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Graham Smith candid WSL comments and will they be around next year??
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Top 100 surfers get dropped off at that right hander in the Farallon islands. Last surfer to survive without getting eaten by a great white shark is world champ.
I'd watch that
Precisely.
Nobody cares if Steve Aoki surfs Kelly's pool.
A stripped down tour without a wall of positive noise in pumping waves is all anyone wants to see. The wall of positive noise is one of the main things that makes the WSL so cringey. Dumping that, along with worrying about maintaining that WoPN image, might actually bring some personality back to the surfers and combined with good surf would undoubtedly make things much more interesting.
For every nonsurfing fangranny from Kansas City, Missouri that would be lost you could probably gain two fans who surf.
How do you envision the qualifying for this tour working? Basically attrition of C grade pros back into the labor force when homeschool ends? You are putting more people onto the QS by shrinking the CT, which means longer WQS windows and more shitty surf weeding out good wave surfers in the qualifiers.
The last WSL clip I saw was firing J Bay, and Toledo Huntington hopped for like 2/3 of it to force airs. Run it at fkn Smyrna.
Okay after seeing Aruka's post above, qualifier is top 1000 surfers paddle Ponce side to Smyrna side during the mullet run with fish oil rubbed on them. The 100 survivors qualify for the championship event out in CA.
And Bird has the gall to question our business acumen!
Most kids on both coasts need to be fitted for hard hats by the 8th grade, so yes.
No, the QS would shrink too. Cut it back to, say, 30 or fewer.
Please poast this.
I find the QS enjoyable. 4 man heats. everybody hungry as fck. lots of guys I've never seen before who rip.
I saw a heat with some rando Brazilian named Kyle Kirmson or something and it was some of the best surfing I'd ever seen.
Never heard of the guy before or after LOL.
i dunno, seems like every midwest overweight dad on family vacation in santa monica with his family still rocks hurley tees
You're the only person I've ever heard say that, online or in real life.
most of my pals barely tune in for CT surfing.
Plenty of that on East coast, at least in Florida. Different in cold places.
Hardly anyone watches free WSL, who is going to pay for it? ppv or subscription stuff is nonsense. It's not a viable product no matter how you organize it.
I kinda agree with Racer, 4-man heats are way more interesting than 2-man. It introduces a random element of hassling, strategy and luck so that the same 4 best guys wouldn't win every contest, like currently.
Besides, the way things are going, if you cut numbers down to top 16... you're gonna end up with Kanoa, JJF... and 14 brazzos!
4 man heats are great.
My personal contest format I'd like to see .
2 day comp.
20 or 24 man field .
1st day. Eddie Style 4 or 6 man long heats with a leaderboard.
That way each individual surfs both against the break and the whole field.
A cut down to a Top 16, then man on man for the Final Day.
My personal contest format I'd like to see .
2 day comp.
20 or 24 man field .
1st day. Eddie Style 4 or 6 man long heats with a leaderboard.
That way each individual surfs both against the break and the whole field.
A cut down to a Top 16, then man on man for the Final Day.
He's referring to one of the best waves ever ridden in onshore/sideshore Jbay, probably ever.
The truth right there. Surfing is a marginal hobby done by mostly broke guys -> no money to get. Bobby might be hating on golf and tennis, but those are hobbies for rich people that enjoy spending money.
WSL can't have expensive contests around the world when the only people who watch them spend all their money on food, shitty cars and a new surfboard every 3 years.
many of the local kids (SoJersey) are in it for the photos and when
that is done so are they.