suck compared to Kelly’s wave is in nowhere near the same league as “kicking a man when he’s down”. Y u so melodramatic?
I’d kick Wavegardens teeth in but it doesn’t have any.
Chas, you know firsthand that all fathers of attractive daughters relish–or look forward to relishing–the moment when their progeny bully some poor thing into cutting herself in the loo during study hall.