Is a broken face on the horizon? One false crack?
Surfing is the damndest dance. We each of us love it so and also each of us mostly want to do it alone. Oh how crowds in the water rankle! It’s a good thing we don’t run tourist boards/state economies etc. because everyone would go broke. Giant signs would be plastered outside of phenomenal breaks with the words “Go Home!”
Thankfully for its state’s coffers, the Hawaiian Tourism Authority don’t care ’bout nuthin’ but greenbacks/yen and are set to ride surfing’s inclusion into the Olympics toward riches! Let’s read about in the the Star-Advertiser!
Hawaii is trying to bring in more tourists by taking advantage of surfing’s elevation to Olympic sport status.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority usually spends most of its $9.1 million sports budget on land-based events, but will start to focus on surfing and water sports as the games approach, according to Leslie Dance, the agency’s vice president for marketing and product development.
The agency is working with New York-based Ascendent Sports Group to develop sports marketing for 2017-2018. Ascendent has a $200,000 contract with HTA.
HTA’s marketing contractor, Hawaii Tourism Japan, will also ask Japan’s Olympic Committee to allow surfing to be highlighted in the opening ceremony.
“It would be a great honor to bring all the surfers from all the teams together to celebrate the first time that surfing has been involved in the Olympics,” said Eric Takahata, managing director for HTJ. “We also want the members of the U.S. team, whoever they may be, to carry the message that surfing was born in Hawaii. We don’t know who will be on the U.S. surfing team, but we’re hoping that it will have a Hawaii presence either through the coach or a team member.”
HTA wanted Hawaii to host the Olympic surfing trials, but the team members might be selected by a point system instead, Dance said.
And wait just a second… does that last line…
“We also want the members of the U.S. team, whoever they may be, to carry the message that surfing was born in Hawaii. We don’t know who will be on the U.S. surfing team, but we’re hoping that it will have a Hawaii presence either through the coach or a team member.”
…sound a little like a threat? Or a lot like a threat? If there is no Hawaiian surfer on team USA will there be a broken face somewhere?
Does John John count as Hawaiian?
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Im just wondering who is going to be the commentary team for the Tokyo Olympics , will the WSL A-Team get the call up or is this why kelly is retiring next year has he been given a better offer in TV land, who does everyone else think should be part of the commentary team?
Technically they nip/tuck it in such a manner so orgasim is attainable, not cut it off. Comforting, right.
I feel he needs to make a choice about what kind of lizard he wants to be. Like you can’t just be a lizard.
Since the 1960s scientists have known that some species of whiptail lizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle. These all-lady lizard species (of the Aspidoscelis genus) from Mexico and the U.S. Southwest manage to produce well-bred offspring without the aid of male fertilization.
–Not my words, direct copy of scientific America. You can totally choose to just be a lizard now days.
Man Hawaii is so petty who cares where it was born. The olympics is about the whole world I hope the Olympic committee treats them just like they should be treated as one of the 50 American states.
they’re not all baby makers
Tell me more of this man who became a lizard.
#MakeHawaiiGreatAgain
I’ve never seen an outer vagina….am I missing something???
There’s one on Paul Speaker’s face