Surfing is not golf

The days of competitive surfers being able to freely express their emotions in the view, or ear shot, of the surfing public are over. Fines at this year’s Mr Price Pro were getting dished out almost as easily as yellow cards in a Fifa World Cup final. Thanks to Ricky Basnett’s misunderstood performance at the South African Surfing awards the night before the event, which saw him being escorted out of the awards, the ASP officials were swift to throw fines and sanctions at any sort of display of negative body language by losing surfers that might suggest they felt that the judges screwed up, again.

Conveniently 25 minutes before he was to collect his vest, two days after his Ricky Bobby show at the surfing awards, Ricky got emailed from ASP international’s lawyer asking for an explanation for his previous night’s performance, threatening fines and expulsion. He apologized to all parties involved and explains, “Surfing is not golf, and surfers will not act like golfers.”

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