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Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:40 pm
by godsavetheking
even gstq? like i'm some shameful ginger foster child? consider me deeply offended

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:05 pm
by The Mighty Sunbird
Isn't everyone in Wales shameful? And ginger? And of dubious lineage?

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:57 pm
by Drailed
Good to have you back Nick, everyone snaps sometimes.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:00 pm
by tootr
Seems to be more than a few who attended the WSL thingy are absolutely frothing over the mechanical wave.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:55 pm
by channels
^
The same frothers also probably know the biting the hand thay feeds you, particularly when/if the tour numbers shrink dramatically, isnt the smartest move.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:23 pm
by offshore1
Cranked wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:31 pm
...morphing into a look of confusion and disbelief as the man hug reached its apogee.
And by apogee you mean boner right?

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:41 pm
by Cranked
Lol

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:00 am
by Beerfan
I follow MR on Instagram, he's loving it by the looks

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:08 am
by tootr
Me too. He's spilt a few beans too.
At 15 waves per hour the economics (for a commercial venture) won't stack up.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:23 am
by Lucky Al
I just learned that Karl Wallinger is Welsh! It's kind of a German-sounding name though.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:26 am
by Lucky Al
Last night we had a Yeats appreciation night at our bar and Wallinger came up a few times in conversation around the stage.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:35 am
by Lucky Al
It was a pretty fun night. Some very passionate poetry lovers getting drunk together and struggling to remember words. I think there might have even been a fist fight over some misheard something in "Second Coming". Luckily I was lying behind the bar by then thinking about the best way to communicate with John John Florence on the topic of the need for him to learn how to do a proper roundhouse cutback.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:50 am
by godsavetheking
How are his monkey arms these days, lucky al? I remember steve and I taking great delight in this simian chink in the Florence armour, but that was a long time ago

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:34 am
by Cranked
Lucky Al wrote:
Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:35 am
It was a pretty fun night. Some very passionate poetry lovers getting drunk together and struggling to remember words. I think there might have even been a fist fight over some misheard something in "Second Coming". Luckily I was lying behind the bar by then thinking about the best way to communicate with John John Florence on the topic of the need for him to learn how to do a proper roundhouse cutback.
Hang on, your bar is the epicenter of appreciation for the poetry of Yeats in Vietnam?

I'm gonna change my avatar.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:09 pm
by Beanpole
They're very cultured in the Nam.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:47 pm
by buddy
Last two posts on thewingnut's instagram. Wave looks fccken good on a mini-mal. Your thoughts crabstick?

Also fccken funny reading back over pages 16-20 of this thread. :-D-:

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:28 am
by Nick Carroll
OK so hatchy keeps asking me about the WSL Surf Ranch (for so it is titled) in the Tard thread, adding to his considerable prestige in that competition

On Nov 2 I was invited to the Ranch with a number of other surf journalists to spend the day checking out and riding the pool and also to spend some Quality Time with the new WSL CEO Sophie Goldschmidt

Sadly, in order to attend I had to sign off on an embargo document which prevents me from reporting on the experience for a couple of months. This as I understand it is because they're gonna be doing a few of these invite days for various media etc during that time and they don't want anybody scooping anybody. Exquisite torture for a writer. I had to go through a bit of a process in my head about it. It's not like an embargo has any real force in law but it was either sign it or don't go, and once you've given your word, etc.

So you will just have to wait, I'm writing a longish piece for the Surfer's Journal about the experience and it'll probably inform a lot of other stuff I write about pro surfing in the next few months. I can probs get away with a bit here and say I found it way more fascinating than I expected, that I def understand more about the WSL's plans for it and why they've stuck with investing in pro surfing as a result, and that the experience is not what you think it is from the videos, is super fun and super weird, and while it'd be an unparalleled teaching device for any level of surfer in some surprising ways, is no replacement for just going surfing.

Re: Kelly's wave.

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:42 am
by steve shearer
Who were the other surf journos , surely that can be revealed.