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.
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A favored papa?
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This article perfectly captures the absurd-yet-serious coastal rivalry bubbling up over Lower Trestles’ Olympic moment. While the territorial squabble feels almost comical (complete with surf-local politics), it underscores how profoundly surf culture resists institutionalization—even for the Games. The real question: Will the Olympics honor Trestles’ rebel soul, or turn it into another sanitized corporate venue? Either way, the wave itself remains blissfully indifferent to the drama. 🏄♂️🌊
I bet Cole Houshmand is more focused on wether his orange lower testicles make him more manly than Joel Tudor from San Diego.
who would have thought they would pick trestles over huntington or oceanside,,,,
If you sexually assault a sea lion at Trestles, where do you go to jail? That’s right, Oceanside. By the sea lion sexual assault test it is clearly San Diego.
War of the Broses is final boss level clever subtitle. Chas is a smart M’er F’er
all they need to do is get rid of those halfway houses over by Ralph’s and the problem will be largely vitiated. That being said, they’ve still cleaned up the issues with problem vagrants down there in the last few years.
this is the perfect time to consult with DSS&S Tim.
he will provide exact GPS coordinates, coastal maps and pictures from the 1950’s, and topographic maps of the Southern California sea bed.
both will fight tooth and nail until the olympic surfing is held in onshore 2 ft. slop, then: “nope, that’s not part of our county”
do ya think donny will intervene and make huntington beach the olympic venue…as it’s maga country?
cobblestones
Ok Just found out San C is maga also , phew I though hair dunny would have to intervene…..for a price……. and maybe a corporate gilded elites box…..sponsored by the tates and col?????
Watch the 2nd vid. Joe is so fucking racist
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1912374084819615756
so am I , just like us all!
San Clemente is just as big a MAGA cesspool.
Yet Los Angeles and San Francisco are actual, see with your own eyes, cesspools.
I’ll take where I live over San Clemente and HB any day of the week. No graffiti hardly any homeless people very low crime rate and it’s one of the most democratic voting counties in California.
Demographics not democrats
Sadly my teenage son no longer laughs at the nuclear tits joke when we drive past. Something about me being cringe.
Always called it the Dolly Parton tribute.
Le Grande Tetons?
I stupidly dumped the love of my life at 24, mesmerised by someone else’s nuclear tits.
Bad move… terrible move.
If we knew then what we know now. I’d be living with about 4 amazing women now…
“Look at all this wild unspoilt nature!!!” (Looking at some exotic weeds, next to a McDonalds, surrounded by huge billboards.)
Train tracks that have been closed off and on over the last few years because of errosion issues. But hey, let’s improve those tracks for the Olympics, build a seawall, and destroy all the San Clemente beach breaks!
Where art thou new surf pool. Olympic sized foam climb down. Likely a flat out disaster. Brizzie might save the day in 32 if the Olympics give surfing another shot.
I’ll have to side with the Sun Deaarrrgo’ers due to K-Hole and his homeskooled 2% crü being from Sun Climèntay, and they’re all dicks…
Something to look into: is the WSL so desperate that they’re view-botting themselves on youtube? 346,000 views in 46 seconds seems like quite the feat!
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Same argument as Rincon. Upper point and parking lot are in SB county but the cove (arguably the better wave) and lower parking lot are in Ventura. Closest town is Carpinteria which is in SB county. In terms of crowds, both Rincon and Trestles are as worthless as each other.
Definitely you as a journalist should not pay to read other journalist’s work.
It’s the Orange County Register.
Fair enough. Just effing with you!