Entire pool. Yours. For a whole day.
Kelly Slater has just announced he willl gift two tickets to his (and the WSL’s) Surf Ranch to surfers who donate money to hurricane relief.
As you know, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have bombed the Americas this year. The waves have been fabulous but, oowee, it’s also real nice to have clean water and a roof over your head.
It’s a minimum ten bucks to be in the game, an emphatic but not ruinous donation, and this is what you’re up for.
You’ll:
Spend the day at the WSL Surf Ranch
Surf the man-made wave developed by Kelly Slater Wave Company (you’ll be filmed, so you’ll have footage to prove it!)
Be coached by Kelly and learn some techniques from the best there is
Unwind at a BBQ with Kelly and friends
Get flown out and put up in a sweet hotel
Dig: you’ll have the pool, for a whole day, to yourself (and pal and KS of course). The engineer will even tweak it to a style you’d prefer. De-tune, upscale, whatever you’re feeling.
Other prizes include t-shirts and signed jerseys (including John John Florence, in frame).
Donate five gees and you’ll get “50,000” entries into the contest.
Can you imagine?
Little rich boys and girls all over California storming into daddy’s office and screaming, “I want to go to Kelly’s wave pool… now! Now! Oh daddy, how I hate you!”
Etc.
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I’ll kill the other account then… but that person is using your email bud!
Ummmm, you know as a moderator I can see the email addresses of both accounts…
Ghaargh!
Dude, the point is, nobody can actually charge you to surf the ranch, you have to buy gas for your car also to get to the beach , but the waves are free.
wait…capitalism isn’t fair??
Breathe deeply and ignore
Bro….. there’s nothing that anybody can do to help cocoa beach!!! Not even Trump!!! But he could help the rest of us by locating his wall along the border of FL instead of Mexico.
You don’t sound entitled.
I wanna be the first to drop a long, greasy turd in that thing!!
I’ll donate 100$ directly to any mod on BG that bans, for life, any one that posts a Rick & Morty clip
Chirp chirp!
Ha ha yeah, a hole in the wind you throw money at 🙂
Keep going Sean!
……….. build some pools already. I’ll pay 150 an hour to surf that shit. Pierre omidyar needs to build one where he wants to put a dairy on south side kauai. Best spot for a pool i have ever seen.
Please elaborate Sean!
My ban finger is itching…
love the shit
That photo distills the brutal cynicism of this wave park to its purest essence. It’s as if Kelly and the creators think the only thing that matters in surfing is that 15-foot section right there. I don’t give a shit how perfect that dumb little section is if it’s spinning off next to a freight train roaring by on a pier.
I feel ya on this. But I have recently had reason to spend time with surf crazed people who live nowhere near actual oceans and I think they will eat this up and go back for more. They’ll get to go surfing in a controlled environment and get better at it — whatever that actually means.
If you have $100 to $200 of disposable money each weekend, maybe you could get better at it
It’s a nice illusion, right? I feel like that’s part of what’s being sold here.
will kelly and his wave tank please fade away. enough already.
How do you know you are getting that many entries if you give them 5 grand?
This is very odd market research.