Chas Smith Hates Surfing ep one: Tenore and the death of the Pipe Masters

[@vincestithit381]

Surfing's esoteric coolness is gone. The adult learners have turned it into a rollerblading culture.

[@Unfluencer]

and SUPs are the cherry on top of this shite sandwitch.

[@lukehunter3902]

Damn, that was accurate

[@michelb9044]

Well... rollerbladers are very happy with their culture. But you seem to have problems with yours. Perhaps you need to reconnect to your inner "esoteric coolness", whatever it means (to you). I guess for that you'll have to practice.

[@RCharlyDylan]

I completely agree with this.

[@Waynesworrldexcellent]

ASP aka WSL along with Surfing Australia and all the other national surfing body's around the world have achieved their decades long goal of expanding surfing to the masses to make it mainstream and digestible for corporate consumption. The rejection of the mainstream is ironically what surfing was born out of. Congrats to those governing bodies, you did it 🎉

[@createelement27]

Finally some truth about how greed ruined surfing.

[@cornholio69]

Felipe Toledo's boards lol

[@kirthgersen2485]

I love this guy's book. I spent a couple of summers on the North Shore a few years ago and met some of the knuckleheads in it at restaurants and bars. It was hard not to say anything to them, lol.

[@ba1428]

Damn..I feel for the all the poor lasses that have had to look up at that crooked snoz while getting the best 3 minutes their lives.

[@Ck-zk3we]

Lads

[@JHillNC]

*worst 28 seconds...

[@YachtRockFiend]

Chas it boggles my mind that you are not constantly miserable from being hungover. How do you do it?

[@Ck-zk3we]

He doesn’t ever sober up

[@joehernandez2461]

Nicely done amigo. We all feel The same way.

[@MrMysto]

No barrel for the no lands in the Vans Day 2 highlights clip

[@jimmyslade6754]

You can’t kill Carissa Moore’s integrity, Filipe’s backhand attack at Chopes or the rumours around Elos sacking either

[@ba1428]

Bit stiff...needs more alcohol

[@Ck-zk3we]

Karengrit

[@sidabbruzzi3239]

So good !!👍👍👍❤️

[@raleighsmalls4653]

Maybe he should get into playing GO......?

[@ShauninParadise]

I wish Chas surfed better.

[@Animal_chin]

Bango Tango Fandango Mango!

[@socore4659]

Ironic its called authentic brands... Everything is opposite these days... We're in the netherverse

[@joeblow1942]

“War is peace.”

[@JHillNC]

Holy shit did anybody catch the person who wrapped your nose around a telephone pole? Looks like a multiple offender.

[@marcod9626]

Right on!

[@IanMcSlater]

Chas Smith and Beachgrit have to be the corniest most ego driven narcissistic sideshow of surfing ever. Just cuz you read some intellectual articles in Surfers Journal years ago doesnt make you an intellectual writer. Hands down the most childish gossip read in surfing ever. But little kids love it soo here we are.

[@DanielHatchman]

You way overestimate the WSL's brain power!

[@IanMcSlater]

huh?@@DanielHatchman

[@DanielHatchman]

@@IanMcSlater oh lol I was meant to be replying to another one hahaha! I vastly overestimated my own brain power 😂

[@BeachGritNetwork]

True!

[@patrickshea446]

get a seersucker suit

[@cjhenry41]

The waves were so bad this year, it was horrific. Not even worth watching. Beyond trash waves. If it wasn't a WSL event, they could have had a waiting period, because this was unwatchable and the commentators were an affront to God and Man.

[@Ck-zk3we]

It was excellent to watch. No commercials or absurd world tour talk . Just surfing by excellent surfing.

[@Ck-zk3we]

Chas is a hardcore shill for the WSL. The pipemasters did not originate as tour contest and trying to discredit it for your overlords will not succeed. The pro tour is lame . Real surfers like watching surfing, don’t care about wsl clown show

[@picardmadeoff1068]

Chas a hardcore shill for the WSL? You must be new around here as I'm not sure he is welcome at a tour event any more than Ronnie G is welcome in HB.

[@Ck-zk3we]

Nobody promoted WSL more than Chas . Controlled opposition.

[@lorinanderson2497]

Surfers don’t dress like Chas

[@Ck-zk3we]

Biggest event in the history of women’s surfing and Chas tries to take that away from them because his wife’s athelete management company didn’t find a way to profit off of it

[@joeblow1942]

Unless it’s womens gymnastics (“think of the possibilities, Jerry!”), no one cares about womens sports. Proof? Look at the views of mens sports vs womens sports.

[@bailey5726]

Get to the point lol

[@Giggle-ing]

Chad should hate surfing. He sucks at it. This guy having any relevance in surfing shows precisely how lame surfing has become.

[@billprendgergast8976]

This Chas bloke looks like the pimp from "Casino"....