It's time to believe!
- The World Surf League seems to really be hitting stride, really finding its voice. I sometimes joke at the perceived tone-deafness but whatever is happening now is pure art. It feels just too good and did you watch any of today’s finals? Of course Longtom has the best wrap around but you really should go back and watch some highlights.
It is like the day bent toward the WSL’s will. Remember, the forecast for the event was less than stellar. It was bad, even, but there, on finals day, the most perfect French waves streamed to shore with the best surfers in the world plying their trade magnificently.
A show in the best sense of the word and do you believe in manifestation?
Oprah Winfrey does. She says:
I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you’re putting out negativity, then you’re going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.
Or maybe that was Robin Wright but no matter. The message is the same as it was when Kevin Costner declared, “If you build it, they will come.
We mocked the WSL’s manifestation, or at least I did, but today there were near perfect waves for a French final and tomorrow there will be massive attendance at the beach with thousands of people worshipping their idols. Not literally tomorrow, obviously, the event is over, but figuratively tomorrow.
Don’t believe me? Examine this bit of Universe tinkering.
See it there in the bottom right corner? Massive attendance at the beach with thousands of people worshipping their idols?
Do you believe?
I do. Not literally believe, obviously, because I’m a Gen-X cynic, but figuratively believe.
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i surf my idols.
no. SURF your adventure.
i surf the mud. i surf the taco truck. i surf the manifesto.
That explains the girl’s badge in the front row!
The solid girl inspired by Connor Coffin’s Coiffure ?
Hey anybody else get this email from the WSL? Yewww? I’m not sure if I have some special obligation to be a dick about this Beach Grit. What should I do?
Thank you for watching as much surfing as you do. You’re one of our top fans! Yewww! Because of that, we’d like your take on something pretty important. Our team is hard at work building a premium WSL experience for fans in 2019. You can help us shape what that is.
We’ve got a 15-20 minute survey for you where you can let us know what you think. Your answers will go straight to the WSL top brass – so it’s time well spent.
Start Now
As a very small token of appreciation for your help, we’ll send you a 50% off code to the WSL merch store for completing the survey before October 24th. (Holidays are comin’ up!)
Thank you again,
The WSL Product Team
Yeah, good luck with that. Remember when they did the same thing after the Facebook Live kicked off?
But congrats on your persistence. I’m getting it all through LT and YouTube highlights.
Two months left to get a Keanu Asing jersey with a 50% off code, you’re a lucky guy!
ah what I should do is buy a half price Fanning jersey for Chas for Hanukkah and we can all sign the card!
yeeeewwwwwwwww!!!
i surf the merch.
Hi PNP – can you direct message me. I can’t find you on IG. I’d like to see the survey.
You could write a book about it
It depended on who you shouted at but at $50 for 5 kisses It was all good
worshipping their armor-wearing idols
I’ll choose one: where the wsl is perfect in everything it does and no one criticizes them….
written by Ben!
I lived in Brasil for a year and quickly realised you gotta talk loud when everyone is on the nose beers
It’s a love story!
At those prices it was romantic, for real
My most outstanding award at hossegor goes to Joe “the voice” turpell for talking for about 12 hours and saying absolutley nothing.
Joe Turpel, genetically speaking, is more closely related to Lemurs than chimpanzees. Lemurs communicate more with their eyes than by sound vocalisations.
ky po need to go. what other “sport” would have him “announce”. i surf the hyper. i surf the mel.
They did at one stage have Strider in the crowd saying 1000s and 1000s of people were on beach – they had cheeky shot through a mass group but then panned to a drone and was sand everywhere – I did quick head count 500-700 max.
And all of them were blocking the camera so you couldn’t see if surfers were riding out of the final move and we all had to rely on hand signals and body language from the idolizing mass to indicate if they rode out or not ? No cameras on skis and not even a ladder for the cameraman on the beach ?
Think they were paying these small French idolising masses to just follow and stand in front of certain cameras all day to give the appearance that “the beatles” were surfing!
And all of them named Max ?
For some reason Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych “ The Garden of Earthly Delights “ comes to mind ?
*Surfly Delights?
That’s a good one JB! You could also go wsl vs. beach grit as “Battle Between Carnival And Lent”
Feast or Famine ?
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Epic day
Just traded in my board for a jeep
I’m going road suring
Its pumping 24/7
I’ve tried to find the jeep ad everywhere but can’t. Can you post here or send to [email protected]
Has Dez heard about the latest shark detection device. It’s anchored off Newport Beach. Guess what the device is called. I shit you not, it’s called the Clever Buoy! Fight clever with clever.
They could ‘ave called ‘er clever girl but the sharks say she’s ‘armless ?
The billboard should never be done again. It was too good, so too good, that if you never do it again, WSL and KS will have to follow suit and do likewise. It’s about being first. Even first to the idea and execution of well-thought anti-depressive fun.
So what does Beach Grit do next?
Sponsor the Clever Buoy!!!!
i surf the clever. i surf the shit. i surf the buoy.
Can’t talk now I’m in tha sydney harbour tunnel
Longest barrel ever
Milsons Point Pumps .( if the Jeep needs gas ) or are you taking the Cahill Bell -Warren Expressway ?
On a trip down to Sydney to pick up a new board me and a mate went through the tunnel not long after it opened. Upon exit he hit me with the immortal line; “Well, that was worth the price of admission”.
large ad agency work at its worst. the voice over, the script. i surf it all.
if you actually watched the event, you would have that fucking commercial memorized by now.
Grab your cup of Joe and be mindful of Pottzholes on the roadwayve. There’s no speed limit signs but from what I’ve heard it’s 89mph.
If it’s all surfing
is any of it surfing?
Shut up and buy stuff
oh look I did a haiku