Should a man stand his ground and fight for pride and honour or run to his telephone to battle over social media?
The world champion longboarder and black-belt grappler from San Diego, Joel Tudor, has continued his hot streak on Instagram by publicly lambasting the pro surfer who was nearly decapitated by a fellow competitor’s board during a crummy lil qualifying event.
Two weeks, maybe you remember, maybe you don’t, the Californian Levi Slawson was in a round one heat against Brazilian Magno Pacheco at the Cabarete Pro in the Dominican Republic.
Slawson was winning, had priority, used said priority at the end of the heat to shut down Pacheco’s chance to win whereupon Pacheco kicked his board at Levi, narrowly missing his head.
After the event, Slawson posted the incident on IG.
“I had first priority and I took this wave from him at the end of the heat, I guess this was his reaction… he said it was an “accident” @magnopachecoo to think what would have happened if ur fins actually hit me (mind blown emoji) so glad to be ok! Time to move onto the next event! Feel free to repost. Thank you to @wsl @wsl.qs for taking quick action on this!!”
Comments were almost entirely on the side of Slawson.
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Around the same this was happening, the WSL was releasing a statement indefinitely suspending the three-time world long boarding champion Joel Tudor following “baseless accusations of corruption and instigating social media-based attacks on the WSL and tour leadership.”
The suspension followed a series of heated 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.
Anyway, in a comment written by Tudor and subsequently deleted by Slawson, the ultra-purist Tudor expresses his dismay at Slawson’s handling of the event.
“Quit crying like a wuss and pound him if you’ve got a problem,” Tudor wrote.
Which ain’t the worst piece of advice if you can use your hands or you’ve been tutored in the art of strangulation and you’ve got a legal team to pull you out of jail and get you out of a civil lawsuit, but a kid from Encinitas vs a snarling, heavily tattooed Brazilian?
What’s your stance on the matter?
Fight or humiliate on socials?
A very good discussion of the event, including Scott Bass’ contention that Pacheco’s pro career is over, is on the Spit! podcast below.
One hour and ten minutes or so in.
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Danny Fuller entered the chat @joel tudor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If only Russia and Ukrainian could stop killing each other and work together too build a drone that could find and destroy anyone making a podcast about surfing that went longer the 20 minutes.
The world would be a better place!
I was a bit worried from the headline that it was curren who was speaking shit!!
Shouldnt hsve been surprised it turned out to be that stoner fuckwit!!
Where’s Party Pete when you need him
Haven’t heard from him for awhile?? He must be busy catching up on all those podcast he said he’d listen to later.
So now is later?
Craigslist?
“Heavily tattooed, snarling Brazilian”? You mean the flyweight holding hands to waters edge?
Your xenophobia is showing Jed Kipling.
a little late to the party for being a day ahead of us yankees..
and stop censoring the comments…
25 year old me paddles over in a fit of rage and let’s him get 2 words out. 57 year old me paddles over and let’s him explain. Not sure what happens next.
Beef for life
Who knows what happens if I’ve had my athletic greens.
Probly throw up on the cunt
What are the two words? Don’t leave us in suspense like this. Until I hear otherwise I’m choosing “hello sailor”
So this is actually worth listening to! At the 56 minute mark they are talking about the Tosh incident and Joel’s reaction to when it happened. According to Cruz’s father, Corey Lopez was with the kid – who was cut down to the scull, and Joel paddles out and says “you’ll be ok, it happens to the best of us” and paddled away! Tosh also didn’t check on Cruz after the incident, but DM’d him later to apologize!
I would rather take fins to the face than listen to an episode of Spit.
Im one for giving out a fair to good pounding , but then again im a slut.
Why dont Tudor knock out the WSL then?
C’mon Vince, we’ll go poun’ him.
You took his stuff, you poun’ him.
Yeah right, Joel.
Just like you ‘pounded’ the WSL… with IG posts. SO manly!
They’re within easy reach, in the nightstands. I wouldn’t want to be a fly on that wall.
Bit ironic coming from the biggest crybaby on Instagram isn’t it?
Jiu jitsu is based on grappling and submissions, not “pounding” people with your fists. Has this dimwit ever thrown a punch before, or does his bravado end with tying people in knots on a soft mat in a controlled enviroment?
Rolling around on the ground in your undies and “pounding” another man, go joel!
Hey! Leave poor Joel alone or he might just virtually pound you too. No keyboard is safe with a warrior like him roaming the cyber streets.
Hurluley is revving-up the lawyers to go hard on this clown who is stealing our tag-line.
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Why doesn’t Joel go to Ukraine?
He’ll either beat Pooootin single handedly or…
They will pay him to leave just so they don’t t have to listen to him bitch anymore.