Pipe Masters until 2021!
Does it warm your heart every December when the non-surfing marketing executive turned Dear General Secretary of the WSL, Sophie Goldschmidt, makes her annual appearance on the podium at the Pipeline Masters and talks about surfing’s “hallowed waves”?
Its’ all very…inclusive… devoid, as it is, of gender or even participational bias. We’re all surfers now etc.
Earlier today, the WSL announced it had secured permits for events in Hawaii for the next three years. This is a switcharoo from last year when the Pipe Masters was all but shelved (figuratively, not literally, as in ass) after a testy permit-roundabout between the City of Hawaii and the WSL.
Not any more.
From the presser:
“…the World Surf League is pleased to announce that the City & County of Honolulu has approved three years of permit applications, ensuring that the following WSL events will have the opportunity to run during their traditional holding periods and at their usual locations in 2019, 2020 and 2021:
- Sunset Open, Sunset Beach, January 18 – 28
- Volcom Pipe Pro, Banzai Pipeline, January 29 – February 10
- HIC Sunset Pro, Sunset Beach, October 28 – November 10
- The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Series:
- Hawaiian Pro, Haleiwa Ali’i Beach, November 13-24
- Vans World Cup, Sunset Beach, November 25-December 7
- Billabong Pipe Masters, Banzai Pipeline, December 8-20
“Hawaii is an integral part of surfing and a hugely important community for the WSL,” Sophie Goldschmidt, WSL CEO said. “The permit approval is a great step to not only ensuring the world’s best surfers continue to be tested in Hawaii’s hallowed waves in the coming years, but that these events provide infrastructure and developmental support for up-and-coming surfers from the region.”
Two more WSL events will be held before the 2018/19 Hawaiian winter surf season draws to a close: the Sunset Open QS1,000 (January 18-28) and the Volcom Pipe Pro (January 29-February 10), which will see the return to competition of former two-time WSL Champion John John Florence (HAW).
Excited?
And do you think John John Florence will ever return to port?
So almost losing the most important part of the tour due to her own fuck up, and then putting out a press release and celebrating what was in fact something that should have been considered as fundamental to surfing the tour as, say, as a government supply bill, is “Sophie done good”?
Sweet! If that’s your metric for success, somebody hold my board and my bong – I got a tour to run!
It’s a lazy metaphor to run but that shit truly is Orwellian.
Good work Sophie
Fucken legend.
Suck on that WSL haters,
Setting a low bar if doing your job (months late) makes you a fucking legend.
I know
How good is it
You’re a legend too!
Did the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout get the next three years’ permits pushed through as well?
So the WSL “…events provide infrastructure and developmental support for up-and-coming surfers from the region.” Whereas the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout is fractured and developmentally-disabled down-and-outing surfers from the region? Is that what I’m reading between the lines. The WSL truly sees itself as nothing but heroic in this whole thing huh?
Shiiiiit
Who da hui?
The Offspring banned?
aw yeah that song
who gives a fuk bout da hui!
easily the best calipunk band,
being radio friendly helped a lot.
I have a lot of respect for Dexter sticking with his studies and recently getting awarded his PhD in Molecular Biology.
He’s pretty fly for a white guy.
No shit?
The man knows his shit.
Molecularly so.
I thought JJF was still sailing – he convinced Winning Appliances to just to keep going Sth to Antarctica then just turn left or right on flip of coin
Yeah, you’d wanna go left…
I was hoping they wouldn’t get the permits, which would force goldshitts to shake up the tour as was promised with the whole idea of a finish in the mentawais. Sadly it’ll just be the same old tour for the next three years. No cloudbreak, shit waves in Rio, a ridiculous dance in the hot tub, and another finish at Pipe. Yawn.
Yeah poor us. What a cunt of a tour.
i just skip the pond and the sewage wave and I don’t notice much.. kind of wish trestles was back, always a fun wave for the “people”… would think something else might be fun for them on the mainland, maybe a blacks barrel fest?
Thank the deity of your choice that huge cliffs, no beach at high tide, and La Jolla Farms ultra-nimbies would never, ever let that horrible thing happen.
Ha!! I know. But I can dream
With no sponsors for half the events I think you’ll get your wish. If only the surf companies had any money they’d have started a rebel tour already and left these bozos trying to spruik their white elephant.
So one could assume that this WSL circuit is a viable financial model, if not is it still being propped up?! And for how long?
It’s just loose change for Ziff, so as long as his gal is getting moist over it.
Is it wrong to see within Soph someone a little sexier trying to get out of that horrific soccer mum at the school fete outfit?
It’s disrespectful to the history of the sport.
Seems like a perfectly healthy fantasy mate.
Here, here. Somewhere under that mom of a lacrosse player named Caleb/wife of an adult learner vibe is a crass little women dying to drink Bud Ice, smoke mids and watch Dane edits with me.
Oh I could watch Dane edits all day!
Keep some tissues handy
I’d do Sophie allnight longl
Fuk the history,
Theres only now and the future that matters.
Just scrolled up to concur or otherwise. Agree that it’s disrespectful to the history of the sport. The eyes have it.