National Scholastic Surfing Association

First.

You guys are getting on that now? It will make its competitive debut at the 2027 National Scholastic Surfing Association, the NSSA, in June of 2027 in Dana Point, California.

This is the first collegiate surfing team in Hawaii.

There's California, Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Utah.

What was I going to say? Oh, I think especially at, I see these, this email being really relevant, especially at the amateur level.

Like the idea of from a very young age, getting a coach that's going to teach you what the NSSA wants to see is going to ruin your surfing.

So I had a conversation last night with a notable surfer who was bemoaning coaching.

He was just like, this whole thing stinks.

And, I mean, because really all it, not all it takes, but what it mostly takes is alternative judging, right? Is what are we, which Natural Selection does through their...

credo, whatever it's called, uh, where creativity is highly, you know, like that's the first thing in the credo is creativity, creativity.

Uh, and so that I feel if one of those leagues had enough money where kids weren't NSSAing where it was like, okay, you're going to get paid by being creative, then it would change.

I mean, the idea of putting surfers in the best surf on the planet, if there was like a million dollar prize purse and it was Craig Anderson, Alex Nost, Clay Marzo, you know what I mean? Like Clay Marzo, imagine Clay Marzo trying to fit a WCT format.