"Atlantic City is the worst spot to surf in NJ"- Joel Tudor

Bro you make lots of valid points. That said, the VB cats would KILL to have such pub be spread by notable personalities about their breaks. I bet CB/WB too.

 

its kinda a sht hole also. longboarding events are like the shortboard events of decades ago. first prize is like $5,000 on a good day i think. the fact is nobody really cares and you shouldn't either

 

Pretty $hitty. Your right, it says a ton about his character. Any clues as to what his real motive was? It's odd that someone at that level would voice an opinion like that without some gain or loss involved.

 

Well, look at the positive side of his remarks: people won't go there. More waves for locals.

Besides, Tudor has long been known as a near-total douche canoe. His unprovoked diatribe is par for the douche-canoe course.

 

Tudors a pretty heavily opinionated fellow, and has strong ties to the days of old. I always hear the "entitlement" in his voice. I think he started the jujitsu stuff just to match his verbal assault. Listen to most of his interviews, he starts a lot of his lines with "I dont care who you are or what you think."

 

all this. parking at a meter at Tennessee av. and NOT getting your car robbed is like; fun.
don't know tudor or gaf bout him but can't help but think he got it right cause those who would
run and win a surfing contest here are likely poor reflections of the vibrant surf community here.

 

i'll clarify. ac is one of the better surfing areas in new jersey so for sure he's wrong bout that. as far as
urban ills/well we got 'em so if thats his beef he wins.

my complaint would be about non-surfers running and winning the contests. this region produces
a shocking amount of phonys - so if the surf indeed sucked - the formula would be phonys + slop = farce.

there is a dedicated crew here but mostly working class/non limelight seekers...if you know the gang i'm
talkin bout 2 firemen - class surfing acts - one whose style has nothing less than STUNNED me through
the years....as an example of the real locals who would be pushed aside for a (farce??!!)...just so
weeny no-name can do a photo-op with daffodil mayor?!?? how bout not.

 

Can you post a link to his full comments? I searched his instragram account but all I see is pictures. I would like to hear more about what he meant by all this. There has to be more to it. I assume he has beef with the people running the conests. It's either about having it on the east coast in general, or maybe there were other venues in NYC/Jersey that he thought were better surf spots.

I understand his concerns about having to perform in crap conditions. That Huntington event was garbage as he mentioned, and if held in the wrong window in AC, it could be worse. But that goes for everywhere.

I always liked Joel's surfing. Seemed like an interesting cat on TV/Interviews, but you also don't have to dig deep to see where he is "mentally" with surfing. Below is an article from 5 years ago, with him whining and complaining about longboarding competitions and how they suck. The judges suck. The contestants suck and that he himself seems to be the only guy on earth that really "gets it".... Just read it, and that will give you a little insight into his world. How his way is the only way. People that do radical things on longboards that don't fall in line with his beliefs are kooks, and when he sees a guy on an LB do an air, he literally "quits" the contest, removes his name from the list and walks off.... Not like a boss either....

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/r...rding-is-in-danger-of-being-irrelevant_28801/


But at any rate. He has to have some sort of deeper reasoning about the AC thing. We all know what A/C is as a city. Its a fun town. Easily capable of accomodating 10s of thousands of people for a world class event of any kind. And for surf, it's one of the better, more consistent stretches on the east coast. We know this. So, unless Joel is mad because it's not being hosted at some top secret point break in Jersey, I want to know his beef. He is a San Diego guy, with no Jersey roots, and it just seems fishy for a guy of his stature to take any kind of shot at them. It hurts his brand, it hurts his image.

I think he must just be mad, because he is increasingly less relevant with each day that goes buy. No one is impressed with a guy on a single fin at Hospitals. Big deal. That was so 15 years ago. Guess he is mad because the little kids are beating him on contests with their "trickory"

 

AC is one of the biggest ****holes on the EC. That said, last time I was there, the waves looked solid. I can't imagine it being the worst spot in Jerz.

 

@zach...LINK

I agree with Yankee...dude's a douche canoe...I also like his comments later in the comments section...after people call him out he tells them to stop following him...and stop worrying about his post. He's marketing and (likely being paid) to run the event on the EC and then dogs it...nice touch.

 

Haha, I think a lot of comments have been removed.... But here was his final response...

My internet feed here in va beach has been pretty ****ty-- I was just now able to read some of the comments-- here is my response-- for my entire life nat young, Harrison roach and countless other friends have told me how ****house the waves are in California compared to aus--- do I care, no! Do I go online and throw insults their way? No! Personally I could care less.. It's their opinion and I find it kind of funny!! My advice to anyone who follows somebody who they have never met and then stalks there page waiting to insult them is the craziest thing I've seen in a while!! Never in my life have I seen such a bunch of crybabies!!! Y'all need grow some thicker skin and get a LIFE! If you don't like me don't follow me! It's that simple!



---- And to the OP. I don't think he was taking a crack at Atlantic City New Jersey at all. He never mentioned that if it's in New Jersey, why have it in A/C. Just for the record, Mr. Tudor is simply talking smack about the entire east coast. He is regarding VB as AC and anywhere else. He is just saying, "Wow, there are no waves here, blah blah blah"....

So don't take it personal, this is the view of the Majority that have come up in SoCal. Heard it a million times from a million people.

But like he said in his comments, the truth is the truth. He mentioned how every person from Hawaii and Oz have told him his whole life how the waves in CA are nothing. He is just passing down the same uneducated, ridiculous viewpoints that have been shared to him.

I guess we could just turn around and insult a coast that gets less waves than us.... LOOKING AT YOU GULF COAST.

 

I know who you're talking about. Class act for sure. Nicest guy on the planet too. There are a ton of AC/ventnor/margate firemen who absolutely rip! However, there are the phonies, and the pro phonies, the wannabe phony phonies, and the phony hipsters who claim not to be hipster phonies (referencing stupid movie btw).

The crowd up in ac is the heaviest in NJ, hands down. I love The waves. I hate the surfers there. Baddy, I wonder if we know each other.


I saw a documentary on Tudor, all he talked about were things that were "cool". It kind of disappointed me a bit because for someone to constantly remark on what is cool and not cool, makes them disingenuous in my opinion.

Being cool is not being a d1ck. Tudor is definitely being a d1ck.

 

contrived and cornball as hell. you get it; my complaint, that is...

if the whole thing came and went this is what i'd be thinking...another surfing contest came and went and again
they did not bother with the local surfers. even the good ones.

 

when people say any spot is the worse spot they havnt stuck around long enough to see it come alive.i can take a picture of pipeline right now,completly flat and claim don't have a contest here,theres no waves.its all about the swell,no swell the spot appears shytty.who cares what a westcoaster thinks anyway,what do they know.i seen a few months ago tudor was suing his partner over their kook surfshop,not being derogatory that's the actual name of the surfshop.