Hot Summer Nights.
And it is as if I willed Kelly Slater television news into existence, for the very second I pressed publish on a shocking revelation regarding his 30-year ago turn on the hit show Baywatch, the World Surf League just announced that its much anticipated ABC reality show “Ultimate Surfer” will air Monday, August 18 2021!
Whoa!
Per the Instagram press release:
‘The Ultimate Surfer’ series will make its debut on ABC Monday, August 16 at 10 p.m. EST/PST.
The series will gather some of the world’s greatest up-and-coming surfers to train and live together as they battle it out at the @kswaveco in the hope of competing amongst the best athletes on the Championship Tour. @kellyslater will serve as on-air talent and special correspondent for the show. Read more, link in bio. @ultimatesurferabc
At time of writing, @ultimatesurferabc has no pictures.
But again, whoa!
The show will air right on the heels of the Olympic Games. I’d imagine the assumption being that all the new fans who thrilled at 1 ft beachbreak will be craving more hot surf action.
Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch.
There will be more as the story develops, obviously, like the announcement of which WQS surfers are participating etc. but do you have any quick takes?
I’d like to hear them.
I was in Sydney last year and Smelly came to Cronulla …. surfed the wall and absolutely smashed the small waves on offer …NOW .If only he would just be quiet , ( unless of course it is for the good of others …. not really his thing though ? ) AND JUST SURF .
A few weeks ago got hooked on the Netflix show Formula 1: Drive to Survive and went from being almost totally indifferent to the sport to being quite actively interested in it. I also couldn’t get over how perfect a show like that would suit pro surfing. Sadly the WSL is led by a cornball okie SUPper so all we will get is ABC garbage reality TV.
Strange how the WSL is smart enough to copy the UFC with an ultimate ‘whatever’ show but not smart enough to copy the UFC with a ‘wherever’ island during the pandemic. Could have sent them all to G Land for a month.
Gland was closed!
And get,” Nathan Florence& The two Koa’s, Rothman& Smith”, as these characters( America will truly love( Nate is married to,” Royalty”, and lastly,” What is a show,” Without:, Jamie O Brein& Ben Gravy, all the above are,” you tube& surf& non- surfers alike, can relate to!
“This once noble sport– has (already) been turned into a big soggy cartoon”.
MD
P.S.
I think anybody that would wear a wetsuit like that–has finally lost it.
What a stinker, ABC must have thought so too. Monday at 10pm is a pump and dump time slot, after two weeks the’ll be running double episodes to get it off the air as soon as possible.
I’m personally quite excited about doing some Kelly hate-watching and then writing essays about it.
Can’t wait to not watch then read all the comments on BG. If they did an “Ultimate Drug Mule” or “Ultimate Human Smuggler” I would most likely tune in.
Lucky for you, Chas can’t copy and paste properly. It airs August 16th, save the date.
Sounds like everyone grinding the QS is about to get a big ole kick to the nuts……Weekly eliminations will leave two men and two women as finalists who will vie for the male and female titles of The Ultimate Surfer and the opportunity to compete on the elite WSL Championship Tour
Imagine… Ultimate Surfer wildcard into Trestles… Becomes WC. You couldn’t script that….
When I saw the title “Kelly Slater’s Ultimate Surfer”, I figured the Wozzle had hit a new low, allowing Kelly to do a show about his favorite thing in the world… himself.
It will be just guys being overly nice to each other until they all but one leave stoked for the experience. Vanilla tv of the highest order.
Let’s hope so ……unless it become big brother whine fest …..endless inutile verbal masturbation , about he did this , and I feel this , and look at me , look at me ….occasionally interrupted by some one actually inland surfing
Dude, enlarge the pic., take a close look at it, how it’s cut, it’s kinda weird.
The entire concept of “The Ultimate Surfer”, from the idea to the words, sums up this activity in 2021. Surfing is the kookiest thing in the world, it has become what it once despised.
The Wsl produced and paid for this series, I assume.
Dirk isn’t stupid, after 4 dismal years, he knows this series following the Olympics may be his ‘last shot’ at the Wsl going mainstream and making a go of it.
I mean really, if the Olympics can’t help bring a mainstream audience, what else could.
If this doesn’t work, I would expect to see some ‘for sale’ signs going up, unless Dirk just likes being the sugar daddy for these pro surfers and the Wsl.
P.S.
is the queen, I mean green, wet suit, with the ‘yellow’ wrist bands some type of fashion statement?
If you look at it closely, that is kind of a bizarre looking wet suit.
If you look closely with those black lines, (straps) going over his shoulder, and the way it’s cut, it looks like he’s wearing some type of girlie top or something.
It’s made from the mucus of barrel dodgers
Hey, that’s actually pretty good.
Now if they would have made it a more masculine cut, it might of worked.
It really accentuates his tits. Looks like a solid C-cup man boobs, with nice shape.
Like the tits of a college age cheerleader!
I’ll have to admit you stay on message, but do you really think that having the WSL be successful or go bankrupt would have any effect on how many surfers there are in the water. It seems like wishful thinking .
What are you hoping for sam? Empty lineups like in the forties?
c4, aloha, no, the forties are history.
I just have issues I guess with ‘mass marketing’ of the ‘life style’ to the masses from soulless companies only interested in making a buck.
“Even in this crowded world (today), a surfer can still paddle out and be alone with the surf and his thoughts”.
Let’s just try and keep it that way for a little longer.
Hot Summer Nights. Late 80s/early 90s ESPN at its finest. And why does Kelly have the face of a duck on his wetsuit?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Coz he’s really a bit of a quack ?
Yea, yea I know but low hanging fruit …
Please see yourself out.
Wetsuit a shoutout to how you feel after eating at the Tachi Palace bufett.
Drew Brees, Johan Hill, Adam Scott, Lewis Hamilton and Casey Neistat battle it out for who is the Ultimate Val!
$10 on Steve Aoki
You know when you read something and involuntarily groan. This did that for me. Pretty much any headline mentioning the olympics and surfing does the same thing.
That is one ugly wetsuit.
That is putting it mildly.
This. This is what that wetsuit reminded me of. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Could we then say that this neoprene ode to green lantern is …..um , ah ….not OK ?
Ewww…gross.