Last month Rabbit Bartholomew announced that he was retiring from his position as president of the Association of Surfing Professionals. Today, the Sydney Morning Hearld looks back at the huge effect Rabbit’s “best surfers in the best waves” philosophy had on the ASP Tour and on surfing in general.
Problem being, a lot of the best waves are kilometres offshore. Tough, said Bartholomew. If that’s where conditions peaked, that’s where the contests would be held. . . . The result became the high-voltage tour now traversing the globe: Fiji, Tahiti, the US, Europe, a mystery location every year. Slater ended his retirement. It shouldn’t be forgotten that without Bartholomew’s brainchild, Slater would have been lost to the sport for good.
Thanks, Rabbit.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
