"A once in a lifetime opportunity."
Silver linings, poking, peeking, making theirselves visible from around the every darkening Coronavirus Clouds. In the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump just announced that the country would be shuttered for a further 30 days. An absolute blessing as we’ll need each and every one of those to re-imagine professional surfing from the ground up alongside our fearless leader and World Surf League CEO Erik Logan.
And let us first turn to his latest interview in Sports Pro Media for his exact words, his precise frame of mind.
Never in my three decades of being media have I ever had a chance, really, to take a step back. You did at off-sites, you do it at retreats, but then you wake up the next day and go right back to work. This, because of the economic pressure, what’s happening with your employees, what’s happening with global sport, basically the economy in every country is going through its version of a downturn, really puts the big questions on the table.
If you look at that from a point of view, which I do, that this is a massive opportunity to reshape an organisation for the next ten to 15 years, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. It’s painful when you’re in it, but I’m really focusing on what is the organisation going to be like on the other side of this. Because of this, we absolutely know, is temporary, so I look at it as a real gift and an opportunity.
There is much more fruit on the trees, read here, but back to your job… not the one you’re currently not allowed to go to but your new consulting gig. Our new consulting gig. CEO Logan is there in Manhattan Beach unable to surf as empowered lifeguards patrol the beach demanding respect. There both inspired and bored. He takes his surf candy ultra hard, like you, like me, and so now is the time to reshape professional surfing for the next ten to fifteen years.
How does it look, exactly?
Tell him!
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He left her for the brighter decks of the SS WSL.
lets re-imagine pro surfing without erich logan and the wsl.
Day 1: The top 32 go out and surf for four hours. NonJohn will disqualify the 16 worst surfers. The top 16 move on.
Day 2: Same format as Day 1, but now with 16 surfers. NonJohn will pick the top 8 surfers who get to advance to day 3.
Day 3: Is a seeding round with a 3 hour surf session. NonJohn will decide the seeding.
Day 4: Quarter Finals through Finals – WSL will commence normally structured heats with judges, priority etc. NonJohn will be too drunk by then to behave in a fair and non-biased manner.
Day 5: ELO utilizes the remainder of time left in city permits and gets to SUP by himself. The 16 worst surfers from Day 1 are forced to watch and cheer him on.
I got this one Erik. tour is set up over 2 tiers with the top 8 surfers in each tier earning a spot in the next level.
first day of challenge event is 32 surfers (ranks 9-22 from the tour rankings, top 8 from the qs or trials, plus 2 WC) 16 2 man heats (overlapping), day 2, 8 2 man heats, 1/4s, semis, final. you make the quarters and you make the main event, seeded on results from challenge event.
day three (elite throbber devision) is top 8 from rankings take on the 8 from the challenger event, then quarters, semis, final.
top 8 automatically retain seeding into elite throbber round next event, 9-16 are seeded into challenger round next event with 6 highest ranked surfers from the rankings not already seeded.
haven’t worked out the points system yet and won’t bother.
Dammit!
Whatever you like honey.
Anything you want. We’ve got the best doodles.
AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL. The. Doodles.
Wont it just be the WWPT (World Wave Pool Tour) – whatever smoke and mirrors to engage the public it will still go this way – so transparent Elo you muppet!!
They can run crowdless until its “safe” then it will be superstadiums music and the whole works.
Here’s my model – the circular pool, skate, BMX, motocross, even snow plus music in middle stadium for crowds – done.
Sell the rights to all the other sports to use said facilities and control 4-5 tours – print money!!
But it can’t buy love
Or can it?
Top ten men and women get paired up given a budget and ten spots round the world to bank clips on, best clips win.
I’m waiting for the next announcement which will be something along the lines of: “All Trump properties are totally COVID-free. The best freeness. Beautifully Covid-free. You could not stay anywhere safer and more virus free than a Trump property”
Cue thousands of bookings into said properties.
Saying this out loud with an extreme Trump vocal made me LOL.
I’m sold!
Cut the field to 16. Get down to 4 finalists. Circle jerk for the win !! Provide both Rosie AND ‘89 world champ Martin potter for visual inspiration
Rosie, yes. God that would be heavenly.
Sessions. Top 16 dudes and women. Strike mission style, Jan – April months in Australia/NZ/ States/Mex then 3 split in indo, pacific/Europe/Africa (free range) then Hawaii for clear out of day or two days at pipe, two days at sunset and two at maybe A big wave spot? Judged by fans, by us. Weekly wrap ups and or best say 3 waves posted by each surfer each week so it’d be up to them and their sponno’s what to post for judging. Hosted by the wozzz site and of course then they get to “brand” it and have endless hours of footy to market to advertisers. And if they must, commentary by Potz and the boys about spots, surfer profiles and #tourlyfe. It’d be much more interesting than the seedening and horrors of waiting periods, watching the waves get progressively worse at comps when it actually does occasionally pump under the current set up. Maybe keep the old school way of qualifying to keep the comp heads happy and so there is a pathway to the dream tour.
In that photo Elo clearly looks unwell. Viruse candidate for sure.
He will likely die soon.
Last photo of Ziff he looked super sick as well
ELOs face is off center. Looks already punched
Definitely
I reckon Oprah gave him a left hook to the right side of his face and bent his nose.
The question is, why ?
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What do you think of better call Saul?
I miss Tuco…
What a character!
https://youtu.be/FVrKGl3Xli8
Never got into Better Call Saul, downloaded the first series and got through 2 episodes. Does it get good?
Tuco! I kept hoping he would die violently. But yes excellent character.
I watch it but I’d only give it 6 outta 10
It lacks oomph
Bring back drugs. I’m sick of these so called ‘super athletes’ to that do ‘yoga’ and ‘train’. I’d think there could be a system where you have to indulge in whatever local drug is the drug of choice.
Yes they’re all too happy and healthy for my liking. I blame Derek Hynd.
Absolutely. Drugs are hopefully legalized after this in an attempt to boost the economy. Let em all get on the juice, hgh whatever. Up the performance levels to never imaged heights!
So you take the 16 best looking, most fit bros and 16 best looking most fit surfer babes and you sequester them at Tavarua for the next 6 months. Then by either natural old fashioned rooting or modern science, you get them pregnant. This will breed a super race of super surfers that will be raised not by parents (an absurd, old fashioned concept), but by the finest handlers available- trainers, coaches, spiritual advisers, SJW gurus all working together to create a product unlike the world has ever seen!
Straight outta the Soviet playbook. Excellent. Imagine a WSL babies though, they’d be very woke shredders.
Totally! Save the planet while making Ziff the first trillionaire. A future where every high school football field is replaced with wavepools. Unselfish surfers working as a team while also locking down valedictorian titles.
true, but just like Zoolander, they won’t be able to go right.
your daughter, sharks and erik logan….your wheelhouse. such a boring wheelhouse.
…and yet you are here, unintentionally streaming those paid ads for Coors light, Nissan and Lending Tree (fill in your own streaming brands here).
ad block, bruh.
Good call….
The city streets are empty now
(The lights don’t shine no more)
And so the songs are way down low
(Turning turning)
A sound that flows into my mind
(The echoes of the daylight)
Of everything that is alive
(In my blue world)
I turn to stone when you are gone
I turn to stone
I turn to stone, when you comin home
I can’t go on
ELO meets ELo. I get it and I like it!
Good as gold, ‘Out Of The Blue’ is a classic work and Jeff Lynne a true master at his craft.
Hey Matt speaking of which, an old mate of mine features in your EOS but hasn’t paid a membership. Can you let us have the info incase it needs accurate updating ?
Cheers
Sure. What info does he need? Email me at [email protected] we’ll get it sorted. I’ll work some Strange Magic 😎
Just the information that the punters get to see on your site really.
(or is there other undisclosed stuff as well ?)
Anyway would be great to get accurate clarification.
Will contact you soon.
Cheers
Doesnt he read the forums online? Start there numbnuts.
He’d like you to research and compile them into a one pager for him to digest/ignore at his own leisure.
Sounds familiar.
‘Cept maybe no more than a very short paragraph and lots of funny pictures and doodles. (not for E-lo)
Erik, you’re playing with yourself again.
It’s much too soon to begin fantasising.
The countries of this world will have many different reactions to this.
The end of mass tourism is just one of the likely outcomes.
However I appreciate the willingness to try and be a cunt.
“Terrible situation this. Hmmm, now how can I take advantage of it.”