Time to reward our employees of the day.
The World Surf League’s 2026 Championship Tour is on its back third, much of a thrilling season already in the bag, enough left to change the very arc of history yet to unspool. Fiji, the 8th event of the year, swings its waiting period gates wide in less than 24 hours and, as you certainly know, Italo Ferreira, on the men’s side, and Gabriela Bryan, on the women’s are top of the pops going into Cloudbreak but you, honest and true BeachGrit commentator, have been the real hero.
Contest after contest, wave after wave, pronunciation after pronunciation of “Teahupo’o” you have been here with real time in-depth barrel-riding assessment, serious praise and critical memes. It has been honest work, and good. So good, in fact, that the people at Vaer Watches have seen and decided to reward.
For the first time ever, the super indie and indelible BeachGrit “Live Chat” will have a daddy. Vaer, watches handbuilt in the United States out of the best materials, will be gifting one to the commentor who offers the best comment each day.
Founded a decade ago by Ryan Torres and Reagan Cook, Vaer has truly become a staple of the active man’s look/feel. The two wanted to buck the “fast fashion” trend and set about crafting quality. As a five-ish year owner of a Vaer, I can speak to the quality. It has been around the world with me and never missed a tick.
The rules, here, are simple. The best comment each day will be chosen by a heady panel including, and limited to, me n Derek Rielly. The winner will receive a Vaer.
Enter as many times as you’d like.
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I have no shot of winning this but god bless you Vaer and all you do for The Grit.
and how are they doing…..??
I would rather see them belting the lip…which are the big point scorers…than just doing carves!
That Israeli arse just got completely worked and she paddled straight back out for more. Derek’s one hand is on the keyboard, the other is somewhere else. Chas is still drawing borders on a napkin..
Scrunter came in hot, mr hot take after being kicked off somewhere else. Same in poor taste jokes ad nauseum. Has anyone else been banned except Tim? It’s not credibility, it should be viewed with some sense of shame or self reflection.
Now he’s revisioning history and riding it like a dead horse. Negs, who contributed to this site more than anyone is gone to appease a whiney Sook like Scrunter?
Trump whinges about the 2020 election, all well proven lies. Scrunter whinges about his banishment. Those who supported him and his constantly evolving list of enemies. He hates Kiwi’s and Vicco’s…. The parallels are crazy. Perceived injustices, false narratives, villians aplenty.
Gwen despises him, yet makes his friends list? There’s no logic. I’ve forgotten, please don’t get angry Blowin…. did you post your list of things you hate 30 times and I missed it?
Behind it all you’re just a very vain, angry and bitter old cunt ay mate
disclaimer: “Feel free to use ANY of my comments and claim they’re yours ’cause everybody here already knows what time it is.” Never wore a watch or a wedding ring and still can’t watch WSL Finals live.
“All bells are tolling…Cloudbreak will be EPIC?”
Just to be clear…..El Tunco is a fucking ZOO.
You down there?
Yes. But not for long
Don’t be stubborn
The boys will get you into something if you’re game
You better watch out cause it’s time…
This is the 279th comment.
Yeah too long not going to read…
that other site likes to award commenters just to gin up some talk , which always seemed pretty lame (apologies Com , your comment was a deserving winner )
That said , given that the BG contest chat hums on its own , will give this gambit a free pass
if had to handicap it, would say the legends James Bond and bograil are the dark horses , dogsnuts has the teacher’s pet advantage , strayan will no doubt post some insider knowledge on the lineup to get himself in position , and longtom / surfads are likely eliminated out of the gate under the ‘get paid to write surfing words’ contest exception …
if memes count then Pauly or BeefBeer will walk away w/ it , if intellectual wattage matters then Madeoff , DHMF and Com are in post position …
dane’s sushi could bring down the house w/ an exceptional pastrami pic
ham sammich may swing by
deeks and stickman and ricmatic and jjj and FL ape and llama and blowin and pisspuss and Marx and house and flatlately and black rubber and mikem and Durban and Tomas and saltyHB and sellme and jimmy the s and bexy and CB and frank and koo -ok and astro and Gil and PRN and Durian and SectionSB and Huck and 7dollar and velob and Phils wart and Greenburg and snapper and Kama and RQ and cap sensible and BIrish and a few others who tend to pop up at contest time will keep it interesting down the stretch
Gwen and Barnycle are solid choices too
Brutus might blow everyone away w/ true tales from the Fiji crypt
Otto may come out of Montana in time to swing it
you never know if Happy or occ might bless us w/ some insight from the islands
Barrelled is always a threat , pinchy not so much
jack and/or his ghost is/are always lurking
JSC might get it for kicks and outrage
but we all know that if there’s real $$ riding on it , probs a 2 “man” race between Hippy and Sofa , except …
my $$ are on low wide stinkbug to swing wide and nip it in the end
*w/ apologies to any legends I missed , you are all deserving
I’m honored.
The pressure is on… I’m coming for you Hip.
What does that mean young lady?
I’m probably just bluffing. :)
Look, the boys will not award me anything so there is no comp between us. I’ve never worn jewelry anyway.
Gwen’s gonna “win” this anyway so sit back and watch a great contest.
Water temp dropped 5 degrees today and I’m more than depressed. This sport means too much to me and I’ve been chasing this heroin so long.
I’m traveling during part of the event window, so my participation will be less than usual.
Any pending plans to travel to warmer water?
Hahaha fucking hell Hip it’s only surfing and nobody died, let’s not get too dramatic
slogan idea –
take the xs out of vaxxer and its vaer!
true, what I loved as a kid , potter just went so damn fast all the time ,
was w/ you right up until the Italo hate … so you didn’t buy the whole, ‘go to the NS early and work like the devil with Dorian to get better at Pipe so he could be a legit champ???’
maybe that story was totally constructed and not true , but if even partly true it warms my cold Floridian , chip on a shoulder bc our waves suck , heart
find myself in love w/ his enthusiasm
does look like he learned to surf on a styrofoam container lid – which come to think of it , maybe that means his style is actually more core than all of us and we’re just the fat emperor toads criticizing the mamba
I feel confident in my game heading into this event.
Good luck to my fellow competitors. Much respect to all of the talent on this roster.
Always gracious
How’s the knee doing?
Great. Surf was decent size my first 2 days here caught tons of waves. Today it dropped. The place is an absolute zoo and kind of a shit house. The whole surf city bullshit thing is disgusting.
Ticker doing well too?
Yeah, the country is toast.
Ticker fine. The isa world surfing games start here at La bocana in 12 days but there are boatloads of little shredders arriving now. The crowds are the only issue but I guess I’m part of it.
It’s the biggest circus I’ve seen maybe ever. At least in Hawaii there is some sort of order. And the adult learners typically won’t paddle out at sunset or Haleiwa.
Kauai looking good right now
Predicting a comment about Pip (or Pip adjacent) will win the watch
What Hip is describing as a circle jerk is just mates sticking up for each other and is a truly great Strayan trait. Without it I would have been banned for life and have thanked all those involved who stuck their necks out for me numerous times.
You, Crayfish, Longy, Connery, Beefy, Gwen and on and on I can’t thank yous enough and it will never be forgotten. Strangely Hip acts like me mate but never spoke up and instead I remember him at times taking the piss out of my absence when I had no voice. Always important to know the true side of mates and who you would want next to ya on the front line ay haha
not really, haven’t got a nationalist bone in my body.
Just what I think.
I think he’ll need to make those turns more vertical and committed but I don’t see any fundamental issues there.
either with technique or equipment .
Vaery good afternoon boys and Sofa has that comp started yet. Watch out cuz I ain’t letting anyone get their hands on that prize, not on my watch ya pack of cunts. Ahhhhh no is that the wind clocking round already?
Can’t wait to watch you have a wristy wearing your wristwatch!
Xox
It’s a date
Now that is something he’s willing to post footage of
Give me your number and I will send ya the clip. I’m actually off you at the moment after Hippy tells me lower down this thread that you actually despise me. I thought we had something special Gwen haha
You have a forecast for Clouds for us?
I think they’ll definitely kick off on Wednesday mate cuz theres a medium pulse heading their way even though it’s pretty low period. For classic Cloudies you’re really chasing something 16 seconds or above and this one is only 14 seconds but at least it means they’ll be heaps of waves and probably some good ones down the reef at Shishkebobs which should make it interesting when guys are paddling back out.
If I was there I would be expecting waves in the 4 to 6ft range and would definitely be keeping my eyes open for ones further down the reef. No idea if they’ll run the men or Sheilas cuz there seems to be more swell lining up for later in the window
Just to add I see winds are moderate se trades which is not ideal but perfectly workable. Not sure of tides but hide tide will see more wind up the face then low tide will see it heaps better when the exposed reef cleans a lot of the chatter up. Hope this help if any other cunt is picking teams or whatever. Lets get up em Ethan and lets shut these clueless cunts down ay hahahah
good point on the tides.
Men or Sheila’s tomorrow ya reckon? Actually thinking of taking the day off cuz I love this event so much haha
mens first rd, then rd 2- then start womens
dude we will have to agree to disagree here.
no idea what a butt wink is- but no way he is losing speed in those turns.
Maybe a bit back foot heavy at the end of the turn but the arc is complete.
sublime bottom turns.
everybody on tour has a damn good bottom turn…he’s overshooting the lip line and seems to love the carve off the top…not big points scorers!
Sweet immigration dreams