Get ready for the Dignity Health Pismo Beach Pro feat. the second best feel good surf story of the year!
It was just announced that Pismo Beach, located on California’s central coast, has secured the funding to host a World Surf League 1000 off the famed pier this November and congratulations to all!
What began as a dream for Andy McKay, local donut shop owner, is now a reality as the doctors from Dignity Health emptied their collective piggy bank and became the title sponsor alongside Sylvester’s Burgers and Central Coast Surfboards.
Maybe I will enter? Pismo Beach is where my family would flee each summer for fun in the California sun. It was almost always foggy and the water was only slightly warmer than hometown Coos Bay, Oregon but it perfect in my young eyes. I would sit on the pier and watch rippers tear apart the jumbled windswell then go attack it myself.
I would paddle out the back on my rainbow Hawaiian Shapes twin fin, take off on the best waves (the ones that broke all at the same time guaranteeing maximum speed straight toward the beach), throw my hands up in the air and hoot. Almost all the waves in Pismo Beach are the best (ones that break all at the same time guaranteeing maximum speed straight toward the beach.)
I think I could do well in the contest. I think I have experience that Jesse Mendes, Yago Dora and Soli Bailey do not.
I think I will enter. What are the rules regarding that again? Do I just pay or do I have to send in video of myself ripping or how does it work? I feel we’ve discussed this before but my memory is in disrepair.
In any case, wish me luck and see you in November. My charge through the Dignity Pro Health field will be the second best feel good surf story of the year!
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Don’t do it Chas! I cannot stand by and see BeachGrit’s very own butterfly broken, as you surely will be, on the wheel of sub-CT-level judging! WE cannot stand by! Are you with me, commenters?
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It is surprisingly expensive to enter one WQS event because you have to pay a $250 insurance premium on top of the event fee.
I am rooting for Chas! Represent!
Ahhhhhh Pismo is where I surfed growing up when I wanted to feel like I was in Southern California. But, like, with cold water, fog, and more sharks.
PS: the guys at CCS are sweethearts.
If only Tio Alberto’s was still around to be a title sponsor…
Or Scrubby and Lloyd’s.
It’s a disgrace that the only burrito place in downtown SLO now is a Chipotle. Fuck SLO’s city planners.
I grew up in Morro Bay and we wouldn’t ever even consider going to Pismo Beach to surf. I’ve probably surfed there twice in my whole life, only after I’d moved to SLO and it was warmer there than it’d be in Osos/MB/Cayucos. St. Annes, sure, that was sorta a fun wave. But the pier is and always has been total bullshit.
Well I never said it was a good idea… not unlike most of the ideas a high school kid has. Anyway, why would you bother leaving the wave buffet of Rock/Pit/A Beach/etc? Btw: Cal Poly?
Yup. Los Osos Middle School, Morro Bay High School, Cuesta, Cal Poly. Would drop everything and move back there tomorrow if there were jobs.
Awwwww a fellow Mustang. I could maybe live in San Luis again. Maybe.
Hahahah! Viva surf journalism!
OW does not have an agent and so is virtually impossible to reach. I have tried through multiple different people to grab his ear though!
Fake an injury to your hammy and bow out with style. Then spend 1,000 words telling us, your devoted readers, that you coulda/shoulda won (because you were “super stoked!” and the waves were “super fun!” blah….blah…BLAH!).
Perfect!