Is the World Surf League fat shaming one of its stars?
Pioneering professional surfer from Tasmania Dion Agius is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. A few hours ago he took to Instagram and poured fire on the World Surf League, posting a still from the WSL’s latest Brazil promotion and writing:
Is this really for real. What on earth is @wsl trying to turn surfing into? Who is approving this? 195 lbs of BOOM? Have a look at the latest Instagram clip promoting the next Brazil event and tell me this shit isn’t getting out of hand.
I sprinted to the League’s feed and watched the video.
“Hey John, good news! Yellow jersey. Bad news… These guys want it and they’re comin’ after you with 194 lbs of boom, high flying wizardry, relentless fight. oh and… there are 29 focused, gritty, hungry, sharp warriors chasing you too. So watch out in Brazil.”
And Dion is right. Fat shaming Jordy Smith would be inappropriate in any context but it feels particularly inappropriate wrapped in strange neo-dubstep.
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id love to see what dion weighs with a pair of his big fuck off sunnies on
What? I joined the navy in ’69 when I was only 18 years old. Hence I was a sailor, a boy, and the year was ’69. Regarding “at hotmail”, when I was stationed in Hanoi fighting with my VC brothers, we would get mail from the pastoral areas of Viet, like say from my child-bride, the post master general would yell “Hot mail incoming!” and of course little Quang-Dang (my child-bride) would start every letter with “Dear, Sailor Boy…” Hope I cleared up any misconceptions.
yes yes yes
What about a tour specially for 180lb – 80kg plus surfer!!!
Fuck the World Stout League.
Read my Studs vs Twinks article to find out if the size of the surfer influences judges scores!
BOOM.
An acronym meaning Brotherhood Of Oceanic Mercenaries.
The number 194 in the Urban dictionary is a verb that means to ruin as if by tearing to shreds. (i.e. his reputation was 194’d)
Couple that with wizardry, relentless fight, gritty, hungry, sharp warriors and one must draw the conclusion that Ziff is one dark souled sort that wields great influence over his merry band of mercs.
I find the disrespect to the metric system far more offensive.
87.9969 kilos of boom just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
He’s a fucken lightweight hey
He’s definitely no Jimbo Pellegrine
The arm he lost was 220….
A 90 kilo bomb!
Yeah fuck them for trying to push U.S. measurements on their 100s of fans.
There are countries that use the metric system and there are countries that have been to the moon.
#trump
Spend a few billion dollars to get some useless rocks just to one up another Country… still I guess “you’ll” got to work out exactly how many miles it is to the moon…
Jordy = 776 Royale w/ cheeses of boom.
Take a chill pill hipster. Who decided all surfers need to be small framed? If an NBA commentator describing a Lebron James dunk says “that is what a 180 lb freighttrain coming right at you feels like!” Is that fat shaming?
The funniest thing about your comment is you think a 6’8″ man weighs 180 lbs.
you don’t come to beach grit often do you?
Hahahaha he’s definitely new here
I dunno about fat shaming, but it’s an odd marketing angle. Are he and OW actually 6’3″? It seems like there is quite a bit of height exaggeration going on in the WSL.
Click bait
If you haven’t realized, this entire site is sensationalized clickbait. That’s why I love it.
lol
“Shut up fatty!!”
I’d be more embarrassed by the poor editing and bad music.
the WSL will continue to get worse and worse with this shit because there is no one to kook check them (I doubt the give a fuck what any free surfer says or thinks). There needs to be a rebel tour, of course it wouldn’t be as glamorous or well funded as the WSL but there needs to be another competitive surf entity to keep those fuckers in check, could you imagine? it would be like WWF vs WCW of the 90’s of surfing!
Dion should be happy about that if he’s surfing Trestles with Jordy. The sharks are going to go after the bigger meal first.
its not fat shaming because 194 pounds is how much a 6’3″ person should weigh
Shhh…don’t tell him. Let him be angry and look stupid.
Now you’re just skinny-shaming Chas who, despite sharing Jordy’s height, offers only 137 pounds of flesh!
Exactly. Thanks for getting my back. We’re genteel around. Not savages like those age shaming bullies up north.