(AP) Rip Curl Search Update: Heli-Surfing to debut in San Francisco

for the first time, i have to agree with bobby. that's bullshit.

This is comedy at it's finest.

What The F#$@. Come on this is pure shite??
If you want to surf a break you have to handle what it has to offer this is pure comercial Sh@#!.
Well lets do Toe-in shite why not give them a wee push if they feel they cant manage the paddle.......
Poor wee pro surfers what a hard life they have.
As far as i am concerned its pathetic & i plan on paddling out in my British speedos and drop in on Kelly if thats the case....
F....That

and a tragedy at its' worst.

My speedos or the Comp???

In related news, the judges will be riding Great White Sharks so they can get closer to the action.

let me preface this by saying i like bear grylls and i love watching asp events online, am a huge fan. this is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. i was relieved to hear that GGNRA had the integrity to tell them not to be such tools about the paddle and denied them jetskis. why should they get to come here and pollute our beach and our ocean and leave us to deal with the mess and swim around in their jetski gas on our home break, a protected area. then that jerk from the asp had the nerve to bitch about it publicly (whine whine whine im involved with professional surfing whine whine whine please shut up); so instead they are going to waste *much* more gas only now in the air.

this is a city that does SOOOO much to protect the environment, we are one of the nations leaders and are a beacon of progressive values in terms of urban living in US. we have nature preserves IN OUR CITY LIMITS.

can we come together as locals (i mean everybody who surfs the beach) for ONCE and get pissed about this?

i think if we throw a big enough fit, we can kill this easily. i will personally sit in the Anonymous IRC room every day and lobby to have this be a "thing" if they bring a helicopter down there. take that shit back to the East Coast where nobody gives a shit if they swim around in radioactive protoplasm hypodermic needle trash. the ASP needs to have some respect for the LOCALS -- that includes surfers, swimmers, seals, dolphins, and snowy plovers.

FUCK. THAT.

do they get scored on the jump from the chopper? i vote for that. thanks. :D

i will only agree to the chopper if they do it at Linda Mar.

That's heli cool.

whirlybirds at lindamar!! love it! :D

wow this is incredibly lame. i dont really have anything else to add to the ridiculousness of this idea.

i have always bought ripcurl wetsuits...i think its time to switch to oneill

*woosh*

WOW! I still like my idea, though.

Right over the heads of mostly everyone.

I'm totally down with this as long as Robert Duval is coordinating all the choppers and choosing peaks................

This is gonna be fucking HILARIOUS. I can not wait.

well written dakota. almost as funny as the serious comments...

Rather than hire expensive helicopters, they should move it to a more convenient location. Like one of the secret locations we're not supposed to talk about. Or know about. Or even know whether someone else might know about it. I'm speaking now about the most ultra top secret of breaks. Like CIA triple classified. Ph0rt p0int comes to mind.

Or, if it's a truly big swell, it could be the granddaddy of all secret spots. DE@DMAN'S! The most secretly secret of all. The problem though, would be holding this high publicity contest without actually telling anyone where anything is.

The sportscasters would have to use evasive language and strict rules with cameras, in order to avoid unduly giving the location away.

I imagine something like this:

"we're here at uh.. a place somewhere in the ocean (some ocean).. near the san francisco bay area, but you know, not necessarily in it. But we could be close by. I just can't say, unfortunately."

This could potentially work. But the local community would need to work with the contest organizers to make sure that it was done right. I propose location nazis on here as possible censors. Like the Chinese govt, your job would be to make sure that no information ever leaked out about the contest whereabouts. And if it did, shut it down like a Borders bookstore.

Did you say "Somewhere on Earth"?!? Because that's where the November contest is happening according to http://www.aspworldtour.com/rankings/asp-world-title-ranking/

I don't know why, but I can't help but think that if I was a pro surfer, I would be embarrassed to have to take a helicopter ride to get out. On the other hand, it would shore up ocean beach's well-deserved reputation as being a notoriously difficult place to paddle out at.

Everyone gets an automatic -1 for believing this. Unreal. Nice troll, @dakota. Impressive.

best chopper wreck thread 2011. vote down this comment. thanks!

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@shredlife A+

Who says surfers aren't dumb.

Congratulations, well done, now let me just get this damn fish hook out of my cheek.

This had everything, from Martinez quotes sprinkled with Bear Grylles providing training. I vote this rant of the year.

a very, very fine post. I also vote this Rant of the Year.

Uberrant indeed. I'm so digging this right now, totes like a plover.

Hooked

Joke right?

helicopters no problem if we get to shoot mortar shells into the lineup ala Apocalypse Now!
"What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamned New Jersey! "

Am I doing this right?

yus, u r :D lol
Could also be depicted as a rofflecopter
Cliq this:
http://roflcopter.net/roflcopter.gif

heh.

Wow, I am going out on a limb here but really, why the fuck should we care how they get? You know if they had chopper rides for $20 you would hop aboard. Do you want to watch them surf or just compare how long it took them to paddle out compard to us mortals? Unlike most of us, they are not going to look over their shoulder after the first drop to see what other hell is coming. They will rip every last ounce of juice all the way to the inside sand bar. Then you can verify that it is difficult to paddle back out or maybe not. Let's just hope for a good clean swell and some good surfing:)

BOOO! I want the pros to grow a set and earn their runs like the rest of us!

jet skis...choppers...'don't want them to have to paddle, just want to watch them surf'...huh...during one of the last contests ran in OB back in 90's, ###### was DOH and bombing, the gals voted to surf their heats and made it out to ride some bombs...guess the gals back then had more sack then the pro guys do now..

Why don't they use trained dolphins instead? Those big greys that cruise the lineup could probably drag those poor, pathetic weakling pro surfers through any swell or set, and it would be a hell of a lot more hip and trendy than bailing out of a chopper.

Hey if there's a strong sideshore current are they going to have zodiacs to ride them back upcurrent? Or are they going to inflate a ballon and have the chopper pick them up like special forces? Wouldn't want theiir itsy bitsy arms to get too tired from actually having to paddle.

I really want to see the pros deal with the challenge of getting outside on a solid swell. That is part of this wave, and will help sort out the men from the boys. I took 26 on the head after I started counting on the paddle out this am. No biggie.