Third log crown for Joel Tudor…
The ultra-purist and black belt grappler Joel Tudor has become the sport’s oldest-ever world champion, winning the log crown, aged forty-five, beating the Brit Ben Skinner at two-foot Malibu.
Tudor won his first log world title in 1998 in the Canary Islands and number two in Biarritz, 2004.
Before today’s final Tudor said,
“I was at a Final here decades ago, the last time the WSL decided a World Title at Malibu, and I lost in the final to Russ K (Keaulana). Winning here all these years later would be a heck of a way to top off a pretty good run. You need to have goals, it gets you up in the morning. Winning another Title off this incredible field of talent won’t be easy, but I have a lot of experience at that wave and I intend to give it everything I’ve got to pull out the event win and the Title.”
When Joel’s daddy Joe swung into frame, Marshall Bro referenced the 1994 Titles, when Joe and Hawaiian Lance Hookano beat the hell out of a kneeboarder who wouldn’t leave the contest area.
The kneelo got fifteen stitches and a separated shoulder.
Described as “a fist-flinging, hair-pulling melee would have made the Beach Boys blanch”, footage of the fight appeared in the Chris Bystrom film Longboarding is Not a Crime.
Anyway, Chad brought it up, Kaipo freaked and shut down the direction of the convo with “Oh, but we don’t talk about that.”
After his win Tudor said,
“The most proud thing of all of this is that I finally beat Kelly at something. So remember that.”
(Slater won the 2011 world title a few months shy of his fortieth birthday.)
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with a stupid haircut
When did Nick Carroll get woke? Some guys just need a beating!!
Around the time plaforms were created that allowed ” the filthy unwashed public “to challenge his views with out being censored. Ie his security blanket was removed and his role as a industy stooge made plain for all to see , he has since retreated to back to the protection of the mainstream surfindustry security censord world at Surfline.
We wish him all the best he will not be missed.
It’s too bad, he used to write well.
Please investigate Jen. That would be a good read and a real journalistic subject to write about. You more than anyone around here could pull this off with your sweet demeanor.
I think the WSL would be leery of responding to known cynics like Chas.
“2 foot malibu”
Competitive surfing strikes me as something Joel would call kooky as fuck and ridicule on insta were he not successful at it
Yes, it seems even someone like Joel can feel inferior in the water and must try and ‘best’ someone for self worth, proving Phil Edwards thesis:
“The most fun you’ll ever have in surfing is the first time you catch a wave– and then you start wondering who’s best– and it’s all downhill from there”.
Ah yes, Joel’s daddy was in fact charged with felony assault, along with visitor from the islands Lance Hookano (who since was beat to a pulp here in CA, thank god). Such big brave men pounding on a kneerider – at Malibu of all places. Well today, they must be so proud of little Joel and what he’s become! Though I have to ask, why no man-bun?
I felt the need to read Joel’s wiki page and now realize he is a self-proclaimed badass, never to be messed with…avoiding Del Mar at all costs out of fear of Joel and his Brazilian jiu-jitsu Black Belt that pairs with his Whoop Strap
The musical equivalent of Tudor calling out Kelly!
https://youtu.be/nwN6dPNXklg
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Namaste home!
#equalpay for longboarders!
Blessings!
Cryptohitical! (cough, cough)
*Kelly quietly waxes up a TJ Pro Thunderbolt Black…
Sub-conse.
Math tutor/Meth Tudor
Obviously too much training fucks you – he looks 65 not 45!!!
Smoking.
I think sunshine for all its glory has a lot to answer for in this instance.
Sunshine in a bag
He is the saltiest of seadogs.
Genetics.
Is this about calamari?
I fuckin love calamari.
I’m no longer a kneelo because of those cnts. Now I’m a dick dragga
Ive never seen a kneelo who doesn’t rip.
2 guys beating up an old kneelo takes zero balls in my world.
All Kneelos should be beaten all the time (with the exception of Greenough only) f’ing half men
Really?
Good luck taking on any around NSW or Vic where Ive been out with them.
Usually very rugged and fit older guys who have more time in the water than most.
Sounds like code words for Tossers
Nah…seems they are usually ripping at dawn on big days.
I still stand by stance that they would not take a step back if confronted.
Why not George he was is just a cashed up spoilt trust fund yank.
Can’t knee(l) much lower than that!
A giant pull-hard of a mega wanker.