The tour's opening gambit just dulled a little with the dumping of the sport's most popular broadcaster…
In a surprise turn, the 1988 world champion Barton Lynch, who cinched his title at perfect eight-to-twelve-foot Pipeline but is now more famous for his oratorical gymkhanas on WSL broadcasts, has been pulled from the commentary team for the 2022 Pipeline Masters.
Lynch, who is fifty-eight and lives at Sunset Beach in Hawaii, was shifted sideways to the Hurley Sunset Beach event to make room for, we believe, Ross Williams and Makua Rothman.
Matt Warshaw in his Encylopedia of Surfing (subscribe here) says Lynch developed a reputation as “one of the sport’s wittiest and most articulate figures, and for his willingness to express views outside what he correctly viewed as a narrow surf world orthodoxy. Surfing, he said in a 1989 interview, was nothing more than ‘another outlet for making yourself feel good,’ and shouldn’t serve as ‘the be-all and end-all of your life.’ Surfers, he continued, were on the whole the most ‘self-righteous, cocky and judgmental group of people you’ll find anywhere in the world.'”
One of the sport’s most popular broadcasters, there was conjecture the dumping was linked to Lynch’s role in the activist group Voices4Choices, which questions vaccine mandates and the role of government during the continuing COVID pandemic.
A recent Voices4Choices webinar was a who’s who of the sporting world, tennis stars, surfers (Taj Burrow), doctors etc,
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And here’s the Voices4Choices theme song,
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BL was probably dropped because be keeps regurgitating the same stuff when he’s doing commentary. If he’s going to stand for something perhaps it should be the over scoring of aerial manoeuvres.
Poor old Bart. Getting smoked by a Rothman.
at first I was like yeah then I was like nah
You know what? I’m pretty sick of this anti democracy, anti freedom woke shit behavior. I listen to all sides, dig in and do my research and make my choices. If that means I lose my job like Krapinneck then so be it. But I won’t go away with a whimper. Now it seems what I suggested during this pandemic has been almost 98% correct. There needs to be some legal reckoning that includes manslaughter
Agree. Knowing the WSL it’d be more likely to be something really dumb that only corporate marketing types could understand not something obvious like being anti-vax
WSL sucks so who cares
Please don’t subject us to Makua Rothman’s brain dead platitudes. If you’ve ever taken public transport in North London with privately educated teenagers nearby talking ‘yardie’ you’ll instantly recognise the weird fakery of Makua Rothman’s accent.
Good decision. Out with the old farton lynch and replaced with 2 hell men chargers. Makua has great insight. Watch the interview with Jamie Mitchell. He will be a good commentator
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Like Joe Rogans show?
joe: well we still have the ’89 wc…
pottz: wow…
Have a look at his insta. He’s gone loopy. Lucky he was a good surfer.
In that case
Mandate loopiness!!
I thought derk lived in Florida?
“It helps if you have both hands with a firm grip on the shaft.”
Woozl was scared that Barty was going to get loose with the Telestrator.
Here, seen off-season practicing at a Hockey game.
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Dammit I was thinking it would have been a perfect assignment for you. “Jen’s diary of the North Shore” You would have to have agreed to try and catch a wave at Sunset though.
Yep, Barton’s description of Filipe’s ride is intelligent and articulate, perfect. Barton is a gem, WSL is a turd.
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Dam that description was so perfect. Just what is lacking from surfing. How complicated and technical surfing is.
That song makes me want to climb in the time machine and land in the pit at a 1982 Black Flag show.
I often ask what would my absentee father say about this.
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The truth hurts
If you can’t afford to drink Chateau Lynch Bages ( MEDOC Rocks ) then you get Wayne Lynch , and when you can’t get Wayne Lynch you get Barton Lynch’s Anarchist Cookbook
And when you can’t get Barton you get a Packet of Rothmans …..and then ?
Medoc marathon: run 42km while pissed!
That’s the one