The unlikely story behind ZoSea’s ASP World Tours<\/p>\n
t\u2019s day one of what\u2019s promising to be a strange old year. The pro surfing tour has just changed hands for the first time in three decades, been signed away for a song, and while the outgoing owners haven\u2019t yet cleaned out their desks, the new owners haven\u2019t moved in either. The whole show\u2019s in limbo, and at this historic juncture everything and nothing is happening simultaneously. It\u2019s been termed a \u201cbridging year,\u201d but a bridge to where exactly, no one is sure.<\/p>\n
The press conference for the first event of the season\u2014the Quiksilver Pro\u2014is being held on the beachfront at Snapper Rocks. The humidity is so sharp it\u2019s like breathing fish hooks. A stifling room full of leaky newspaper hacks and TV network girls melting like wax dummies stare at an empty chair with the nameplate \u201cKelly Slater\u201d in front of it. His no-show is for \u201cpersonal reasons,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 …\u00a0 More<\/a><\/p>\n