The old boys are going mad!
It was announced right here and two days ago that the World Surf League is running a Masters Division feat. all of your favs including Michael Ho, Gary “Kong” Elkerton, Tom Curren, Damien Hardman, Dave Macaulay, Sunny Garcia, Cheyne Horan etc.
Every one of your favs minus Derek Ho and if you read the World Surf League wraps you’d think it was all cupcakes and roses between the boys. Here’s a snippet:
Most of the time competitors escape to the airport as soon as they’re eliminated from an event but the vibes in Azores have been the opposite. Regardless of results, athletes have been hanging around and watching each other’s heats. Tom Curren, asked for Matt Hoy’s autograph after losing out to him in Heat 17.
“The passion is still there,” said Luke Egan. “We’re just a lot older.”
Do you believe the cupcakes? Roses? Well we have a billboard in Lemoore and we have a man on the beach in the semi-autonomous Azores. He says:
Despite the serene nature of the WSL press releases the old boys have been going mad.
Sunny Garcia came out of the water flipping the bird, saying, “The judges are…still…fucked. The judges are still fucking kooks.”
The WSL changed the format which meant Michael Ho was eliminated. He said, “This is fucking bullshit.” That some of his competitors “should be in the women’s division” and that they’re “all fucking crybabies.”
Everyone is a caricature of what they were thirty years ago.
Kong, who surfed three heats and only caught waves in one of them, is fatter.
Dave Macaulay and Dooma Hardman are somehow more boring.
Tom Curren, blaming his fins while riding a wild alternative board, is reaching new realms of crazy.
Most of all, it’s the greatest contest ever. Beautiful island. Black sand. Warm water.
Oh, and Jodie Cooper is surfing in the women’s division.
Jodie Cooper, most recently seen getting allegedly attempted drowned by Tomo Sr. in New South Wales!
I wish I was in the Azores. This all sounds incredible. I wish I was our man on the beach.
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Watching on webcast and surfing with 2 different things. Every last one of them would still surf rings around any of you kooks. Curren is brilliant.The waves sucked. Get over it.
Enjoyed that contest very much. Brings back so many memories
How has nobody commented on mike ho’s statement…his daughter is on tour and he still reems them.
Where’s the quiky silver edtion masters crew. Is this like the other group of masters?
How did super fit world-class surfers get so fat and slow? Ok, so not all of them, but geez it’s not pretty.
All of a sudden I feel pretty good about how my little group of mid 40s to late 50s mates surf and look.
Can’t fathom the target audience for this event? In an era of reduced budgets this is just bizarre. Who is responsible for this? That’s a story that probably should never be told.
Seems like WSL flavor of the month . They dropped today an extremely long article by Matt Warshaw on the life and times of PT . Attempt to appease the Grumpy Old Local or did some genius at the WoSuLe just work out that Surfers over the age of 45 have disposable income and spend more money on trips and equipment then the kids ?
Ya but most are broke and know better on how to spend what little they have left.
Extending the demographic…or just acknowledging the fact that us oldies are jumping out of our skins to see Luke Egan kick some ass again. Btw pops Gouveia surfs better than ever…
Was wondering the same thing… what was the point… maybe they’re working on a long term product line with QuikBong. Testing the waters so to say.
I mean if it wasn’t for Beach Grit I would have never known about the event.
Back when pro surfers actually had a fucken personality
over 1k viewers on the facebook stream when i was watching. More than most of the pool contest when i tuned in. Put these guys out at Jbay or something and it might be more entertaining than the top 34.
God, No.
No-one needs to watch that.
This Masters bullshit needs to stop.
Stick em in a pool, preferably with a swim-up bar.
Where they fuckn should be, they can watch reruns of their glory days on a big screen and bore each other senseless.
Think your right… QuikBong might have kicked them out to pasture too soon.
Went to WSL site earlier today, nothing like getting advertising pushed on you ever moment your view these veteran guys. Just doesn’t work, I feel fucken sorry for them this image being dished all over them….. for the last 40 years.
Mom’s and Dad’s take note don’t let your kids become pro surfers…
What a crooked industry!
WSL haven’t figured out this ain’t tennis or golf.
No surprises there, they still don’t fuckn get it.
Surfing is about youth and most of the old fukkers here know this and acknowledge it.
This Masters crap is – embarrassing and these ex pros are making fools of themselves. Irrelevant but still wannabes, vainly clinging on to the spotlight that shone on them in their much younger years.
Get over yourselves ! Fuckn Dickheads ! Grow up, go surf but don’t pretend “you still got it.”
If nothing else it shows that a group of men between the age of 45 to 60 something can still surf shortboards so there is absolutely no excuse for anyone under the age of 65 to do otherwise ? Hipsters pfff……..
There would be more interest in a sweepstake to guess the litres they’re riding.
Ohh, Kongs a roundy- 50
Cheynos looking porky – 42.5
I imagine that these legends would be the first to laugh and then participate in the guess the fat boy’s volume . ( Gary’s original nickname being fatboy before he became Kong then Gary then Kong again ). Surfing may not keep one slim but it will keep one laughing and not taking oneself too seriously ,especially with age ?
I went to a local point this past weekend that I used to surf lots in younger years. I brought a foamy out.. waves were small but a bit of lift at the point.. watched a few guys who could surf, but noticed how many talked boards and their 1500$ bings etc. it was like being at an art museum of hipsters. not to say all couldn’t surf, but most went straight. the foamy on the other hand is fucking so much fun!! put some real fins in and turn that puppy..
Fun is the key !
Thanks, I thought it was just me thinking…. Are you fucken kidding me!
Maybe they all got some cash and a vacation to Azores…..and WSL thought it would be money well spent on cooling the grumpy mullets on Beach Grit.
You got me
Yes unlike the Financial Sector,Sellers of Coastal Real Estate, Mining and Government, not to mention Google ,Amazon and Facebook ?
Once were watchable…
http://www.gikz.pl/wp-conte…
Can somebody photoshop Sunny’s head onto this please 🙏🏽
cook the man some fucken eggs.
It’s a fact, washed up old men are a bunch of angry dicks. Also fuck all of you assholes.
That’s not true you son of a bitch
I’M NOT GRUMPY EITHER, YOU FUCK.
NOW BEAT IT I’M TRYNA GET SOME PEACE.
I REPLIED TO THE WRONG GUY.
FUCK!
NOW I LOOK LIKE AN INTERWEB KOOK.
I’ll pass the message on.
Thanks bud.
Have you seen my reading glasses? I started to reply a minute ago a realised I was typing it into the TV remote control.
Just stay off my fucking lawn and there won’t be a problem.
On second thoughts perhaps it is best I’m not there, I don’t want to be 21 again, smoking ciggies before heats and trying to get Cheyne on a drop-in.
I had two solid sessions Wednesday, not one durrie before hand and surfed out of my skin. And they were so much better that evening.
Ah the post coital ( or post surf ) cigarette is definitely one of life’s little pleasures .
in my retirement plans, to start smoking and drinking again like i am 20 something. In the meantime, I work hard to not be a grumpy fuck in the lineup with said 20 somethings, just to take their waves.
Stopped at 45 ( smoking that is ) as I was no longer looking forward to an early death .
beat you by 10 years plus as the wife made me
Got Married at 47 and now got 2 kids at 53 so decided that nicotine and me must no longer be .
funny, my youngest asked me how old I’ll be when she is 20 last night.. LOL.. fuck, she will be in college when I am 57.. you have a much longer road..
Dad is 82 and mum 77 so hope I’ll be surfing and enjoying the kids for a while yet . Enjoy the ride……….
A kretek with a big Indo kopi susu after the morning surf is magic. Long long time since I smoked, but will always enjoy that when in Indo.
recipe for a self induced colon cleanse right there.
Why tc not there nick
I can’t believe Mikey Wright got given the wildcard yet again.
ha!
Garcia still a fuckwit. Hoy still king of the carve. Nothing else to see here. Move along.
I’d like to see a Snake Takes episode on this comp with Grif commenting.
“Oi Jake no no no why the fuck did you do a safety floater on that set you fat old bastard. Your board looks too small. Why are you eating steak and chips with beer at 11am, where’s your quinoa salad and water?”
Nah I want to hear Wiggs commentating.
Wigg’s writing delivered by Griffin.
Wigg’s writing delivered by Sabre Norris.
I dig that, but Grif needs to be within proximity or we’ve lost a huge part of what’d make a role-reversal parody of Snake Tales so hilarious. The fact Jake berates these kids from behind a lens is the very reason Griffin shit talking would be the only option.
As he said in the post heat interview “ Do as I say , not as I do . “ when asked what his chargers might comment after his heats .
rather watch this than the wave ranch. At least the waves are decent. the WSL is pissing me off with the shit house coverage/replays.
Who is picking up the tab for this event?
And not one comment on here about nose beers?
Well the one thing that I can figure is…
Matt Hoy, minutes before his heat, at the beach, and suddenly turning around and seeing, with terror, panic and cold sweat, TC coming hill down with his something board…
“Oh no!!! Not you again!!! Please good Lord, no!!!”
The French Kneeboard Nightmare Heat ? Exit light , enter night ……….
getting to watch legends in real time was amazing (much better than Magazines/VHS)
Stoked to see Glen still ripping
yeah, you were pretty good out there, I didn’t get choked up at all in his interview. Not one bit.