“This is rude…and absurd.”
Two of the biggest names in surfing, two-time world champ Tom Carroll and the famously maltreated gal’s queen Pauline Menczer, have slammed contest organisers after a Legends Superheat at the World Club Championships failed to include anyone with a double X chromo-code.
The Instagram account associated with the mostly well-received Girls Can’t Surf, a documentary that “follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever.”
One female reviewer, however, summed it up thus: “Blanket sentiments that some men said and did some unpleasant things, that some of the women were likely wronged by their female contemporaries without the specifics of who, doesn’t serve these women, or the audience.”
Anyway, at the 2026 World Club Championships, a board riders event held at Snapper Rocks and which finished four days ago, Torquay beat the Kolohe Andino-led San Clemente, a legends superheat was held.
Matt Archbold, Dean Morrison, Tom Carroll, Jay Phillips, Nick Vasiceck, Mark Occhilupo and Bede Durbidge.
A few dubious includes, and some wild spellings in the graphic, but viewers were quickly alerted to the absence of women from some of the biggest names in the sport.
Tom Carroll: “This is rude and absurd.”
Pauline Menczer: “Thanks Tom sad to see this is still happening.”
Filmmaker Christopher Nelius, “I remember when we started pitching Girls Can’t Surf I spoke to the WSL about doing a women’s legends heat and just got blank looks.”
Of course, the truth is a little more mundane than wild misogynists with jack boot on the necks of terrified gals.
The Legends heat was thrown together with whomever was around as a little light entertainment before the final.
At least that’s the story I got.
Or is something sinister afoot here?
Your candour appreciated, as always.
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Fucken ripper!
Xox
Why don’t they just have a women’s only legends heat? Or was Stef not available?
I probably still remember how to mull up and pack bongs.
Xox
Does the Smoko company you work for at least give you the minimum work time you’re legally entitled to?
Also, I’m good on the weather. The Irish crew used to call me Magic Weed, after my stature and knowledge of the system. Kinda a Surfline Man, without the proof of weirdness, because there were no chicks to get weird with back then.
Muslim Tranny Super Tour. Equal pay & equal rights…
The greatness of its past?!? You always harp on about the “dream tour” but it was a concept that never really delivered much past a couple of events. Way more Manly, Japan etc than G-Land when you look at the events actually run in a calender year.
More better waves on tour now.
na- go look at 2006 schedule.
lol. That was pretty good year. Shame they couldn’t keep it afloat without the peak industry cash being thrown around.
Dirk could match that and then some and not even move a decimal point.
The ASP was great at taking chances – like Mundaka and New York – not that it paid off on average but awesome to watch when it did. A little bit more of that would be nice again.
Mate. This is a safe place. Nobody believes you actually work the tools with the amount of time you are on here. Just tell the truth….that you are in tech and work from home. Your still a man!
Disqus sucks shit. Just sayin’.
Been having a terrible time logging in. Didn’t think I was logged in now, just punched ‘comment’ thinking I would be sent to yet another unsuccessful login page.
been having issues too, have found that – for whatever reason – if I click the login button at the very top of the comments as opposed to the one that pops up when I start a new comment it works much better.
Don’t ask me to explain it, inexplicable but effective.
Thanks, I’ll try that!
I’m in. I’ll do the scaff
I’ll print and frame the winner skulling a mid strength.
Xox
They could have tapped Trudy Todd on the shoulder and sent her out there.
Talking about female legends
Word in industry halls says Yoko Ono and/or KD Laing will be putting out new artistic collections soon
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Here one of them is spotted on their way to Cardiff by the Sea for a secret interview with a surf adjacent author who’s been rumored to be ghostwriting at least one of their lifes story…
He looks like Keala Kennelly
Maybe they figured with Carroll and Occy in the water no one else would get a wave to themselves.
troys dad Rod first looked after me when I went to Torquay 70…great family!
yeah when I switched on….it was small and gutless…..I really struggle to watch comps these days….seen so many and an era of wild/crazy/innovative/creative surfing……so yeah fun for the local BRC…yewwww
We also need to rename “Old Man’s” in San-O to “Old Everyone’s”.
Was boring as
Yes Tom surfed
Fuck the legends off and give the kids a go
Whole things a bit of a joke with a lot of teams thrown together with ring ins
Snapper even cheated and they re ran a heat
Final was good
Torquay deserved the win
Torquay won? Fuck me, I really thought this was going to Kolohe’s year.
Misogyny is baked into the culture and is going to take a lot more sweat to chop-out.
We have our next boardriders comp on International Womens’ Day and hoping to highlight that. Got about 40% female membership from kids to adults.
The anti-woke crowd can shove it up their collective arse.
is that last line aimed at the epstein mob…..I think you have sent and air of excitement thru them or at least dognuts?
Well… to fair, I meant it in a philosophical call to self-reflection, rather than a invitation to intimately pleasurable physical action.
More muslim immos will fix that
Yeah I was on the beach watching, it seemed like a loosely put together thing to fill time before the finals, it was super boring to watch too. Jay Phillips was ripping though, love his style.
While it seemed a loosely put together thing it was listed the day before the event started and already had some names up so I guess they could have mentioned that to Layne and other lady legends at least a couple of days prior to finals day. I don’t believe it was malicious but a bad oversight by the organisers in this day and age.
asking the real questions… afterheat sandwiches were ready on schedule?
nah just a piss up and a Barbie …..not ice,LOL.