Shame.
Is there no depth to which Stab will not dig? No shred of dignity it will not gladly untie and pitch into the slimiest of gutters? Apparently not for yesterday the subscription surf blog proudly stood up and declared it the “worst day of competitive surfing in 2023.”
It was, to be fair, objectively, bad.
The women were sent out into their quarterfinal matchup in complete garbage and the sorry affair needs no recap save to say the new Chief of Sport Jessie Miley-Dyer should apologize to both the surfers and BeachGrit Open Thread: Comment Live community and do so in a heartfelt manner.
But those who live in glass houses…
Stab, let us not forget, was responsible for the absolutely, and I really hate to use this word but, retarded re-imagined Pipe Masters that proudly declared the once second jewel of the Triple Crown as “the world’s best air wave” and trickeration would finally receive its long overdue praise. Air play plus turns plus who even knows what else.
Dumb.*
It was a pointless shake and, adding insult to injury, there were no airs of note other than the space left with a number of notable names pulling out and generally rotten waves throughout the entire window.
And while it did, officially, happen in 2022 it was a whole awful event.
Not as bad as yesterday but also like winning a heat with a 3.45 total and claiming it like an out of control Kanoa Igarashi.
*Retarded
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WTF does that pic have to do with the story? I only read the article to.see why the guy looks dead.
“The women were sent out into their quarterfinal matchup in complete garbage…”
This is outrageous. What were they thinking? Everyone knows people tune in to WSL for women’s surfing and Joe Turpel.
Will you also be reviewing Jonah Hill’s ‘You People’?
There is nothing wrong with the word retarded.
I don’t get why people are trying to cancel such a good descriptive term.
Many, many Moons ago it was foretold by the Beach Grit Delphic Oracle of “The Day The W.S.L Stood Still.” Like C.J 420 who clutched & screeched..to mute ears. “The Sky Is Fa…” The Mark of Elo was fore warned. Alas.
Do you want more!? RIGHT. Hold my Beer, that’s IT!!!!
Are you a whiner or a writer or just a whining writer Chas? Either way that swot to the cheek is clearly still stinging. And there were aerials a plenty in the mens heats yesterday so maybe STAB is the trend setter here after all.
Weather you Whine or grine.. no? Tough crowd.
Stab in the turd
It’s always more fun not to side with Beachgrit, but the “re-imagined Pipemaster’s” seemed to be based on Nathan Fletcher’s gigantic Fly Out/Air that made covers/while being an air that wasn’t even close to being made. The concept was destined to fail, but the contest itself wasn’t a failure. This years Pipemasters was simply another pipe contest, less dramatic than Da Hui’s backdoor shoot out, but maybe better than the Pipe Pro-All simply ranked by wave quality. All this years string of Pipe contests prove is that wave quality matters and that format absolutely does not matter.
Probably not the right place for being fair, but to be fair, the concept was just that airs would be scored with the same weight as tubs.
Scoring should be the same the world over. If a wave at Pipe breaks like a wave at snapper why not score them the same? Adjusting the judging to different spots is totally unnecessary as the actual available waves always set the framework for the scoring potential perfectly, regardless of what the spot is supposed to be doing and how peeps are supposed to be surfing it in the minds of the contest director and judges.
I don’t disagree. Remember the furore when Gabby beat Mick at Pipe with the rotation though?
To my shame, Gabby vs MIck I can’t recall but I sure remember Micks world title in 2013 with the “bottom turn” at Pipe for an excellent 9, something score and Slats losing out on #12 despite winning Pipe.
Which all confirms: Pipe should always be the final contest.
Ya, but in the end it was still just a tube contest.
Due to the conditions. Could’ve been a different story with a day like Pipe yesterday, or what the women had the day before. Case-and-point John and Gabby’s airs.
Ya, airs could have been a thing but weren’t. Seemed like they just wanted to encourage airs, which isn’t a bad idea. The whole controversy of it created tons of engagement. It doesn’t matter if people hate or love something, it’s profitable if people are engaged/commenting like we are now. Look BG is milking the new format too. Pissing off the surf community is super easy, and seems to create a lot of engagement. Would BG even exist without bummed out surfers? I still think conditions have more of an effect on the quality of the contest than the formats in place.
Please note I also think it was silly and that airs at Pipe should see point deducted. I just despise Chas which such venom it’s forcing me into the middle on this one.
“The women get the worst of the conditions, again. sigh, huff.”
The WSL Chief ‘o Sport is a woman, Stab knows this?
save stanley’s reef…too late! plenty of other’s tho…the Missions…police and cal trans workers…beachfronts…30 species of cacti in the back yard/
The girls got sent out in puss, but non of them publicly made a fuss, tyler wright did just fine, the others looked like they had been on the wines and the transgender surfers were giggling with glee.
Fuck you’re a cunt Chas!
Please never change
Best air wave Pipe? Jeez JJF just did a howler after a sick pit. Can we just get the top 10 surfing the 10 best spots over 10 months. Everything else is just fluff.
Fluff is all the WSL knows personally.
Yep, that’d work for me, Negs.
Don’t even need the contest hoopla, judges and other bullshit…..
The girls got totally ripped off !
A lot and I mean, quite a few of those 1.32 scores were totally 1.56 or more!
Judging was just shit
Stab in the tard
Did you promise Derek you would post something today?
Peak Beach Grit!!