So the word on the street is that the next two ESA contest are going to be canceled. What's the deal with that? I could see rescheduling them maybe but completely canceling them, come on now that's just bad business.
ESA is a joke... canceled contests... reschedualing... it's bad for buisness and i will never renew my membership. plus i've seen them change locations for the contest at the last minute (night before) and everyone shows up at the original location and they wonder why no one shows up...
According to the e-mail I just received from ESA, the new directors are unable to keep up with the work load. Perhaps they need some new volunteers. The grom beginner bash and the all girls event are the ones being cancelled.
Yeah. They were doing that crap years ago when I was about 13-15yrs old and competing. They're favorite kids get in 1st and 2nd place and then they throw everything else out the window so that those kids make it to easterns. Or, they just change the location, only tell the people they want to and everyone else gets shafted and doesn't get to compete for any points. They also like to let people judge their best friends or judge the heat with their fav. grom in it. Not very fair if you are young and excited about surfing competitions. Took the wind out of my sail after 2 seasons. Never been to an event since... not even to watch. Screw them. I'm going surfing!!! Looks fun and the life guards just got off.
yeah.... here on the gulf the will have the owners of a certain shop judge all the heats.... somehow the kids that ride for their shop always seem to advance in their heats they are the most biased fother muckers i've ever seen
esa def a joke i just did the past Malibu's classic and not bragging but i believe i got screwed over they judge you on your best 2 waves and a kid beat me in the finals and he only caught one wave and another kids parents said to me i deserved to win and my judge was a random guy form the crowd playing with his i pod and i don't think i can enter the maryland states because the next comps are canceled
bummer... but it's good that your doing it how it's meant to be done now! nothing better than a solosessionsunrizedp in my opinion. hope you got some good ones wang. competition has it's place in the progression of expression, but style is natural... i say we go old school and have a pissing contest, any takers? I got mad distance and leverage to the clouds
1.the way the tabulate the scores it is impossible to catch one wave and win. 2.they dont pick random people to judge.
Actually, I've seen them pick random people to judge (granted that was about 10-12 yrs ago). And once it was me. When I was about 15.... one of the last contests I went to..... I sat in as a judge for one of the menehueme (sp?) heats. Honestly, I probably shouldn't have been since I had only been surfing for 3-4yrs at the time but I tried to be fair.
are you guys talking about the contest on lbi? cuz that one is definately on for this weekend... providing there's waves
