Good evening, Swellnet.

Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. ¡surfing, if you will. I enjoy this as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this DAY, a day that WILL be remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.

There are, of course, those who DO NOT want us to speak.

I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with “delete buttons” will soon be furiously typing their agendas. Why? Well, while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. P-O-W-E-R.

Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with !SURFING, isn't there? How different from the politicians trying to censor the internet via #SOPA right now? Not as different as you’d lke to think. If, in fact you are still capable of thinking outside the bubble you were raised, you'd realize that Andy Irons death woke many people up... including me. There is a third eye. The Industry is darker than ever imagined and if Andy's death and subsequent story by Melekian is good enough for you then your mind has already been eaten away by the worms of $$.

Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. All discussed ad infitium and for the last decade in Media 2.0. In ¡surfing… NEVER! And please, spare the token Barton Lynch, Occy or any comments no one read or paid any attention to in the 80’s. If this message is old to you now? Kill yourself. You should have seen it coming before Andy and DONE something about it… you fucking cowardly cunts.

And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit in the car parks, beaches, and street corners; you now have sensors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. Perhaps not explicitly here… but certainly implicitly. Name a single article posted on this site that would call into account any of the Major Three Sponsors of the very careers that those who work on pine for.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable… much more. This site doesn’t event register on the site counting websites. But again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it.

I know you were afraid.

Who wouldn't be?

Being cool, hip, and expressing some modicum of intelligence. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of the most important thing: COMMON SENSE. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the leaders of The Industry. They promised you order. They promised you happy numbers. And all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

This last year I sought to end that silence. We shall soon destroy the ASP, to remind the !SURFING world of what it has forgotten.

More than three decades ago, a great Australian citizen wished to embed !SURFING forever in our memory. His resonated in America and beyond that hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and FREEDOM are more than words, they are perspectives.

So if you've seen nothing, if the dots remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow your brain to decompose quietly into the night. There is no terrible conspiracy. Just a logical connection between a half dozen people that spent a decade practically living together.

But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside the social media movement that is CHANGING the world. Last year, the ASP endured the worst possible calamities one could imagine without a single boot from reality.

Together, we can give them a collective Boot of Reality that shall never, ever be forgot.

Just had a filthy surf out the front. Nothing like the images in this book but damn fine all the same.

You know BR, I couldn't give a flying fish fuck about anything you've said above. It's so far removed from anything to do with my past present and future.

I can assure you though, whether Tahiti was sponsored by Billabong or Jim's Mowing, last years Chopes was fucking awesome and just one of those rare times when everything came together.

I had a good little surf this morning too sandspit.

Indeed, Zenagain... just let The Industry continue on. After all, it doesn't effect you at all does it? Or DOES it?

How does it smell having your head stuck in your colon?

You live in Japan correct? I know many in China... living close to the places threading the needles that make YOUR boardshorts. It ain't all SURFY SURFY bullshit in THE REAL WORLD.

So go on, snuff The Industry Fumes.

Your death will help the human race evolve.

Absolute vintage Blasphemy.

Bottle that one and cellar it, it is of the highest calibre.

These passages in particular were gold: "I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with “delete buttons” will soon be furiously typing their agendas. Why? Well, while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. P-O-W-E-R."

Shit,people like that still use telephones???? Haven't they heard of email?

"There is a third eye."

An oldie but a goodie for fans of the genre.

"You should have seen it coming before Andy and DONE something about it… you fucking cowardly cunts."

And yet no-one ragged on AI for being a drug addict harder than you Blasphemy. So why didn't you act?

This whole issue of agency is something that seems lost on you and your loved ones. What action will YOU take. Why aren't you organising boycotts, walking your walk. So much impotent sound and fury.

"And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit in the car parks, beaches, and street corners; you now have sensors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. "

I actually laughed so loudly I almost shat my trou when I read that. I think you got your latest B-grade sci-fi mixed up with reality here Brew.
Easy mistake to make.
Maybe you need to get off the compy for a while and consort with some real, live human beings.
It might do you a world of good.
Get some humanity.

"This last year I sought to end that silence. We shall soon destroy the ASP, to remind the !SURFING world of what it has forgotten."

Finally, a manifesto we can get behind.
Ummm,,,,,how soon is soon?
"cause if it's before the Goldy I won't bother getting my pencils ready for the comp.
I'll take a holiday instead.

"More than three decades ago, a great Australian citizen wished to embed !SURFING forever in our memory. His resonated in America and beyond that hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and FREEDOM are more than words, they are perspectives."

Bootiful.

Who was the surfer?
Please don't say MP.

"Together, we can give them a collective Boot of Reality that shall never, ever be forgot."

Shame about this weak ending. It should be forgotten.
Is that like a jackboot of reality?

Steve,

You are Peter Creedy. You should have absorbed that about seven months ago. The rest of your comments are read as such...

Sorry Brew, not familiar with Peter Creedy.

I take it he's American.

Thought your rhetoric was bootiful, just a tad overblown.

So who was the Great Aussie citizen?

Think.

I kind of respected you once.

My death will have absolutely no bearing on the human race, as will yours.

It's a rich tapestry sunshine even with my heightened olfactory system I'll still sleep soundly tonight.

Zen,

Why respect any person?

Is there anyone in Australia, at this time, who can trust COMMON SENSE? Or are you all so insecure you need to be spoonfed porridge by names you've read in Industry Mags?

Gee wiz! I'm not a dumb bloke but I don't fully understand all this. Does this relate to the article? I know creative writing is fun but if you have something so passionate to say can you not say it straight?

What is the alternative to the asp?

Cheers in advance of a straight reply (genuinely no sarcasm intended)

Dear Billie,

This should straighten everything out for you while Steve figures out each and every facet of his persona as Peter Creedy...

It does not look like I’m going to bed early tonight so I think that this is an appropriate event to which I may lay my soul out uninvited like so many Quadroons (respect) sullen about the death of Chief Doug Rootincrotch. Fucking jackals on a crosshair he wasn’t any older than my old friend on the reserve here, Johnny Two Smokes For A Blow Job.

Luckily, Johnny was actually a girl named Misty who had the nicest 12 year old ass I have ever seen. When I seen it I was also 12 years old you fucking pervy paedophiles. So she’s having blowies with a few of the white surfer dudes.

I never competed in organized surfing because my parents had money and took me skiing every weekend to avoid the nonsense of being an Oregonian parent believing that every boy would be a star. So one weekend we were skiing in way upstate New York and Misty was there with a tight pair of ass hugging ski pants and I almost jizzed in my pants. She was adopted by a native lawyer and her husband, a whiteface.

So I met her for a little date in which she asked me why I was so shy around her. I told her it was because I used to be scared to write. Misty said “I’d like to see your writing melt in my mouth.” I told her to touch my p #commentdeletedbySOPA

Now I know WHY we missed you Brew please tell us more... I'm waiting with bated Breath... for the next installment.... and Steves Reply... (This is better than Television)

Oregon. Clearly paranoid. Ceaseless in his rantings.

I'm walking on breadcrumbs, baby, yeah!

I know who you are Mr Blasphemy Rottmouth...!

And I know you Patty.

Date at Mahi next Friday?

Meanwhile,

“When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, 'Come!' And I looked, and behold, Nick Carroll waddled forth with a baby named Steve, wrapped in swaddling clothes. And its rider’s name was Lennox, and baldness and hillbilly adoration followed him... filling his enourmous ego with The Nothing.

And they were given authority over a fourth of ¡surfing’s audience (all 11 of them), to kill young children’s credit rating with bars of wax and with pop-outs and with track tops and by wild beasts of the earth rendered in colorful rubber to later hang off the lip of your vacant skank’s fruity drink.”

These are dark times, my comrades. Make no mistake.

RottyLeaks- A new website for surf industry insiders to blow the whistle on the behind the scenes shenanigans while protecting their anonymity. How about setting it up BR?

Man, still so amped over that surf I had today. Stoked with my boards at the moment.

Can any of you imagine me being nice? Me neither.

But why bother?

Follow the crumbs...

@Yorkesurfer,

This is 2012. Media 2.0 took hold half a decade ago. Anonymity is the new black. Just write. There are still real "non-gonzo" journalists out there who lend an ear to our bullshit...

I've followed the crumbs and they lead all the way to Bend, Oregon. Charles Webster Baer, it's you!

I've read your stuff man.....everywhere. Seems you've switched focus from the Global Internet Government to the Association of Surfing Professionals. Good move. You'd still make a great President of the Earth if you asked me. Perhaps you've still got time for that?

Man, Charles Webster Baer....whodathunkit?

This is Gold baby.

Let it flow Brew.

Let it all out.

But first, who was the "great Aussie citizen"?

C'mon there can't have been that many of 'em.

Brilliant Concept yorkesurfer

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@RiffRaffBriz @Rottmouth Tell them to let people comment without logging in and then...:... Maybe.

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@V_For_Vanguard @RiffRaffBriz @Rottmouth I hate the login, it cramps my style man.

Wow Patty! You cracked me code! Amazine.

The greatest Aussie Surfer to ever live... the one who fucked up the midget's idea of pro surfing that we live with now is Michael Peterson.

I know more about about psychiatric medicine than most, if not all here. A simple fact is this: Australia has a terrible record in dealing with mental illnesses dating well before MP's days.

I don't want you to interview him Steve.

You've never asked a single question that interested anyone outside a jackoff shareholder.

But you've lived so close... for so long... and MP is the one guy that stood in the way of Pro Surfing. Andy why is that?

Could MP play rugby? Could he bat the tennis ball?

He was an ATHELETE.

And there you have it.

The product of a botched partial-birth abortion, Steve’s tale is not a pretty one. His NyQuil- addicted birth mother fired him off the back of a speeding Chevy Lumina in an effort to dislodge his deviated septum. He was found three days later scraping marmot ejaculate from the bottom of a Salvation Army kettle in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

He spent his post-kindergarten education in Russia where he was caught painting iconoclastic slogans on the Portrait of Solzhenitsyn in a Moscow subway station. Nonetheless he was adopted by blindfolded Buddhist monks who taught him how to smoke non-filtered cigarettes through his eye sockets. He became a street performer and lived off the pocket change passersby would throw into his semen-stiffened tube socks as he displayed his talents outside of the Hong Kong, Negro League Baseball Stadium.

Steve lived on lima beans and pan-fried penguin livers until he saved enough coin to apply for a return visa from The Australian State Department. He tried desperately to return home, even enlisting the help of Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton who was sent to the Chinese embassy in an effort to cleanse the fungal growth from beneath her withered tit-flaps. She was in no condition to help, as she spent the majority of her stay shitting egg noodles through her inflamed rectal polyps into the decorative, formal koi pond located in the tourist-restricted red light district just north of Tiananmen Square.

To this day, Steve remains grateful to those who have granted him the ultimate bracelet.

But he shall twist and turn as the days draw nigh ‘ponst which he realizes that studying IT would have saved him the ULTIMATE embarrassment.

MP stood in the way of Pro Surfing?

"His resonated in America and beyond that hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and FREEDOM are more than words, they are perspectives."

I'll ah, just check with Tommy Peterson about that.

But in short you've been listening to cunts who've got no clue and erected a(nother) false idol.

You want someone who stood in the way of Pro Surfing talk to Maurice Cole.

Oh man.

I 'm going to go fix some dings

“When IT geeks start talking IP and unique views I assume the survival position so I don't choke on my own vomit.” ~ Steve Shearer

Maurice Cole?

The one who fought Fred Pawle to the death about publishing the Sarge story at RealSurf?

Sure, puppet.

Professional competitive surfers in age of Surf Media 2.0 have revealed some uncanny things to us armchair surfers who occasionally watch videos and contests online from the comforts of our mother’s basements.

Their cell phones and “social media” have become an extension of themselves and a poor substitute for meaningful face-to-face relationships. Poisoned by a constant intravenous drip of useless electronic information, they’re no longer living, breathing humans, but more a series of soulless, digital images. They are members of a post-Surf Media 1.0 non-culture. Their self-worth seems reduced to the number of so-called “fans” accumulated on Facebook or Twitter who are willing to endlessly shower them with accolades.

They are an entire generation, now relegated to bits of data traveling at a frenetic pace, but going nowhere. A legion of pathetic, mind-raping propagates, devoid of warmth, lacking in spirit and incapable of meaningful speech. They no longer seem capable of expressing feelings beyond their own self-indulgent whims and desires. The little
philosophic thought some brave to proffer, is no deeper than a flea’s wading pool.

Their trivial messages travel between metallic towers, looking down upon them with ominous, blinking eyes and are then beamed up to hovering, faceless satellites orbiting the earth like buzzing flies drawn to the stench of a dying carcass. These encoded non-thoughts are beamed back again through a series of technological advances traveling through space at light-speed, but wholly devoid of substance.

Just remember, my fellow surf-nerds, every time you hear an incoming text message alert or that inane Twitter® birdcall coming from a professional surfer, you’re listening to the sound of ¡surfing unraveling.

Anyone else happy my cast is off and this is my fireworks finale?

I'll let Maurice answer that one.

"Their cell phones and “social media” have become an extension of themselves and a poor substitute for meaningful face-to-face relationships."

Got it in one Brew.

When was the last time you spoke to a real human being?

Brilliant... Brew and Steve... Gold just Gold Gold Gold as Norman May would say... I am tying myself to my office chair in the foetal position... so I dont miss anything!!

Was there ANY better athlete at the time of MP riding a surfboard? All around athlete in the Surfing World?

Could the rest of those fucks riding boards do anything BESIDES surf?

No.

Jealousy?

Conspiracy?

Surfing's essentially been a sport for "midgets" ever since. Midgets who couldn't make it popular in the Aussie or even Cali sports. They pushed MP into irrelevance to advance their agenda. Steve could walk to several people who know the story.

And you cannot tell me the ASP is not an inherently racist company fully funded by corporations that bend over to make brown skinned Hawaiians happy as long as THEY adhere to the white man's rules.

It's bullshit piled on bullshit.

You can say I was a hypocrite for calling out Andy, Kelly and JOB and whoever else at some point on personal levels for their surfing and lifestyle. FINE!

You obviously missed my post where I declared that Andy's Death was MORE than just about him... obviously. It was an AWAKENING.

And if it didn’t awaken YOU, then you are dead to me.

There is seriously NOTHING worse that can happen to a sport, or artistic endeavor than to see a three time champ just suddenly die.

Did I see it coming? Who the fuck am I? I sit in the basement and watch webcasts. I’ve never talked to Andy in my life. But there are hundreds of writers and photogs who traveled with him… all under Bong’s umbrella… yadda yadda… the dots are there… enablement is not a conspiracy theory children… it’s a reasonable conclusion based on facts.

Anywhoo… I have another story to write…

Fuck me, what the hell is going on. Rotty has taken off again with things that has nothing to do with this article and Backbeach has been here 5 minutes and taken over the forums trying to tell everyone who there are. Is the mango madness setting in late?

The milking of Andy’s “legacy” by Billabong, the ASP and even RipCurl through the end of the year, is abhorrent, and should be called out as such by any reporter, writer, thinker, sentient journalist or breathing human. Andy was a beautiful man, torn asunder by the deliberate destructive enablement of Michael Tomson and serial and systemic progression and succession of this “lifestyle” by Paul Naude and his cronies at Billabong. The family. Some families should be broken up as they’re too destructive to the members when they stay together. This is true of this “family”.

Smash it.

AI FOREVER?

That’s not going to work. And it should not be allowed amongst the shadows of The Industry. It’s the most crass and grotesque jingoism imaginable in this circumstance. Unless they mean that they want their vision of “Artificial Intelligence Forever.” In which case, it makes complete sense.

Artificial Intelligence.

AI forever is what they want. They want their version of Artificial Intelligence to be the story.

well played Rotty/.

vintage.

You didn't give your denouement away too quickly like last time......maybe your wife had a word in your ear about shooting your load too early.

Anyhow, you didn't answer the question. Will Pro surfing/the ASP be destroyed before Snapper starts?

I anxiously await all the apologists comments defending the Industry and The ASP and Swellnet and basically writing off anything I say because well... it's easier to believe press bulletins posted by Ben and Stu and faux intellectual blathering by Shearer that never actually adress the real message:

You got paid to go to Chopes and happened to get the ultimate swell of all time... and never being trained in any sort of journalism you were so blinded you NEVER addressed the major issues of the contest.

Bong's near pull out months before the event.

Bong's failure to consider putting Bruce in as a Wildcard.

Jordy's injury played out on camera like the Devine Comedy you've beaten into the ground. Where were the water patro, and doctors?

*And if you really felt Gonzo, you could have asked a few Bong guys about the Andy Irons thing. But I guess Melekian answered all your questions, so you've attached all the muppet strings to your fingers.

Anything else I missed?

Oh yeah, NyQuil.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

..."Andy was a beautiful man, torn asunder by the deliberate destructive enablement of Michael Tomson and serial and systemic progression and succession of this “lifestyle” by Paul Naude and his cronies at Billabong."

So you did know Andy Irons then?

Please Rotten-chops can you get Mulder to remove the chip from behind your ear or stop smoking the weed for a while and the paranoia may settle.
I for one enjoyed the Chopes webcast, and apparently that is what the article was in reference to.
So say something that may be a little more relevant to the article or give us some hard evidence about what you are so paranoid about and then maybe us poor dumb convicts might be a bit more willing to give you some credit for your ramblings.

just for a twist I've read this thread backwards.

it was much like following a trail of spew down a hall way, knowing all to well it would be rottencramps driving the porcelian bus when you get to the dunny.

I've had some great spews in me day.

but fair dinkum, rottencramps must cough blood.

rottencramps - " They pushed MP into irrelevance to advance their agenda. "

fuck me dead. go see a doctor.

directly, or indirectly, this will not end well for you.

Dear Mr Rottmouth,

I had nearly joined the herd of industry puppets (I can blend/puree metaphors too)and dismissed you as an ineffectual angst ridden man with too much time on his hands but you proved yourself completely credible with this line "I know many in China... living close to the places threading the needles that make YOUR boardshorts". Wowee. That certainly qualifies you as being in touch with the REAL WORLD. Hey, I have a friend in Thailand, does that mean I (just so you know, I wanted to capitalise "i" for dramatic effect like you did with YOUR) know that it isn't all SURFY SURFY too and can tell people about it? Honestly, the “many” Asian people and white people that I know living in Asia have told me what it is like in the "REAL WORLD". They are mostly farmers and male prostitutes, not working in the factories but certainly close enough to the factories threading the needles to make Zenagain’s board shorts, to inform me quite frankly that is not all "SURFY SURFY bullshit in the REAL WORLD!" They really shattered my illusions about how “SURFY SURFY” it is, out there, you know, in the REAL WORLD.

As a matter of fact, may I apply for the position of “Ambassador of Truth” you mentioned recently? I surf in a pair of regular sports pants, Umbro or New Balance or something that my mum sewed a key rope into a few years back, probably made in china, although a slightly fuller cut (too many biscuits with my tea) than the ones you painted on Mr Zenagain with your omniscient ocean spanning brush. However, I didn't wear them today. Today I wore a shirt made in Vietnam and an old parka made in East Germany as it was a bit chilly. Does that disqualify me from being an "Ambassodor of Truth"?

To support my application, I would like to inform you that my socks are woven from the silk of Bhutanese worms and fused together with a combination of free range rooster semen and a few drops of my own distilled sense of self worth, like your board shorts.

If you do not deem me worthy of being an Ambassador of Truth, please find a place for me in the the Bureaucracy of Truth. As you are so new-age and new-media, I imagine it is all hip with slides, ping pong tables and scooters like the Google offices. If no positions are available, I would very much appreciate it if you could kindly furnish me with my own personal insult/alternate identity as a surf industry stooge. It would mean so much to me.

Pass the "industry fumes" as I am out of diethyl-ether.

Yours sincerely,

A brainwashed industry stooge puppet robot sheep subhuman without a twitter account in the unREAL SURFY SURFY WORLD surrounded by snow covered rice fields

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very good... did you learn your patois in the basement cells of BR's torture chambers? I liked your way with words it reminded me of the great man himself... I too have socks woven from the silk of Bhutanese worms although the Rooster Semen tends to make them sticky when caught short at the pub and my urine dribbles down my legs.
Keep up the sterling work
Yours Aye

word from the waterline, rottencramps has an accident on its way.

guess 2.0 ain't as anonymous as he thinks.

bummer.

Surfing, whether it's sponsored "free" surfing, and or structured competitive surfing is not going away any time soon. Or during our lifetimes. Plenty of growth left in this biz plan.

Our resident message board kookmeyer, soaked in hard alcohol fantasy horror film screenwriter, Rottkamp/rot-mouth/Nancy Grace, is at it again... drunk and pilled up, and on the sofa again.

Speaking of business plans, old Rottkamp/Nancy Grace knows the book and entertainment business well. That is where he makes his crumbs.... He knows better than most that predicting the end of anything and or everything is one of the oldest, best selling attention getting scams ever invented.

What else is new.

If Rottkamp isn't either Adam Gierasch or Jace Anderson...

He's quite possibly rooting them both.

https://twitter.com/CreepyMofo

a quick glance at rottencramps twat account, he's twatted no less than 11,000+ twats, yes you read right 11,000+.

and of his 800 odd "followers", amongst the usual twatter telemarketers, transvestites and tryhards are his devotees ... BIGGAYDICKS and ANUSGAS.

winning.

Patty well done.

Charles Webster Baer?I thought the government (or aliens) got him a couple of years ago.

It all now comes full circle and closes on its self. Nice writing Charlie but fuck me it get tedious to read.

Rottencramps, u are so busy making yourself feel important trying to destroy everything, talking about minors arses, and criticizing both our scribe Steve, and how our community like to remember a fallen legend, that u missed the point. This is a thread about an amazing moment in surfings history.

Mate, in reality, there is nothing wrong with anything, only how we process it all. So u don't need to blow anything up ok.

If u get off your computer, suit up and hit the water a good half hour before sunrise tomorrow, maybe you will understand why we all surf.

Mate, anything can be entertaining in small doses,
but i think your going too far.
I believe in democracy, how bout a vote..?

Vote here if u want BR to keep his diarrhea flowing on swellnet.
Or, if you'd like the fella to f%#k off now.

I'll post the first one

FO 1
BR 0

well said shoredump. Teahupoo was best ive ever seen, couldn't stop watching loved it.

Rottencrabs you get my vote to stay. Your delusional garbage makes good reading. Ive been late for work everyday for the last 2 weeks from reading your shit. Keep it up mate but ffs go for a surf feel the love of just riding waves. does life get any better?

Back to the thread... Chopes Tow Day was the best live surfing webcast I've seen... and it just goes to show how good WT & pro surfing could be.. instead of the half baked Trash "Search" at NY and the San Fran thing that the ASP dish out to us last year at the Behest of the Big Three... who want to flog more product to the US market... As Kanga said to me Big 3 & ASP have lost the connect with the Average Surfer... remember the great search event in Mexico and when they went to G Land... Kanga also says all Triple Crown events in Hawaii should be on WT... Hawaii as the home of Surfing and some of the best waves anywhere.. its that important... and really would be the best Surfers in the Best Waves insteadf some of the Crap Events we were dished out last year... I discussed this recently with Bede D on Twitter and he agreed with Kanga.. So the Pro Surfers want this too... What about it ASP!! and now we hear today Luke Egan .. Bong Rider Joel Parkinsons ex Coach reappointed as Contest Director
http://www.surfermag.com/luke-egan-interview/ its a joke
Quote from Bruce Rawson on Twitter
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How serious is a sport where coach of leading competitor is condoned as a contest director!! (cont) http://tl.gd/fdnti5
Personally I have lost the connect with the Big 3... I dont wear branded stuff... unless its a copy and then it doesnt matter coz the big corps get Zilch... How many other Surfers out there feel this way?

Ps I Think BR is doing some good... I enjoy reading his stuff... although its usually more "Cutting Edge" before the Nyquil Kicks In!!

Fuck, Rotty's not going anywhere and why would we want him to?

He's stepped it up here and produced some next-level entertainment.

I'd rather read his bullshit which is mostly fed to him by ex-pro surfer managers and other non-surfing axe-grinders and rent seekers than go back to the bad old days when some pompous magazine editor in the backpocket of the surf corps controlled what was published.

Rotty's fundamentalist black/white view of the world belongs more in the middle east or 1930's Europe but I say his ideas deserve to become part of the public discourse, where they can be evaluated on their merits and not just disseminated by a gaggle of sycophantic Twatter knob swallowers.

I may disagree with the slimy little cunt but I would defend to the death his right to speak.

It's just a shame he couldn't have demonstrated the same respect for free speech in his own blog.

Heil Rottmouth!

OK everyone,check out Rottys'-Charles webster baer's website...google,and check out a deranged wannabe Rottmouth.....I think the photo,the videos say it all...a bloody seppo preaching to aussies,about their culture....

sad to say but poor ol rotty just likes the sound of his own ego!

What are these social mediums Rott.

Drop some URL's for blogs

Yo, Freeride, couldn't agree more!

yeah Stu...got excited,then went and did a bit of inspector clouseau,and damm rotty isn't CWB.......nick atually tells a great story about CWB.......
so rotty still lives breathes and looks to me he was once rejected by mainstream something...and has made it his life work to try and get back at......????......anything that resembles "the system"...

Surfs lookin' good in my part of the world tomorrow. Hot temps, light winds, bit of swell. Nice.

Is that appropriate for this forum...can't degenerate anymore I reckon.

Happy surfing!

..."They promised you order. They promised you happy numbers. And all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.".....

I think I get it now. You style yourself as some nouveau Noam Chomsky of the surfing world. Fark, your delusions run deep.

And Twitter, the CB Radio of the 21st Century, is going to change the universe. OK - got that. I for one would like to welcome our new Twitter overlords.

I used to give you the benefit of the doubt BR. You have since removed all doubt.

You need to check yourself in buddy.

If anyone out there reading this knows this guy, you really need to go and see him and talk him. See if he is eating, sleeping, conversing with humans. This man has problems, I genuinely believe that now.

Not eccentric, for he lights no distant path.

I'm convinced he will be telling us he is the Jesus soul soon.

Shearer, I have to disagree. I would not defend his right to express himself. He has proven unable anyway, and you would be defending nothing of value in this case.

BR, you can't write for shit either, in your cups or not.

No, seriously.

Or, 'The Dude'.....

Holy shit. Hard to keep up with you Blas. You are everywhere. Take it easy on these convicts.

What I like about Swellnet is they don't bombard your web experience with ads and content thinly disguised to maximize page views like that American surf forecast site we all love and hate.

And Gra is funny. Maybe he should supply the words.

Old Rottkamp/rotmouth, (who does his best to constantly channel Nancy Grace, the perinial whinger on everything printed on the front page), on all sorts of web sites, and tells us that he's been ghosts writing for Anastasia Ashley, Chris Cote, JOB - Jamie O'Brian, all surfers who pull down their crumbs from mega multinational corporations, (you know, those very corps that rottkamp has been railing against for years now), quite obviously as he's informed us, suffers from alcoholism, prescription drug dependancy, and schizophrenia,,,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

is it THAT surprising he's off the hook, nutters? And appeals to those folks who may be predisposed to following a loopy leader? A la the Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_jones

Next up, we discuss the very same corporations that sponsor the ASP World Tour that old rottkamp hates, are the companies that sponno these pros who rottkamps been writing for.

BOOYAH. Capitalism 2.0!

[Was there ANY better athlete at the time of MP riding a surfboard? All around athlete in the Surfing World?

Could the rest of those fucks riding boards do anything BESIDES surf?

No.

Jealousy?

Conspiracy?

Surfing's essentially been a sport for "midgets" ever since. Midgets who couldn't make it popular in the Aussie or even Cali sports. They pushed MP into irrelevance to advance their agenda.]

Rottencramps - stark raving straightjacket certifiable.

Good one Stu..... And now turned out that old Rottkamp the rot mouthed hypocrite has been caught doing the same thing he's been accusing others of, (the good Steve Shearer being one of his many targets),....

Do you think that old Rottkamp will be serving up heaping helpings of Hypocrite eggs..... in perpetuity?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hypocrite%20Eggs