The Thrilla in Vanilla.
There is progressive and then there is our World Surf League. Wave forecasting website Surfline has reported, in the early hours of the morning, that Santa Monica is considering sandwiching a fourth Championship Tour event in the upcoming Australian leg of an already-truncated 2020/21 season.
Australian quarantine laws are extremely strict, for those entering the country from abroad, and not bent even for tennis stars who were forced to stay in hotel rooms for a full two weeks ahead of being able to ply their craft.
Polite, mild-mannered, well-behaved, wealthy tennis stars.
Professional surfers are set to get back in the water April 1st, or thereabouts, for the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach followed by Margaret River (April 16 – 26) and Snapper (May 3 – 13).
Surfline is suggesting the fourth event will likely be in Sydney and a “double-header.”
The idea of a “bubble” is not new as it relates to the current pandemic.
The NBA restarted its season in an Orlando bubble in July and successfully crowned a champion in October.
The NBA plays its game indoors where men breathe in each other’s faces whilst sweating profusely.
The World Surf League plays its outdoors in the ocean where two women, or men, sit very far apart from each other unless one of them is named Gabriel Medina.
The rumored Sydney event will likely favor Pip Toledo.
Exciting days ahead.
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A touch tank at the event site where mere mortals could pet their favorite surfers as they paddled around the tank could be a possible revenue stream for the wsl.
Stay very afraid sheeps. South African strain,Icelandic strain,LGBTQI strain,never going to end
Koa taking this unboxing thing to new levels
Philip Toledo?
Is the contest site close to
Johnny Bigg Blacktown*
* I don’t usually fat shame, but he’s Brazilian… which must make me racist too. Fuck it’s getting hard to make shit jokes at someone’s expense these days…
2021 World Champ!
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Bah…old news:
“CT surfers will be in Australia up to mid-May for the rejigged Snapper event, and organisers are quietly putting things in place for two more possible CTs here in Australia should they need them. One is at a freshly minted venue, the other is a city beach that hasn’t seen CT action in decades.”
Swellnet, 4th December, 2020
Old cryptic news…freshly minted? Manly?
Straddie and N Narra.
Redundant old cryptic news it turns out
“I don’t slum it here very often, but when I do I make sure I use the Hurlurley range of products to get rid of the smell”
Great pic of Yago
#yagobox
Of all the potential locations in Australian… Sydney.
At least Elo’s shiny teeth will fit in.
Yeah but it’ll be somewhere else. They just call it Sydney because no one outside Australia knows any other city.
It’ll be two hours drive north in Newy but that’s still ‘Sydney’.
Edit: please oh Jebus, may it NOT be Newy.
Perth, Sydney and Newcastle that’s it. What amazes me is the entire middle is empty.
Perfect for a few wave pools.
Maybe one that can rival Peahi.
perhaps he will get a set of bolt ons to go with the botox.
Cape Solander? Get it Pip!
And Deadman’s – he will love both those spots
I guess every surf zone has a deadmans. Got one up here in Nor Cal too.
Are they all massively overrated like the one in NorCal?
Great stay away.
Just trying to help c4
The first comment you wrote was better. Before you edited it.
Or Boneyard!
Chris Lougher – 2021 World Champ!
So F1 is probably delaying the Melbourne GP (from mid March to later in the year) and the WSL are probably starting their tour on April Fools Day?
They never should have changed the end of the tour from pipe, big mistake. Snapper to start makes sense. Just money gobbling bullshit by non surfers.
I’d say trying to break even bullshit by non surfers.
I’m betting on Matt Banting as a wildcard doing air reverses in six inch waves
If it’s at Lennox there’s no way they could not give it to Stu Kennedy. Poor bastard missed the cut by one spot, and would’ve been in prime position for any replacement spots if it weren’t for the whole Mikey/Leo situation. Failure to deliver that spot to Stu would probably result in a riot.
Still remember how good he surfed at snapper on the tomo. Can’t remember who he beat though.
are those things on the side of the box so the public can touch their favourite surfer with risking infection? or is it so the surfer can carry their quiver?
Theyre so you can paddle.
the WSL’s new vip pass gives you the chance to “tickle Toledo” “caress Kanoa”, “jab John” “stroke smith” or “grope gabby” in purely infection free environment.
Tell him he’s dreeamin’…
Eric Logan must be the most flat-footed ceo of any sporting code.
the turning circle of an oil tanker
Valdez 2.0
Erik was a radio industry man before Oprah. He arrived at SiriusXM with 19 years in radio. RADIO!!! I swear sometimes I think Ziff owed Oprah a favor. Called her fat or something one time, one goddamn time, and now we got Erik.
Check this shit out that SiriusXM put together for investors to prop up Erik:
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I feel like i’m serving jury duty when I read your comments
Then stop showing up for jury duty everyday.
It’s beach Grit not court,
Dude, I was trying to provide an explanation why ELo is flat footed. His whole career was in radio. At least Sophie came from a sport.
And it did fuck all
For the Wozzle as she was
Almost as clueless
got his start in country music radio, then switched to the massively popular and totally not obsolete satellite radio and totally didn’t drive that into the ground … I think he’s a total lemon . Oprah’s success floats all boats, including boat-like SUPs it would seem.
Just sing along… https://youtu.be/PLFmbE6Maa8
The memories. Saw Free Ride at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in the late seventies, and The Harder They Come in a theater as well, Probably the same year. Also got some legit Thai sticks, Changed my life