"Teahupo’o is very intimidating where Trestles is not."

The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee’s decision to host the surfing portion of the ’28 Games at Lower Trestles is still reverberating across the surfing world. Tears in Huntington Beach, inward-looking angst in Lemoore and subtle shade being thrown all the way from Australia.

For it was from a vast real-estate empire on the Gold Coast where three-time world champion Mick Fanning opined on the decision to the Olympics official channel, writing:

Trestles is such a high-performance wave where I feel it suits a lot of different styles of surfing. It’s a very playful wave so you can practically do whatever you want on it. It’s the closest thing to a wave pool. A great peak so no one is at a disadvantage and 9/10, the person surfing the best wins the event. Every wave is very similar so it levels the playing field a lot. Japan is a lucky dip and Tahiti was pure barrels. Trestles is turns and aerials. Teahupo’o is very intimidating where Trestles is not. The challenge here is calming your excitement and picking the best waves as they are much easier to surf than the mediocre ones.

Students of surf history immediately detected the “Teahupo’o is a very intimidating wave” as a direct shot at the timid small-wave master Filipe Toledo’s well-documented terror in Tahiti featuring 0.0 heat totals, floating out the back while two elderly men traded magic tubes etc.

These same students, however, were aware of Fanning’s error. Toledo, of course, vanquished his demons with the single greatest moment in surf history after scoring a 9.67 in his heat.

WOW.

Back to Lowers being compared to a wave pool, though. Is that a good thing?

More as the story devleops.

Oops, they did it again.

The World Surf League is in the midst of an ironman streak of linguistic embarrassment, one that has stunned even the creative agencies responsible for some of the worst advertising blunders ever. But who could forget the classic blunders “Make 7-Up Yours,” Reebok’s “Cheat on your girlfriend, not your workout” or “The best things in life come in Cellophane.”

Well, the team that brought us “It takes a tour to make a title,” “All action, no lulls” and “You can’t script this” has just rolled out “Aussie Treble” relating to the upcoming Bells Beach, Burleigh Heads and Margaret River events.

There is no doubt that we will hear “Aussie Treble” said, from the booth, thousands upon thousands of times. Joe Turpel, Jesse Mendes, AJ McCord each using early and using often. Mitchell Salazar, if he’s invited, as well except using the cosplay Spanish “Aussie Trrrrrrrrrevel” instead.

Ugh.

Buckle up.

In your Great Wall Motors SUV.

War of the Broses.

Surfers found themselves sharply divided, yesterday, after the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee announced that Lower Trestles would host the surfing portion of the 2028 Games. Initial relief that we would all be spared Italo Ferreira performing the Huntington Hop was quickly replaced by pitched camps of those shrugging and those kinda mad.

Adding to the bitter cacophony, San Diego and Orange Counties re-ignited the bitter paternity feud over Lowers, both claiming ownership.

Fox 5 San Diego celebrated the announcement with the headline “Popular beach in San Diego County to host surfing the 2028 Summer Olympics” and chimed:

All eyes will be on San Diego County’s coastline this summer! LA28 recently announced a popular state beach located in North County will set the stage for surfing during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Trestles Beach, which is part of San Onofre State Beach, has been announced as the host venue for surfing during the Olympic Games.

The North County beach attracts millions of visitors each year, with Trestles being especially popular with surfers due to its consistent waves.

The Orange County Register, meanwhile, parried with “Olympic spotlight will once again shine on Orange County” and “LA28 Olympic surfing set for Lower Trestles, south of San Clemente” though both were paywalled.

Now, as far as the letter of the law goes, “Trestles Beach” is technically mostly in San Diego County but when factoring in the spirit of the law, Orange County’s San Clemente is the nearest town and San Clementines make up most its locals.

But do you have a preferred horse in this race?

A favored papa?

Please share.