Devastating.
Surfrider Europe delivered a massive blow to student of Chinese culture and 11x World Champion Kelly Slater by releasing its official position on wave pools and there is little to nothing about it which the part-owner and spokesman for KSWaveCo. can find reassuring.
The world’s largest surf-specific environmental organization pulled no punches in its recent missive titled Wave Pools: Concerns Outweigh their Value moving point by point through how projects like Slater’s Surf Ranch and proposed Surf Ranch Australia “artificialize” the land, destroy habitats, add to the decline of biodiversity, suck enormous amounts of water and power, weaken ecosystems and promises to fight any such project along the European coastline.
Devastating.
As you well know, Kelly Slater is also an environmentalist, and has a deep love of the ocean, having first become aware of how important it is to protect them whilst, maybe coincidentally, surfing in France.
“There were so many plastic bags in the water that I remember at one point thinking that if I fall and get a mouthful of water, I might choke on a plastic bag.” he told noted marine conservationist Dr. Stone in a wide ranging interview. “Once you have an awareness around something, (you) change immediately.”
Here, you can see the great passion he feels for our saline playground.
Aside from his artificial wave pools potentially solving the great “surfers-choking-on-plastic-bags-after-falling scenario (controlled environment, pool cleaners with long poles to gather bags from the water etc., it is difficult to argue with Surfrider Europe’s position vis-á-vis the environmental impact. Many, many buckets of greenwash would be necessary but what then will professional surfing’s greatest of all time do?
It is uncertain how, or if, Slater will respond to Surfrider Europe as they are now likely blocked across his social media channels.
More as the story develops.
Haaa yeah, would like to see him lounging around at Lenmore all fat and wired complaining about being cancelled.
How quickly people can turn.
For the last twenty years he was the greatest ever.
Now his just another old, old pro surfer trying to make a few more dollars out his career before his nothing but dirt in the wax of the next kid corporate companies can shape into a money maker
99 problems in Aus and a wave pool ain’t 1..
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hahaha,
it’z gotta just peeve thee sheee~it outta Charles ‘Chas’ Smith that Robert ‘Ke11y’ Slater still blockz him on what~eves webbie site it is that get’s his chonies alllll bunched up enough to make mention of it everytime!
hehehe…
Higher ups said we had to let him go.
What is worse: plastic bag infested water or Raimana’s jet ski gasoline water 🤔 https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Oh your comment hands down.
That was not one of the two options. Try again!
Sounds like Surfrider Europe didn’t receive their cut of the revenue.
Ohh finnaly the ” surfrider foundation ” has dragged its green credentials out of the gutter and not before time , i choke on my fruitloops every time i read or hear how the ” surfrider foundation ” represents the majority of environmentally aware surfers and the organisations that align themselves with the ” surfrider foundation ” for greening credentials ( re credits).
Yet until now i have not seen them raise a single hand in protest to blindly obvious non greening non environmentally sensative nor sustainable development of the wave pool movement.
I have also as yet not read nor heard anyother so called environmentally aware surfing celebrity or green credential surf product company ( for example only ” Patagonia ” ) or any shaper with a eco balanced label speak out in the negative on the ” wave pool big buisness ” .
Why is this ? .
Ta for dropping by.
1. Will Surfrider Australia and US join in this condemnation of Kelly Slater?
2. Does Kelly actually know and is Kelly able to understand that his behavior is very, very bad for planet earth?
3. Does Kelly love Kelly?
Maybe Kelly will get depressed and fat…and while he’s at it get an obese, bogan Aussie girlfriend from Western Sydney named Tania.
Spelt, Tannyeea.
Way too hard to type, try Tanyah..
Whats the impact of a ski resort for fucks sake.. Do the guys at Surfrider take advantage of a ski lift or gondola to get top of a mountain. Doubt I will ever clear the chlorine from my eyes after an air revers attempt or a failed head dip. So why should I care?
beautiful work, Karl, very El Greco-esque in both form & content
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The lovely elongated neck reminiscent of Botticelli’s surfer girl in “ Birth of Venus “
Repeat after me Bobby: I am good enough. I am an environmentalist. I have eleven world titles. I can win another. I built the pool. I love the Chinese. Oooohhhhmmmmmm.
….Bobby?! Bobby?!! Wake up Bobby!!!!
https://youtu.be/xtaNJwrVNVY
I should never have left him alone with her.
Don’t be too hard on yourself. That said, you might think about investing in a leash. https://images.app.goo.gl/X…
Can’t believe she thought Kelly was ready for that yoga pose. I believe it’s called “Chin knees”. Pretty advanced stuff from what I’ve heard.
I like Chinese!
They only come up to your kneeees.
They’re cute and they’re cuddly and they’re ready to please!
~ Monty Python
Eric’s vocal masterpiece, don’t you think?
Hardly used. But the blades are worn down to stubs by the sand.
Fight For The Bight, now Rumble At The Ranch?
Watch out for the ‘Hurley at Burleigh’.
Gripe at the Pipe…
Inshallah ….. I hope it is not a pyramid scheme … giggles
Piss off back to Florida in your signature shin length board shorts and brown sandals you bald bastard!
Just build it next to one of Frances gorgeous Nuke facilities.
Seriously, fuk off EuroSurfrider, go choke on a used French letter.
Those Nuclear Power Stations are so big , they are so white , they are so powerful , with huge white phallic symbols pointing skyward …. So Bex , So Manly ….. Bex you’d love em ….. Now if only I could get my hands on a fist full of CHERNO BILLS we’d be choking on fantastic spermed filled plastic in no time .
On the subject , while working as a barman , I always asked my intimate French female clients why sperm tasted like sugar . They always replied “ James you idiot it tastes like salt “ ….. and that’s a true swallow tale .
Tastes more like a moan ia
Ever been snowballed!?
As Splitz Enz once sang …That is a “ Hard Act to Swallow …..oops Follow “
Possibly the sound track to McCabe and Lopez at Padang Padang in Tubular Swells ?
Wavepools have fuck all to do with the ocean. Shouldn’t surfrider leave the fight against wavepools to their inland counterparts?
Draining a coastal wetland will have an adverse effect on the ocean, as will diverting Sierra snowmelt to fill a tub in the desert.
Ja I get that, but so will a whole lot of other inland developments they’re not going to get involved in opposing.
I worked in the nonprofit sector for over a decade, mostly spent mopping up after well-meaning twits who kept diverting resources outside of the core mission. Once organisations get into mission creep they usually start a long and painful death.
isn’t this about the coast of Europe though?