{"id":12155,"date":"2009-12-07T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12155"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:14:48","slug":"slater-tour-the-rebel-yelling-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12155","title":{"rendered":"Slater Tour: The Rebel Yelling Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TB.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TB.jpg','popup','width=625,height=415,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TB-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tb\" \/><\/a><strong>Terry Hardy<\/strong> apparently hasn&#8217;t let a few <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11145\" target=\"_blank\">ASP improvements<\/a><\/strong> get in the way of his plans for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22slater+tour%22\" target=\"_blank\">Slater Tour<\/a><\/strong> aka CST, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfinglife.com.au\/news\/asl-news\/2953-rebel-tour-whos-aboard\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Life<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the weekend <strong>Taj<\/strong> confirmed he had been approached by the CST promoters but told <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/rebel-surf-tour-still-trying-to-take-off\/story-e6frg7mf-1225807602844\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong> newspaper: &#8220;I don&#8217;t really like the sound of it, to be honest. It sounds really unorganised. The guy I spoke to didn&#8217;t seem to know that much. It was kind of bizarre. I just thought they&#8217;d be a lot better and a lot more organised in their approach. It didn&#8217;t seem very professional. . . &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t sound like they&#8217;re going to get the very best guys. If that&#8217;s the case, I&#8217;m definitely not interested. I&#8217;d only do it if all the very best guys were doing it. I&#8217;m not interested in separating the top ten in the world. It seems silly. it will just dilute it, i think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We agree with Taj. Surfing has come too far. And with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/three-time-world-champ-discusses-a-year-off-his-2010-return-and-a-newfound-pressure-to-perform_39226\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Irons back on the ASP WCT<\/a><\/strong> next year then it really doesn&#8217;t matter all that much what Kelly Slater decides to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfinglife.com.au\/news\/asl-news\/2953-rebel-tour-whos-aboard\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Life<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/rebel-surf-tour-still-trying-to-take-off\/story-e6frg7mf-1225807602844\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Hardy apparently hasn&#8217;t let a few ASP improvements get in the way of his plans for the Slater Tour aka CST, according to a story on Surfing Life. Over the weekend Taj confirmed he had been approached by the CST promoters but told The Australian newspaper: &#8220;I don&#8217;t really like the sound of it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}