Idle hands are the devil's playground.
The 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour season is shrinking in the rearview mirror with each passing day. Yago Dora, Molly Picklum, Cloudbreak, Strider Wasilewski and his magic microphone duck diving trick, all but disappeared. And out the windshield (or windscreen)? Nothing but desolation. A bleak and empty horizon with no end in sight.
Yes, the 2026 World Surf League Championship Tour season should have begun in January, a fourth month break in action that surf fans already found emotionally difficult. Except this year, after many changes to the schedule, it will begin April 1 at Bells Beach in Australia’s bottom.
An almost impossible-to-deal-with eight months.
A long winter of discontent in the northern hemisphere.
A long summer of depression in the southern.
Well, as everyone knows, idle hands are the devil’s playground and surf fans are finding their fingers opening unfortunate browsers, their eyes consuming the ISA’s dirty World Surfing Games in El Salvador.
Ever the whore, professional surfing has zero problem embracing the Central American country’s soon-to-be forever president, Nayib Bukele, and his jail-loving spirit. The ISA, which promises “a better world through surfing,” features nearly 300 surfers from 61 countries including Sally Fitzgibbons, Leandro Usana and Dimitri Papavassiliou.
Gabriel Medina’s baby sister Sophia will also be making her debut.
Enjoy.
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Its a world where flags still flutter colourfully in the breeze. Long may it last.
” Such is the season of ones discontent” Macbeth. Act 3. Scene 4 Chancellor Veralum.
Bukele’s closest friends/cult followers and family members who surf all get automatic advancement to the finals, or ISA officials join the rest of the 1/4 of the Salvadoran population and deportees from U.S. soil in prison. Good, good, good vibrations.
I’m on a real tear.
Must be my fith heat without a single wave.
When I finally get a wave within the 20mins it will amazing.
I’ve got a huge bag of tricks.
It’s completely empty, but I’ve still got the bag.
I’m keeping it because it mught be useful for something.
the paint’s drying nicely.
only 207 days to go.
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I don’t think he’s got a license for that shaka.
If I win the Powerball Tavarua is on me.
No love for Bukele, Chas?
Is he Bukake’s cousin?
el sal and punta hermosa, Peru were two spots I used to enjoy because they were a quick hop, easy to get to and lots of spots to pick from. now I have to see if the fucken isa games is there before I book a ticket everytime. I feel like they take over these spots at least 3-4x a year. might be worse than the wsl and way more people too
Challenger series gets a pipe event in January so that’ll be interesting watching half of them get smashed.
Haha you are awful Negs ☺️🙈
Xox
So the wosl 2026 season is starting on April 1st
aka April ‘fools’ day
How appropriate…
Looks terrific for foiling.
Beachgrittians, what sport and extra curricular activities shall we occupy ourselves with? I for one will delve into the upcoming cricket season and fishing, with a huge goal being to snag a crayfish (lobster) whilst diving! Titillating!
Xox
Grand Sumo September tournament should be fun to watch but only the 30 minute highlights on NHK
Can we gamble?!
Xox
ever been to a live Sumo tournament?
so much fun.
i never did when i lived there absolutely will be going next time i’m there!
Cheese rolling
Like, out of one’s foreskin?
Xox
Thats gonna be a hard no from me. I allow myself two weeks a year (1-2 heats a day) of watching that boring ass point and those two weeks have already been used up.