Do you identify as a woman? Do you shred? Do you Instagram?
In a month or thereabouts, the tour is back on the Gold Coast. And if you identify as a woman, or have a suitable pronoun, and you have an engaged gang of Instagram followers, you can be a part of it thanks to event sponsor Boost’s Search For a Wildcard Contest.
Upload a one-minute clip, surfing, to Instagram. The top ten most-voted clips go into the final. Boost-sponsored surfer Sally Fizgibbons chooses the winner.
Three or so days in and they’ve been four entries, with Isabella Caldow, a fifteen-year-old from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast leading the votes, 100 to 66, two and one.
The concept of giving away a tour event slot ain’t new.
In 1991, Coke offered a wildcard into the main event of the Coca-Cola Surf Classic at Narrabeen in 1991 as the prize for their Classic Wave Competition. The winner, Allan Willis, a bricklayer from surfless Bundaberg in North Queensland, had surfed twice in the previous six months and was recovering from distended vascular structures in his anal canal, which made sitting painful.
Willis lost his heat against Ross Clarke-Jones, although not after causing Ross immense worry, and was awarded a cheque for $1750 and free run of the VIP area.
Glory days.
Pauline Hanson? Would be a good opportunity heading towards the next election?
In Beavis and Butthead voice, “Did he say ‘anal canal?” Heh, heh heh heh. Heh heh heh
Did you see his slip-on vinyl shoes in that rental vid he did a few weeks ago?
Is Westerly Windy available
From an outsiders perspective it seems unfair.
Which is why Kelly should push the estrogen injections and work to becoming Kelli. Minimizing the tyranny Steph G has implemented for years. Fuck em
Would love to see the girls earn their equal pay with a stand alone Women’s tour. That was the dirty secret not told in that awful big wave women article you guys promoted. That writer is not well informed and I loved the shade he threw at the elite men’s tour at the end of that article…. dude has no clue.
Did you watch her clip? Surfs like a young Steph Gilmore and better than the lower half of the ladies tour.
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The logo redesign we’ve bean waiting for
I think I’ll offer it as a tshirt design soon.
Will post a link when I sort it all out.
I qualify, except for the lack of identity as a woman, an unsuitable pronoun and I’m not really sure 7 counts as enough engaged Insta followers. I reckon I would scare the shit out of my first round opponent, although the rules might preclude 6’7″, bearded, Scandinavian ancestored surfers applying.
Double reverse sexism. Or at least 540 sexism.
scandinavian ancestored is fine. its the location of the beard that will be the deciding factor.
No beard anywhere is a non-negotiable rule for this particular competition.
She’s at home cooking dinner.
Instagram comps don’t work so well for chicks like you.
Furthering the gender specific war by the patriarchy I tells ya.
Any chance they would ever do this again for the men’s? This seems a bit insulting to the other ladies on the tour. Especially if a fellow competitor gets to pic the entry. Jerkoffs are running the marketing department in Venice adjacent Santa Monica.
Sounds like an opportunity for Former Craig Anderson to Boost her brand recognition.
Craig is more beautiful than any woman I’ve ever seen.
Shan baps
The gene pool up on the Goldie is more limited than I thought going by that photo. There seems to be a strong correlation between cousin fucking and proximity to the equator. Global warming will kill us all.
I remember reading about that Coke wildcard (years after the fact, as I would have been in year one at the time) but thought it was against Curren?
I was on hand for the Surfest comp where Layne Beachley surfed in the mens against AI and two others I don’t remember. They came fourth and third, respectively
Defs against Ross Clarke-Jones. He was terribly nervous, I’m told. Can you imagine losing to an EI from Bundaberg, whose ass was falling out?
Well yeah, there was this one time… actually I’ve already said too much.
Allan brought down an esky full of prawns as a way of saying ‘thanks for having me’ as I recall.
Quik should do the same for the men’s event (Mikey can choose)! Armed with 22 followers (20 of whom don’t surf), a sick edit (7 seconds of which consists of actual surfing… from 4 years ago, no less), and personal friendship with Mikey Wright (I saw Tyler get out of a car once), I’m a shoo-in…
quite a dilemma for chas. womens trials or Canadian olympic team. I reckon he should go for both.
I sense this one may be Derek’s moment to shine.
BG ruling !