Come watch the season finale! It's feel-good!
I’ll be the first to admit I love the cheap immediacy of #TourNotes, forgiving whatever technical flaws it might have. Gimme candour, a moment, a window into a life over the tedium of slow-motion RED footage any day.
Yeah, I know, it ain’t quite the same since it became a WSL-branded item. Maybe Peter King lost a little interest in the game. If he has, who can blame him? It ain’t easy to make a living sticking your iPhone into pro surfers’ faces, in which case the decline is forgivable.
Or has there been a deliberate change in the narrative arc from doing laughs to doing inspiration?
From the WSL:
Join us as we jump through a few Pipeline yard parties to celebrate the feel-good moments from the final event of the 2016 Championship Tour.
In this episode, which mostly follows Zeke Lau on the finals day at Pipe, we see Zeke’s happiness at qualifying for the WCT (“I’m going to buy Kanoa a kimono,” he says, cleverly evoking the little man’s Japanese heritage), there’s a small window where Michel Bourez has won the Pipe Masters, he’s walked back to his beachfront rental, beer is poured over his head and we get…what do we get? Michel looks into the camera and says his wife will kill him if he doesn’t get back to Tahiti soon.
No party? No boozy Michel? No midnight jiujitsu?
Oh Peter what have you done to #TourNotes?
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OK you cunts what have you done to Rory. I demand a full investigation.
Either his wife or the WSL has him held captive.
This fucking bullshit crazy. I predict Rory will hang it up, but his wife will step in a write an article explaining the situation.
But they may be getting hits from people checking back all the time so they may let it slide for a bit.
Who knows.
Writing is hard. Journalism is harder. Sometimes the only thing that keeps you in the game is the need to earn a living. I don’t know if Rory does – need to earn a living that is. But quitting under pressure is a sissy move, whatever’s happening. Quit when it’s easy, not when it’s hard.
God I hope he is reading this and getting inspired to fight.
I’ve got a sinking feeling Mrs Parker is not taking calls on the subject.
By far the most interesting thing on the grit in a while, I mean we have blood fueds but this is, mysterious!
tournotes… more like borenotes.
A kimono is a dress, right?
Ironicly linked to WSL homepage
Only John John could get away with putting a bag over his head!
i do like his twisted wit.