There is a new most popular kid in town!
Who is the most popular surfer in the world as measured through the fine, though imperfect, lens of social media?
Wrong!
Kelly is certainly very popular and the most popular man but the most popular person, as revealed by Transworld Business, is Kauai’s Bethany Hamilton!
Let’s look at the stats!
Beth has 4.3 million followers across platforms with an average engagement of around 17,000 fans per post.
Kelly wins Instagram (how could you not follow him? He’s a brilliant artist!) but Beth wastes him across Pintrest, Facebook, Twitter and GoGoInflight with her fans liking, commenting, not swearing… engaging so very often!
And does this surprise you? Surfing is, after all, still fairly to very misogynistic. Maybe it is changing? Maybe it is becoming more open, more even? Let’s hope!
While we’re at it, who do you follow on the socials?
Or do you not give two shits?
How about for starters more …
– Surfing clips. If nothing current is of value, link premium old clips eg AI destroying Indo. It’s the only reason I visit Stabmag anymore
– Interviews with interesting surfers, shapers etc
– Rory writes up all the WSL events, he’s easily the best at it
– Chas keeps chasing the TMZ stories, but Derek filters / edits out the crap
– Dunno, other good stuff
All very good suggestions. I ask: what surfers, shapers would you like me to hit? I’ve had so many, recently, that don’t make it to print. Just so… dull…
more webber
ask him where his wavepool is?
Oh, from memory, deals are being setup in Perth and somewhere in Florida.
Now I just want to know who was dull. It was Jordy wasn’t it?
Mason Ho? Occy always seems unscripted
I think it’s going to be on the Sunshine Coast. A while ago he spoke of being in talks with a company to develop a wave pool on Steve Irwin Way on the Sunshine Coast that would be 200 metres long by 100 metres wide. Interestingly, this is the location of the Actve wave pool that was announced a month or so ago.Check out the grab at 52 secs. The wave pool shown is exactly the same as Webbers design. https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Cheers Lizzie! I’ll pass the intel to head office. The promo…So dramatic!
Does anyone know How big of a prototype gregs made of his wave? I just wanna see where webbers at compared to slaters / wavegarden ? This last little flat spell & the excess of stories on here an the rest of the net about the Texas pool has made it me day dream of the pool idea.. If one was close to me during this last week couple weeks I’d of dropped some cash for hr.
I like this quote from the last time I interviewed him: “What’s incredible about surfing is transitioning from being in the moment, projecting into the future and getting back into the moment and projecting into the future. There’s no meditation that achieves it. Probably no sex that achieves it. And the longer you do it for, the better the healing and the stability you get as a human being. That aspect, therefore of customising waves (in a pool), is vital. If you don’t customise it, you start to take the wave for granted and you get irritated that it doesn’t change shape at all.”
true genius and woefully under appreciated.I helped a mate clean
up his factory in Yamba when he was living on lord howe.
the most amazing array of surf craft
i Just got the surfers journal derek and webber story was good but im still hungry for more is there any more coming on the grit
“Dudes” – not freerider are you?
But by the way this is called a little filler before the real calling shit on the tour starts again in France
BitchGrit
Coming soon! True!
Oh please don’t drag poor Rory into this. All my fault! Mine alone!
Bethany is winning bc she has God on her side.
So pointless that you had to comment; dude, don’t you get it? It’s all pointless; you, me, surfing, life; fuck, you’d think you’d know this by now.
His point was pretty clear to me – but I reckon osis actually meant Reilly and not Chas. Beachgrit has what I assume to be a widespread and potentially loyal readership, yet more and more often I’m being disappointed by being served up lazy, seemingly drunken, posts like this.
I don’t know, I like the lazy drunken aspect but by fuck I am getting pretty sick of Kelly.
I’ll reveal motivation. Traffic… soars… when we post the sonofabitch. Except for the Vice clip today. That thing sank.
I guess that’s the thing about being the smart gossip site, everybody’s waiting for you to kill him with some epic revelation
Me? You don’t like my cut and paste journalism?