The tour surfers are very visible and for a couple weeks each year become pert of the fabric of the community.
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The humanity of the pro tour is also something that lights up every town it stops at. Maybe a radical cold-water expedition or a truly big-wave spot. The variety of the waves on tour are impressive and can be even more diverse with a few tweaks. No other sport is so intertwined with nature. The ever-changing playing field in surfing is like no other. Other tours travel the world but a tennis court is man-made, golf courses are man-made, even downhill ski races are on tracks cut out of the mountain and groomed by tractors. I cant think of anything else like it except maybe the genetic curios of sprinting. Many don’t look like they could compete at the level required to make it on the world tour anyway. Meaning only a handful look good enough.Įven more telling is that of the yearly qualifiers. When you watch that many events up close you start to really realise the scope of this tour and the challenges it puts on these elite athletes.Īnd this is without even being at the South Pacific events which are the heaviest waves on the schedule.Īnd what about France? What these guys do is paddle out in what is essentially impossible-to-paddle-out-to, closed-out wash-throughs in low-tide beachbreaks that were enough to drown Lebron James and send Derek Jeter crying to Mariah Carey.īut what of the qualifying series? When you watch a few of the bigger events like the Mr Price Ballito or the US Open you realise that of the 100 or so athletes in these events only a handful have a chance to qualify. This made for five men’s world tour events and, with HB being a CT for the girls, five women’s events that I attended in person.
In September, we loaded up the four kids and hit the road to Europe for the Roxy and Quik Pro in Hossegor. Back home for the US Open at HB and, of course, we settled in for the Hurley Pro at my home break of Lowers. I dragged my entire family of six to South Africa for the Ballito Prime and the J-Bay Pro. That means travelling more to the events rather than just sitting here at Trestles all year waiting for the US Open and The Hurley Pro. This year I decided to focus more on my work with athletes on the world tour. The ASP has put together the most dynamic, ever-changing, globally diverse group of athletes, with the widest age group, in the most elite field of competitors of any organised sport in the world today. To hell with cry-babies Jeter and Lebron! Matt “Mayhem” Biolos on the miracle of the ASP… WHY PRO SURFING IS BETTER THAN ANY SPORT ON EARTH They needed an opinion on pro surfing so they contacted someone who is never short of an opinion, Matt Biolos.
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