The world's most powerful surfer comes clean!
Do you train? Like, go to the gym and stuff? What about dance? When the beat drops are you out on the floor, waving your hands like you just don’t care? Well guess what world champion surfer Tyler Wright does? She trains by dancing and not just any dancing, not the dancing you do right before last call, but the best sort of dancing.
Ballet.
It’s true and revealed in this morning’s Newcastle Herald.
“Dancers are athletes, they’re as gnarly as you get,”‘ Wright told the paper. “Surfing isn’t an up and down sport; you move in every direction and having your movements analysed (by a ballet dancer) helps show how you can better use your whole body.”
As further reported…
She says her fling with ballet shows a more thoughtful side to her that people might underestimate.
“I’m more analytical and calculated than people think on the work side of life,” the Culburra Beach product said.
“I love details, I’m fascinated by them, they’ve always held my attention and we (Wright and coach Glenn Hall) spend hours on it.”
Wright has been on the tour since 2011 and, with Kelly Slater’s artificial Surf Ranch added to the WSL schedule and surfing part of the 2020 Olympics, is excited by the direction the sport is heading.
“It’s in a full growing stage, it’s fascinating and everything’s changing but the integrity of it all is still there,” she told AAP.
“It’s clear that I’m a big fan and if people want to bring up (negative) points they better be ready for me to counter them.
“(The Olympics) gives everyone a platform to fall in love with the ocean, to fall in love with surfing and I just think surfing is such a good thing for people.”
I remember a few years ago when NFL offensive linemen took ballet in order to improve their footwork. I thought the idea funny at the time but have since come to love and appreciate ballet. It really is one of the world’s premier arts and while I would not care to see Tyler Wright dancing at the Bolshoi it will be interesting to see how she incorporates the fluid movements into her surfing.
Also, the staunch defense of Surf Ranch and Olympic Surfing… ooo-ee! I would not care for Ms. Wright to counter me.
Also, if I was present for an hours and hours long detailed training session between Ms. Wright and Mr. Glenn Hall I would probably download a video game on my phone and play it.
She’s awesome
wallet? gold watch? pet frog?
surfing is waaaaay more like dancing or figure skating than you insecure bastards will ever admit. even the ugly spastic thruster butt-wiggling you all try to do.
I have three high achieving dancers in my family. Ballet is NOTHING like surfing.
No? Balance, Power, Strength, Endurance, Stamina, Creativity? Body hugging costumes?
No. Severe limits on body shape and diet. Brutal discipline. Wooden floors. Moving in time with others. Music. Indoors. Constant oversight. Tiny margins between failure and success. Great surfers like Tyler can learn from dance, but honestly, dance and surfing are as unlike each other as the cultures that spawned them in the first place.
Body shape and diet – No surfers over 6’2″ have ever won a world title.
Brutal discipline – Hawaii, Tahiti
Moving in time with others – Moving in time with waves
Indoors – So?
Constant oversight – Micro Hall
Tiny margins between failure and success – Yep
hawaii = brutal discipline? someone please tell that to JOB.
upvoted for body-hugging costumes 😉
ah, you’re just not as good as them mate. if only you had paid more attention to your family no one today would even know the names “shaun tomson” or “tom curren” but rather, the carroll clan would be world renowned in surfing
And now I’m thinking about which surfer matches which dancer. Wilko is clearly Dick Van Dyke: lanky goofballing on the edge of control, but keeping it all together with his well-developed technical fundamentals hidden under the fun-loving persona.
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Gene Kelly was a total athlete. Given how he made power, speed and grace look so ultimately casual, its a pretty good bet he’d have been a world class surfer if he chose that path.
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Tyler Wright no longer wants to be chaired to the podium. From here on out, here’s how she’s crossing the beach to raise the 1st Place trophy:
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I think bullfighting would be a great way to get the feet moving. And if the feet didn’t move, we would all enjoy less crowded line ups.
Closing 4 add windows is getting pretty lame guys.
Are you on a telephone or a laptop or a desk-bound computer?
Latest iPhone safari browser.
I dunno about 4 windows, but the one movie/ad/thing that pops up on the bottom right in the iPhone browser is battery poison. I watch the percentage decline before my eyes. It’s near impossible to use.
It won’t even let me click out of it. Relentless
its fucked on a laptop for me
Whatever got added with these new ads half the time crashes my iPhone browser. And when it doesn’t crash, it now takes at least 3 seconds to load text when scrolling. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I’m getting an ad that says “Lincoln City, Seven Miles of Smiles.” Which I can assure you is grossly factually incorrect.
Slater Lake
The GOATcracker
All I saw was a subvert PR for the WSL and Surf Ranch, give it a break already. That 8-18 New Castle ballet dancer demographic must be important to their worldwide takeover. Next thing you know they’ll be teaching Pilates on SUP …
https://youtu.be/jYLcTh0bXwY
respect. where is the paddle?
https://youtu.be/2yheoYOLFc4
you have a whole hard drive dedicated to this don’t you.
Twerking has vastly improved my Huntington hop.
yaaaassss i saw the wire story and immediately thought chasssss
why do girlssssss draw out their words in text formattttttttttt? ;P
I think Jen is actually a woman, boy.
thank you kind sir! I guess that makes me a Bad Boy! Jen See, I hope you didn’t take my question the wrong way.–simply curious!
Always happy to grease the wheels of respectful social discourse 😁
takes up more space dude idk
Now I get it, thanks!
I miss the leaping jumping avatar
So weirdly, it was showing me an old Twitter avatar — a cache error, maybe. I assumed that was what y’all were seeing, so I changed it. I didn’t have my drives with me so pickin’s were a little slim.
Tomorrow I will dig into my drives and find the jumping avatar and put that thing right here.
Chas, you might now want to see Tyler dance but wouldn’t you sign up in a heartbeat to take ballet classes from Glenn Hall?
Also, why does his first name have two “n”s?
he also has two “l”s, something suspect going on here for sure.
Hey, hold on, you are in on it ru”bb”er,
oh shit, so am I!
better lay low til this blows over, or better still, tweet something about North Korea or the Mexicans as a smoke screen.
What he lacks in height he makes up for in superfluous consonants.
that headline certainly didn’t have me heading in Bolshoi’s direction.
pure clickbait.
My devious mind imagined something else too. We were totally misled.
No misleading! Tyler and the beautiful secret dance!
if you had of written that I would have naturally assumed “swan lake” or at worst “dance of the sugarplum fairies”. but “Tyler wrights secret fling” was more “behind closed doors in the WSL ladies lounge”
I was lucky enough to see Graeme Murphy’s production of Some Rooms with the Sydney Dance Company at the Opera House in 87 but can’t remember the WSL Ladies Lounge being one of them .
to be honest, I am more familiar with the dancers that didn’t quite make it in the ballet.
I honestly thought this was about her relationship with Sally.
You bet brother! Although her Surfing reeks of elegance!
Thought scorn would be all over this!
Midget Farrelly also practiced ballet . Said it gave his surfing form and structure.
I had a coach who used to suggest ballet and used Midget as his reasoning. there was no ballet schools around so we ended up boxing instead. kind of regret it. there is no way I could have been worse at ballet than I was at boxing.
At least you learnt to skip .
yeah, I “skipped” a lot of training.
Girlfriend used to ballet dance to a very high level (apparently), her feet are disgusting, full of surfer knots all over the joints in her toes. Respect!