Come share your first impression!
We’ve been wagging our tongues about this Surf Ranch Pro (watch here!), this very moment right now, since it was announced there was going to be a real competition, not an expression session, not a Founders Cup. Jen See is in the crowd, taking notes, observing. I’ll be there Saturday but at his moment am in front of my computer, like you, watching and maybe confusedly.
Is it fun? Exciting?
Or dull?
I know there are too many ads. I know that without any help. 1 minute on 5 minutes off is how it feels and that is too much. I like Wade Carmichael and I like Merino wool but I don’t know how much more I can take about life on the Championship Tour and the necessity of Merino wool.
They knew this was coming the 1 minute on 5 minutes off and didn’t prepare fun interstitial programming?
Don’t they have a studio in Santa Monica?
Still. I don’t know what to think.
What do you think?
I’ve asked Matt Warshaw what he thinks and we shall hear from him soon.
P.S. Did Ronald Blakey change his voice for this event? Is he trying on a new persona? I thought Crocodile Dundee was in the booth for a good 10 minutes.
Can we get a food and beverage review from the event.
Judges used to scoring only to make justice within a 2 or 3 surfer rides have now to score considering 34 surfers rides. How many additional replays should this translate into?
That or microdose shrooms like the X Games snowboarders do. That should bring the creativity
Joe Turpel says the darndest things!
Why am I thinking “why can’t this be more like Figure Skating?” They could wear those cool sparkly outfits, manditory tricks of high level of difficulty during each section of wave and they could get Tara Lapinsky and Johnny Weir to commentate. Gotta be better than this boring shit. #lamerthanicedancing #surfranchisthenewrythmicgymnastics
CONSPIRACY THEORY – is it possible for them to send better quality waves (by changing to settings) to one surfer vs another? Say in the final, Slater or whoever gets a hollow grinder, and they send a slightly mushier one to another surfer?
They should have a floating standing takeoff like Olympics snowboard halfpipe. Use a bit of that floaty thing S#@b made.
Ditch the while paddling part
Lol. Have been watching since Jesse Mendez. Seabass surfed a good wave, I cheered when the midget Tomas made it out of the backhand tube; I thought Yago’s 7.73 left was really good, a benchmark of risk and was badly underscored. High performance needed to cull the boredom. The commentators, especially Kelly, are funny. Surfing is a “feeling aesthetic” experience yet they are trying to educate non-surfers to view it like judges. If it doesn’t naturally look exciting; it won’t be watched. Heading to the beach now (after Adriano/Yago).
I think you’ve been watching re runs off 2016 Fiji
no more 182, Social Distortion is playing, who’s getting punched first?
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Does Parko always surf like an old guy or does he just not care? Both are acceptable but it was sort of shocking when I saw it.
More of the latter, though I will say I honestly was expecting less from Parko on these tank waves.
One of my favourite radio shows is the news reading service. It’s basically a bunch of retirees reading aloud the daily papers and for what should be one of the most structured shows on air it’s full of unintended hilarity and brilliance. There’s the different deliveries of the co hosts, the unintended slips of tongue, the latent focus on double entendres, the glib social commentary, the calming noise of the turning pages. They introduce chaos into order and its beautiful. Dunno where I’m going with this but the Wave Ranch comp already sucks.
Update on billboard?
It’s there! Live feed of the billboard coming Saturday.
what happened to the end section ramp that they’ve been hyping?? and did the waves get smaller?
Because do you want to see floaters? 😴
Im overcome by joy that Kelly can once again put weight on his “seriously injured” foot, and dumbfounded by the UFC style countdown show the WSL started broadcasting when the event was “put on hold”
Show me how cool the wave ranch is, make me want attend.
Where the hell is Jen See? I think this is more interesting live btw.
And also! Ralph Lauren Polo is a supporting sponsor!!! What in god’s name is happening.
I was in the car! I will see you tomorrow!
Excited!
https://youtu.be/_htDb-KM5UQ
I went to a ‘heavy metal’ festival in Dubai sponsored by some cologne brand. Ever been to a nice smelling metal fest? Surreal, on many levels.
seems I am a retard. I am unable to get rid of this cat avatar, I have randomly posted an image to a to a discussion and am still no closer to making a coherent statement about the WSL pool party.
and all I wanted was for Chas to think I am cool
Possibly the most coherent comment so far! If I worked for the evil Fake News Media and had to submit a report on the comp I’d copy this post.
Haven’t watched all, mostly the scrubs. Watched a replay of Kelly’s 8.5. Easily the best wave surfed, imo. Was hoping for PGudaskus but that triple pump bottom turn he sports is brutal which no doubt judges take note of.
That backhand “ham-fisted” barrel stance they must contort into looks debilitating.
I hope the plow breaks down and they’re forced to call a lay day.
whoa, what happened, it just …….stopped.
wheels musta done fallen off
an hour break to make chai seed offerings to the goat (or to iron out the judging to make sure he makes the cut)
They’re trying to evict that “weird little kink” that Wilkinson saw in the barrel.
Waiting for the tide to come in?