For starters:
The whole format of the way the events are run. The fact that Pipeline is now first, that there is a mid year cut, the non existent big wave tour and the longboard tour, the fact the girls roster is still half that of the men, the utterly stupid finals as a surf-off with the top 5. This isnt baseball, basketball football or any other dumb team sport. The WSL is trying their hardest to make it like those other sports.
Lets move on to the commentators and the script and buzz words they have to follow to keep the overlords happy. Half of them are brain dead and talk like they barely made it out of junior high school. They have no idea how to fill dead air and its bad. Martin Potter may be the only one who has actual critical thinking regarding the surfers and the heats they are in.
How they constantly try and pit one countries surfers against another countries surfers to build a fake rivalry. The fact that anyone with eyes can see when a contest is run in crap conditions. However, the commentators are only allowed to say things like "the conditions are challenging out there". No the conditions are **** and they mad a bad call to run the event.
For instance today was day one at Pipe. Morning was decent then it turned to **** in the afternoon and they continued to run not only the 3 man non-elimination heats but they also ran the elimination heats. This is just mindbogglingly stupid.
Their motto is the best surfers in the world on the best waves in the world and unfortunately neither is true.
They took 'The Ultimate Fighter" format and TV show from the UFC and created "The Ultimate Surfer" where "contestants have to do dumb challenges to get a spot on the tour. Straight cheezy.
Slater's wave pool is an actual stop on the tour. What a joke.
That's just a bit of how I feel. There's more but I'm going to save it for my book 😂
