Duplicity!
A blast has just gone off in the generally placid surf world, shaking the ground from Australia’s Gold Coast to California’s orange one. Sending surf enthusiasts reeling. Stumbling like drunkards and gasping for air. You have, no doubt, been following the story of Laura Enever’s very recent Guinness record for the largest ever wave (paddle-in) (female).
A wonderful story, certainly, and one that should be celebrated.
Except.
The World Surf League is involved in the whole business and, as surf watchers well know, everything the World Surf League touches turns to poo.
It was World Surf League tabbed scientists that declared Enever’s wave to be 43.6 feet. All extremely impressive, save the ride out which somehow went missing. That bit was evocative of the XXL Big Wave Awards from three years ago where Brazil’s Maya Gabeira beat out France’s Justine Dupont for the coveted Ride of the Year.
She, too, won a Guinness.
Now, new revelations from that event, then owned by the World Surf League, suggest much duplicity.
World Surf League Bombshell
According to well-placed sources, the judging committee, a “veteran team” who had been judging big waves since the dawn of time, decided that Justine Dupont had won. The World Surf League Chief of Sport, then commissioner, Jessi Miley-Dyer disagreed. She brought in her team of scientists. They determined Gabeira’s wave height, and then, Miley-Dyer forced the committee to declare her winner.
Dupont, at the time, not pleased, penning, “The @wsl announced that the record for the biggest wave surfed would be awarded to a surfer who does not finish her wave. I decided to smile about it even though I am deeply hurt to be subjected to a decision that I believe is totally unfairI’m especially disappointed and ashamed of this league which claims to represent our sport.”
She went on to criticize the “report from scientists who use the word ‘approximate’ in front of each of their statements.”
She ended with, “The season is starting and I know that I can surf even bigger waves without waiting for some records from them.”
Well, three years on and Dupont just snagged an absolute bear at Cortes Bank while filming HBO’s hit series 100 Foot Wave.
It went completely unrecognized by the World Surf League.
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And the world record for tyrannical delusion will verified simultaneously…
When will GPT-5 replace the world surf league
An open letter to bg. I’m Jessie’s illegitimate bull pup son and I’d like you to go a bit softer on her. I won’t go into why…let’s just say if you haven’t got anything good to say about people then don’t say anything at all. Good night goddy bless.
The G in grit don’t stand for no softness.
Clearly the work of Satan!
Yeah but he’s right
..I think more likely “vodka, check, Lithium, nah, won’t bother with that again today…”
The best ELO-less WSL pathetic move yet… it’s as if they have him on retainer as a consultant…
I find it weird that BG hasn’t run a story yet on the parting of Bethany Hamilton from Rip Curl and the putrid woke video that Rip Curl recently put out featuring their all-inclusive cast of “women”. What’s going on Chas, surely a story like that is low-hanging fruit and more newsworthy than half the other “candy” that gets posted here?
Probably salty cos STAB got the scoop
So is Chas or is it derek who are genderless???
Balless??
Gashless???
I think Beachgrit is worried about being cancelled 😆
OH WAIT, I missed this earlier! Are you insinuating Chas has a horse fetish not unlike Catherine the Great?
I just go straight to the comments and try to work out what the article is about. This ones got me stumped.
Ditto
Oh stop it! Stop it! This simply can’t be true! I refuse to believe that such a thing could happen!
Then again… If I can put my tin foil hat on for a sec, this is some top shelf BG trolling from JMD. Because, well, everything is about us, right?
The triad , JMD LE and Flick , the white blonde anglo saxon womens surf league…
Holy shit. That’s a big-ass wave.
Stumbling like a drunkard, gasping for air and reeling perfectly describe my surfing. And me on land too.
Is JMD as arrogant as she looks in the photos?
If HBO’s cameras are to be believed, Justine Dupont is a fabulous human and a fantastic ambassador for big wave surfing, regardless of gender. I base this opinion solely on the show-runner-picked video outtakes aired as part of the reality show, which I’m sure were not at all selected to paint her in the best possible light. That said, she does seem pretty nice and hellbent on riding big waves. So if she’s unhappy, I’m unhappy.
she doesnt mind having a bitch about the other girls too, viva la france
On the subject of extremely hot female surf commentators that actually surf good in contests, I was pretty hot on Laura in the booth. But after a couple views of the ABB comps and now watching the Taiwan 5000 comp running, dudes and dudettes, there’s a newer even fresher hotter nugget breaking down the heats: True Starling!!! Talk about taking a red hot crack!
Laura: ‘I’ll shave off mine if you shave off yours…”
Pics?
I’m too lazy to delve.
JMD’s a cunt
Ok now give it to me in C sharp
I’m very impressed by Justine’s ability to paddle into a wave on a tow-board. Harder than it looks!