"The past 6 months I've had competing firmly at the forefront of my mind. It's time for me to give it another crack."
Let us be quite honest and frank. The 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour men’s division is dull. No John John Florence, no Gabriel Medina, sort of no Kelly Slater, no fun. You can, then, understand the thrill when, yesterday, the World Surf League teased the possible return of longtime fan favorite Bruce Irons to competitive professional surfing at the highest level.
Taking to Instagram, the “global home of surfing” posted a simple unattributed quote over a cresting wave reading, “The past 6 months I’ve had competing firmly at the forefront of my mind. It’s time for me to give it another crack. My hope is to get a WSL wildcard for the s025 challenger series.
While some surf fans speculated that it might be Matt Wilkinson or Kelly Slater, the growing sentiment is that it must be one Bruce Irons. At just 45, the Kauai-bred legend has a new sponsor and looks to be in peak fighting shape. Andy’s younger brother burst onto the scene in the late 1990s with thrilling performances at Pipe, taking it to the greatest athlete to ever live twice (Pipeline and France), and, once, Freddy Patacchia for the 2008 Rip Curl Search event in Uluwatu.
He also took the 2004 Eddie with one of the better rides in the “Super Bowl of Surfing’s” proud history.
Known for his brash devil-may-care attitude, Irons is not afraid to call it like he sees it and will certainly bring much entertainment and joy when he is at the proverbial glass.
Happy days, without doubt, here again.
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Are they suspending drug tests?
I’d guess quite a few people on here don’t realize they would probably get along IRL if you took these anonymous comments out of it. I keyboard battle with plenty but I’m willing to guess sitting down for a beer with Chas (not Chad), Otto, Bexy, Negs, Way, Ads, , DHMF, et al, as a group, would be a great time (just no politics). So long as those fucksticks Lins and Rabin weren’t there, that would make it intolerable. Ha!!!
Bruce retired with a DUI 10 yrs ago, his brain is like 50yr old chewed bubble gum. This has to be a joke….
Shortly after posting that, Bruce meant to show up at ‘The Toilet’ but somehow got lost and found himself waking up hours later in the weird little cupboard that the HW heater lives in, the other way down the hall.
Bless.
This thread is all time BG commentary. Most of the big guns out, and threats of real life violence. Best feud since Brutus/Bexy?
I think there needs to be a meeting.
An eating and drinking comp, with all food and drink supplied by DanesS&SS AKA Timmy.
Filmed on handycam.
Narrated by Chas, released on VHS, for sale in all below average surf shops, and the BG online store.
Surely someone here has low enough Hollywood adjacent connections to make this happen…
Any idea for a venue? Might have to be outside the USA though (lets just say I have visa complications)
I presumed the two ‘battlers’ were both in Southern California, as is the preferred food and bevvy source, so moving locations beyond Mexico would be way over the zero budget.
And getting Chas to film and narrate was part of the zero budget seeing as (like most of the time) he won’t have anything better to do that day.
If you’re flush with cash you could get a fake passport or have the event moved closer, but otherwise (like in olden times) we’ll have to wait till it comes out on VHS…
All good , i still have an operation video recorder
Just catch a ride with the ferry service that lands on the beach. Popular with the South of the border folk
Beach Grit the Film has real potential. We can all negotiate for points on the back end too.
Oh The “Troll formerly know as” threatening to track down and smash me and Pauly if we ever mentioned his name was pretty epic. And shout out to @Valiant Scorn when he was going to “throw his considerable resources” and track me down for some sort of payback after I gave him a badge he didn’t like.
I miss Pauly.
He’s good, I got a message from him today.!
Awesome. good to hear.
I like that guy.
wish him well for me.
Howd his transition go?
He did say he was recovering from an “injury”
I miss the truth
Where did he go??
The Inertia
Those badges are serious bizzo Negs. I’ve said it many times, you are the Moderators moderator.
Huli threatening LGR with a beatdown was pretty classic.
Whoa, that some serious aka, alias, third person speak right there.
I hate that Huli guy. Someone should give him some cracks.
Open hand to da ear
Presently couple islands west of you for the near future. Having a hard time lifting my arms been paddling so much. Don’t know if I can be of any help!
you have to admit, it was pretty funny.
The Special AKA
This has reached all time childish depths.
It really has it all. Sharing drug experiences, fictional surf stories, internet beef (and beer), trashing Felipe. My computer crashed from all the pop ups. What moore could you ask for?
It really did make my day yesterday. BG doing the work of the gods.
JohnsKnees is a Tampon Tim!
On his knees for tampon tim!!
WSL has confirmed it is Julian Wilson. Sorry Bruce fans.
Wrong! Jihad Khodr!!
Xox
That guy is blowing up
Hahahahaha fuck.
Incredible.
Xox
Delusional. The Challenger series is held in shit waves. He’s 45. Just go enjoy Rifle Range, Kalihiwai and all the other spots you rule and ride off into the sunset.
Many are saying it’s Julian Wilson.
In which case, you’d have to guess he needs the mid/last place money as presumably his clothing brand hasn’t exactly soared.
Though what was he expecting by calling it Rivvia.
It sounds like a 1950’s Italian speedboat company, and styled clothes suitable for 40yr old early 2000’s social tennis players…
Agree, way more likely to be Julian. Also Bruce has trouble making flights ….
“… sounds like a 1950’s Italian speedboat company …”
bang on!
@JohnsKnees
okay. I’m here.
a bit stormy surf in front of Tower 9
you truly are retarded
come on now. Otto is fun to spar with even if he doesn’t always understand the joke.
a bit Ottistic
idk, maybe it’s Ottspergers?
He Ottostopfingeringhisbumhole24/7
Xox
Thought you were working.
Why would your employer pay their cowardly employee to comment here instead of actually working.
The year is 2025 and we work on computers, commenting takes about 2 seconds of my time.
Would have taken 2 minutes of your time to show up to speak to me when you were given that chance.
You said where. I showed up there, and you were unwilling to show up and explain how I showed up and “wouldn’t do shit” as you remarked.
You showed up at 1pm on wednesday, also if you think im going to meet some random MAGA-tard you have lost your mind.
Lunchtime. Was convenient for you.
You said you would entertain my “tough guy” keyboard warrior ways.
But alas, you never meant any of your talk
Not a clue on whats goin on. But Otto is the winner, for sure
“Not a clue on whats goin on” is a pretty good way to describe you though!
I’ve learned a few things about beachgrit.
– You are in love with yourself, and cant shut up.
– Barreled is a less educated version of yourself
more to come
and I’ve learned a few things about Brazzo surf fans through your comments that I didn’t previously know…
Wait…Never mind…I actually haven’t—you are a walking stereotype😂😂😂
Mate. You are a coward. Simple as that.
a Racist “progressive” american. tou are a joke. my hobbie is to come here to check your comments. always full of shit, lime you know all. Ive been with Bruce and Andy. Bet you never tell them what you write. You are just a keyboard racist coward.
and i dont use a corrector. so please dont complain about typos. English ja my 5th language
you’re right, I don’t tell Andy Irons what I write—really don’t have any way to communicate with him given that he’s been a bit dead for the last 14 years.
Wait though…you can actually talk with Andy from beyond the grave??? What kind of Macumba are you into? That’s kind of rad, actually!
You know what I mean. And Bruce is still around. Coward
Hey now, don’t duck my question. Can you communicate with dead people in general, or is it just limited to surfers?
Bruce is also pretty much half dead, so perhaps you can arrange a seance to talk to both him and Andy at the same time?
Another fight!!!
It’s chemtrails
Did someone say “You are in love with yourself, and cant shut up”
What were you going to wear to identify yourself?
parrot and eye patch, duh
🤣
Rainbow badge !
Xox
Rainbow
badgesashRed hat ?
Ha!
I brought a “Hello! My Name Is: Otto” sticker
Low budget
MAGA hat
Clint Eastwood The Good, The Bad and The Ugly attire, carrying a big ass shotgun.
Edit: Back Suit, White shirt, Skinny Black tie in Pulp Fiction fashion.
“Say “What” again! C’mon, say “What” again! I dare ya, I double dare ya
motherfucker, say “What” one more time.”
Such a great scene
c’mon Otto, you are better than this…..getting upset over an internet comment and then trying to physically remedy your position?
bexxy and I had a similar thing where I was to meet him in Sydney somewhere….2 x puffed up ego’s……it’s lose lose situation….get back to posting your opinions/facts……..called a forum!
He invited me.
Otto, you do not need to fall into someone else’s version of critical comments of you……if you let comments here bring you to an actual want for physical revenge….I think that you lost the argument as your words don’t carry any weight????
we have had our arguments and got personal…but i know politics aside…I could sit down with ya and have a chin wag over a nice bottle of red….and actually when ZI was looking at life prognosis of about 6 mths…bucket list…i ‘ll ask otto if I can come to Montana and live in the mountains then you could put me down when the time arrives??
a bit dramatic but real….
You’re a good guy Maurice. You choose your words wisely, and truly care about both surfing as an individual passion that has shaped all our lives, some more than others, and you care about where professional surfing is, and where it could be.
The thing with JohnsKnees is his insistent habit of interjecting with insult first, and comment next.
I said I’d drive down there. He agreed. Where and when. I’m a man of my word. He never had any intention of even sitting down for a beer, let alone throwing hands.
hey Otto, taking insults and responding is an art form in itself…….I think I set Bexy up and said I would meet him somewhere in Sydney….I have often been called out , and have said ,” well lets go to the beach….and when someone reply yeah lets go….answer is,” If I am not there when you get to the beach, start without me!”
people have seen me do this and it usually ends up being a bit of a tension breaker….as I didn’t and don’t need to prove myself,and am not that insecure in who I am to fall into somebody elses problem….
fuck there ‘s enough aggro in the world today and getting worse….so how do we defuse situations……..????
I hear ya
Where are ya meant to meet ?
Is there anyone else here that lives in the same area and can be there to film the meeting ?
Admittedly I hadn’t been following the progress of the conflict but think it’d be a good idea that you do meet for an eating and drinking contest that can be released as a VHS video and sold through the extremely high turnover BG online store…
No you didnt
that’s my version……did you start without me??
I adore you addressing this in this manner.
Xox
We’re ALL forum!
You sound like Tim Walz
could be a lot worse imagine being called JD?
I just realized after reading about how he’s going on a tour of town halls in Republican states…you complimented me,thanx,LOL!!
Na, you said youd send Brett over to dee why surf club.
But you didnt.
really , was sure I promised to come and see ya..bretts just a longtime mate…..can’t really remember…..would like to think that we trolled each other pretty hard…..hilarious when you think that here we still are,LOL!
Woah have we got an internet “let’s meet up” moment?
Turned into a gigantic moment of cowardice for JohnsKnees. I was there. He was nowhere to be found
This is top tier, old school internet hard-man shit. Just checked out the back end in excitement. You definitely got rarked up losing that battle, but not showing to the keyboard showdown puts @JohnsKnees:disqus squarely in second. Heady stuff.
I do it for The People™
Does you Wife get hot for you when you tell her about your internet beefs?
Not as impressed as when I clean my guns.
Haha. You are the biggest cunt.
Xox
Idk about that one, no date was given.
The time honored rules of dueling do make it pretty clear that a date, time, and place must be proposed and mutually agreed on by both duelists.
Very important so they know precisely when to drop a viagra each!
Xox
Oh I missed that. Actually with that and the fact that you had Otto so fired up that he turned up at a dive bar puts you a country mile ahead of poor @Otto
Nah. Read my response above. I said yesterday”see you tomorrow”. He wished me a safe drive in the rain
You went there Otto.
That’s fucking hilarious.
Yep. And we all win because of that.
Well, except for JohnsKnees of course.
very entertaining
What in the hell is happening here? Did we return to 5th grade?
3rd grade!
Hot date in the works though.
Are you guys fighting to see who is top or bottom ?
Xox
Bullshit. Yesterday I said I’dbe there “tomorrow”.
You even wished me a safe drive in the rain
you truly do not understand the internet or sarcasm.
I understand you, coward
hahahah ok dude.
Yep.
✓ Rude
✓ Cowardly
Come on Knees.
Meet up, have an eating and drinking comp, get it filmed and narrated (by Chas and DS&SS) and then sell it as a VHS on the BG online store, and in European surf shops.
Ya might crack the big time and get to enter it in the Cans beer festival…
Weak cunt!
Tampon Tim!!!
my vagina made a similar request last year, I told her where and when I’d be surfing and whom she should say hi to several times, but no one ever said hi😢.
I sometimes wonder what could have been…but alas, maybe in the next life I will find her.
That’s kinda hot 😉
Xox
Lol
Dance off!
Fuckin pussy!
let put together a BG blood feud fight card
otto v Johns knee
barreled v chas
the cunt that said LA deserved the fires v me
ramjet v spelling
dogsnuts v heteros
DHMF v maga
Com v Barton
All of us v WSL
felipe v waves im scared of
hamas v decency..
don’t forget
Trump vs the rest of the world
Putin vs the rest of the world
BRICS vs trumps new world disorder
maga vs the rest of us
nah mate, let it play out a bit
USA and Russia v the rest of the world
Otto’s Finger vs his Bumhole!
Xox
That’s a rematch.
you’d imagine that Otto has a muscularly developed finger from all those high cal trigger workouts.
I heard it is tattooed “The Prostate Pounder”.
Xox
While I respect mommy barreled, I would rip him apart in one round.
So it’s a slapping only fight? Can I wear a yellow beanie? Will we hand dance after? So many questions.
food for the feud!
dammit. That stinky Brazzo dragging me down way down on undercard ticket.
It’s on. I eat racists for breakfast
😂😂😂
Dane Sushi v Reality
DSS for the win!
ha ha …
The Bitchy Crab v. Rabin Gaza
Derek v transgender white shark
Its obviously going to be someone deeply underwhelming like adam melling or raoni monteiro
Can we start a running list of the most underwhelming surfers that it might be? I’ll start:
Davey Cathels
Billy Stairmand
Who was the older rookie (maybe there were two) that made it on tour a while back and I think they didn’t end up re-qualifying so at the end of the year there was no Rookie of The Year award given? One of them was like a tall dude from Australia with dark hair?
Liam Obrien or Morgan Cibilic? But probably Obrien since Cibilic was rookie of the year in 2021.
I got it!!!
Dion Atkinson
No disrespect either…. Looks like he’s still getting SHACKED and has a beautiful family… so he’s doing better than me!
Totally missed the “older rookie” part
Hahahaha fuck wow. No rookie of the year.
Peak WSL.
XOX
Ricardo Christie the kiwi?
He ripped. Scored way higher than average heat scores. But drew big guns in his heats every time and only just got pipped.
Felipe Toledo. Oh wait… he’s still on tour.
Bede durbridge
Durbige
Durbrige
That guy
Daniel Ross
Ricky “Bobby” Basnett
He rips but hated comps and seemed to aim for last place in every event as a statement. Check his vids
Being from the bluff I surfed with Ricky span. Always a stand out at cave but when he made the tour he jolled too hard
Still a standout now and no more jolling
Mick February
Jordy Lawler
Raoni charging and getting blown up at Fiji before they called off the event was heroic.
True. In fairness, adam melling was fun to watch, fast and efficient, like a poor man’s mick fanning .
Goes without saying all of these guys have/had an unwavering life commitment to surfing during a good part of their lives, soldiering on event after event, loss after loss, which is truly commendable.
Unknown-soldier-type honors. Hats off to them.
Melling bede raoni and the other aussie guy cant remember his name, on 6’4s. Increds!!
Youth action sports everybody
Let the scene sink in. Western Aus. 10-12 ft walls barreling toward the shoreline at Margarets. Only two men are in the water, patiently awaiting for those oceanic pyramids to reach their position. Those two men… Bruce Irons, the gritty thrill seeker. Then there’s Pip.
Bruce, with bloodshot eyes, looks over at Pip. The Brazzo is obviously intimidated by the hostile environment. Noticing his foe’s tense body language, Bruce did what any competitor would do.
Irons, pretending to go wide eye, stutters “Oh my Go-…. shark!”. Pip, in ineffable fear, has fight his mental dichotomy of being the competitor he dreams of being or paddle like mad to shore. Bruce knows what the duality of man’s mind can turn to and uses it like a bioweapon. What will Pip do?!
There is no shark. They aren’t even at Margarets. This is the El Salvador stop. But, the magic of dramatic television is right there!
I am amazed at the futuristic knowledge in this sharticle predicting a 2028 Rip Curl Search event at Uluwatu. Equally amazed that Bruce also won the 2024 Eddie. Who woulda thunk?
Thank you for being a tirelessly nitpicky housewife. Fixed!
Its a fun daily game to find the numerous errors in your meager attempts at journalism. My apologies for noticing that you skipped 20 years and can’t proofread your own text.
you do it for free.
Nah, Chad sends me weekly editing fees.
more like an old aunt…
Nice to hear Bruce is still alive. I was wondering what happened to him after his last attempted comeback with that one fake Drive Thru episode he filmed with Wardo and Bobby a few years ago…
Bruce walks up to the island counter that separates the kitchen from the small dining nook and prepares himself a bowl of Trix, spilling the milk all over the faux marble laminate. Ignoring the mess, he grabs his plastic spoon, the kind meant for food eating, and attempts to ingest his meal, getting most of it in his mouth but every so often having the small pieces miss his mouth, leaving a rainbow of the child kibble, half soggy on the counter. Just as he’s finishing up, in walks Bobby, who appears to have just gotten back from a run, his fitted, flat-brimmed, Monster logo-ed cap pinning in his airpodded ears tightly against his head drenched in sweat.
“Hey, man, were you out running already?” squeaks Bruce.
“Yes,” answers Bobby shortly, but not rudely, rather just answering the question directly.
“Whoa… running around this neighborhood is always so crazy… I mean, the streets are so… I always get lost,” says Bruce.
“I don’t know too much about that… hey, where’s Chris?” asks Bobby.
“He’s not here?” asks Bruce, clearly confused.
“No. Remember, he went out last night?”
Bruce continues to look confused.
“Yeah, he said he was going to look for some hookers… no, he said ‘escorts’… ‘just to talk to.’”
“And he didn’t invite me?”
“You were right there,” says Bobby, pointing to the couch in the adjoining living room. “I mean, you were pretty out of i…”
As he tries to finish, he is interrupted by the jiggling of the knob to the front door. The two wait in silence, as whoever is outside the door struggles with his keys, unable to correctly place them in the hole to unlock the door. After a few moments, he nails it.
“Hey, guys, are you almost ready to go?” asks the cloud of cigarette smoke and patchouli that walks in, who happens to be Chris.
“Go where?” asks Bruce, for some reason still confused, perhaps his permanent state.
“We’re supposed to be going on a surf trip for a movie, a knock-off of those Drive-Thru pieces of shit that Benji does.”
“Ohhhh, siiick. Where are we going again?” burps Mr. Question again.
“We were supposed to go to Texas and then Florida,” answers Chris.
“The end goal is Miami, which I don’t know is the greatest idea with you t…” starts Bobby.
“Whatever. So, Bruce, did you arrange us a way to get our flight?”
“Yeah, just a sec… where are we flying out of?”
“LAX,” responds Chris.
At that moment, Bruce’s body slumps and his eyes bulge out of his head.
“LAX? You know that is confusing as hell! I don’t know how we’re supposed to get there!” shrieks Bruce.
“It’s not difficult. We’ve all been pros for how long? It’s super simple,” maintains Chris.
Bruce backs himself into the corner of the dining area, sitting down on the floor beginning to hug his knees while he rocks back and forth.
“What’s wrong with him?” asks Bobby, shaking his head in disbelief, totally oblivious to the story about Bruce not making his flights for the contest in the Maldives from a few years back because he doesn’t pay attention to surf media, or so he says.
“He had a rough one a couple years ago,” Chris says as he walks over to where Bruce is, picking him up, cradling him in his arms.
“There, there, everything will be alright,” he whispers to Bruce, intermittently shhhhushhing him.
“Just get us an Uber or something… or ask Malia to come pick us up,” he relays to Bobby, giving him a nod.
“OK.”
Bobby orders an Uber and starts putting all their surfboards out on the lawn, where Chris sits with a lightly sobbing Bruce. There they sit in silence until their driver comes, who happens to be Koa Smith…
Are the portugal power rankings going to write themselves? You got weird priorities Karl
Ppl suggesting it’s Brucie might be misunderstanding the use of “crack” in this instance.
Am I wrong for thinking “take another crack” nudges this towards being an Australian? You definitely hear it in American English though.
Ya. It’s Julian. Mine was just a dumb joke.
Thought he was off drugs.
not exactly—just on different drugs to be off the old drugs
When info about ketamine for depression came out they talked about single low doses once a week. When I talked to someone who was in ketamine treatment they were taking large doses every day.
Everyone I know that supposedly “microdoses” anything from acid to mushies to ketamine eventually end up full dosing. I’d guess its one of those gateway things for those susceptible to addiction.
I had been in a rough spot for a bit about two years ago and I took mushrooms. I was hoping it would be this magic switch that just made me feel better day to day. Didn’t do any guided therapy or anything, just took an 8th and went for the ride.
It made me realize that most/all of my problems are self inflicted, there is no magic pill or drug that will just make me feel better, and that I have the agency and power to fix the my problems.
Honestly believe that my experience is probably the best case scenario.
Just avoid dogs when you’re tripping. They become these evil, strange beings in your head even though they are probably looking at you thinking the same thing.
I would just say you need to eat that 8th many a times (and def try DMT) along with the necessary lifestyle changes needed to eliminate the ego etc.
DMT is a mental ctrl alt delete. Good times.
Well said.
I microdose my 8 balls over the span of about 10 – 12 hours. Hope I’m doing it right
You microdose us daily with your knowledge.
I figure your shark size brain can only handle microdoses.
Pretty sure Julian was the one saying this a few months back.
Julian is a good surfer.
Bruce is a man who won Pipeline at age 22 against 6x world champ surf freak Kelly Slater .He is on another surfing level
That’s all true, but Bruce Irons has also been taking more ketamine than Elon goddamn Musk over the last couple years as part of his “psychedelic-assisted” addiction recovery.
always pointing the finger at someone… I bet you are the shit!
haha the 4th language pointer abides
lets talk about you. Another genius. What do you speak? Afrikaner? California English?
Ja sure. Actual English with South African slang Bru.
another Racist. but you are the real deal. Congrats! been there a couole of times. Amazing place.
Your interpretive skills are clearly as poor as your language skills. But you’re probably just another stupid and ignorant troll.
More ketamine than Elon Musk – must be approaching Matthew Perry levels, but he’s dead.
*was
Is or was?
This should help clear that up https://www.instagram.com/p/C-4IAqDTbqd/