The war for Olympic Surf Gold begins!
The war for Olympic glory has begun! Just as the Australian Olympic surf team shuts the gate on six-days of exclusive training sessions at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Lemoore, the US Team announces it has partnered with BSR Cable Park in Waco, Texas.
From US Surfing’s press release,
San Clemente, California – (June 26, 2018) USA Surfing announced that BSR Surf Resort’s Waco, Texas wave pool will be the official wave pool for training the 2018 World Junior Championship Surf Team and the team selected to compete at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, when surfing makes its Olympic debut.
USA Surfing CEO Greg Cruse said the wave pool is part of a comprehensive plan for optimal training that prepares athletes to take on the world’s best in beach break conditions. All three upcoming international competitions feature beach break conditions: the September 2018 ISA World Surfing Games in Tahara Japan, the October 2018 ISA World Junior Surfing Championships in Huntington Beach, and the Olympic Games 2020 at Tsurigasaki Beach in Chiba Japan.
“The technology allows repeat, made-to-order waves that are perfect for training,” Cruse said. “With the capacity to produce three waves per minute at 12-second intervals and different wave configuration at the push of a button from right point to left point to right point with a perfect air section, this wave offers USA Surf Teams the opportunity to train in an environment that closely mimics ocean conditions.”
USA Surfing head coach Joey Buran said his World Junior Championship Surf Team is beyond stoked to be training in Waco, where U.S. Olympic surfing hopefuls will be training. The world junior championship team will be defending its world title at the 2018 ISA World Junior Surfing Championship held in Huntington Beach Oct. 27 – Nov. 4. Many of these athletes are strong prospects for U.S. Olympic Teams in 2024, 2028 and beyond.
“BSR Surf Resort’s wave pool is ideal for honing maneuvers and aerial skills,” Buran said. “We are Team USA and our goal for this year’s 2018 ISA World Junior Surfing Championship Team is to have our best and be at our best when we compete against the world’s best in Huntington Beach in October and when surfing makes its 2020 debut in Tokyo.”
Did US Surfing not get the memo that, likely, the Olympic people and the ISA will see reason, yield, and run the surfing component of the Games in the new Chiba pool, which is a Surf Ranch and not an American Wave Machines tank?
Is all this lust for Olympic gold rather inhuman and undernourished?
Or just plain crazy and lots of fun?
surf training ahahah
Kelly ain’t gettin’ an invite. He does not qualify as a USA Junior Team member and will not get one of the 2 spots for the men’s Olympic team. The top 2 US surfers on the WCT get those – that will not be K-Slates.
olympic shmympic
How come The Inertia hasn’t got a big spread on this?
Some hack will read about it here and post it there. They publish anything by anyone.
My takeaway- baggier than necessary trunks.
gotta love the scam – the idea that pro surfers need to “train” with USA surfing like they’re a basketball team. a shameless excuse to book private wavepool sessions on someone else’s dime.
what does this training look like? joey buran going to show john john and kolohe how to pop up ? what kind of a job is CEO of USA Surfing? surf industry bro par excellence.
but whoever picked the location has got it right — Waco has better hotels and food than Lemoore, and its closer to a major airport.
Your ignorance of the situation is amazing.
hey are you having a go at the 30+ Australian Team who just spent 6 days and a 100K + at the Lemmingmore K-Tub , who are practising now for the Olympics , as apparently the bank that Chiba will offer in 2 years time will resemble Kelly’s Tub?
Is surfing destined to stay the most cluelessly organized sport ever? Two national teams training in pools for a contest announced to be held in the ocean? Am I missing something?
Yes. The Waco pool is proven time and again by many pro surfers as a training ground for perfecting aerials and other progressive maneuvers. It matches the punchiness and ramps that they will find at the Olympic Venue in Tsurigasaki for the Olympics. Lemoore is getting the Ozzies prepped to be wake surfers or for when the Olympics is at Rifles in the Mentawai Islands.
It’s my signal to the read to head directly to comments!
humpf !
Signed: Leader of the Comment Link Restoration League.
Could someone put Joey and Kelly together . No war like a civil war. USA Surfing Vs USA World surf league ? California Über Alles……… San Clemente v Santa Monica .Let the games begin .
Funny always thought the Saudis were playing with the Texan Bush ?
I think our new friend is lost.
Sorry sorry! I got more.
No time to tie it all together and besides I’m a kook not a paid surf journalist!
Theory: US Olympic team going to Texas because of presidential voting pattern:
https://www.politico.com/ma…
And the USOC as a business:
https://www.google.com.au/a…
The board:
https://www.teamusa.org/Abo…
Hahaha, you said “paid surf journalist”, hahahaha!
Well… I don’t get any recompense here apart from shits-n-giggles.
Put it that way.
I’m paid in laughs all day every day in every environment I walk into. It’s a way of life. Shit way of trying to pay the rent though.
Oh BTW re shark repellent:
Julia Child (famous 60-70’s TV chef in USA) helped invented shark repellent (eau de fuck off) during WWII partly to stop them from setting off anti-sub mines. The smell was le Sharky de Mort.
https://www.cia.gov/news-in…
Right now there’s a 14 year old girl wake boarding somewhere who will smoke* Filipe come 2020.
EDIT. * Out surf. I have a daughter Sheesh.
Er… you wanna phrase that differently?
Enjoyable wasn’t it!
Brilliant. Are you Anna Dimond of “infectious grom froth” fame?
I like the water colour….it reminds of Makaha.
Don’t you think there’s something odd about the colour?
oh yeah it looks weird, but nice.
I am in agreement with you.
Kelly needs some food colouring
Panama, Caribbean side?
This is the best thing ever.
Does anyone else lose interest in the story and go straight to the comments?
I do! The story serves only as a chip shot into the laughs below.
US Surfing and BSR Surf Resort Waco just pulled the Statue of Liberty play on Surf Ranch and scored an effective obliteration of KSWC Surf Ranch expansionism in the United States.
The WSL will not be pleased.
…unless there’s a funky clause in there, stating they can dump Kelly’s stuff anytime and invest somewhere else.
… and WTF has Webber got hidden up his whatsit? P’raps that’ll be even better!
This shit is so funny! 10 years of development by an 11X World Champ upstaged by a barefoot water skiing Champ. So good.
The thing with the Webber design is that he best get that wave up and running right quick before this tidal surge passes him bye regardless of any “superiority in design ” that Webber may have. At some point soon it won’t matter because the coffers will be funneling any and all capital towards actual running operations.
American Wave Machines were kicking around six years before Slater and Fincham’s dream. I remember when they were spruiking their “PerfectSwell” a year ago and thought… pfffft…clowns. Egg on face etc. Oh…wait…Twillsy, just saw your reply.
So… really whatcha sayin’ is:
The various Noceans are the actual competitors.
The glossy overpaid freaks cavorting in the slosh are merely the ‘balls’ of the sport, not the players.
Have I missed something?
This just in… Venezuela, Libya, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and North Korea will not be training at the BSR Surf Resort.
I believe Munich is the preferred choice for these teams.
I want one in my backyard. The Atlantic has just not been producing what I need.
if yr up north, should be a nice little wind swell thurs and fri………. but im sure u know…
As oceans go, its kind of shitty.