Just general surfing stuff

[Trev]

I left. Not going back. Weather is a main determinant of mood.

I have a mate who's just moved over there to live. Dunedin.
There was a woman involved of course.

Then last Saturday, this happened.

[channels]

I found a spot over there with good fishing, amazing produce, good surf and close enough to an airport.

Unfortunately it has worse weather than Sweden and the inhabitants share a set of teeth.

yeah enzed is the kinda place you visit, not live.

it's like tassie only with that whole lord of the flies element.

Lived there for 3 years. The number of times the wind is howling onshore on one coast and the same wind is blowing it flat on the other coast does your head in.

Great waves when things align though.

[alakaboo]

I left. Not going back. Weather is a main determinant of mood.

I have a mate who's just moved over there to live. Dunedin.
There was a woman involved of course.

Then last Saturday, this happened.

He let the woman drive?

[Trev]

I left. Not going back. Weather is a main determinant of mood.

I have a mate who's just moved over there to live. Dunedin.
There was a woman involved of course.

Then last Saturday, this happened.

He let the woman drive?

lol.
No. He did it all by himself.
Ex Precision Drive Team member. You'd think he'd have learned by now.

[Drailed]

I left. Not going back. Weather is a main determinant of mood.

I have a mate who's just moved over there to live. Dunedin.
There was a woman involved of course.

Then last Saturday, this happened.

He let the woman drive?

[channels]

Apparently Teahupoo has run and finished.

Was this the most anonymous surf comp of all time? First I knew it was on was a vid on SMH saying Wilson had won.

[crabmeat thompson]

wsl are cutting back their advertising and marketing, that's for sure.


there's barely a social media footprint left by them these days. if you're not on their mailing list, you'd never know ...

[foamy]

Channels, there probably would have been plenty of buzz except the wave forecasts (small and onshore) for the Teahupoo Pro waiting period were so universally uninspiring that it killed most of the interest. When you have a one section wave, the conditions need to be pretty good for it to be watchable. The wind swung offshore on a few heats which gave them a few decent highlight reel waves.

[Davros]

WSL should just capture the highlights and produce a 1 hour package on constant re run between events. The show can be sponsored and sold to pay and terrestrial TV

[Over55yrs]

yeh, saw the Herald article yesterday and thought they had reported the wrong comp (had to go the WSL website to be sure) - wow, over before anyone even knew it was on.

WSL is becoming a very poor shadow of what it used to be or maybe reverting to what is really is - do people care anything about pro surfing ?

[Nick Carroll]

It's pretty simple, the surf audience loves an event in great surf and half ignores one in shit surf. And it goes with the forecast, the same as most people these days.

I guess with Tahiti, it's been so spine tinglingly epic in the past, there's a high bar. Only a serious pro surfing tragic could have got much out of the past three days.

I can't wait to talk with the new CEO about all this!

[Nick Carroll]

WSL should just capture the highlights and produce a 1 hour package on constant re run between events. The show can be sponsored and sold to pay and terrestrial TV

Man, tv doesn't buy stuff like this any more, they stopped doing that around 1984.

[foamy]

As always, the weather decides. The conditions on the first 3 days, mostly poor to ordinary, were going to be the best of the waiting period so they had to race and get 3 1/2 days of comp surfing finished in that first 3 days.
16 heats on day 1, 20 heats on day 2, then 15 heats on day 3.
Run and done. Surprisingly, it ended up with one of the great finals.
The WSL actually did pretty well with a poor hand of cards.

[Cranked]

There can be only one solution, its so obvious: set the dates for the tour and then go to where the surf is on that date for christs sake!

Expensive? What's the cost of the duds and half duds atm. And its not just the monetary cost of an event but the damage to the perception and acceptance of surf comps.

Never before has it been as easy to be mobile.

[Yuke Hunt]

I can't wait to talk with the new CEO about all this!

Can't wait to hear what your wife thoughts are on the matter.

Anyway, the last two days produced some great surfing, with a few dud heats, but thats the nature of nature and surfing in general.

Medina's antics on the final day were an interesting talking point.

The final itself was quite epic, considering the combo situation Wilson dug himself out from.

Medina's antics in the final were an interesting talking point.

[Cranked]

You could have six comps: Australian, European, North American, South American, African and Pacific/Hawaiian, and start from a central base in each.

Cut it down to the to top16. Maybe send just the surfers and videographers, everyone else stays at the base location.

You can even change location during a regional comp because of surf quality or even just for variety.

Its just a matter of time before this happens so why not start now?

[foamy]

You actually need approval* before you turn up and take over a beach.

*approval usually involving state and local govt meetings, council votes, complex negotiations on the time and manner the contest can be run, contracts written and agreed to, fees and charges, etc. All individual, depending on the locale.

[Nick Carroll]

There can be only one solution, its so obvious: set the dates for the tour and then go to where the surf is on that date for christs sake!

Expensive? What's the cost of the duds and half duds atm. And its not just the monetary cost of an event but the damage to the perception and acceptance of surf comps.

Never before has it been as easy to be mobile.

Ha ha never before has it been harder in the context. The WSL CT employs over 60 people and over two tons of gear just to run the webcast. Everything about a CT has to be micromanaged for months before an event. There's even a contractor signed to pack and ship the gear matched to event dates. By contrast, in 1979 the entire Coke Surfabout event moved from Sydney to Bells in six light aircraft with just a couple of days' notice. All they needed to move was a few surfers, judges etc and some boards. You can't pull that shit nowadays. Not unless you want nobody to see you at all.