Revenge is a dish best served cold!
Doesn’t this 2018 iteration of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour seem like it has been running for five years? Like, can your mind even stretch back into the mists of time and recall Julian Wilson’s victory at Snapper? What about Italo Ferreira’s victory at Bells? Ok, last one, what about Willian Cardoso’s victory at Margaret River?
Ha! Trick question! The Margaret River Pro was canceled due shark activity nearby even though there is always shark activity nearby and concluded months later at Uluwatu.
The state government of Western Australian, who pays handsomely for the event, was very clearly unpleased with the World Surf League for making a mockery of its “Visit WA” campaign. Life goes on, they say, but they also say revenge is a dish best served cold and the most august West Australian newspaper needled the League just three days ago at the conclusion of the J-Bay. I cannot do it justice so let us please read together.
The decision to send competitors back into the water sits in stark contrast with the events in Margaret River in April, where two shark attacks near Gracetown saw the WSL’s event at Surfers Point called off completely.
The Margaret River Pro is expected to remain on the world tour for at least one more year after signing a two-year extension late last year.
Brazilian surfing heavyweight Gabriel Medina spoke out after the South-West attacks, declaring he did not feel safe in the Margaret River region. His compatriot Italo Ferreira was also critical of the “very dangerous” conditions.
Medina was one of the first surfers back in the water after the second shark-enforced halt to competition at Jeffreys Bay on Thursday.
That is professional level goading right there. I am very jealous. But, while I have you real quick, what do you think Western Australia’s reception will be for Gabriel Medina next year and do you think Gabriel Medina cares either way?
“Just give me the hi scores” Julian OverScored Wilson
When you get us to read together its heartwarming. Like story time in bed 🙂
Margz is such a lame option , and now it seems the once hell men of the southwest are turning into a bunch of pro event arse licking soft cocks . Pathetic.
Matey, I once posted a filthy troll about how roo fucking was a wa manly thing.
Not one response.
Those guys don’t give a fuck about contests or posting here.
Not softies or arse licking, no way.
Maybe they don’t have the internet over there?
that or roo fucking really is standard manly procedure in WA?
this.
Gabs has blonde tips now. Evidently it’s clear he doesn’t care about anything.
livin la vida loca
Do you think he’s a Belieber?
He definitely doesn’t believe in Jebus. Jebus wouldn’t allow blonde tips.
At this stage I’m so over sharks that if I came face to face with one I think I’d be more pissed off than scared.
I LOVE the photos you post for your stories… genius.
Re: Australia…. sorry mates, this might sting…. If the CT Mens tour was really a “Dream Tour”, there would be no CT events on Mainland Australia. NONE.
Problem solved. Medina is a safe and WA can host a dozen QS events, even chum the lineups for an extra level of Interest.
Yeah-Kirra (Snapper) was a joke this year, not fair sending out the boys and girls in that crap…..
Are you insinuating that there are better waves in tassie or Christmas Island?
I’m all for canning mainbreak for Ulus every year.
Big difference between two attacks in the area, during the salmon run, and with lots of dead whales on the beaches, and one shark cruising through the J Bay lineup.
Maybe the WA authorities should have towed away the dead whales sometime before the contest, instead of just blaming others.
We need more slopes.
Thredbo and Perisher. A few other smaller ones.
How many more do you need ?
Does Kanoa qualify?
Absolutely. His rise is no occident.
Ziffy does not have the gonads to risk being sued in the USA as he’s losing so much money already …..that’s why they cancelled the comp in Margs and used comments from the Brazil Boys to deflect the real reason for cancelling….litigation Dude in the good ol USA , more scary than a pack GWS’s who haven’t eaten in a year , swimming into the womens WSL event , while they are all having their period!
How many attacks have ever occurred at Main Break?
How far do you think Main Break is from Lefties and Cobbles?
All of Australia should stand in solidarity with WA and find a “problem” with Gabriel Medina’s passport upon his attempted entry into the country.
Indeed, where he mistakenly checks the box for “male”
Even if he missed the entire Aus leg he would still finish above Mikey Wright
A world champion finishing higher than a wildcard?!? Stone the crows that’s incredible.
Ummm, no
That’s some Top Trump thinkin’ boyo.
And before you know it, the Dream Tour will mean starting from alternate ends of Kelly’s pool.
“Waco? There’s too much variability there… dangerous, unsafe, too close to Mexico.”
Dream Tour? You sure about that? Word on the street is that JJF’s knee injury will keep him off this Dream Tour you speak of all of next year. Never has such talent, capable of multiple World Championships looked at the cold embrace of the nightmare of one year away from your supposed Dream Tour with such internal peace.
P’raps he knows something we don’t.
Like the depth of his bank balance and the inner zen of not giving a fuck.
I really hope he does – jus walk away from it all.
He’s no competitive beast like some of the others – it’s not in him.
He just rips and that’s John John. Good enough for 2 back to back.
I confess I do not know the pains, nor freedoms of his bank account. Does this not speak to the sanctity of accomplishment in professional surfing? The not giving a fuck part? How can the WSL reach mainstream status without the very athletes that reflect, if not define the WSL’s existence? If the athletes don’t give a fuck, why should we?
Convenient out. Like Gabs and his fear at Margs. Room given for convenience to fester gives wide swaths of convenient displeasure. Like the Wright withdrawals, even though they appear wrong.
or maybe the inner zen of thousands* of surf groupies? ..if I were him and had 2 titles and fuck-all money under my belt, I’d probably break my dick in the quest for nirvana
Word on the street being Stab articles?
Perhaps, but if so he misspelled ‘turd’.
I enjoy reading Mike Crumplychilli’s articles cause there’s a certain pride felt being there during the days of MC’s retarded giraffe stumbles here at BG. In my past as That Dead Whale At Trestles, I gave MC truckloads of criticism. More than he deserved. Purposed for encouraging better from him as a writer. Its nice to see that he’s the only one holding that shitshow together at Stab. Ashton brought a willingness to peddle death. He’s victim mentality. Sometimes his own. Mostly others for clicks. They grab Rory from BG because Stab wanted BG edge, but what they got was an unwanted cast-off weirdo perv shit writer.
You got a problem ST?
Top summation, Otto