Green and gold über alles.
BeachGrit is known to be many things, most importantly anti-depressive, but there is no way to spin recent dark comments from Australian superstar, one-time Championship hopeful Julian Wilson into light. No how to find any such silver lining as the black cloud that just emanated from his handsome mouth covers the sky as far as the eye can see.
For in a sit-down with Australia’s august Daily Telegraph the famous Wilson laid absolute waste to the World Surf League’s “Dream Tour” and also to the hopes any young American, Australian, South African, Frenchman might ever have of winning a championship for themselves.
His revelation of the dystopia came to him during this past summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo wherein he got to see the future up close.
“The Olympics were better than I imagined,” he began, “And I just felt so much responsibility representing Australia … it was so much bigger than I thought — nothing like a surfing event and I was blown away.Even without spectators it is the biggest event I have surfed at. The athletes village, the Opening Ceremony … the athletes were like avatars, they were such specimens and so primed and just ready for their Olympic moment. And the Brazilians all year have been the ones to beat. With all the changes that have happened with the world tour and the competition schedule …the Brazilians have been too hungry. They are just tenacious and with the waves, most people would say a lot of the waves at world tour events were mediocre this year compared to the standard wave quality, but the Brazilians just stepped up. Until we go back to the full schedule of events they will be hard pressed to beat, they are used to making the most of messy, inconsistent waves.”
Wilson had time to ruminate on the poor quality waves and the Brazilians who surfed them so well during three separate isolation stints totaling three weeks and decided to step away, now fronting Oakley’s “Be Who You Are” campaign which encourages children “that they don’t have to conform, to be brave and embrace who they really are.”
i.e. not a surfing world champion if hailing from America, Australia, South Africa or France.
Green and gold über alles.
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Beachgrit’s own avant-garde artist!
The best artists are always crazy.
Ivermectin freely distributed and like every other country that has done the same, Covid goes bye bye.
this is the famous cry of the loser… train more and maybe you can beat the brazilians. World title and gold medal at the Olympics was difficult
jissus – that was pretty intellectual – thank god for instant internet.
“A circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.”
nice one.
Below is a Brazilian foot with an AI tattoo which I think you will agree, belongs here:
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Brazilians like barbeque. Looks like its says A1.
Haaa could be right..either way it’s still funny
Japanese are softly spoken whilst Americans are loud, they wear masks for a common cold, don’t hug and kiss much and I’m willing to bet have much lower BMI’s than Americans.
Care to do a multi variant analysis for me?
I miss Tommy Bolin- Don’t Let Your Mind Post-Toastie…
Fucking crybaby. He can blame Brazilians or the WSL, but the bottom line is he couldn’t get it done despite having all the backing and advantages possible. Suck it up Jules and try not to be so butthurt that you weren’t the absolute best.
I’m down for it and I’ll only hold you hand if there is a big tumbler in the other hand while we march. BUT, what are we marching for?
Pay for your freedom
Or find another gate
Guilt by associate
The rushes wilted a long time ago
Guilty as you go
Julian was at his peak when riding LSD boards and riding for quik, then his brother(s) got too involved and he moved to JS and Hurley. Not sure exactly what happened but it was downhill from there.
No, all of those will still go to Mikey Wright for some reason
He’s always seemed a bit of a sad boy.
True. Whenever he smiles it seems forced and he does that thing where he contorts the bottom part of his face into a smile but can’t get his eyes to go along with it. I hope he finds peace in the next chapter of his life, now that its clear he’s accepting total defeat.
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Yeah, Jules, cause Brazilians never win at world class stops such as Pipe, Chopes, J-bay, Fiji, etc. right?
Kudos Dane
aka T Nielson
You have an extremely unique way of expressing yourself through text over the internet. I was confused by your posts initially but that was likely because I’m not intelligent enough to understand them. What you do on Beach Grit is almost like a form of abstract art.
The waves weren’t great this year – especially in Australia
Who needs Nightmare Tours when you have Dream Tours like this.
Yes, I think coming from a 3rd world nation and not having everything handed to you by Mom and Dad and the surf industry, could definitely be motivation to achieve results on said tour.
But they better hurry, before dirt (oops, voice text typo), I mean Dirk, maybe gets tired of supporting his wife’s hobby and blows off the WSL.
PS
Has the world ever seen anything like this?–a billionaire supporting a whole sports organization–just to keep his wife happy…
Cuckery on a whole other level.
He has it for sale now. He’s been pitching it quietly to private equity groups but no one has bit yet
What a whiny little puss boy.
I cannot imagine a better poster child for the Gestapo government running Australia these days. The bogan disease has infective the collective brains of most Aussies! BRAVO! Maybe Jonah can go down under and soothe the souls of these lost folks…
I like how you think you know Australia and Australians.
Some of my closest friends are Aussies and New Zealanders, love them for their spirits. Hard to tell the difference sometimes except when they are thoroughly hammered. But they share one thing in common these days and that is a massive disdain for their collective government’s handling of the Covid crisis.
Congratulations you now have a “I have Black friends” badge.
And I would be interested in (as I know your wife isn’t, and you need to get it all out here) what Countries Governments are handling the Covid crisis well.
I have a “black business partner” would also be an accurate badge so can I get that one too? But I don’t typically have to refer to my black friends or business partner so what is your point? As to which governments are handling covid well, I’m not aware of one that is, so please share with me your top 5.
Do you introduce him like that when meeting new clients?
That’s sort of my point, your constant Southern Hemisphere bootlicker analogies fall short when every Government in the World is making it up as they go.
You are so easy to bait and are truly embarrassing yourself now. Keep going as I am wildly entertained!
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Taiwan, South Korea
Sweden has 1475 deaths per million, was open and ‘free’ whilst Norway was more conservative and had more restrictions has 168 deaths per million. Would love to understand your reasoning of lumping them together.
https://www.worldometers.in…
Norway is currently doing worse than Sweden atm. I mistakenly put them on the list maybe I meant Netherlands?
Either way Fauci says time for your booster!
Scared of needles?
No not at all been pro vax my whole life just have a problem with authority.
Yes actually I am. Pro vax my whole life until this shit show.
“I have black friends” badge! Ha!
Pretty impressive @NEGATRON:disqus equates Aussies and New Zealanders to Black people
Tazjerkistan has 69 deaths
All shot when discovered to be sneezing a bit.
Damn I was gonna actually ask for that badge but now I get what its actually for. I’ll keep browsing and pick another one. Yeah love how it always come down to we are in this position because we gave up our guns. Except we aren’t and we didn’t.
lol
Not round my parts mate. Don’t mistake the visibility of a vast minority of protestors for “massive disdain”. In my state, which has been heavy handed in terms of travel restrictions, we haven’t had to deal with outbreaks on a major level. Even with one of the slower take ups of vaccinations.
Some of my closest friends are Amerkins, but I don’t claim to understand those fuckers.
Hey Picard, here’s a big healthy dose of go fuck yourself.
Signed,
An Australian.
Billy I take it you love and trust your government? Tell me more
I take it you like to ride sup bareback with your bro’s … fuck off with your generalisations.
Very little has changed here … I still surf regularly … and still can’t afford to chase swells overseas … just gotta be content with NW and SW trips … oh well.
Hey never tried that, I’ll keep it in mind if I ever go that way but is water soluble lube the best way to keep the ocean clean?
BTW-Been traveling to San Diego, LA, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Phoenix, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo all during covid and Europe and Mexico since they opened up. If only I could get into Oz…