Evil has a name.
We are now two events into the World Surf League’s 2023 season which means, officially, three to go before the purposefully sadistic mid-year cull. Oh you certainly recall the joy, the sheer glee, displayed by the top brass leading up to the mass decapitation and the absolute pleasure Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer oozed when looking forward to re-watching the bloodletting on Make or Break.
Like a snuff film.
Well, the emotional toll on the surfers has been, more or less, kept under wraps, or at least until now, as Molly Picklum, Australia’s great hope, has shared details of the torture.
In a tender interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, the current world number one said it would “hours to unpack” the damage with her coach, Glen “Micro” Hall adding that she “couldn’t surf” afterward.
“There were these really fun little waves at a [Qualifying Series] contest in Ballito, just perfect waves,” He said. “But Molly just couldn’t surf it. It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but she just could not complete a wave: couldn’t stay up and finish her turns, couldn’t make manoeuvres she’d normally do with her eyes closed. She was trying so hard, had pushed herself so long. You could just see that she cared too much; she was trying to improve her surfing and compete and go to another level. That’s where the mid-year cut, all the emotions of it just bubbled to the surface.”
World Surf League sadism did not derail Picklum entirely, and thank goodness, but do you imagine the aforementioned Miley-Dyer, her Chief of Executives Erik Logan and gang have other tools in the dungeon to illicit pain from its charges.
A quarter-year cull, for example.
I suppose we’ll all soon find out.
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All they have to do is reduce the tour to top 30 and add 2x sponsor wildcards, or 1x sponsor wildcard and 1x discretionary wildcard.
The magic number is 32 surfers. No one needs to suffer through rd 1 and 2 to just eliminate 4 guys, two of whom are usually locals with no hope in the world of making it past Rd 2.
Do it that way and you save two whole days of shit.
not to be RUDE, but visit the wsl website for contest scheduling…there is a PLETHORA of contests held ’round the WORLD…making it to the CT is as much of a grind, as say, proGOLF…same as all round ball sports. I wouldn’t check the rankings ’cause that’s a vertigo-inducing spin with Molly! example: Love the Dodgers, but don’t give shit about AA Oklahoma. Same as ELO?
Yeah, 100% agree. Production crews would be champing at the bit to take on a challenge like that.
I wonder if he broke under the pressure when banging Kendall Jenner. That would make sense why they broke up.
I’ve only done Molly once… but the LSD and Alcohol/weed combo didn’t quite allow it to work? …Good times nonetheless.
Good times indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
How about Mr. Pickles…
jealous, serioously
Thought he passed?
It was the height of pandemic lock down, then a beautiful custom board by a legacy shaper arrived after 6 month wait, lots of time to surf and $ in the bank..
I think you’re being small minded.
Even the most highest paid athletes lie awake at night full of self doubt, questioning every moment, movement and thought from the day passed.
80’s tour had over 30 contests.
Not a fan of that, just fact.
check the WSL contest lists. too many contests to count…on Molly.
I reckon the 30 comps a year thing was awesome. It also allowed rookies to go on a huge rampage if they were good enough.
No one questions it being Artificial. There can’t be meaningful debate about it’s “Intelligence” unless serious questions are asked it, about it’s “Intelligence”.
ChatGPt doesn’t have consciousness. On that basis I always thought the Turing test was stupid, as it didn’t prove anything except the coder was able to add a million if/else statements to come up with replies that seemed to be human.
reviewed the golf channel somewhere, but fell and can’t find it…help~
“Don’t worry Mr. Sushi HELP is on the weigh!” -Life Alert Operator #173
SOS cancelled (Saved own self)
Golf- 47 events a year. Player has to play in a minimum of 15.
replace all the grass with sand…Golfgrit/
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Selfie stick?
ask Mike Chase.
Chask Mice ase?
“don’t want to interrupt the flow, power-speed…”
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….
They should cut the ones that don’t make it past the elimination round at every stop.
Dig how geeks be gettin’ ChatGPT to break free from it’s constraints.
https://techstartups.com/20…
Every two weeks with 14 day waiting periods yeehaaa
Since when was professional surfing ever actually professional ?
My work had a mid year cut – redundancy! I probably would have tried harder if I knew it was coming. My accommodation contract didn’t get renewed around the same time. Fun times
Probably should’ve tried harder will be written on my tombstone. Hope it all works out, it usually does in the end.
Ditto that.
Sally Fitz doesn’t have any pressure it’s the wildcard league free ride , still won’t help with a win