Margaret River returns and other surprises!
Press release from Santa Monica (sorry I’ll riff in a bit but gotta run out and grab plate lunch real quick. In the meantime…):
“Very pleased to announce a healthy and diverse 2019 schedule to challenge the world’s best surfers throughout the year,” Kieren Perrow, WSL Commissioner, said. “This level has to be the proving ground and the platform for the advancement of the world’s best surfing and we’re very happy with where it’s at next season.”
Once again returning to world-class venues from Australia to Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, North America, French Polynesia, Europe and Hawaii, a key change in the 2019 CT calendar is the breakup for the three-event Australia leg with a break following the Gold Coast and Bells Beach events before recommencing with the Bali event and returning to Margaret River as the fourth stop of the season.
“Margaret River has been a key stop on the CT for several seasons now and we had the unique and unfortunate circumstance of having to cancel this season’s event due to aggressive shark activity in the area,” Perrow said. “Working with our surfers, event partners and the local community, we’ve moved the dates of the Margaret River event later in the year to improve the pacing of the season as well as ensure the best chance for world-class conditions at all breaks.”
2019 Men’s Championship Tour Schedule*:
Gold Coast Men’s Pro: April 3 – 13, 2019
Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach: April 17 – 27, 2019
Bali Men’s Pro: May 13 – 24, 2019
Margaret River Pro: May 27 – June 7, 2019
Oi Rio Pro: June 20 – 28, 2019
J-Bay Open: July 9 – 22, 2019
Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o: August 21 – September 1, 2019
Surf Ranch Pro: September 19 – 22, 2019
France Men’s Pro: October 3 – 13, 2019
Meo Pro Peniche: October 16 – 28, 2019
Billabong Pipe Masters: December 8 – 20, 2019
Discuss!
Margs in winter……. there was only one offshore day for the same time period this year. Good luck!
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Gee I thought you were so smart , google would be a no no for you as your IQ is so high man….so racist, elitism, narcissist , white might , stable genius had to be found on google , you so smart , sad , MAGA…
Hey Ben , you are so out of your depth here , as its obvious you are a narcissist like your Don.
You are obviously racist , white and believe in elitism as a way of separating those “who are not worthy” according to their IQ / culture , damn you merrycans love to “Fuck I’m Great , Just Ask Me” or as we like to say FIG JAM on !
are you really great , smart , a stable genius , love pussy , and of course white is right!
Pour Moi = for me , so are all the videos for you of you and by you?
Wow you are Great , but are you just a figment in your own imagination , or Perhaps a FIG JAM , or perhaps if you can spell , or know how to use a spellchecker , like Donald Trump…….actually the Don of the Merrycan Dream wrote lots of books , helped so many people who had been attacked by Mud Sharks , and has many many great days doing good deeds for the people…are you DT?
is that it , surfer video awards , call that smart , you have always been bitter and twisted , outside of surfing as a wannabe surfer/journalist , good to see you call yourself a yobbo , as you have very similar traits to DT.
Solid comeback mate!
So were you born without an ego , or worked out how to dismantle your ego , and surfing is meaningless nothing , and that’s why all of your comments are so deep, smart , written with an eloquence never before seen on BG , and what board are you so bored with?
snarky ..??? sounds very snitchy Kitchy and bitchy!
are your friends like really really smart too?
only 623 more celebrity’s to know and you could be one your self!
oh no please stay we need a liberal Trumpette , who once surfed and disappeared to be raised from the dead by old Ziffy and his minions …you are so lit up on the Ziff and his millions , and can’t see that your benevolent billionaire , could at anytime pull the plug as he’s losing money hand over fist , surfing has become artificial , no real business plan , executives are non-surfers and if you know your history so well , name one successful Company or person that has contibuted long term to surfing …like Nike , Salomon, maybe Mooney, Bernard , Fox …the count is fucking zero….
yeah nice white countries , damn those 3rd world shitholes , do you work for Trump?
shit your a tuff guy too !!
you should pull your head out of your arse , unless of course you are so much smarter than the beach gritters , and you like the view up there and the smell of boredom!
Do you like smart phones also?
You think that you are smart , but your from the USA , and we all know Trump is the smartest Merrycan , so do you rate yourself , how much lower and have you ever contributed anything to surfing thas was like …smart?
Well to be perfectly fair Ben, a lot of us come here for exactly that. To vent. We rail against the sky and make fun of the situations we find ourselves in. We console each other and sometimes maybe gently wind each other up, each knowing full well it’s a kind of therapy.
The WSL is merely a handy target. And especially being run from on high, without the palpable human touch the ASP used to have, well… fuck em. Chas is entirely correct to prod them. I’ll bet good money ( of which I have very little) that Ziff loses veeeery little sleep over this little, soft web thorn.
We can smell your frustration Ben. From Glasgow to Torquay, we hear and feel your angst at increasing irrelevance.
Most of us are undergoing and coming to terms with this ourselves in our own tiny, obscure and not-so-obscure lives. Some people here are more famous than you. Many probably not famous except in their own house. We all get it Ben.
That’s why we’re here and not struggling to cling to the rubber door seals of the ‘Cool Bus’ as it blithely, and ponderously rolls off into the distance, shedding the next generation of has-beens. A line of groaning, grumpy bodies stretches out for as far as the eye can see; back, back, back to the earliest dawn of humanity. Fallen off the Cool Bus. Don’t fight it.
King Cnut knew it. Buddha knew it. Wiggolly’s Paddling Style knows it. Kelly Slater is quite late in finding it, but you can see the fear in his eyes too. Before you know it, he’ll be here with us, finding consolation in acting a bit dumb and making wisecracks about the latest incarnation of pro surfing.
Be at peace and laugh at at the genuine absurdity of it all.
We all get embarrassed. We’re all bored and restless. Especially if we can’t surf because life is throwing up another spanner into the works.
Don’t bow out. Stay. Just be a friend.
I have to say channel bottom that is pretty fucking good. The bodies chucked off the Cool Bus! Excellent image.
Can you please start being funny or something?
my work is done.
Would love to see an actual ocean venue for the U.S…. mid to late September is a lock for waves on the East Coast.
I’m delighted you’re a lefty, Ben.
But you’d be far better actually trolling dangerous fuckwits over at the neo-Nazi sites, rather than wasting your time trying to bait us.
We’re all pretty intelligent and likely as left-wing as you. Yes we act kinda dumb here, but such is our wont. An escape from the horrors of the rest of life.
Grab a metaphorical beverage of your choice and be a friend. You don’t need to impress us with your stories. We’ll accept you for all your flaws and humanity without the bluster and blow-hard.
This isn’t Stab. Go heckle them if you really want to stir up a shit-fight.