Mach crazy.
Last evening happened to find me watching Top Gun: Maverick in a fine open air theater under a German sky. I have come, again, to find surfing secrets hidden in plain sight, like an archeologist in Egypt circa 1922, not even having to dig. So far, it has been determined that Kelly Slater is not the best surfer in the world and that Elvis Presley is preferable to El Salvador and, thus, it was time to rest.
The sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1986 iconic airplane banger far exceeded my expectations and I sat, stars twinkling overhead, in awe of how the pilots pushed themselves to the very brink of what the human body can endure. To the brink of insanity itself.
Well, the World Surf League, never an organization to be bested, decided to speed toward the brink of absurdity but instead of pausing at its wobbly edge blew right through.
In a recent interview with the Jakarta Post, the League’s Asia-Pacific GM praised the just-wrapped G-Land Pro as “one of the best events so far.”
Plengkung Beach, known to surfers worldwide as G-Land, in Banyuwangi, East Java, hosted an event on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour, the most prestigious surfing league in the world, from May 28 to Saturday. As the event drew to a close, WSL officials praised the event in Banyuwangi as one of the best on the WSL international tour. WSL Asia-Pacific general manager Andrew Stark said the event in Banyuwangi was one of the best so far.
“I hope to come back here next year,” Andrew said during the ceremony, which was also attended by Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan and Banyuwangi Regent Ipuk Fiestiandani. “We are very happy in Banyuwangi. This is one of the best WSL events so far. We received a very lively welcome here. Thank you Banyuwangi, thank you Indonesia for the support,” he added.
2 foot runners and infinite holds the best event of the year?
Mach crazy.
Top Gun: Maverick, in any case, was wonderful and worth a watch.
Maybe he meant best piss-up of the year? He’d probably done a few “booties” by the end of the waiting period.
Um… women’s event?
While we are at it, I’d like to thank the WSL for ending global warming, sexism and coral bleaching, and selling me this lovely Lycra Jake Marshall singlet.
wait… you guys don’t agree with Turpel’s assessment of the “swell” during the final the other day?…
“absolute drainers”…
As in “to drain joy”?
Chas takes another trip sans surfboards to watch a lame movie in Europe.
Was Yemen the only surf trip he has taken?
Wait, Palestine or Tel Aviv?
Does Lemore count as a surf trip? You do stay in a hotel and it’s technically far away (from the ocean).
And you guys giving old JP fluff for googling poetic quotes, how many of you really thought Steve was pulling German existential quotes out of his ass to describe Carolyn Mark’s ass? What ever happened to that young lass, did she catch Tyler’s mystery disease?
So many good topics for stories and we get a Top Gun review. Wait, no review? What was this post about?
Oh yeah, WSL delusional hyperbole. Never enough to satisfy the throngs of potential audience hiding in middle america.
Feeling salty?
They’ll get creative and fuck it up somehow
https://youtu.be/z-hpE6uwvoM
One of the most important moments in pro surfing and it happened in New York City of all places and the surf was pumping. When Bobby issued this warning I thought it was the winging of a already failed to qualify pro surfer looking at the steady slope downward. In reality it was that, but it was also a prophecy that would have made prof. Trelawny proud. “The dark lord is rising and ziff will be the name.”
When is the Chinese storm coming?
I think they should have 4 man heats.
I suspect there was some pro action on somebody’s gland, which clearly left them very happy after the event.
As for surfing…
Mmmm not so much.
didn’t pipe get good waves?
Passed on a flawless day to hold the finals in dogshit.
Same at Sunset.
Someone should be fired.
That Chas hasn’t gotten someone fired is kind of hard to believe as WSL is def reading BG.
He must be getting confused with the 97 G-Land Pro cause it’s pretty much all they talked about and showed footage of.
Easy mistake !
…and why was they only talking about ’97? My brain just reminded me of Kelly winning the first one yeah…97? yeah huge b-hand fan turns and long pig-dogs. Shit, I don’t remember which year was which but I remember Luke Egan on some crazy double-up . He won. Didn’t Machado win? was it him on the crazy double up sequence in the mags? Okay. What about Beschen win? Mental long-pig-dogs and fan throws…soo basically any of the times they ran it in the early days it was fucking pumping. And before I go…anyone rember that Jim Banks like 5-page sequence during that first event window as well? Comment Below. As I did.
The waves were soo good in fact the mags would run several page articles and full page spreads of dudes in jerseys in stand-up barrels…Cover shots as well. Gone are those days.
You tryin to pull a an ADS/Kelly by leaking Medina’s bootlegged videos absolutely ripping another Indonesian left pointbreak, in May, only a day after the best event of the year wrapped up?
Convoluted yet pertinent.
It was, without doubt, the best event the WSL has ran at G Land this year.