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Nick wont be back for a little while. He is dissapointed in himself for snapping but still in the early days of acceptance where he will be trying to justify it. His head will be a conflicting place to be right now. The internet is a particularly difficult place to navigate for the older ones. Ther...

If I thought that I'd say it. And unlike you, I wouldn't post it then delete it ten minutes later because I was frightened the big boys wouldn't talk to me any more

I call it as I see it Nick, and if you're unable to argue without descending into cheap insults and playground threats of slaps then I think we're probably done here

You've lost me. Truly. Is it a feeling of being left behind? Of no longer having the same relevance in a world that you have been a pretty key figure in for a goodly portion of those 45 years? What would a 30 year old Nick Carroll think of wavepools, do reckon?

So you'll happily enrich any number of faceless corporations in your quest to tap into the source, just not the ones owned or operated by people who do actually surf, who may be your friends or acquaintances?

Smacks to me of muddle-headed grandstanding for cheap social media likes

"Fine words butter no parsnips" is my personal go-to in pretty much any situation

Anything for love, but you won't do that eh Nick? As I said to meatloaf at the time, stop being so bloody precious

So do you reckon that pools will in effect create a new market? To be honest it's not something I'd considered until now, but maybe if you built one in London, say, you'd attract a whole new generation of poolies

Maybe once they sort out videoing everyone on every wave, providing emailed coaching tips, a Progression Ladder, access to multiple boards to try etc etc the cost might become justifiable enough for sufficient numbers of people to use a pool on a regular basis. For now though, it seems to be the ele...

Settle down loof. steve spent time on the south coast, undisputed capital of kook. Elsewhere in the UK there are plenty of good surfers - I'm sure that when he was around Lynmouth and Millook the locals woulda kept him off most of the sets

Yes Trev. Yes we do

Snooker is massive, steve. 300 million in 80 countries watched the 2015 world final, according to my brief googling. As I said before, track cycling never used to be on here. But someone clearly identified that it's a perfect telly sport which, despite its arcane rules (the kierin?, the points race?...

yes god save but WHY sport is culture. People get behind sport because it is somehow part of their idea of the world. Whose idea of the world is represented by Kelly's wave pool? The only people interested in it are rusted on pro surfing tragics, people who have been wishing this thing on since 197...

Stop chasing the outside, non-surfer audience and lock in the surfers. Get the base strong and build a tour around that. As a self-sustaining entity run by and for the benefit of surf apparel companies, I would agree 100%. For an organisation that increasingly seems to have little connection at all...

Mate, you know as well as I do, there is no "surfer" on the planet who slurps the old romantic kool-aid notions about surfing than the English adult learner. I lived amongst them and observed them in their native habitat whilst in the UK. I am familiar with their thinking, with their world view and...

It's never going to appeal to the mainstream Godsave....especially not in a pool. And yet, UK telly regularly broadcasts track cycling live. The sport of nerds, drawn to the bosom of the mainstream following Olympic success The mainstream has one connection to surfing: some kind of nature-God danci...

They've got to look beyond the niche, surfer audience. They know what that delivers in terms of audience numbers and it's clearly not enough. Tinkering with the number of surfers and trying to put them on good waves at the best spots will probably work in so far as maxing out that niche, surfer audi...

It's super bold! I still don't really know why anyone other than surfers would ever wanna watch it though. Two runs each, first runs start at 7pm on the dot, the whole thing is done by 9. It's extreme liposuction for the CT with the holy grail of predictable timings for live TV. People will watch a...

Perfect for (unsubstantiated) claims!