"A round of applause..." (giggle, giggle).
The Wallex U.S. Open of Surfing brought to you by Pacifico is currently underway in Huntington Beach and the surf is, objectively, extremely poor. Oh, it’s really no thing. The beach festival is marked on the calendar months in advance, schedule packed with challenger serieses, longboarding tours, men’s, women’s and juniors divisions. Contests are run starting at 8:00 am and finish at 4:00 pm regardless of wind, weather or waves.
We surfers, we grouses of the sea, understand this and hold it against neither Wallex nor Pacifico. The World Surf League, which happens to be the governing body of the aforementioned challengers, longboarding, men’s, women’s, juniors’ apparently does, however, and took time yesterday to ironically mock former championship tour surfer Morgan Cibilic on social media.
The WSL account, which boasts 3.9 million followers, featured one of the poorer ripples of the day that Cibilic was forced to perform upon. He wiggled this way then wiggled that way on his backhand, the gutless two-footer gurgling around, until falling from his board in pure embarrassment.
“Wave of the Day,” according to the WSL and stifled giggles could be heard coming from its Santa Monica headquarters.
While the joke is funny, it is entirely rude to lay it on Cibilic who is, by all accounts, a fine young man with an endearing smile.
Will someone lose their job over the laugh or was it approved from on high? The World Surf League’s new twin lords Chief of Purpose Emily Hofer and Chief of Legal Bob Kane insult comics underneath it all?
Something to think about.
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HB is the only wave in the world that’s bad for shortboards, longboards, bodysurf and bodyboards at the same time! That should be a world record
JMD thinks she’s being funny.
all mat’l marked: confy/confied/confugential/
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LYKP…
A Ciblic Responsibility perhaps?
watching padang padang…got two two upvotes
I met this gal in the surf and we worked it~
two guy’s burger’s ad can close the beach…better be a better burger~
buy the right stuff
“I Was…content vanished…Now Only Fans~”
shipping you and warshaw a ton of confiedential material. get it? and year books…
BG Alumni …Class of ’24 ceremony on Tavarua?
we are sponsored by Archewell and a Shared Purpose/Global Action…Leading The Way With Compassion…
by overtaking one Fiji surfbreak at a time, just like the British Royalty does/did/done/doing…if we can’t beat ’em, we must join ’em!
7.17
archie bunker…meathead~ a round-up score? edith!
No way that was a 8.14.
He was ripped off, it was definitely a 8.18
Fuckkkk judging
Any truth to the rumor that Chas interviewed for the WSL CEO job yesterday?
Kid is going places, attaboy Chas.
is this the live thread? or something from three weeks ago, hard to tell.
surfing is cool though
damn those scribes who ain’t unionized
Xox
WSL cant buy a wave this year. or a CEO. or a commentatator. Or an ad. Or a good producton team. Or an honest opinion. Or a can someone please stop me?
… or judging that makes sense.
Nobody beating Robson’s 10 in Portugal it seams. Yeti cooler still in parents garage…still in box.
Nothing captures the Beachgrit ethos and aesthetic more than this:
https://loeildelaphotograph…
Brought to you by Archwell, for real?
centsure stallwell and red ink!
This says it all:
https://www.thegatewaypundi…
Thought you were driving up there Chas. Was looking forward to on the scene reporting.
I went yesterday!
Should have done your five thousandth reporting on the U.S Open from a bar in HB
fore…skin.