WSL CEO fired : r surfing - Reddit WSL flourished back when Midwesterners still bought surf apparel Sponsoring expensive surf contests that very few people even tune into anymore seems a losing prospect The whole tour sadly feels like it's in the dying quivers
A solution to the inevitable demise of the WSL : r surfing - Reddit Billionaires can do so much more good for the world than save pro surfing lol But that aside, Surfers underestimate how boring it is to watch for non-surfers Take other high-profile Olympic sports: gymnastics, track, figure skating, swimming, snowboarding, etc are all more popular sports to watch than surfing and most people only care about those every 4 years Only the die-hards follow
UFC exec Joe Carr new WSL CEO : r surfing - Reddit So basically WSL surfers are about to get dragged into and endless loop of media promotions, press conference tours, and asked to be WWE style gimmick characters
Surf Culture is dead! Long live: surfing is what I make it! My take is that contests eat your soul, social media pushes everything to be a baseline least common denominator blandfest,, and while social media and the WSL can suck my donkey dick, the shittification of soul surfing is much older than either
Discussion: is the WSL good or bad for surfing on the whole . . . - Reddit The WSL is a non-factor at this point Look at this sub It is, by far, the largest collection of kooks on the interwebs But only rarely does someone submit something about the WSL I think that's due to two things: Surfing has changed in that the vast majority of surfers aren't long term "core" surfers anymore One draw that professional surfing had was its aspirational aspect "I want to