Exciting times in Lemoore!
Teahupo’o is the next contest on the calendar, beginning in just days, and that is exciting. It feels like very exciting especially with the cancelled trails yesterday putting on such a show. Oh did your heart launch straight into your throat? Mine did. Mine launched into my throat, out of my mouth and slammed the reef.
I cannot wait these remaining days until the contest actually begins, likely in waist to shoulder high waves.
Waves that look like Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.
And I’m glad that Surf Ranch just came up in this conversation because our World Surf League is offering an exciting new VIP Freshwater Pro package deal this September 21.
-Admission valid Saturday 9/21
-High five your favorite surfers as they enter the pool and watch the contest from the comfort of our shaded VIP area.
-Experience all the exclusive perks and unlimited access to the competition and The Raconteurs concert.
High five your favorite surfers as they enter the pool is certainly an upgrade from last year’s $299 single day VIP ticket perks and I’m glad there is no asterisk or qualification. Like *if your favorite surfer would like a high five. Or *choice of 5 favorite surfers. Or *excluding Gabriel Medina.
No, it is wide open and if I was spending $299 for the day, I would sit right where they run into the water and high five each and every surfer because, in truth, they are all my favorite. Not to be rude here, but if one of them refused my high five I would be compelled to tattle to the World Surf League brass so they could usher that particular favorite surfer back to me to receive my high five. And not to be ruder, but if that was not allowed I would demand a full refund plus gas and lodging.
My only question, is do the surfers being high five’d get a cut of the $299? Is a portion of the $299 put into a pot and split equally among the surfers or do surfers get a percentage based on how many high fives they receive for the day?
I suppose those are two questions but don’t worry. I am a surf journalist and will get to the bottom of them.
In the meantime, does this new high five perk compel you to head to Lemoore at the end of September?
Who would you most like to high five?
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Or even just put it out there and pull it away last second and say “psyche” Totally mind fuck them. How does the betting work with the Pool? surely you could use this technique to influence some of the results and make back that $299.
WSL couldn’t get any lamer…at least the Raconteurs are playing ….I think they had blink 187 or something last year…..
Jordy would be slightly irked… then lose his heat
fucking clowns… hope the WSL dies a quicker death
Chas, pay the money and high 5 all the fuckers. We can all rank and rate your 5’s on the live comments. Speed, power and awkwardness of each professional should be the criteria for scoring. Imaging the character revelations already has me a little excited. So much BG winning in one day, so meta.
Agreed, pay the money and live stream the fives!
I’m concerned about basic hand hygiene
My Grandfather ran away to join a 3 ring circus when he was a kid ….. him and two other arseholes .
Hey Chas, didn’t last years amazing offer include Miller Organic Hops Lite? Something like that? Non specific exclusive perks and access to what?
At least I think the price dropped…. one possible lesson learned?
What about ass pats? You see the top athletes doing it when they do something great, how much for an ass pat package? My preference would be ummmm Malia, Steph, Sage, Tati & maybe Sally but definitely not Kelly or Gabby
You pays yer money and takes yer choice.
Hahaahha yes. Great band.
Can you pay $399 and not high five them?
Again, you pays yer money and takes yer choice.
would pay 499 to bitch slap E LO
I’d high five and hang out with Bajie https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I’d foot the bill just to high five Kolohe and exclaim “Fuck Trump!”
Is he MAGA?
That’s the word on the street! Reach him for comment!
Majority of Orange County where he’s from is.
It’s offical as of a couple of weeks back, more registered Dems then Repubs in the OC. Flying pigs next. Oh yeah, and fuck that orange pile of steaming shit.
I’d pay the $299 to say that to his face and then “high five” hid bloted mug.
If it’s $299 for the high fives
How much is it to give your chosen pros a “bunch of fives” ?…
I want to mock the WSL Ivy league, Silicon Valley non-surfers who are coming up with these schemes but then I have to give them a high five. Who is this deep pool of high spending pro surfer worshipers and where are they coming from?
Seems quite reasonable for a VIP package. Consider the equivalent at Wimbledon or the super bowl or the Champions league final.
If I don’t partake in the high fiving, can I have a 50 dollar discount?
Also, great choice of picture you little scamp.
who here thinks that Kelly did that on purpose to fuck his buddy bad and get priority?
No doubt. That photo is of a world title being lost.
There is a good podcast where Rob covers this. He basically said that he felt like he had already won….he had never done any good at Pipe before and had hardly ever even made a wave out there prior to that comp. Have a listen from the 20 minute mark.
“At that point in the heat he had already won…..it was a non issue”
https://soundcloud.com/wear…
Sounds a little too fact based for me, John
I apologise. The truth should never get in the way of a good story.
Kelly talks about it also on his Ain’t that Swell appearance.
That was a funny episode that one. Had me in stitches.
Kelly kept the Title while Goldilocks kept the Hair .
Awesome! Can’t wait for my moment to high five with Sl8r!… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
From Pop Art to Pop Up .
JFC
I’d like to high five Gabs Medina. Only cause he’d claim it was a high ten.
It’s turning into even more of a Circus…..teenie bopper surf star groupies might like the high five though…….