Unsportsmanlike conduct, damage to surfing's image and verbal assault!
The world champion longboarder and black-belt grappler from San Diego, Joel Tudor, has been “suspended following conduct detrimental to the integrity of the WSL per the WSL Rule Book, which includes the violation of the following provisions: sportsmanlike conduct (14.02), damage to surfing’s image (14.04), and verbal assault (14.08).”
The duration of the suspension is yet to be decided. Ten days, ten years, who knows.
Ultra-purist Tudor won his third log crown five months ago, aged forty-five, when he beat 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.
The suspension follows a heated series of posts, interviews, with and from Tudor following a rumour, possibly started here, that the World Surf League was gonna slash cut the longboard world tour from three events to one.
Tudor was very angry and especially so after the WSL featured women’s longboarding heavily during its Pro Pipeline event.
The World Surf League commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer subsequently wrote a letter to professional longboarders declaring that their champion, Joel Tudor, was being “unhelpful and misleading”.
“(They) want to run this fake shit about equality and inclusiveness,” wrote Tudor. “Don’t be a bunch of fucking phonies.”
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They’ve turned the WSL into a Golf Club.
Ha, true to some extent–a comedy show?
Remember the lame car ad–I surf the roads, I surf the —
Amazed he’s stayed relevant and paid all these years. He’s looked like the fucking tin man on a surfboard his entire life.
I’m glad you spoke up someone has to have a voice for the longboarders it’s just as much surfing as any other shortboard, in fact it’s more iconic and has more history to it the style is wonderful to watch why they would want to hinder the growth of a longboard movement is besides me, perhaps they don’t think there’s any capital Money and it but I beg to differ there are thousands of longboarders out there, sad that it had to come to this Joel has always been a good voice and proponent for surfing and longboarding and respects the history of surfing more than anyone I know. Unfortunately bottom line is usually about money. Hopefully they can come to some type of resolution or just start a completely different surf movement the world longboard League!
Don’t you know who I am? Is exactly the mentality here on full display and another reason I’m not a SM fan or of Joel for that matter, but Josh is always A-1 in my book. Love that guy!
only winner from all of this bullshit: Duct Tape tour.
is this some 7d chess from joel, or just a lucky by-product of his cuntiness?
Or all comps should be held in 1-2 ft beach breaks so they are able to be consistent and deter vals from entering actual waves. No great surfer would stick with it. Then there would be maybe 10-20 free surfer making a living in the world by ripping the best spots in the best conditions making the best content for us fan boys to devour. Maybe even scrap any contest except the olympics for persons over 18. Nssa and pro jrs only. If a surfer is good enough to make the olympic team or be one of the best free surfers they have a chance if not it’s time to contribute to society. Live stream the best 5 days at pipe each year too.
Make the WSL the ASP again
We need to organize a Joel vs. Joel shouting match. Put 200 kids on each respective lawn and first to clear them off using voice only wins.
Jt thank you for coming. Take your long board in 2ft world champ and move on with your long board ballet. You’ll get respect when you run your contests in maxing conditions pipe, teah etc until then ya still in grade 1 school
Tudor is exactly what the CT needs, I’m tired of all the sycophantic sugar coated wall of positive noise corpo speak ‘i’m just so stoked to be out there, I’m so happy for him/her, he she really deserves it’, even our bad guy Gaby has been emasculated. Surely if the wozzle wanted to get Joel they’d really go for it & give him a drug test after a comp. Have we underestimated Jesse Miley-Cyrus? Is this a shot across the bows ‘tow tha line ya Liddle prick’. Viva Duct Tape
Super heat Tudor vs McPhillips – for the world title and to definitively prove once and for all that nobody cares about longboarding https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Who cares.
The real big dick move. Get fucked joel
Nope. That’s like voting for the lesser of two evils. Still voting for evil. Wait. So then, yes, in this case everyone is wrong and we all lose but that the WSL is the best at losing even when up against a longboarder trying to lose. Seems as if the world is now just a deep hole full of Tudors run by inept wsl’s.
Bring back Bobby Martinez, now that dude actually knows how to talk shit.
Is it possible that the WSL and Elo really just want to see Beach Grit succeed so they have meetings to pitch ideas of what they could do to slow pitch you guys stories?
45? he looks closer to 102 and thats not an exaggeration. Gypsy hex maybe?
Gotta feel for Joel here. He’ll serve out this suspension and if/when he makes it back on tour, the sport will have progressed to historic new levels of longboarding performance! Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Joel negotiated, last seen paddling an outrigger canoe towards Secret Island with Turpel for scene 2 with Kaipo