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Nick Carroll
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by Nick Carroll » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:01 pm
steve shearer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:33 pm
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:28 am
So how are we all going re the Pool Benchmark? Like where is J-Bay in comparison?
Pool benchmark?
Since when is the pool a benchmark?
I think you've got the cart before the horse.....it's the sports management brass at WSL who should be asking how the pool shapes up to Bay.
Well that’s what I am getting at, right, they have bought the pool and they want it to be a real part of the CT etc, so yeah it is a benchmark for what is acceptable in CT competition. I’m interested in real thought about this. I do not trust the knee jerk Kelly Hate or whatever, it just doesn’t matter that much. But does JBay make the pool less acceptable or is it irrelevant?
Honestly to me the only real thing is the surfing in the great surf zones, otherwise the whole thing is bullshit, but it is nuanced bullshit, like the English broadcast on Facey right now is getting 17k, a bit of a jump from 5k. Yet the people in charge of pro surfing never used to worry themselves about numbers. Hard as it may be to believe, most of them never worried about how many people surfed or any of that jazz. They figured, nobody drives F1 cars either, nobody drives on NASCAR tracks, nobody plays at Augusta, yet these sports are huge businesses. Pro surfing doesn’t need more surfers, it just needs to blow minds.
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by steve shearer » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:04 pm
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:01 pm
Pro surfing doesn’t need more surfers, it just needs to blow minds.
Thats all I've ever said since Day One.
Those round 4 heats yesterday blew my mind.
The pool was a grind to sit through.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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by godsavetheking » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:06 pm
Yeah but surely Nick that was when the comps were run by clothing companies, featuring the sponsored riders of said clothing companies and when surf media was a handful of mags featuring the comps and the sponsored riders of the clothing companies. Presumably nobody cared because a) there were too many unquantifiables in that symbiosis and b) the clothing companies were awash with cash
Beanpole wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:06 pm
Why would I wear a mask?
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by Lucky Al » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:08 pm
foamy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:01 pm
Prince Myshkin.
perfect, foamy!
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by steve shearer » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:10 pm
I say Fetyukovich
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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by Lucky Al » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:27 pm
I say Harpo Marx!
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by Lucky Al » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:28 pm
Why Fetyukovich, Steve?
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by Lucky Al » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:28 pm
No worries if you want to save that material for your next article.
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by steve shearer » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:37 pm
hahahah, you read my mind Al.....no...I can't use Dostoesvksy anymore because I know how much it pisses you off.
brilliant cosmopolitan lawyer called into to defend Dmitri.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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by Lucky Al » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:56 pm
I wish these guys would do some big straight airs with classic grabs! Work them into their foundation and keep speeding down the line. But no they go for reverses, always these stupid reverses. Needless affectation! Posers. Pro surfing is in a sorry state. I blame Jordy Smith and Julian Wilson and their enablers and fluffers.
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by steve shearer » Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:18 pm
fcuk, how good was that heat .
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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by black duck » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:31 pm
pretty interesting heat with jordy and aussie jesus. Judges kind of fluffed it i think. that graphic on Wades board with the straight stripes on the rail look rubbish. Makes the board look shit.
smnmntll wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:20 pm
You foaming spangoloids need to chill before you all do wetties on the carpet
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by steve shearer » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:40 pm
I agree.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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by foamy » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:48 pm
When you think about great photogenic boards while they are being ridden, there aren't a lot of them. It's really Mr G. Lopez and his Lightning Bolts and the time and the place and how they gloriously added to the mythos.
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by Thud » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:55 pm
Bottom shot gets the chocolates
Beanpole wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 7:34 pm
I grew up with Sikhs, Thudster.
Quoted from the book “A serendipitous life. Bean there, done that”
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by Lucky Al » Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:36 am
I predict... Filipe will end up in old people's home one day! Old guy in a movie, rocking chair on a porch.
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by Nick Carroll » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:03 am
Right now, whenever Filipe wins, I think everything is basically OK!
I might go to Chopes now, just to go for a surf with him and ask him why that place fcuks him up.
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by foamy » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:13 am
I wonder if you'd have to go back to the 90’s to find a main tour event with so many floaters.
And I do enjoy seeing a good section traversing floater.
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