Two-time World Champion, defending Bells Beach champ, and Rip Curl athlete Tyler Wright joins the podcast to discuss the season and the upcoming Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by Bonsoy. She talks about her strong start to Championship Tour season, all the physical and mental energy she put into preparation for the year, the support team around her, and her priorities at this point in her career. She looks back at her entry into sponsorships and the tour at such a young age, the challenges of being young in such a heightened competitive environment, how hard it is to stay driven, and her advice for today’s surfers in the same situation. She talks through some of the tough issues surfing is facing, the work the industry still has to do, representation in surfing, and staying true to her values and identity. Tyler also touches on her brother Owen’s retirement announcement, “releasing the handbrake” and surfing in her own style, her goals for 2023, and why winning at Bells Beach was so meaningful for her.
For More Check-Out:
Shane Dorian Talks Billabong Pro Pipeline, Predictions for ’23 CT Plus Surfers To Watch At Pipe – https://youtu.be/SKKDPn_QS8M
Carissa Moore vs Tyler Wright FINAL! | Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach – Heat Replay – https://youtu.be/dsao2zYDfWw
Tyler Wright vs. Bethany Hamilton – Round Four, Heat 2 – Outerknown Fiji Women’s Pro 2017 – https://youtu.be/6O_nb8W4_Jk
Bells Beach means Australian surfing heritage. As one of the sport’s longest-running events, it’s an old-school test of power and rail-to-rail surfing for today’s progressive athletes. The deep history, combined with the pressure of the fast-approaching Mid-season Cut, makes getting a win and ringing “The Bell” one of the great honors in the sport.
Watch live April 4-14 on worldsurfleague.com
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14 Comments
Tyler Kook !!!!
What a great transparent interview! Thank you for sharing and being so open and honest!
I made it to 60 minutes. Surely wsl can give me an award for suffering through so much.
Respect to Tyler in so many ways. I've seen her hold back in her surfing and always thought it was because she was still recovering, but now i know there's that little bit she was holding for herself. Hard to blame her. I appreciate her honesty. Also congrats to the host for saying the "C" word. No, not that "C" word, I'm taking about capitalism. That is really the root cause of a lot of problems brought up here. The other 'C" word is corporation, which is a technology developed by capitalists to exacerbate the logic of capitalism: essentially, ceaseless accumulation and the commodification of everything. No matter how "progressive" they say they are – or even how sincere some individuals are in those corporations, ultimately they serve the logic of capitalism. That is a fundamental contradiction anyone who wants real change will always come up against. As long as a particular change doesn't threaten the bottom line, it's possible to make some headway, but if it does, they will fight you, or eliminate you. For example, they have no problem changing the food at their corporate house, but try getting them to stop exploiting labor to make profits. See how they react to that. Or take another example, the wsl is focusing more and more on what amounts to greenwashing to cover up for how ecologically dirty the whole enterprise is, but they take sponsor money from the military, which is the world's biggest polluter, and purveyor of death of course. Just a couple of hundreds of examples…Anyway, food for thought….
Such a great interview 👏
Shouldn’t she be addressing the trannies or have she been muzzled?
Great interview. Good questions and I loved how he just let Tyler talk and express herself. Such vulnerability.
Wow, two shows in a row Prodan interviews a woman. At least this time, he seems interested in the conversation; last time, it was Picklum, and Prodan just looked annoyed and bored. Tyler is smart, articulate, and has her own, unique, point of view. A pleasure. In fact, forget Prodan. Tyler is way more acute: Get her to do a series interviewing badass women on the Challenger tour and some soon-to-be badass juniors.
I am extremely , extremely disappointed that she didn't do the whole interview whilst taking a knee .
I hear a girl who looks at her challenges and try’s to blame her parents. “How could they not know” she says. Her parents gave her the world and provided her a platform to be an amazing athlete and live a life that is full of abundance. Yet she’s still thinks it’s bad – because the people around her were white….as she lives in Australia (a population that’s mostly white).
As a parent myself, it’s insanely difficult to just get through the day let along raise a family of superstars.
Insane to see how the victim mentality she carry’s around reflects in her now losing surfing career.
While on the other side of the spectrum you have people like Carissa Moore that are pillars in society. That own their faults and work daily to correct them while embracing and bringing up the world around her. A winners mentality that breeds personal excellence.
A wake created by tossing a stone hits every edge of the shore line. Carissa embodies how small individual acts daily touch everyone while Tyler diminishes is self pitty.
Wake me up when this is over omg
shes the worst,,,
Insightful interview. Love how Dave stayed out of her way as she shared her experiences and challenges. Any parent whose kids have been in athletics at any level has seen some shocking behavior from parents pressuring their kids and/or living vicariously through them. She's doing things on her own terms now, and her surfing looks better than ever. Good for her.
verbal diarrhea 🤢🤢