The most fossil fuel hungry tour ever!
The fabled second jewel of surfing’s Triple Crown has been erased from the World Surf League Championship Tour for the upcoming 2025 season. Sunset Beach, there on Oahu’s North Shore, no more. It is being replaced by Kelly Slater’s sparkling Abu Dhabi surf tank leading surf thinkers to wonder if, perhaps, the greatest competitive surfer of all time wanted to stab his least favorite wave in the heart as he is forced into retirement.
Slater’s disdain for Sunset very public over the years.
The tour will begin at Pipeline before burning excessive jet fuel to fly all the way to the United Arab Emirates. From there, it will fly halfway around the world, again, to Portugal followed by more jet fuel to El Salvador, even more to Bells, where it will finally conserve energy by plunking down for Snapper and Margaret. After the cut, Lowers, Saquarema, J-Bay, Teahupo’o will close out the regular calendar, with Finals Day being hosted at Cloudbreak.
In other words:
Stop No. 1 – Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii, USA: January 27 – February 8
Stop No. 2 – Surf Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE: February 14 – 16
Stop No. 3 – Peniche, Portugal: March 15 – 25
Stop No. 4 – Punta Roca, El Salvador: April 2 – 12
Stop No. 5 – Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia: April 18 – 28
Stop No. 6 – Snapper Rocks, Queensland, Australia: May 3 – 13
Stop No. 7 – Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia: May 17 – 27*
Stop No. 8 – Lower Trestles, San Clemente, Calif., USA: June 9 – 17
Stop No. 9 – Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: June 21 – 29
Stop No. 10 – Jeffreys Bay, South Africa: July 11 – 20
Stop No. 11 – Teahupo’o, Tahiti, French Polynesia: August 7 – 16**
Stop No. 12 – WSL Finals – Cloudbreak, Fiji: August 27 – September 4
Or for the semi-illiterate:
Certainly the most gas-gobbling tour ever.
Coincidence?
The World Surf League’s media-shy CEO declared, “We’ve built this schedule to include more events and feature a variety of breaks. We’ve brought back some of the Tour’s most desirable locations, while aligning dates with favorable swell windows, to open up more opportunity for quality surf. We’ll see a great mix of locations from heavy-water barrels, to high-performance waves, and pristine point breaks. It’ll be an exciting showcase of the world’s best surfing featuring the incredible CT talent. We can’t wait to kick off in January 2025. See you at Pipe.”
Thoughts?
Pretty much no one, unfortunately – as a normal crowd at Sunset for the past decade at least is old 50+ surfers on three-meter plus boards taking every single wave that comes through, few competitive surfers bother to free surf at Sunset anyway, preferring the Pipeline/Backdoor area.
Schedule sucks. WTF are they doing putting that stupid wave pool on the schedule? The biggest question is, will former world champ Fil Toledeo make a comeback?
Would love to know where our embassedors of green washing are going to plant coral in the UAE to offset their carbon footprints
I don’t wanna watch some dumb fucken wannabee tennis tour,,,
or maybe just a couple
Leaving the Northshore during peak season with no Triple Crown to go to a wavepool in the Desert makes me question who’s in charge of the World’s Slowest Learners, obviously not a surfer. “Shareef Don’t Like it! Rock the Casbah!”…
has to be my favorite surf spot on earth. Makes me really regret being a haole. Such a great wave, such a beautiful spot sitting out there and looking up at the cliff, watching the local boys hit on my wife lol
Shove it. Lifeguard…
this could be one of the most intelligent comments ever on Beach Grit.
unfortunate for the hard chargers that, with the exception of pipe the first part of the season looks like dog snot.
That one takes me back
Wonder what the negative economic impact will be to the North Shore with the WSL pulling Sunset? Would like to hear Uncle Eddie’s take on this.
Turtle Bay wasn’t close to full last year during Sunset.
If anything, pulling the Triple Crown had a bigger impact but that’s just based on my gut feel of crowds/traffic past and current.
The biggest joke is keeping Margaret River 2 turns and a closeout ? Seriously what a joke.
How dare you!
Margaret River has “The Bricks”…….and “The Stairs”!!!
Don’t forget the dangerous carpark full of hangeroners like Mitch n Shero and the ever lurking looking for limelight freddo and snake.
Dont forget the ‘surgeons table’
Florence X
Bring on the caped rashie!
for those epic flying kick-outs that are so popular in the Olympics
call her…
Honolua? I hardly know ‘er.
Also in a time zone that few will watch live.
Stop wearing your underwear on the outside of the pants. Makes you look like a super dork.
Hmmm 🤔
Surfers don’t give a shit about CO2 emissions. We just want to surf and fuck tomorrow and the planet. We really are a selfish bunch of pricks.
One of the best explanations of the Climate Change phenomenon.
Climate scientist Judith Curry bravely says climate change isn’t a “crisis.” She explains how the scientific community became corrupted by “fame and fortune.”
https://youtu.be/U0PQ1cOlCJI
ask the people in Florida…2 hurricanes in 2 weeks and Milton went from a cat 1 > Cat 5 in 24 hrs never been seen before…..the oceans are the warmest we have ever seen and the weather has changed quite a lot..
you may want to watch the video before commenting.
…..also did you see DeSantis slap down the reporter who asked whether these storms could be atrributed to global warming.
DeSantis slapped him like Doug Emhoff slaps women in Antibes. for instance did you know there have been 27 huuricanes of greater magnitude (lower Barimetric pressure) in Florida in the past 100 years, also that the 1930’s were the worst ever for hurricanes in Florida, and through years from 1900 to 1949 there were 108 hurricanes that hit Florida including the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, the most powerful ever recorded.
probably not, because facts don’t matter to you.
watch the video. Judith Curry was the leading climate scientist in the early climate alarmist days, in fact she was the one that climate activists always had speak on climate change, until she did the research….and called out the frauds.
I’m not saying the earth isn’t heating up, but is it natural cycle or man caused? no-one actually knows….but why continue, you’e not interested in listening to facts. You just want to spout hyperbole, so lets end it there.
Earth has been hotter before. Earth has been colder before. This is a pretty aggressive change for the warmer in a short amount of time though.
I guess it comes down to whether humanity is ok with going through the economic growing pains to wean ourselves off of fossil fuel energy only to later find out that it was all a natural cycle anyway (i.e., climate change is not man made, but we unsuccessfully still tried to stop it) or whether we just continue on our current trajectory only to later find out that climate change is man made and we didn’t act to stop it (i.e., climate change is man made and we fucked the planet by letting it happen).
Seems like viewing the reduction of emissions and the further development of cleaner energy resources as an insurance policy might be the better approach rather than arguing over whether this is a natural or man made phenomenon (and it’s possible that it might be a bit of both).
Either way, I’d like to see OPEC countries stop being economically and geopolitically relevant if and when we can scale up fusion energy in the West.
And either way, the Middle East is going to run out of oil in the next 50 – 100 years, if not sooner.
good points, but with the population what it is and Man himself, by merely breathing and emitting more CO2, what do you do?
You act as if ” cleaner energy resources” are actually cleaner. that’s completely false because of the emission of very dangerous and much more toxic byproducts that come from the production of “cleaner energy” resource products. REE mining emit some of the most dangerous, toxic and dirty pollutants into our water and environment. way more dangerous than any “fossil fuel” production.
I completely agree with you that we do not want to be beholden to the ME and OPEC, but I dental want to be beholden to China, who owns 97% of REE mines world wide.
So, the best solution over all would be of the U.S. to drill it’s own oil and utilize its own REE mines and produce it’s own energy and manufacture it’s own “clean energy” products. Agreed?
it’s amazing how the fossil fuel lobby has everyone brain washed….they receive $7T per year in subsidies from our Governments…we spend 1/2 that amount on education…….who profits from the fossil fuel lobby??
The United States provides a number of tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry as a means of encouraging domestic energy production. These include both direct subsidies to corporations, as well as other tax benefits to the fossil fuel industry. Conservative estimates put U.S. direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. European Union subsidies are estimated to total 55 billion euros annually. ~ EESI.
You may want to read this about debunking the myths of subsidies….or not.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunking-myths-about-federal-oil-gas-subsidies/
ah IMF’s figures in 2022 put the USA’s Fossil fuel subsidies at $757 Billion dollars and the world a $7T
https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-proposals-to-reduce-fossil-fuel-subsidies-january-2024
it’s called an insurance policy….if the scientists are right well we have already done irreparable damage and our climate continues to change with hotter/ wilder storms/ sea level rise etc……
Science is telling us we are heating up the planet…..and a hotter planet means a radically changing climate!
I actually research everything I say, which when you see what Desantis says and the whole BS thing about weather control / FEMA funding – yes 16 Rep congressmen voted 25 the Sept against a bill for more funds to FEMA- Ooops
so Milton went from Cat 1 to cat 5 in 24 hrs…..never been seen before…looks like Florida is getting a new climate!
Theres a huge demand for oil.
So you agree with MTG that the government is controlling the weather?
oh FFS , MTG really…Jewish space lasers but now the Govt …..LOL……it’s truly amazing how Broebert and MTG even get media attention , they such stupid shit it’s sorta silly news….
You missed the point.
If humans are causing “climate change” and it is resulting in more severe weather then what’s the difference from humans possibly creating hurricanes.
We know that the flooding rains in Dubai were man made.
“There is some good evidence man contributes to global warming. But I say, so what? We can deal with that. It’s not a catastrophe. And cold is far worse for hurting people than warmth.”
John Stossel. (2014-12-11). Fox & Friends [Television].
You know what? I’d rather not be taking my climate advice from this guy.
love the obfuscation.
It’s not about Stossel, it’s about the person he’s interviewing…….but….you knew that, didn’t you?
You just have to scream FOX NEWS, so you think it makes what they are saying illegitimate.
Now Human….GO……and emit CO2 no more.
but wait, that would mean you’d be dead.
I generally go straight for the source that isn’t hand picked to lead me to the answers that some twat has already decided on. Believe me Camper, I’ve been dangerously close to going down these rabbit holes. Sure you can go with the tiny minority of scientists who argue these points. But to imply that scientists are only come to these conclusions because they are “corrupted by fame and fortune” is pretty demonstrative.
Can you name any famous climate scientists? Any that are making ‘fortunes’? Who are they and where the fuck can I sign up?
If you’re going to claim fame and fortune, you have to provide some very basic evidence…
watch the video.
she explains exactly why “scientists” come to “these conclusions”.
Remember, she was the #1 scientists that climate alarmists featured at their events, rallies speeches, etc. until the East Anglican debacle.
Open your mind. watch the video.
the whole idea of a climate catastrophe ,and all the Hype is just media driven..bad news sells and makes money…that’s why the Trump era has been an economic bonanza for the media….so yeah a lot of hype …but our climate has and is still changing….can we adapt?
Plants grow faster as CO2 levels rise. Just food for thought.
And for what it’s worth, I didn’t mention Fux News at all. Merely quoted the man himself. How is that obfuscation? As opposed to yourself bringing up things not connected to my comment or reasoning?
Not saying all conservatives project, but have a good weekend champ.
John Stossel. (2014-12-11). Fox & Friends [Television].
hmm , would you rather be caught in a firestorm or a flood?
Climate change is a hoax. You’re being duped people. They have to scare you into accepting government policies you’d otherwise never accept. Now go have a ham sammish.
ah our whole civilization doesn’t give a fuck about tomorrow…..yes humans are selfish and never learn the lessons of history…quite moronic!
offset the jetfuel by the amount of fuel produced in the UAE during the comp
Etihad uses Jet A to wash their planes.
https://youtu.be/1mRG2oAQhso?si=hSnslwNq3Y3fIoJ3