"So lame the media (read: WSL) today doesn't do some homework before spitting info that's not correct."
Caitlin Simmers electrified the surf world, yesterday, by becoming the first Californian in over 30 years to win a surf championship. The Oceanside born and raised regular foot kicked the season off with a bang, many months ago, dropping the now-iconic line “Pipeline for the fucking girls” after a win at the North Shore gem. She ended on the highest of notes.
Her accomplishment garnered glowing comparisons to a 60-year-old man and much talk, in the booth, about how she was the youngest champion, ever, on the women’s side. The WSL crowing on its own website, “The pride of Oceanside, Simmers, brought California its first women’s World Title in 40 years and her maiden – becoming the youngest WSL Champion in history.
Except she is not.
Surf champion Joel Tudor, taking to Instagram, was forced to set the record straight.
“Youngest female world champion in history!” the highly decorated jiujitsu master opened before continuing, “15 yr old Margo Oberg! Winning her first world title in 1968 at domes in Puerto Rico on a Mike Doyle shaped mini model …Margo would go on to win 4 more world titles that spanned from the longboard era into shortboarding making her the 3rd most winning lady champ behind Layne Beachley’s 7 and Steph Gilmore’s 8. Respect to fullness and hope to put some respect on your name and accomplishments! So lame the media today doesn’t do some homework before spitting info that’s not correct.”
The denigration of women’s history continues a troubling pattern for the World Surf League. Who could forget when the “global home of surfing” declared Hawaii’s Keala Kennelly to be the first openly gay professional surfer only to have to walk it back, later, when presented with the fact that it was Corey Schumacher. Or when the same World Surf League erased the aforementioned Kennelly’s perfect Teahupo’o 10, forcing the XXL surf icon to write, “I’m getting very tired of the media diminishing the surfing legacies of my generation (and other past generations) I recently had a history making accomplishment of mine completely erased and bestowed on someone else then spread all over the internet.”
What do you image the reason for such anti-women history in the league’s offices?
Simple sloppiness?
An underlying misogyny?
These mistakes don’t happen over and over and over again on the men’s side.
Well, here’s to Margot Oberg and hopefully the World Surf League issues an apology forthwith.
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Jotusurfpedia has spoken
So if the WSL,s rational is correct , if i buy the WSL and rebrand it the “UPSL” Un Professional Surf league , then i can restart the record book at what ever point in time i choose to call ground zero , how so very Pol Pot of the WSL.
Carissa had 5 titles and a gold medal so that would put her ahead of Margo
I would hope at this point Joel Tudors wife is def banging another dude behind Joels back..
Did Margo compete on the WSL tour? No she did not. Therefore Caity is the youngest ‘WSL Champion’. However Margo would be the youngest ‘World Champ’. Details matter.
If I were going to name a baby girl it would be hard not to name her Margot Oberg.
WSL rewriting women’s history is just the tip of the Oberg
I may be wrong but I think I heard them say, “in the history of the WSL”
emmm… are we not forgetting someone? Charles? Matt? Jen? Anyone?
You just know they’re gonna say “WSL established 1976”
Anyone see Kelly’s shade thrown at jjf. never disappoints
What did he say?
congrats, should be his 4th or 5th one by now
Free-basing.
there’s nothing like a good story…
so there’s nothing
I would hope Caitlin would set the record straight herself and show the respect.
If she does it will come back to her x 1000!
I heard Matt is changing the name of lost surfboards to loser surfboards following John John victory riding pyzel?
Definitely If Kamala wins
Occam’s Razor and the general notion that prior behavior is the most reliable indicator of future behavior would call for the conclusion that this is just incompetence within the WSL rather than anything that is either petty or nuanced.
Margo,s style kind of looks like Caity Simmers in that top pic
Women surfing didn’t exist before the equal pay thingy
It’s simple Margonomics!
“the youngest WSL Champion in history.”
Did Oberg surf in a WSL championship?
Joel can’t read good.
Simmers wins on big and small waves which is a feat a certain male surfer from Brazil couldn’t accomplish!
This shot of John Florence shows he may be the offspring of another world champ after all.
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Though not Ke11y as some thought…
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