A war brews in Central California!
It’s Sunday morning in America, time to slowly peruse what’s happening in our world and take stock. India is playing England right now in the Cricket World Cup and up 71 runs. Europe is burning up with a massive fever. The Center for Disease Control has warned that a new fecal parasite can live in swimming pools and swimming pool-esque bodies of water for days and, speaking of, Ventura locals are enraged by the World Surf League for culturally appropriating the name “surf rodeo” for the upcoming Freshwater Pro.
Oh have you not been served the World Surf League’s Instagram advertisement multiple times? Well, it reads, “The rodeo is riding back into WSL Surf Ranch for the summer’s biggest showdown. Get stoked for the #FreshwaterPro brought to you by @outerknown. Get tickets through the link in our bio etc.
Nothing caught my eye, except that I imagine the brave World Surf League copywriters meant “summer’s biggest hoedown” instead of “summer’s biggest showdown” in keeping with the rodeo/ranch theme.
Ventura locals saw something else and jumped into the comments to let the World Surf League know that the Surf Rodeo™ is a local, longstanding tradition. Ventuckyco penned, “@kellyslater you participated in one of our @surfrodeo events in 2000 to help raise $ for charity as we do every year. We know you’re a competitor and like to be the best at everything you attempt. Now let’s see you be original and creative on your own event, name, format and theme.” Instadutchie added, “Uhhh nah… #Ventural #SurfRodeo is the biggest, but the 805 will let you roll second place if you’d like?”
Etc.
And let’s learn about the original Surf Rodeo™ quickly at surfrodeo.org.
Surf Rodeo started as a passion project for Ventura entrepreneur, John Drury, lovingly known as JD to most of the Ventura community. Drury’s mission for Surf Rodeo was to bring the highly competitive, cut-throat, serious atmosphere of today’s surf competitions back to its relaxed roots, where fun always comes first. “We try and remind ourselves we are all out for the same thing, to just have fun,” said John Drury, founder of Surf Rodeo. “Let’s laugh at ourselves a little and bring us together through music and surfing.”
Like the Surf Ranch event there is music, games, fun and country-western branding.
Unlike the Surf Ranch event it takes place at a saltwater ocean beach.
Scary Smiley Guy makes pros surf in pool for repetitive water gymnastics in the heart of smelly cow farting country.
Dear Ventura, how silly you are worrying about and arguing for a stupid name.
Sincerely,
The Real Surf City(Huntington Beach, not that lame Santa Cruz)
Dear Ventura,
My group will squeeze Surf Rodeo naming rights out of you in court and then live broadcast our pool surf water brand gymnastics show in smelly cow fart real estate speculation land to all of the internets available for low return Olympic foreplays.
Sincerely,
Scary Smiley Guy
no really, a few bindles. have had more experience with rolling
Pretty sure it was PT I heard in a podcast talking about how he wanted to introduce gamesmanship to surfing and teams competing trying to knock one another off their boards. I thought it sounded like a crap idea. But now with a wavepool and a rodeo surely this is possible. Could be just why the Wozzel employed that guy from the UFC a few years back. Maybe this has been their plan all along.
From memory Peter Drouyn had this in mind when he created / introduced man on man competitive surfing at The Stubbies at Burleigh and then if they wanted to continue the battle on the land all the better for the BIG SHOW ?
Yes you are correct – it was the person formerly know as Westerly not PT. Thanks. Here it is if you interested
http://thepaddleout.libsyn….
Thanks JW .
wouldn’t that make the hiring of goldy and her tennis background kind of redundant?
That idea of physical jousting on the wave was part of Peter Drouyne’s original concept for man on man heats.
When is Ben Smarkus’ ban being lifted? theres too many spelling mistakes for my liking around here.
They banned Ben?
Thats absurd when you have Nick making stupid commnets constantly.
I love the imaginative training program of the Oz Cricket Team in the lead up to the World Cup .
Stage one Get Caught Tampering the Ball
Stage two Scandal , why absolute C%nts in business and politics get away with murder , let’s sentence sports people to death
Stage Three . Don’t win a match for A very long time
Stage Four . Beat Sri Lanka
Stage five Beat India in India without Smith and Warner
Stage six keep the ball rolling instead of tampering with it in the The first place …..
I like the Elizabeths 11 program.
stage 1. win everything in the lead up and go into home soil tournament ranked number 1.
stage 2. fold like an origami master.
I wonder if we could get a Brokeback Mountain Version of the Rodeo showing their Skills at riding brothers, stroking calves and wrestling queers … Cheers ?
Me and a mate were at the reading festival (that’s “redding” in the UK). Someone put on the song “beers, steers and queers” by ministry side project the revolting cocks. Me and my mate staggered round the tents trying to find who was playing it (cool song). But we were asking everyone “have you got revolting cocks?” got some dirty looks.
Sorry but you have fired the dad joke synapses.
An elderly woman walks into a retro record shop and asks the adolescent male shop assistant “ Do you have by any chance Jingle Bells on a 12” ?
The teenager replies “ No Madam but I have Dangling Balls on a 10”. “
She then asks the youngster “ Is that a record ? “
He then replies “ I doubt it but it’s not bad for a 16 year old ! “
I think you mean east swell?
Breaking news–“CDC (Center for Disease Control) issues warning on ‘crypto’ fecal parasite that can live for days in swimming pools
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN –“Health officials are asking Americans to take precautions over reports that “crypto,” a fecal parasite that can be transmitted via swimming pools, is on the rise”. true story–just in time for the Rodeo……
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It’s definitely a rodeo then.
But it’s about as surf as almond milk is milk
They could always try to sell it as “ Come , milk the white juice from our nuts ……….? The Almond Milk that is …..
It’s Monday morning in Australia and it’s fucken shit.
So very shit. How hard did you go?
No it is fucken not shit at all.
Swell is officially “pumping” according to reports. I’m waiting for low tide to take out a few VALs at Noosa. Good times.
I love your optimism, Nick. That’s why you’re such a fucken legend mate.
Stop it! you’re freaking me out
I am so sorry, Nick. I bet you have people complimenting you all of the time. It must get irritating. All the best.
Pretty hard. I am beyond blue today.
It’s quite strange that it takes five days to recover and forget the pain.
I went down to that dark mofo thing 2 weeks ago and did a fucken number on myself as well. Felt like a different person when I came back. The bikies are doing a shit job with their caps down there. I always swear I’ll never do a cap again cos they are shit but I ended up eating 10 of them. Fuck I miss pingas. Anyway put 10 shit caps on top of handfuls of shrooms, acid and about 50 beers and I was like a fucken corpse on the plane home.
That’s what happens when they get a monopoly on things. Bless those short flights though when you are cooked, did a run of shows with Mustang back in the day that took years off my life.
Mate I feel ya, I spent the day fkn torched from the wknd in a darkened living room draining bamboo schooners and hiding in the kitchen whenever the crows started to swoop.
Could be worse Krill , you could be feeling like Jonah in the belly of a whale ….?
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Cheer up . It was a very hot day in Northern Germany and we went to the beach with 35 Million Germans , the other half are on working holiday visas in Oz . We fought for a paying parking spot in a football field , my anarchist of a wife didn’t want to pay so we ended up getting fined €10 , finally got to the beach where we have pay another 10€ to gain access , the waves a flatter than a witches tit , there are river stones in the non existent shorebreak which have been sharpened by the devil himself , but eventually was enjoying a swim with the kids when we were nearly ran over by a kite boarder with a ………..that’s right a god damn Mother F%ckin FOIL ….. What I wouldn’t do for a Blue Monday in Oz ?
She must be smthn else!
“my anarchist of a wife”
I read this as AntiChrist..
similar feelz though
They’re right. If the shoe was on the other foot the WSL would be screaming like a stuck pig.
Of course they’re right. Viva The People™!
Interesting…
https://www.gq.com/story/th…
I didn’t read it, but I did get a big kick out of the photo. Really paints Wingnut and Patchy O’ in a different light.
Ok, how about these then?
http://www.justjared.com/20…
https://apple.news/AKfTIXap…