What The Never-Ending Aussie Leg Taught Us About 2021
And where they’re all gonna have to go from here.
Photo: Dunbar/WSL
Link copied to clipboard
It was amazing, how fast some people moved. The instant they were bumped out of Rottnest, they got on planes and fled — to the Gold Coast or Sydney to wait for the WSL’s charter flight back to the US, or for a coupla days at home before taking off to El Salvador and the ISA Games, then to Kelly’s Ranch for the next CT, ding dong.
The speed of the exits told you a couple of things about CT-World right now. One, that a lot of surfers were mentally fatigued after four back to back CTs following a layoff of over a year. They just wanted to get away.