"The WSL is continuing to follow its process and has offered assistance to relevant authorities."
Mexico’s Al Cleland Jr. has been immediately suspended by the World Surf League and, allegedly, dropped by sponsors Quiksilver and Monster following “allegations of a deeply serious nature” that occurred in Tahiti back in August.
Currently number 24 in the world, and missing the cut by two spots, Cleland Jr. would have been seen next, on the grandest stage, in the 2026 Championship Tour’s final event at the Banzai Pipeline.
The World Surf League issued the following statement following early reportage by master surf journalist Nick Carroll who wrote, “The incident is understood to have occurred after the final day of the Outerknown Tahiti Pro and involved a teenaged Australian female surfer and at least three men.”
The World Surf League (WSL) confirms that a competitor on the 2026 Men’s Championship Tour has been suspended after the WSL was recently made aware of allegations of a deeply serious nature involving the competitor.
The allegations involve conduct in relation to a private gathering in Tahiti in August. The gathering was not affiliated with the WSL.
All WSL competitors are bound by the conduct standards outlined in the WSL Rule Book, at all times. After being informed of the allegations, the WSL Discipline Committee took prompt action and issued a provisional suspension to the competitor from all WSL events.
The WSL is committed to upholding the values and integrity of the sport on behalf of all surfers, and the broader surfing community.
The WSL is continuing to follow its process and has offered assistance to relevant authorities.
The WSL is unable to provide any further information at this time.
A real mess with many whispers about what went down. Further details to come when verified.
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This discusses the hell out of me, WSL should have came forth way before this.
Has WSL made an official announcement? I do not see a thing on their site or Insta. Am I missing it somewhere else?
https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/561688/statement-from-the-wsl
Thanks for sharing. Never thought to check the “press room”… I’m assuming they cannot actually give the name (we all know anyway”…
You’ve posted dud comment after dud comment on this article. Dentists = teeth. Brilliant. You know you don’t have to post every single thing you think of.
Yep you’ve got a point. Sometimes miss the mark completely. Apologies for taking up your time.
what no charges ?
Plot thickens.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ2B19CPIi/?obrf=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Uh oh!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ2B19CPIi/?img_index=1
Well that’s not good.
That was tough to read. I can’t imagine what it’s like to experience.
It’s fairly interesting seeing where the reinforced beachfront, wooden wall at Long Beach has successfully resisted the decimation (so far) and where the wall failed, under the pressure of relentless wave action.
They clearly spent hundreds of man hours, and likely hundreds of thousands of dollars, reinforcing the top of the wall with (what looks to be) high quality timber and stainless steel 12” bolts. Some Sections are holding, and some have been splintered into toothpicks.
I can’t imagine anyone getting permission to rebuild their houses on those same lots, although maybe some civil servant with allow it if the new foundation is drilled deep into the bedrock, and the call comes down from the politicians to green-light the rebuilds.
Anyone knows how to use Zillow, and tell me the general value on those houses that have started to fall into the ocean and have been red flagged? Seems that the smarter thing would be to turn those spots into empty lots, with compulsory acquisitions by the state. Can’t imagine that they
l try to build back the boardwalk in any hurry, although some connected contractor may have something to say about that.
https://youtu.be/AvFB1cqUCI0?
I couldn’t locate the exact homes, but there are ocean front homes for sale (or recently sold) on that strip for anywhere from 2.5 to 7 million. Those look to me to be on the lesser end.
I read that some area homeowners have a class action lawsuit in the works vs the city related to the mitigation efforts.
Yes. I was thinking 2.5m to 3.5m for those smaller ones on the boardwalk. What’s amazing is that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will likely be paying for some sort of subsidy to these folks who own land on a medium (sand) that famously moves around a bit on the coast; and maybe somewhat less famously there are historical maxims about what you should and shouldn’t do on top of sand.
case in point; a maxim from a time long, long ago
This is the area. It’s 65th, 66th and 67th; amongst others.
You would fully expect the Pacific fuckin ocean to reclaim this small spit of sand, even if rising sea levels wasn’t a thing. I’m impressed that they kept it going for this long. Apparently the lack of natural sand replenishment from upstream/inland has a bit to do with the lack of sand (combined with many other factors).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/jNaq3uSSR7dnLAk49?
Our homeowner’s insurance had a steep increase in 2023. We hadn’t made a claim, ever, so I called to ask why. I was told that hurricane Ian as well as other natural disasters were responsible for the increase. I expect our rates to increase if we make claims or our state has a bad storm season, but I was surprised by this. We use local insurance companies, not nationals. Capitalism at work, I guess.
I can tell you what is going to happen.
There is going to be a billion dollar sand replenishment plan along with a mile long extension of the jetty south of Seal Beach or Sunset Beach to block south easterly swells, which is the only direction that penetrates the whole of LA harbor.
That solves the beachfront issue and also the dock surge issue through the whole harbor. There is a stupid amount of money attached to that beachfront and an incomprehesible amount of money attached to the harbor as a whole, so funding is guaranteed. I attached a map with those two possible options to give you some bearing.
I might add the sunset one would be better cause then they could set up a dredging system like Oz and create an LA superbank.
West south and southeast swells.
Looking at it again they could just block off the inside like so, way less intrusive and way less money, but no superbank.
Seeing as how we all wanna go green they could install a hydroelectric plant embedded in the seawall.
Looks like it would create crazy bounce on west and southwest swell.
Not if it’s buffered by sand.
The it becomes a long point on both sides.
But to be sure there are engineering challenges.
The larger point is Long Beach will spend the money to figure out some version of a breakwall barrier.
Should add it would be more like 100 bilion and the extension would be many miles out and any reflction out there would dissapate before it gets into the harbor.
*Don’t drink the water!
That’s a Long Beach!
Brother. Please consider deleting this.
you’re better than that.
I got it.! Thanks for pulling my head in
Cess Grit !
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The palliative care unit site is having a go. They must have upped their meds.
sez a guy w/ the ingenious avatar name of …. …. ‘goofyfoot.’ Top of the gene pool mate, so creative
Content creators
That whole thread was funny as.
More cred for BG.
Is this a good time to resume my sporadical commenting? Is the comments shit show finally sorted ?
Aaagh “Scottish Reason”
(Alot a people don’t think those 2 words should be in the same sentence.) Welcome
I ain’t as good as I once was, but tonight I’m as good as I ever was
on the piss again mate?
just some lyrics for a country song that seemed apropos , been trying to take it a little easier last few days , no reason to run up the score
”Cause the more I drink, the more I drink
Then I’m the world’s greatest lover and a dancin’ machine!”
I got friends in low places? don’t they say tahiti waves break below sea level?
he , exactly
Oh ya , the Wsl, get on board and you’re probably riding one of the biggest ‘gravy-trains’ in history.
Owned by a non-surfing billionaire trying to keep his wife happy.
The entity that kept the old ASP out of the graveyard.
Last I remember, Dirk and Natasha were throwing something like 20 million at it a year conservatively.
Well, boys will be boys—was Eric Logan around anywhere at the time?
But seriously, women, girls are awesome!
As men, we need to honor and protect them.
Not the insta ones… they’re fucked.
Gauguin Would Go
Took me a second.
Is that the sleazy, cunt painter you were telling me about before?
That’s the one. And his paintings were pretty shit in my humble opinion.
Probably too tired after all the rooting the lucky cunt?
He introduced syphilis and gonareah to the islands. He was a maggott
Ahhhh fuck sorry didn’t know that, what a cunt and he can get fucked
Paul Gauguin Tahiti – Pesquisar Imagens
Nah that was the British sailors way before that. Plus all the Tahitian girls practised some “tightening” method on the poor limey schmucks and none of them wanted to leave!
I think this is the time for us all to exercise some decorum and wait it out.
Xox
So you’re saying be unlike any other time in Beachgrit history??
Who rooted who ACDC
French national laws, civil codes, commercial codes, and criminal statutes generally apply in Tahiti, with adjustments or specific exceptions made for local governance and all suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
This is social media not a court of law… guilty until proven innocent 😉
Money is disgusting.
So are the people that lust after it
Standard victim mentality. What does your comment have to do with me? I would love more money but pretty much live check to check. Chased waves instead of fortune.
Does it really matter what your Bank Balance is Mike?
Your actions are FREE
See you there mate
There is NO escape…
Fine great I’ll try not to drop in on you.
Unfortunately, I did too.
The preliminary article of the French Code of Criminal Procedure declares that “any person suspected or prosecuted is presumed innocent as long as his culpability for the offence has not been established.”
Im rooting for Al! Hope this glitch is just that. If not… throw the book at him.
Boooooring
It seems hard to differentiate this as being a pedo or rapey vs bullying or intimidation accusation?
Yeah . It’s a wait and see for sure.
Maybe it is just a dude that was in the same room?
Cunt is cancelled and cooked already…
Turning a blind eye is just as bad mate…
Al once said AI is his biggest influence.
Occy said “ Girls don’t surf!”
He said it a few hundred metres from where I’m sitting.
He wasn’t cancelled.
How did you hear him when he was a few hundred metres away?
No wind Blowin?
Hahah
Sitting currently
AI should be cancelled? I’m confused.
人工智能 is easily different from 人工智慧
Are you a dum dum?
Letters are there to aove mround.
慧
this caracter looks like a cheeky, big nose dude squinting & showing tongue…
& mesh sunglasses…
SI is the new name Jackson John Jack
If you mention “AI” again, you are clearly the new “ENEMY” of what was previously known as some kind of “united entity” of many “States”
Things are different now…
Different Strokes?
For sure man
The facts of life.
Everyone in America lives in such a huge 2 storey house with basement and attic?
Yet they scream so poor.
That is like 4 Stories
Like the Hobbit and The Lord of Rings?
whatchu talkin about Willis?
Just wait for the next gen SDI.
Bonus points if you can guess what that stands for.
Strategic Defense Initiative aka star wars.
Nah too legit.
It stands for Super Duper Intelligence.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. You deserve the BG equivalent nobel peace prize.
but, but, I thought it was forever?
The WSL Legal team need to immediately contact the AFL legal team here in Australia.
They have to deal with this after every game.
They have expertise on how to make such things disappear instantly, on a weekly basis for their prize “athletes”
Cheers cunts. Hot as fuck down here in the big smoke. Flying visit. Cannot wait to get out but I’m making the best of a bad hand.
Hope Al hasn’t been too naughty. Probably another dogshit beat-up nothing burger. At ease with the pitchforks.
35 today huh ? In January it’ll be 53
It’s drinking weather anyway you slice it.
A flat ocean. No board. 20 hours till I board a flight out of here. It’s a pupil free day here so this joint is overrun with the dregs of Western Sydney DNA. Girls in the mall wearing bikinis that aren’t working for them or anyone else. Grotesque inland gronks either fat or juvenile steroid junkie. Not our best and brightest by any means.
It legit reminds me of those old vids of Huntington pro with the youth going full skank. But uglier.
poor fella, my country. Crazy to think this place produced some of the World’s best surf talent. Right now it looks like a coastal breeding migration of C grade humanity.
But I’m parked up in the AC wielding a schooner like royal sceptre. Don’t want to be judgey but fuck it….these kids are repugnant. If youth aint pretty it’s wasted.
Q / Is there anything as sweet as a lunchtime beer session on a hot as fuck Monday whilst everyone else is putting their nose to the grindstone?
A / Fuck no!
Fun lil runners at Bondi just then.
Breaking my heart, Dekka.
Just yesterday I was sitting on a headland at home watching the most beautiful Bluewater current fill into empty beachies and now I’m surrounded by this human zoo with green water and pregnant knee high dribble.
No idea how you do it. Those car-key parties must sure be something to hold you here.
Breaking my heart, Dekka.
Just yesterday I was sitting on a headland at home watching the most beautiful Bluewater current fill into empty beachies and now I’m surrounded by this human zoo with green water and pregnant knee high dribble.
No idea how you do it. Those car-key parties must sure be something to hold you here.
BTW…Hope you realise I’m just working an angle. It’s fun as fuck being amongst the action. But 24 hours is plenty!
Nice work, comrade
Believe all sexy workers!