It's baaaaack.
The World Surf League is alive! Surf fans, everywhere, have spent the last two months nervously biting their fingernails whilst vigorously refreshing email inboxes, wondering when the “global home of surfing” would release something, anything, about the 2024 Championship Tour season. Alas, those tentacles were chewed down to nubs with inboxes remaining empty.
Was professional surfing going to fold like its sister professional bodyboarding?
But no!
Minutes ago, and hours ahead of the Lexus Pro Pipe, the “Welcome to the 2024 WSL Championship Tour” was unleashed. Twin WSL co-interim CEOs clearly deciding to march past the Parvo room in order to kick the PR intern in they/them’s pants and release the following.
The Banzai Pipeline, located on the North Shore of Oahu, is one of the most powerful and challenging waves in the world. Widely known as surfing’s proving ground, surfers have been making the journey here every season to test their skills at the world-renowned break. The wave itself is a hollow, fast, barrel that breaks over a treacherous reef.
Over the past two seasons, the women have showcased their talents at Pipeline and raised the bar for what is possible, inspiring a new generation of surfers. Defending event winner and five-time World Champion Carissa Moore (HAW) put on a brilliant display of barrel riding last season, making her the one to beat. But, she will face a stacked field including a new rookie class hoping to make a name for themselves.
The competition will also see three event wildcards joining the world’s best surfers: 2022 Pipe Pro winner Moana Jones Wong (HAW), 2023 SAMBAZON World Junior Championships runner-up Jackson Bunch (HAW), and 2023/2024 Hawaii/Tahiti Regional Qualifying Series winner Shion Crawford (HAW).
Rejoice and savor this, let’s be honest, final World Surf League offering before the reins are handed to Abu Dhabi and the show is rebranded Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer.
Here’s to the Cosmos stop.
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side boob, side discusion…contact’s ur’ us~
As someone new to surf. Do only the women surf pipe?
they type…
Surprised the WSL didn’t give Eimeo a wild card…
Sound like a sports exhaust system!
If Kelly doesn’t retire very soon he might not get to as the WSL doesn’t have many breaths left. Carissa is wise beyond R. Kelly’s years.
I was to told the arabs are out, do you have fresh info on wsl ownership?
Why Aren’t There More Websites Like the Encyclopedia of Surfing?
Words by Justin Housman
yee(HAW)
Only 903,014 on Cosmos in KSPS? Fuckin’ weak…
kelly’s not as popular with space aliens as he is with earthlings.
kel, call home~
I was more of a Transworld surf guy. Never made it to Cosmos I don’t think.
Ohhh lalaaa. I’m pro pipe 😘😉
Xox
ha….you better be a chick.
Sure, whatever gets you going 😻
Xox
Ohhh babyyy🤘
Feels a lot like going to the same old country fair I’ve been going to since I was a child and now wondering if I should still go on the rides.
the Perplex us Pro Pipe.
Suburu loves pipe
as does Dat Sun
kiki dee & elton bilb0john, non/john. giv ’em an~
Wait until Jacob “king wavepool” szekely hears about you outting a secret mysto spot online, brah!? _i_e__n_ doesn’t need to be put on blast, champ.
Fuk yeah!!
Itll be the Medina show.
He fuken owns that joint .
And hes probly only surfed it 50 times
The crowd is going wild here in astrograd.
Kinda like they did when Snowball Mendes won the Triple Crown….
Your forever haunt
[Salute] [click of heels]
That’s a good reason to go digital
That media release screams Chat GPT. Maybe they’re collaborating with Surfer mag?
One Co-Interim CEO has got to feel this gig is an absolute wrong step, likely downward, on his career trajectory, and would much rather be in his law library plotting judicial lawfare, while the other Co-Interim CEO must think this the opportunity of a lifetime, a life so far spent in mediocrity, but success once beyond reach now seemingly at her feet.
The whole design is untenable.
tbh, any lawyer who would agree to step into a CEO position for a company for whom he is also in-house counsel is a fucking moron. Those laywer ethical responsibilities and the fiduciary duties owed by an officer to the company and its shareholders tend to become incompatible fairly quickly.
I don’t get why this “Interim” status has lasted so long.
But they don’t have shareholders, nor a board of directors to answer to. Not really a CEO at all… just two people keeping Natasha’s dream alive via Dirk’s long pockets
Both roles at the same time definitely. There definitely can be problems with making the transition from one to the other but in a lot of situations it’s OK.
Theyll leverage the expertise of outside counsel to manage C level fiduciary abuse and other malfeasanse to protect Ziff
“”The World Surf League (WSL), established in 1976, is the global home of surfing. The WSL is dedicated to changing the world through the inspirational power of surfing by creating authentic events, experiences, and storytelling to inspire a growing, global community to live with purpose, originality, and stoke.””
Dedicated to changing the world. Inspiring me to live with purpose, originality, and stoke.
Thank. You. WSL.
just like it never was…just like it…
law library prepping for the witness stand: “Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth…So help you Jeeebus?”
How ’bout we just start with “Do you promise not to fuck this up”?
Seem to be leaning very heavily into the danger aspect/wipeout reel in their YouTube clip. The last throw of the dice, the death rattle of a dying rat
For those that are confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WrxClf0LA