Hot hot heat.
In a wild swirl of hot hot action exploding to life earlier last month and seemingly culminating in unprecedented fashion last week, Joel Tudor versus the World Surf League has burst back onto the scene. You will certainly recall the rumor suggesting that Santa Monica was considering chopping the Longboard World Tour from three events to one. Tudor, an elder statesman and current champion, became vocal and challenged the League to actually practice equality.
Senior Vice President of Tours and Somesuch Jessi Miley-Dyer responded with a masterpiece of gaslighting, Tudor published it, on his social media, then published more before being indefinitely suspended.
The first sitting champion to ever be cancelled in sporting history.
Well, an explosive new rumor has whispered that Tudor may have a legal option against the World Surf League as the purported reason for his beheading does not, necessarily, line up with the facts. A well-placed source has declared, “I think he may have a case here.”
Though there is no indication that he is pursuing anything at this time, Tudor’s Instagram has been scrubbed of offending posts.
How much embarrassment would it be for the League to have to admit fault in the way it handled the whole brouhaha?
That it, as a corporation, got its “feelings” hurt and acted emotionally weird?
David Lee Scales and I discussed on this week’s podcast and also discussed the importance of keeping a relationship sexy.
Important.
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The longboard contest they had in Kelly’s Pool was the most entertaining surfing I’ve seen in there, they’d be stupid to scrap that
How a ‘Surfer of The People’ come from wealth and privilege? Nothing against Parker personally, I know little about his background, but if I’m going to support someone under the BG banner, they’ll have to be from true working roots, not a silver-spoon trustafarian.
Please dear god let this be the beginning of the end of this wanna be tennis tour
I’ve been long bored of this subject for some time now.
#JOELGRIT
couldn’t give two fucks about this situation BUT does the WSL really need a reason to suspend someone, being a privately owned company and all?
Akin to. – curing testosterone deficiency with wife’s infidelity *schlanxter!
There’s nothing worse than a highly motivated moron.
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.” General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.” – William Shakespeare
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are
just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them,
for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he
will bring the others back.”- Heraclitus
If i was the wozzel i would let him back on tour , then pull the plug on the whole longboard tour , end of story have a nice life JT.
You can’t script this
I can’t remember, did Tyson have the belt when he got sent to the pen?
I’m not sure, but there is no way in hell that Joel is the first reigning champion* in world sports to be suspended.
lawsuits are for non-black belts of BJJ. equal pay for chicks = equal slaps/chokeholds for JMD?
Speaking from experience, you can just start your own tour if you want…
No chance for Joel – the WSL is a privately-funded organization, they can ban anyone who does not meet their standards of behaviour, including their own champions.
Gosh darn it all to hell, why must the WSL always suspend competition when conditions are nearly ideal. The Heat is ON! Wait!!! It’s OFF? Why? Too much scoring potential? Let me guess, the wind slop forecasted for the rest of the window (dressing) is where you thrive? Damn you! Damn you all straight to hell!
What’s left to do when Jessie Miley Dyer refuses to acknowledge your jujitsu challenge
No. – thing *I forgot what I was going to say **something Negative he revealed to me about himself and my wife and family and species ***nothing evolutionary
Pool biters
Joel is gonna lose if the wsl has a disrepute or misconduct clause.
Hopefully Tudor’s campaign will prove to be the catalyst to getting professional longboarding consigned to the history bin!
Or at the very least, gender free.