Dreams come true!
I’m on a big story right now, a serious one. A story that will forever change the way you think about surf history so don’t have time to really get in the weeds on the just announced World Surf League network program Ultimate Surfer.
Didn’t Kelly Slater have a video game named Ultimate Surfer?
Where you could surf in space?
Here’s the press release:
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has greenlighted surfing competition reality series Ultimate Surfer, headlined by 11-time World Surf League champion Kelly Slater. The eight-episode series, from prolific unscripted producer Craig Piligian’s Lionsgate-owned Pilgrim Media Group and WSL Studios, will feature top up-and-coming surfers. They will train and live together as they battle it out at WSL’s state-of-the-art Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California, which employs by Kelly Slater’s man-made wave technology. (You can watch a video about the facility below)
Slater will serve as on-air talent and special correspondent for the show, executive produced by Pilgrim CEO and President Piligian, WSL Studios President of Content and Media Erik Logan, and UFC President Dana White. It is slated to begin production in 2020.
In Ultimate Surfer, men and women will compete in individual and team challenges focused on specific surfing disciplines. Weekly eliminations will leave two men and two women as finalists who will vie for the male and female titles of the Ultimate Surfer and the opportunity to compete on the WSL World Tour.
And are you excited?
You can be in the show. Sign up here!
And as always, more as the story develops.
Come on Pilgrim! You know they love you!
We could definitely script this. Only way they can salvage the investment!
I’ll watch 5 minutes but I’m not holding my breath. Hopefully it will be so bad that it will also be funny. Naaah!
Upvote for the pixies reference!
Thanks mate. Over everyone else’s head!
hey beach grit: your headline font is annoying and hard to read, and the ads on the site are overwhelming.
I’m just wondering if the surfers have to pay for their place on the “CT here I come show“ ? Or will It be Instagram numbers or Ben Gravy taking his YouTube Vlog on tour ?
Chas can I be on your team. Can we bring Slash
Definitely a side hustle to keep Outerknown afloat… tonto must be bleeding money real bad
How can Kelly live with himself?
I really hope they bring in Rick Kane for a cameo. They need to recognize the history of the sport and show some respect to the most iconic wave pool surfer of all time. Needless to say, he was the first ever to take it from the Pool to Pipemasters.
Slats book-ending his career with Baywatch and Ultimate Surfer.
Dana helped to build the UFC into a worldwide money machine . . . it ain’t gonna happen with the WSL. No one gonna pay to watch a surf competition and unless there’s some incredible personality on this new show, ain’t nobody gonna give a shit.
Is open to seppos only apparently…
Might have to wait for Surf Lakes upcoming “Plunge Downunder” for our chance.
Dana’s buddy in the big chair won’t let us unccoth cunts stay long enough to become .. the ultimate surfer.. Maybe some aussie up and comers can appeal for assylm to be… the ultimate surfer… We need some comp help atm.
The doughnut plunger sure ain’t gonna keep anyone in sugar
Looks like Tuggermarine is the sweetest spot
You must not be a candidate for public office and must agree not to become one from the date of your application until one (1) year after the initial broadcast of the final episode of the Program in which you appear.
You may not ever have been convicted of a felony.
You can’t be a politician or a felon ……. should bring these rules into politics ? Not just regulations to become the Ultimate pool punisher ?
They are doing it all wrong. It should be like Big Brother, lock Kelly in there with some bimbos, and then do a huge reveal with Pam and Tommy Lee parachuted in as surprise housemates. Hell, you could even moor a little speedboat in the lineup for them. Oh and also invite Maurice / Greg Webber for the ultimate shape-off.
i think brutus and webber would rather shape up.
this is already so many layers of painful cringe-worthy material. that being said, I’m ecstatic for the outcome
brah
I liked your unedited post way better. Go geev`um brah, no scared, cut it loose…
They should put a shark in the pool for realism, maybe then Chas would even write about it.
Shark tank!
It should be good for a few laughs. “This once noble sport is becoming a big soggy cartoon”. MDS
Could be a few if Charlie Goldsmith gets a gig.
I pitched this idea a few weeks ago, but with 20 VALs instead of actual surfers. I think someone from the WSL is poaching the comment section….
I recall yours from a few weeks ago, but I had actually pitched a similar thing (though perhaps more core) a couple of months ago during the (boy)George Bros debacle.
My suggestion was more along the lines of Survivor but instead of someone being kicked out every week they get sent to a Lord of the Flies kind of scenario where they battle to the death (or at least till someone relinquishes power) etc etc and then one comes back to try and slay a Komodo dragon in hand to claw combat
Cotê needs to earn his keep somehow.
Hey ABC, Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself.
“Hearsay is often better than direct evidence”
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That’s classic!
Clearly a rip-off of ‘The Ultimate Wildcard’
Where’s my fucking lawyers?
.. oh yeah.
They’re fucking.
This is all about publicity of K$ Wave Co to non-WSL viewers and nonsurfers. Kelly will make money off the show, and the show will help sell corporate retreats etc. at Lemoore for the rich beginner/intermediate crowd. Has nothing to do with surfing and everything to do with a pile of cow stank money
Could be……more publicity for sure….
Let me guess- they work hard, and play HARDER