{"id":6598,"date":"2009-03-19T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:53:08","slug":"jock-talk-with-lewis-samuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6598","title":{"rendered":"Jock Talk With Lewis Samuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surfling-power.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surfling-power.jpg','popup','width=430,height=335,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\/03\/surfling-power-tm.jpg\" height=\"335\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfling Power\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Samuels<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/wct-contest-zone\/after-event-1-of-2009-quiksilver-pro-gold-coast-power-rankings-2009-quik-pro_25204\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong> for perfectly capturing the jockification of surfing in a snide way. It may take for hell and a day to load each page, but for those who want to know what one surf writer thinks about each of the guys on the ASP WCT there&#8217;s no better place than <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/wct-contest-zone\/after-event-1-of-2009-quiksilver-pro-gold-coast-power-rankings-2009-quik-pro_25204\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Surfline&#8217;s 2009 ASP World Tour Pow3r Rank1ngs Presented by Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what he said about 17th place <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s obvious to everyone that by losing to Julian, Slater has erased two decades of competitive dominance. We can now safely equate Kelly to Cheyne Horan, who finished runner-up four times riding unconventional equipment. Yes, Kelly won the Billabong Pipe Masters riding similarly unconventional equipment, and there were those nine titles&#8230; but that was then, this is now. The once infallible Slater, who has never lost a heat in his life, dug his rail twice in chest-high windchop and failed to catch an imaginary second scoring set wave that never came through. So clearly, he&#8217;s no longer the best surfer in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smell that? That&#8217;s sarcasm. . . though we can&#8217;t say we disagree with the &#8220;unconventional equipment&#8221; comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/wct-contest-zone\/after-event-1-of-2009-quiksilver-pro-gold-coast-power-rankings-2009-quik-pro_25204\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Lewis Samuels and Surfline for perfectly capturing the jockification of surfing in a snide way. It may take for hell and a day to load each page, but for those who want to know what one surf writer thinks about each of the guys on the ASP WCT there&#8217;s no better place than [&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\/6598"}],"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=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}