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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: alt.surfing
- Subject: Re: New World Champion
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 08:14:10 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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- In article <9212212326.AA00924@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil> danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark) writes:
- > So, why is the surfing community so removed from
- >the professional aspect of the sport? When Greg LaMond
- >won the Tour-De-France, that's all that was talked about
- >on rec.bicycles for weeks. What other professional sport is so
- >alienated from its amateur ranks? (wrestling not included).
-
- I dunno. Most of the sports I play I don't watch the pros much except
- back when I was a "serious" competitor. Sometimes it drives my boss
- nuts that I can play soccer twice a week and have almost no interest
- in watching the game or talking about matches he's seen. Every couple
- of years I'll go to a international friendly match, or when the
- Olympics were a mile from my house I couldn't resist. And I expect
- I'll be there in '94 when the World Cup swings by although I moved
- further from the stadium and a lot lot closer to the water. :-) Its
- the same with surfing. I do it and someday I'll get around to watching
- it. Maybe if I have to move to Santa Cruz in '95 I'll see some of the
- comps down there, but so far I haven't noticed anyone showing up on my
- beach. A few years ago some damn good skimboarders showed up and I
- watched them for a couple of hours. I could tell they were good 'cause
- of all the movie cameras set up to film them and all the multiple flips
- they were pulling. Sports I don't play I tend to watch more. Strange,
- huh.
-
- > I understand that in Australia professional surfers are well known
- >and treated better than here in the states. So maybe it's just a
- >"I'm too cool" California thing.
-
- Maybe its just that there was nobody to watch when I was growing up
- bodysurfing on Long Island so I don't ever think of that as the thing to do.
-
- Andy
-