Local surfers refuse to rule out "weaponised ass-play"…
As reported earlier today, the three-event Australian leg of the World Championship Tour will, likely, be extended to include a fourth contest.
Surfline suggested a double-header in Sydney but our sources have revealed the contest will actually take place at Lennox Head, eight hundred kilometres north, and home to BeachGrit’s Steve “Longtom” Shearer as well as shaper Dan Thomson and his father, the builder of “the world’s most advanced surf mat” Mark Thomson.
You’ll also recall Lennox as being the home of “weaponised ass-play”.
Lennox is also popular with Great White sharks.
Read, BeachGrit writer eyeballed by White at Lennox: “I can feel the pressure wave on my legs; the big pectoral fins look like a plane!”and “Healthy: 333 Great Whites caught on ten-mile stretch between Ballina, Lennox and Evans Head!”
Whales, too, enjoy the area’s warm green water.
And Sharpes Beach made headlines last October when the one-time world title contender Matt Wilkinson was stalked by an eight-foot bull shark while having a solo sesh.
I got to feel that weird, heart-sinking but lucky feeling when I saw that footage,” Wilko said.
We’re told that the WSL’s “Competition Director at selected events”, Kieren Perrow, and Andrew Stark, the WSL’s general manager, have met with the local board riders club, Le-Ba (Lennox-Ballina), as well as stakeholders who hold the keys to unlocking a national surfing reserve to a corporate surfing event.
The back-up site will be Sharpes Beach, a pretty average sorta wave just south of Lennox, but suddenly popular due to a surge in housing developments, including the master-planned “neighbourhood” Aureus.
More as it comes.
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Like it or love it, it’s the way it is.
And if you don’t like it …
Ummm, that’s sort of my job here Scott.
Turn it up I love to scroll the comments and was getting sick of seeing that cunts shit.
What’s good about this circus staking out Lennox point . Media / jet skis / helicopters / drones / merchandise / food / for how many weeks ? You have to bee kidding parking is limited already wishing this contest in is a curse upon the existing surfing community
Linking the latest farm land subdivision that has been very very expensive to ratepayers ( million plus )in legal fees against the company Intrapac is laughable
Beware beware beware
Solidarity with the surfers of Lennox Head. The World Surf League must immediately cease and desist its craven exploitation of the valuable natural resources owned by the native inhabitants of the global south.
Everyone knows it’s him, thats not true and no.
It’s just the shear volume of comments that’s the issue. Quality over quantity…
You’ve got the wrong impression of Beachgrit then. It’s got nothing to do with not agreeing with him, he’s mostly trolling for bites and smothering the threads, it puts off others from commenting.
True, but they’re not posting 50 comments a day.
They have to do it, the world aussie right point title is at stake, its heavy
Luckily my county had a few caring people that saved the west part of it from being developed. Otherwise it would have become another Daly City. They wanted to build a freeway out to Pt Reyes and build tract houses.
Well done WSL for putting a 4 th event on, assuming the vaccine will allow the world to return to normality next year it’s unlikely the event will be repeated, the Lenox locals will go back to indo and the Australian VALs will continue to be the main offender in overrunning traditional well know surf spots like Lennox,
Ballina mayor just spoke on ABC radio. Sounds like it is 80% done. All local stakeholders including Le-ba Boardriders in full support.
I wouldn’t take his word as Gospel.
there’s s a war brewing.
I wonder if those so against it will boycott it?
Not on your life!
They will milk if for ever buck they can, gold standard hypocrites
Is the wsl still claiming to be carbon neutral or have they just stop talking that up?
‘You’ are the ‘guys’ that are into pro surfing, and want to watch it, what do you expect? That the Wsl would not exploit surf spots?
You have to take the bad with the good.
Can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Do you really think Dirk or Elo give a squat about you, yet ‘everytime’ you ‘tune’ into a Wsl event, it’s like a ‘vote’ or a “pat on the back” for them.
Maybe better to just boycott pro surfing completely.
What happened to anybody speaking honestly about anything nowadays, Greenough, legend.
What some super rich seppo draft dodger that could not even stand up and almost single handed blew the whole north coast wide open because he could hire planes and film the shit out of everything is now a ledgend yep a fucken seppo wanker ledgend.
She’d get a restraining order.
You do it your way, bexy.
You champ.
If you came here and expect to be able to disrespect around 50 years of work by locals who feel responsible for an area. Well, fuck you mate. I’ll be the first to give you a clip.
Sic the goats on ’em Steve.
They don’t have the balls for it
Why are they adding yet another state into the mix? Do they have any idea how Australia is managing covid? Bunch of turkeys.
Maybe because NSW is the only state where they could have full confidence that the event might actually go ahead.