{"id":24465,"date":"2011-07-25T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24465"},"modified":"2011-07-25T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:48:05","slug":"asp-tour-no-shows-may-get-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24465","title":{"rendered":"ASP Tour No-Shows May Get Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/as_surf_slatersit_576.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/as_surf_slatersit_576.jpg','popup','width=576,height=324,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\/2011\/07\/as_surf_slatersit_576-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Surf Slatersit 576\" \/><\/a>After <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> famously tweeted that he&#8217;d rather surf macking Cloudbreak than meager <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/billabongpro.com\/jbay11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong Pro J-Bay<\/a><\/strong> surf and <strong>Bobby Martinez<\/strong> failed to show up, the ASP is reportedly working toward significantly increasing the fines for tour surfers who bail on events, according to a <strong>Joli<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/news\/story?id=6799990\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the next event, which is the Billabong Pro in Tahiti, sources close to the ASP have indicated increasing the fine to US $25,000 if the surfer has been in touch with ASP officials but is still a no show (e.g. Slater at J-Bay) or possible US $50,000 for a surfer who has not been in touch with officials (e.g. Martinez) and fails to turn up. Prodan could not verify these numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Increased fines do show that the ASP is serious, but will they actually help hold things together? Or just piss more surfers off? Guess we&#8217;ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/news\/story?id=6799990\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Kelly Slater famously tweeted that he&#8217;d rather surf macking Cloudbreak than meager Billabong Pro J-Bay surf and Bobby Martinez failed to show up, the ASP is reportedly working toward significantly increasing the fines for tour surfers who bail on events, according to a Joli story on ESPN\/Action. From the next event, which is the [&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\/24465"}],"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=24465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24466,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions\/24466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}