2021~Olympics ~~~ /(C`..[oi.oi.oi )
Submitted by truebluebasher on Wed, 08/28/2019 - 18:40


>>tbb is baking himself inside an Olympic wax cake...bit of a rub & out pops tbb genie!
Message from Huey!..."Surf's Up!" ( Race is on for the Golden Ticket )
pure gold tbb


Team looks strong, so thinking the girls are favs...boys not so much. but thanks for update.


TBB you're the expert on the Olympics by the look of it. So I'm confused! The media in NZ are trumpeting that Ella Williams has qualified for the Olympics. But she didn't even go very far in the comp and she's clearly behind Paige in the pecking order in NZ. I just can't figure out the qualification conundrum at all. It's so convoluted. She qualifies despite Paige's years of CT experience and out of such an average performance ? Just baffling really.
Then the other interesting thing was how many of the CT girls just didn't cope with the 20 minute 4 man heats very well. Sofia Mulanovich comes through and wins despite being out of the big time for years. Well done to her.
poo-man


Ok that makes a bit more sense TBB. Still can't see how qualification based on finishing 29th in anything means that much though ha.
poo-man


just watched a young lady goofyfooter at deebs today who was as good as i can remember. hope they have her on the radar- this girl very very special- who r u- blue/green bottom board- two thumbs up - u were rippin big time.
davetherave


Thanks TBB, was a spambot, now removed.


How’s the heat coming up today?
Kelly, Medina, Italy and Kolohe in one 4 man heat. You’ll be unlikely to ever see something like that again. Compulsive viewing I say even if the conditions are wild and woolly. That barrel that KS follow found yesterday in the wild conditions was remarkable
poo-man


And NZs Billy Stairmand has been on fire too also qualifying for next years Olympics
poo-man


How’s the heat coming up today?
Kelly, Medina, Italy and Kolohe in one 4 man heat. You’ll be unlikely to ever see something like that again. Compulsive viewing I say even if the conditions are wild and woolly. That barrel that KS follow found yesterday in the wild conditions was remarkable
poo-man


I watched quite a bit of that today. There was some high drama and some really good performances. Actually quite cool to see compared to CT events and the crowd was huge. Well done to Italo he was on fire but so was Billy and KS and others. I remember KS getting 5th in Japan in 1990 so here he was 29 years later and 5th again. Kolohe was on fire too. And what about Australia? That's a pretty poor result given the quality of the team
poo-man


Has Coronavirus saved professional surfing ?
The olympics is being billed as the final Hail Mary of professional surfing as we know it. With the WSL’s complete failure to capitalise on it’s overarching ownership of not just competitive surfing, but increasingly surfing as a whole as it intrudes it’s slimy tentacles into every niche of the lifestyle, the eyes of the surfing industry have glanced towards the possibility of a non - endemic sponsorship light glowing fiercely from the anus of the Tokyo Olympics.
With the dream of a wave pool driven resurgence in viewer / participant numbers fading like the light in an Icelandic summer , the only potentially bright outlook for Ziff and his overgroomed cronies was the global exposure provided by the Olympics.
Now it appears ever more likely that the Tokyo Olympics will not go ahead. But this is probably a positive for Ziff and his money-struck dreamers , because if the Tokyo Olympics had actually gone ahead and the top surfers from around the world had indeed finally had the World’s attention as they’d gone head to head in thigh high, brown water closeouts at Shitashita beach then the resounding simultaneous click of a billion TVs switching off from that unwatchable event would have been the soundtrack to the death of the Final Hope of Pro surfing.
No endemic sponsors . No non-endemic sponsors. No wave pool millions . No merchandise sales. The sniff of any potential capital gain gone.
Ziff would abandon the house of pro surfing without so much as a Dear John John letter.
But with the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, pro surfing gets to dream that non-endemic dream for a little longer. The horrifying reality of the general public witnessing the drudgerous spectacle of surfing in real time postponed . This is the only thing keeping the prosurf dream alive....that their dream audience of Mid West America still thinks it’s 100 percent pure adrenaline and not 25 minute lulls leading into a 4 point heat total .
Pro surfing may have just been saved from itself.
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