Everything coming up anti-depressive.
I woke up this morning to the news that the Corona Open J-Bay did not run whilst I slept and assumed it was because World Surf League Senior Vice President of Tours, Head of Competition Jessi Miley-Dyer is en route and will be arriving shortly.
Whew.
Other things to feel good about:
It appears those pesky “transit visa” issues that kept Australia’s Tyler Wright from traveling to, and competing in, Brazil have been resolved. Wright, currently number 10, is safely in South Africa and fans of professional surfing at its highest level are breathing sighs of relief while also expressing gratitude toward Wright’s travel agent. Any person who has ever left his/her/them country of origin knows how sticky immigration, customs etc. can be and even with nearly a year advance notice those paperworks just sneak right up.
The two-time world champion will have some work to do in order to claw into the conversation. The top five female surfers at the end of the year will join the top five male surfers at Lower Trestles for a one day winner-take-all banger. Wright will have to leapfrog Courtney Conlogue, Gabriela Bryan, Isabella Nichols, Tatiana Weson-Webb and Brisa Hennessy to punch her ticket. A tall order but if anyone is up for the challenge, it is Wright.
Lastly, Kelly Slater will be participating. The eleven-time world champion sat out the last two events in El Salvador and Brazil nursing an injury that necessitated surfing large barrels and causing social media storms. He is healed now, though, in time for a run of swell headed for J-Bay that World Surf League CEO Erik Logan thinks might create “one of the greatest events in history.
Everything coming up anti-depressive.
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Her surfing is not looking great, that weak layback and that half top turn, plus she has no flow at all.
Spoilt pro surfers rorting a flawed system
Can’t wait to see Tyler doing her 3 move repertoire …..
Wonder what her next big winge will be?
Although she wasn’t in Brazil I can’t say she would have made it much better.
Here’s a photo from Tyler’s Instagram
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African oysters on the menu tonight…
Bearded clam
hairy taco
Stench Trench
Her(?) kooky “layback” really annoys me.
Agreed, They are the worst.
She has single handedly butchered the dropped wallet
Animal Planet Top Ten Countdown:
While Introducing Nader, conspiracy theories, and a peaceful resolution…
(An original from old memos)
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learned scholars and ambassadors of note celebrate this cutting of the red tape for TyTy
These bullshit excuses for surfers missing events is getting really old. Even the Tennis tour is transparent, why are they “protecting” the surfers like they do?
Blame Slater. He set the precedent. Woozl let him walk all over the rule book so others can too. Shrug
Slater 100% deserves all the privileges and accolades he gets.
Agreed.
Had they allowed Dane to do the same thing he still might be dazzling us with (occasional) brilliance.
If Chas could do an inkling of that thing he keeps telling us about (Journalism), he’d investigate which country refused to give her the transit visa. Maybe reach out to Tyler or Rip Curl through his huge network of “surf journalism” contacts.
He would pretty quickly bust the game open by discovering that there is no “transit visa” problem for anyone travelling on an Australian passport to Brasil. Fuck, the only countries that require you to get a transit visa are fucked up places like North Korea. In short, she bullshitted us. I can’t tolerate that kind of lying (just like Kelly and his lame foot injury).