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The Pros and Cons of Kelly Slater's new ESPN World Tour of Surfing plan PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:14

Kelly Slater 

In the surfing world, everybody's talking about it.

Kelly Slater is in the center of what can be named as a potential Surfing Revolution.

Is he really going to leave the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) to debut a new World Tour of Surfing?

Are the ESPN rumours true? If so, when are we having the new global challenge?

Is the ASP's World Tour so bad that we need a change?

SurferToday.com has identified some of the Pros and Cons of Kelly Slater's eventual new World Tour of Surfing.

Check it out:

PROS

* Refreshing new behaviours of judging and ranking system
* New selection of world's finest surf spots
* Live TV broadcast
* Wider sponsorship policies
* More relaxed and free surfing during heats
* Having one of the greatest surfers of all time running the show
* Top prizes and having advertising income directly to surfers (idea sent by Chev)

CONS

* Inexperience of starting a brand new World Surfing Tour
* Losing ASP's longtime know-how
* Having two parallel competition running, just like the Kiteboarding's PKRA/KPWT endless war
* Starting a unnecessary battle for the ISA sports approval
* Delay surfing as an Olympic sport
* Delivering surfing to business men who do not understand what a "Take Off" is

Do you have new ideas? Publish them in the commentary box and we'll add it to the list.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:13
 

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