Much crow.
Surf fans have been riding a wild rollercoaster, of late. Oh you certainly soared and plummeted on each and every high to low of the Kelly Slater x Giselle Bündchen possible reunion but even more has been this week’s on then off Eddie Aikau Invitational.
Yes, the most iconic surf contest in the world was greenlit for the first time in eight years Monday only to be called off due to a nasty wind forecast Tuesday.
Tears of joy quickly turning into tears of woe.
But did that nasty wind materialize?
Not really and Surfline, official forecasting partner of the World Surf League and having one helluva month, decided to rub contest organizer noses right in it by airing Waimea Bay live from multiple angles complete with replay and commentary.
Like the contest except without prestige.
The coverage has been so good it makes me wonder if Surfline is actually the answer to the World Surf League. Simply filming epic swells at important waves from multiple angles and allowing viewers at home to crown a day’s winner.
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Ok day at Da Bay but nowhere near big or consistent enough for the Eddie
Perfect for the chicks to “get clips” for a virtual big wave contest ….
i’d welcome this future over the WSL bullshit of positive noise. i loved the commentating like “hmm, whose that, is that bruddah mike from maui” …..it hows surfing should be. let anybody paddle out, fight for waves and have some commentators Mystery Science Theatre 3000 that shit.
so stoked I rented Ride The Wild Surf movie!
Slater and Gisell? Who clucking fares?
Where’s Eddie Haiku? I miss Eddie.
Wasn’t Eddie standard, they got the call right
Sun House is next! and Sher…
megan, monique, & mona, LLC. (not afffiliated with any, yet!)
Looking at the morning sesh.. Some decent sets for sure. I do notice the crowd is down since last week’s incident. Are there any NS on the ground BG’rs able to confirm some regulating going down on the sand?
she lives on pch…use caution!
googled surf, got beachgrit.com and now gettin a short-term span of headline dirty water news…is this statement in the right section?
A lickle something, or a lot of something?
Nope, not good enough – Eddie wouldn’t bother!
definately. not close to Eddie conditions.
Probs a good thing they canned it. Not very Eddie-ish to my eye.
Waimea Culpa
submit to warshaw for oxford dictionary entry…
The rapacious haole at Quiksilver worked the Aikau name for millions in corporate profits during their sponsorship of the event, but at least they had the brains to employ the best forecasters available to make their calls – just saying
as ur atty/
yeah his name was George Downing
At 187.5 German Lower Legs this is no way Eddie worthy you inflammatory peanut.
The best.
spam, beans, water, beer, wood, hammock!
Maybe it’s gotten better, but the little while I watched it it was unimpressive. Which is a shame, maxing Waimea is quite the sight. What’s this Red Bull thing you mentioned?
They need to give Jason Lau a bag of weed, a twelve pack and let him and his friends commentate.