Come to a place where the surf is always pumping!
Do you read the news and become depressed? Read about cholera spreading through Yemen and mass civilian casualties in Raqqa and Antartica falling apart? Global warming maybe leading to a mass extinction event in our lifetime? The breakdown of democratic institutions?
Poverty?
War?
Violence?
Death?
Oh I know that BeachGrit promises to be anti-depressive and we, each of us, try our best every day to put smiles on your faces but so many many times we fail. So many times I fail, falling into a hole of cheap name calling and mean-spirited gossip-mongering.
Well, when BeachGrit fails to put a smile on your face you’ll always have the World Surf League. Professional surfing’s premier band refuses to see life through anything but the rosiest of lenses!
I went to the WSL website again this morning just gagging for professional surfing. Any professional surfing. Even, like, qualifying heats. But nothing. But silence. And you’d think this would depress the League to no end. After four and a half years you’d think the League would want to get this party started. But hush.
Still, the website featured what fun the pros are having (Mick Fanning going to see wild animals, Julian Wilson playing golf etc.) under the byline:
An Instagram rundown of how the pros kill time while they wait for J-Bay to start pumping (well, pumping a little more).
After reading this I dug deep into my memory, trying to uncover a time when anyone associated with the WSL ever called the surf bad anywhere.
And I could not come up with one time. Can you? I bet you a lightly used Summer Teeth beach towel that you cannot.
It is truly a wonder. The power of positivity! The swell is either pumping or pumping a little more. Don’t you wish you lived, permanently, in the World Surf League?
Should we gift them our anti-depressive tagline?
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so not cool
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Re: Rosie coloured glasses.
Can one of you photo shop nerds run me up a pair of sunnies with the delightful Rosie Hodge lenses? .
Or even better, can one of you surf industry cool guys, (ocean loving, latte sipping cats), whip up a real pair? Anyone at Oakley? They don’t have to be see through.
Just put them in the post to Julian, I’ll get them.
I’ll get neon Dion Agius on it pronto.
Besides hot air ballooning and sky diving, I’m struggling to think of another sport where poor conditions force their elite athletes to play golf or catch fish.
polo, duh
I’d love to see a horse play golf!
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Horse Woods
If only Tiger had been gelded too.
Phar Lap would have chosen a pitching wedge from there!
Whatever it would take to knock it in the water again just so he’d have an “in” to bring up the whole Agua Caliente story again.
Australia should have gone to war against the U.S. for that act of bastardry. Jockeys only on the front line of course.
Professional receding hairlines have been known to do both!
Not a total surprise.
The women’s WCT…..oh wait, nevermind.
Ski jumping and bad wind. Scariest thing I ever did was jumping a 40 meter hill in icy conditions with gusty side winds. On the big hills they call it off. Errrr, strike that, 10 foot Salsipuedes was scarier.
shit, when was the last time Surfline said it was gonna be flat for two weeks? these are websites. websites are about traffic, why do you think we got this stupid morning show just to tell us they aren’t going to run?
You watched it?
“Poor conditions forced organizers to call a lay day at the Vans World Cup of Surfing.”
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“Joel Parkinson, the current Association of Surfing Professionals World Champion loves his fishing and while day 1 of the Volcom Pro Fiji was called a lay-day due to windy and poor surf, it gave Joel the chance to do some fishing and he excelled pulling in 4 excellent game fish – The biggest at 21klg!”
http://www.worldsurfleague….
Where’s my towel?
“poor surf” is way better surf than “bad surf”. The WSL does the same thing when describing a particular surfer’s performance….he surfed poorly. they never say he surfed bad. You deserve a Summer Teeth hand towel wiped against Chas’ bum.
You can’t surf bad.
But you can surf badly!
Au contraire mon frere, I’ve surfed bad, badly and the baddest all in one session. Just ask my fragile ego.
Totally been there. Totally. Like are my feet even attached to my body today? I’m not sure.
Fruck, I surfed so badly this morning. Just glad there were no witnesses
In the mail! But you have to post a pic here of you wearing it. That caveat was in the fine print. Email your address to [email protected]!
Good man! Desk jockey research ain’t free, as you know.
Done deal.
Yo Karl, is your email legit to send a message?
Yes, I’ve used it to send Chas, Derek, and Rory emails before.