Famous wave to be fenced off; "virtually no mingling between WSL pro's, staff and the general public."
Much movement surrounding the WCT event at Lennox Head, a once sleepy town of seven thousand souls between Byron Bay and Ballina, and famous for its “weaponised ass-play” and as the home of the builder of “the world’s most advanced surf mat” Mark Thomson.
According to BeachGrit sources,
There will be three thousand spectators allowed to watch the contest, with a local bias. Show a driver’s license?
The famous Point will be fenced off although The Coast Road will remain open.
Dates are still contested though it seems 1-11 April, a straight bait-and-switch for Bells. No confirmation that Bells is cancelled.
Rumour from a source in close contact to the WSL that this is it for the year.
Pipe and the Aussie leg crowns a World Champ.
More as the story develops.
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certainly not a fuckwit like you Nik…..as your idea’s are so fucken twisted , where’s ya mate Bexy….and what would you have us locked up for genius?
Put it in the South Australian desert. It’ll be fine.
Finish the tour in North Korea. Point breaks everywhere and no locals.
Don’t be surprised, in the very beginning, ‘year one’, the Wsl ‘stated’ that they were here to make a ‘profit’, to benefit just a few pros and themselves, it was like their ‘mission statement’.
If Elo and Dirk have to walk over a few bodies and collateral damage to get what they want, it might be smart to stay out of their way.
If Aus can say, “ No” to a giant Norwegian Offshore Oil company LeBa locals can say Fuck Off to WSL. It’s all politics and cuntard back room deals.
In breaking news you could pay $2,500 to get a surf lesson with Tony A. Would love to see him scramble over the rocks at Lennox.
A surf lesson and breakfast with the former PM and the Liberals’ last Warringah MP gets top billing with an estimated value of $2500. Just how great do they think the guy is?
He’ll only be able to teach people how to go right.
ha ha ha fuck I’m not very funny am I
I thought it was !
Pretty conservative joke there.
That was actually quite good and I,m generally not a fan of your writing .
Ahhhh road graffiti, my fav of all graffitis.
dude must have been a house painter, and just took a roller out of the back of his truck and bam! inspired
I really like the shade of white he/she/they chose. Coastal chic. Speaks volumes.
Will need more beige if he wants to keep business going around those parts.
also has that see through distressed look
Errrrrrr whitewashed?
https://www.change.org/p/co…
All it takes is one COVID case. Just look at Perth and Brisbane. Even with hotel quarantine. Suddenly all beaches are shut and our kids can’t play sport or go to school anymore. Never mind the exposure, that ship has sailed. Super selfish!
ATP matches being played with public will most likely result in some covid cases and fuck WSL’s life.
https://youtu.be/BjqADWvuQPQ
umm isn’t Lennox about to be deluged with tourists through the Easter break?
That’s WA and QLD though. The states with Premiers who think they’re PM’s. The ones who made such lovely statements as “Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders” While a young mother lost her baby waiting 8 hours for an evac flight from Ballina to Sydney rather than ducking 45 mins over the border, or “We don’t want our lifestyle compromised” while they sent all their returning visitors to NSW to deal with.
NSW does things differently, and my guess is the WSL want at least one sure-thing event in Aus and NSW is the only place they can get that.
Erik Logan, just step down as CEO of WSL. If Jeff Bezos can step down as CEO of Amazon, then you most certainly can too.
Boycotting
Lennox
Matters…
slight rumour at least one pro might boycott.
Squeeze the short sell.
GameStop Lennox Pro
Game On!
Gotta have an Elite Air Show Comp too. Yep, you Reddit right! Find the elitist of the elite.
Owen or?
Please not Yago, Please not Yago, Please not Yago 🤞🤞🤞
Goofy footer originally from the Nulla now living in your neck of the woods?
Bicko?
have you been told the dates for Lennox?
or are we all waiting for tomorrow?
will find out at council meeting this arvo.
29Mar-11Apr is what I’ve been told, which means Bells is cancelled.
or will they try to push it back….or has the Vic govt knocked back the WSL’s request for a comp if so on what grounds , and why does NSW accept??
Or is it a ploy by Starky to put pressure on the Vic Govt to hold Bells ….or they lose their Easter Dates…..bit like the Aust open of tennis….hold it, or next year the dates will go to China?
not sure , been trying to call Vic Ministers to find out.
Torquay councillors know nothing.
call Adam Robbo at surfing Vic?
and yes Torquay Councilors don’t know much at all , but SCS has to sign the permit….if your council is meeting today well the dates have to get locked in…the big question is will the Easter Pro now become a permanent Lennox event?
Its nothing like that place and you should probably edit that out of your comment as its totally unnecessary.
agreed.
“Virtually no mingling between WSL pro’s […] and the general public.” Wasn’t that the secret ingredient to the winning of most world titles?
How good are localised point breaks, so pleasantly inviting to the eye of the visiting VAL who catch nothing but the frustration of fools gold fever. And you can spray bucketloads of water in their collective dumb cunt faces each with more precision than the last.
Not here at Bells…so many beginners , no idea, just get into the way , makes surfing near impossible , boards been thrown every where , no etiquette…….they have no fucken idea..
Has the Rip Curl Pro
Put extra pressure on Bells?
Or other factors?
the RC Pro , has a 44+ day permit…..12 days of Comp, 3 weeks to set up infrastructure and about 10 days to pull it all down…….it’s pretty well controlled except for set up and pull down times….it used to be 54 days , but we have knocked that down , even though it’s still too long……also locals now get in free so we can surf Winkipop when the comps on…as before we had to pay to get in , to surf Winki….
there has been discussion on trying to push Bell’s dates into May/June…..this is our prime time surf …..and till now there is no way of holding it then….we are a crusty bunch down here, and any attempt to change the dates will be met with severe consequences….WSL /Starky know this , so lets see what happens tomorrow!
Why cancel Bells when
Vic is alleged “Covid Safe”?
I smell a fat rat
Yep,I’m with ya Ed.
They’re not adding an event – they’re replacing Bells.
Some hi lvl cuntardery in play here.
New Rip Curl owners
Probably not very keen
To cough up the cash
Be interested
In who is putting up cash
For Lennox event
It sure as hell won’t
Be from the surf industry
Tourism body?
yep. Destination NSW is up it’s nuts in dishing up taxpayers money.
I know this seems unbelievable, but right now, Rip Curl doesn’t know ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS
Oh hello there Nick!
How about your ten cents worth?
Give us all you’ve got!
No! You can read it elsewhere. I am still trying to absorb the fact that nobody involved in the planning of Bells – including the naming rights sponsor, who is in for a minimum of US$1.25 million — knows anything about the supposed dates for Lennox Head.
Must be a mis-communication. Surely. Surely nobody could be this chaotic.
If you really think
This is new behaviour
You are blindfolded xo
They lied to you.
because we don’t trust the WSL , and Vic is very hard on lockdowns etc……..we have closed our borders to Western Australia , because there is one new case there of the UK mutant Covid….so the whole of Perth/SW ( Margies are in Lockdown)…..till this Friday….read what I wrote to Longtom about dates etc…
Margarets the same, 6 weeks of scaffold and fences , closure of most of the main carpark, massive spot lights , security , elaborate VIP functions at nights for those who have a hand in the whole shebang , managed by Perth cunts from surfing wa (not even filtering back to local pockets)all for 2 weeks waiting period where they may or may not run but you still can’t enter your local and they spread their footprint every year, north point , the box , attempted seizure of the boat ramp (shot down luckily after a hard local fight), and to add insult to injury nothing but bitching from pro darlings about what a shit wave margs is , they don’t want it, locals don’t want it but still it goes ahead, sharks and viruses are the saving graces of late. Get fucked and fuck the wsl and fuck surfing wa and Timmy Thrisk especially, all cunts
Fuck you ya goon. Stay away from the north west if you feel so strongly about local ownership..
Ha ha , I stopped surfing in the north west years ago and most likely before you blew in there and claimed local status yourself jungleboy
Well said dude
Not to mention that fat fuckup that runs his moms surf shop and that bonga clift wanka that blows in every year from indo like he owns the fucken joint fuck the fucken margz and gracetown boardriders as well .
I guess if you own property more exposure is good. Can’t think of anything else. Takes me a half hour to drive across town nowadays. I do all my errands at seven am.
Look at California to see your future. We’ve run out of space for Russian and Chinese oligarchs. Australia is prime land.
So Brutus for the record are you for or against the Bells Comp?
I am for the Comp at Easter as it’s part of my surfing DNA…..started as a catch up of like minded surfers and became more than a contest as there were exchanges of surfboard design , friends were made….then it became international with Americans Hawaiians……I think Bells created the great Global Family of surfing , then came the brands/commercialization……..but there is still a genuine feeling of the surfand surfers always rule….till the WSL came along , and now , it looks like the end of Bells at Easter…a lot of chit chat going on here at the moment…….locals will not entertain another later date…this is our prime time May /June…..not very amusing that the Vic politicians will just change the date to suit WSL…Easter or goodbye…
Dress it up anyway you want its still a comp head fest and your a thru and thru comp head , dont know why you and Nick just dont grow up and admit you are driven by the commercial side of surfing , as you say its your DNA.
Yeah, waves like Bells are a bit out to sea though.
The jump off the rocks tends to sort the chaff from the wheat though. And the paddle from the beach is no fun, so Lennox at least has a bit of a VAL filter.
Jet ski assist for the wsl no doubt, can’t have the poor little pro darlings leaping off dangerous rocks
Probably not – it’s a marine reserve. No ski’s allowed.
I look forward to seeing them do the high-tide rock hop (even more so paddling back in).
Elo is providing the ultimate playbook for how not to run a professional sports league.
Last year we were screaming out for Elo and the WSL to act more like Dana White with his my way or the highway mentality!
Now we’re all complaining that he’s moved away from a Oprah Winfrey “is everybody ok?” inclusive safe space.
Have you caught Bexvidiosis ?
Just playing the Devils advocate.
The ol trolling skills never die … always on hand if needed.
With mod superpowers ! Formidable.
Is that in the brass family of instruments?
Dana White doesn’t
Move the fucking Octogon
Into your front yard
Your point is well taken, though my issue is more about the WSL’s hypocrisy and not about the wrong tact. They continue to tout inclusivity while flouting the local communities that they purport to care about. Regardless of the tact Elo takes, it’s at the expense of the wrong group of people.
I think this is Starky’s baby.
Lennox locals finally getting what they deserve after acting like a bunch of entitled dickheads over the years
Can you elaborate. You mean localism? It used to maintain order. Now everybody has a camera in their pocket and think surfing is like going jogging.
One would think you need to live there to understand properly. The place is like an island and localism takes on a different meaning in places like that, especially with BB just north.
you have a bad surf there?
I don’t think Lennox has a good reputation after the famous Carcass and Jodie incident….bit like here now , Locals have lost control , argue amongst themselves , divided we stand , divided we fall……not much of a united surf community anymore…sad but these are times now when every day is the good old days..
Have to agree with you Brutus. Most of the ‘locals’ here are just angry, greedy old bastards, and their kids are now a bunch of entitled brats who act like punks because they know daddy and his mates will always step in to help.
Had plenty of good surfs at Lennox. Just constantly get sick of the old locals who can’t surf for shit but act like they are gods. Try and make a point by paddling you up the point etc. I’ve had mates from Byron told to fuck off back to Byron simply cause they had long hair and rode a twin fin. Most of them rip way harder then all the salty locals. Only place worse is Angourie.
FYI I live in Suffolk and ride a normal shorty
Being “from Byron” and or riding a twin fin are both good reasons to be told to fuck off from anywhere, what is the issue?
Again and again
The Wozzle makes a wrong move
This one will hurt them
They’ve already lost
The Core Spectator and now
They have lost The Heart
Poor Lenny The Ox
Whored out by a bunch of pricks
Who can’t read a room
(Let alone a point break)
Vicious money grabbing assholes . No different than the strip miners that dissolved entire mountains in the Sierras in their search for gold.
eLo knows how to
Dissolve mountains of money
But that’s about all
Interesting when I read about Starky….he lied to a Government panel here at Bells , as the WSL had threatened the Vic State Govt/SCS….that if they didn’t build a 60 m long 3.6m high viewing platform for the WSL’s VIP’s ( Which you buy off the WSL) …..they would cancel the Bells Contest……we have Freedom of Information documents that show in Nov 20i9 Starky asking SCS council workers about there being strong pushback from the community for the viewing platform , then 6 mths later he says he has only become aware of pushback because of an article in the Age the preceding weekend…bullshit, he then goes on how the WSL don’t want the viewing platform now …..but the bimbo we have as an environment Minister Lily Ambosia , still hasn’t made a decision on the Platform , even though $500K has been spent on reports etc…..so Fuck Starky and his bullshit…..I mean this is the guy who fucked Australian Surfing. Surfing Australia great bureaucracy , no results with all the millions he spent.
If the WSL holds comp at Lennox 1-13 April that means there is no Bells……as you can’t switch the dates here….to be cont’d, don’t trust a Starky …
Don’t forget the wetland decimating 1500 house canal estate old Starky’s pushing for in Coolum, real class act!
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the shadows in this picture are messing with my mind. are there three suns?
yeah he is a real scumbag…..Kelly is also spruiking Coolum….what a ficken group of people the WSL are…..
World
Scum
League
Let’s be honest.
Initial outage aside, we’d watch WSL events in hellhole of a country run by a militant dictator with waves made out of starving children’s tears if it was pumping.
This, sadly, is true.
Well I guess we’ve been
Wearing fifty dollar Tees
Made by kids for years
fifty bucks!?!
Fuck that. I’ve never paid more than reduced / on sale-price for a tshirt.
As the proprietor of Hurluley I would have figured wholesale was more your stride.
Apart from two Ts I have purchased in the last couple of years ( 1: a BG BFB in black, 2: a Firemen funding shirt from that Surfsytlez 2000 or whatever he’s called) all my surf-label shirts are from sale bins in HIC / T&C in Ala Moana from the times I was last there in the late 90’s.
Nowadays I buy sweatshop blank Tshirts from Kmart for less than $6.
I bought one of the BG Ts, but with the scooped v neck I found it unwearable for a man of my age
I re-gifted it to my son who wears it to the cross fit gym, so that kind of worked out ok
A V-neck is the least of my worries on the ‘looking good’ front.
V necks are gay … which suits both beach grit and cross fit
I’m a Gucci man
Or Prada if the mood’s right
Er, but mostly Bonds 🙂
We eat for fun when we are not even hungry while 9 million people starve to death each year. I think it’s already established we are heinous.
#Fuck WSL