“What are they going to do, fill it full of beers and use the lid to go down some hills?”
The former-pro-surfer-and-comic-turned-DJ Paul Fisher, who trades under the stage name FISHER, has slammed the WSL in a post to his almost two-million followers.
The thirty-six-year-old who was nominated for Best Dance Recording category at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards for the nipple-twisting hit “Losing It” hit out at the WSL for giving any surfer who scores a ten-point ride in the season a Yeti cooler or in Australian parlance, an esky.
Yeti signed a three-year deal with the WSL in January, the brand hosting “on-site activations, including Hydration Stations, Activation Coolers, and branded event bottles, at select competitions, in addition to a branded-content series exploring the iconic locations on the WSL CT and Challenger Series featuring YETI ambassadors John Florence and Stephanie Gilmore.”
“I’m pondering on the fact that when a surfer gets a ten-point ride on the world-fucking-championship tour they get a fucking esky! A fucking esky!” said Fisher. “Are you fucking kidding me? That is unbelievable. What are they going to do, fill it full of beers and use the lid to go down some hills?
“A ten-point ride and you get a fucking esky! Unbelievable. Mate, what about a thousand bucks, just thousand bucks. Are you kidding? You used to get a Nixon watch worth ten-grand for a ten, now you get a fucking esky! Wow!”
(Note to readers: if the gifted Yeti is the famous 82-gallon Tundra 350, it retails at $1300.)
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The post was wildly popular with world championship tour surfers and retired greats.
For reals,” wrote Julian Wilson.
“This is the best fucking video ever!!!!! Captures the tour perfectly haha,” wrote Owen Wright.
“So good,” wrote Leo Fioravanti.
“Someone give me an average 10 years on tour how many 10’s??? Really want to know how many coolers I missed out on,” wrote 2001 world champ CJ Hobgood.
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Just as long as you don’t go down Joel P’s hill, you’ll be OK.
that make perfect sense. the lid won’t perform on sand or in the water. mud is the perfect medium. muddy waters.
Having Hydroflask and Yeti as sponsors seems like a conflict of interest. “Which water bottle are we promoting today?”
Sparklet’s 5-gal plastic would be mo betta…Last me a week. “Hydroflask’s in Lemoore lasted minutes…” Jen
When are these pros going to realize they can just start their own tour? Its really not that hard.
It is inevitable. Strike mission tour w only top guys
Tour of the old days >>>>> than today. It’s completely unwatchable unless it’s heavy barrels. It’s a complete joke on a thousand different levels. There has been no better time than right now to upend this garbage.
These athletes all seem to forget the compete in a charity league. If their sport actually made money maybe they’d get nice things. As it is they’re like a Chinese football league.
Funny thing is that Fisher has a bigger audience than the woz, both online and at concerts.
Owen who ?
Oprah trash
Should be a choice, esky or ladder.
In snooker if you get a 147 (perfect score) you get 8% of the prize money at the world championships. So that would equate to $8k at a WSL event. A bit more than a Yeti. No equality there Elo. Just saying.
Im playing a one pocket championship tournament next month that pays out $3400 they added a whole $1000 just for having a full field. $1000 is nothing.
Bet you can flip a yeti cooler for more cash and much quicker than a 10k nixon watch
You’d be lucky to get $500 for the cooler. You could easily sell the watch for half value and still come out 10x ahead of a stupid cooler.
You’re great at maths, but its a nixon watch ffs. Have bothered to look it up, even slaters breitling has a cheaper price tag.
Yeah you may be right. However it does have 88 diamonds on it and harvesting those has to be worth a couple/few k’s.
I stupidly bought a Nixon watch once, the crystal shattered the first week. Con job “watch” company.
It’s almost as ridiculous as a Fisher “live set”. Push play, wave hands and scream “lets go you sickkkk cunts” wave hands, poke tongue out at camera etc etc
Hey, Say want you want about Fisher’s “music”, but at least he’s ugly.
…and funny AF.
Fish actually doesn’t use auto-sync while DJing, which is basically the DJ way of “pushing play” or phoning it in. I’ve played on the same stage as him several times, so I’ve been in the booth to witness it first hand. What I’m upset about is that every time he’s mentioned on BG, it’s always accompanied by “Grammy nominated”. The track he was nominated for was actually produced by UK’s Chris Lake.
Wait… you’re upset BG is getting its facts wrong?
Well, they’re technically correct on this one.
Okay. I see how that can be upsetting.
Auto sync or not it doesn’t really matter, he spends more time of his set with his hands off the mixer. He doesn’t care, His crowds don’t care and I don’t really care either to be honest.
He found the magic recipe, somehow.
At least the cunt gets paid
Push play, wave hands and scream “lets go you sickkkk cunts” wave hands, poke tongue out at camera, beat back waves of A+ groupies with a stick, get paid, repeat.
could you honestly say you would knock it back if it fell in your lap?
Hats off to him really.
See you in Ibiza!
honey, let’s drink…from the saloon: “i would but my ovaries are sore and the fresh oysters have soured…” me orderin room service: “many patrons, with salt and lime and SPAM wasibi, is that right honey?” so I can spread it all around her lower lips, side boobs…She blurts out…where’s the DJ?
Cunts got esky envy.
All I need is my old Styrofoam esky. By the time the ice turns to water I need to get beer anyways.
We poms drink it warm
I’ve enjoyed some warm Harvey’s on a cold winters night before.
Was the diamond-encrusted Nixon ‘Playa’ wristwatch the height of the surf industry?
We are one step closer to reclaiming our identity, shit on a car today and help the cause!
Give up!
Fuck the government!
Kill the home owners!
Get disconnected!
1-turn on, tune in, drop the flask…
2-refuel with sauza…
3-wipe with corn husks.
or,
4-chill out in the esky w/Toledo?