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Dodging A Pro Surfing Civil War, Part Two
Dodging A Pro Surfing Civil War, Part Two
Enough of the rumors. Enough of the confusion. Enough of the chest pounding. Get in the habit of saying it. Breathe deep and let it out: The “Kelly Tour” is dead. Skip the other stages of grief, because the corpse is already beginning to stink. The Assn. of Surfing Professionals ...
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Shawn Price’s Slater Tour Round Up
Boardistan — Kshurleyr1Morris1852 Former OC Register surf writer and current The Faster Times surf columnist Shawn Price goes over all the Slater Tour / ASP Tour upgrades detritus one more time in his column: Dodging A Pro Surfing Civil War, Part Two . The Assn. of Surfing Professionals, having voted in sweeping changes last week that effectively killed the so-called Champions Surf Tour, gets back to regular business and wraps up the European leg of the World Tour this week with the Rip Curl Pro Search in Portugal. Click the link for the entire blow-by-blow ...

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