IOC has confirmed surfing & skateboarding will be included in the 2020 Olympics!
Get out there and start training , whether rain ,hail , or wind . 
I'll admit to being selfish...but I couldn't care less for progressing the future of surfing. I don't want to open the door up to surfing more than they already have been. There's already too many kooks out there. Yes, sure, we've all been there...but people taking up surfing now days want to be catching waves from day 1 and generally have no intention to learn the 'rules'. No intention to learn about safety....right of way...not paddling through the take of point etc etc. Many who take it up just give up and become SUPers. They don't want to do the hard yards like the rest of us did. They're clogging up the few surf breaks we have left.
I couldn't give two ****s about competitive surfing. I don't care about the future of the sport because I don't really consider it one. I'm not going to spout about stokes and tribes and "surfing is muh lifestyle braaaa" but for me it's never been a sport. It's the same way I view mountaineering (which I partake in also). It's a thing I do to hit my reset switch. Why would I possibly want to have surfing promoted more than it already is? What possible gain is there, other than increased Chinese board sales and more mid-life crisis Porsche '4wd' owners with SUP's on their roof racks.
Yeah I may seem grumpy...or even sound like a surf hipster that wants to look down his nose at all the new-surf plebs...but it's not like that. The actual few competitors aside, who will gain from adding surfing to the Olympics?
The Brazzo's will be frothing.
Another shiny piece of metal to boast about.
Send the small wave air brigade and have a US open style spin to win.
Congrats holy Toledo on your air reverse Olympic gold medal.
Lets hope there is a massive Typhoon the week of the Olympics that sends up 10ft heaving beachies and we see Medina and Toledo **** their pants again but on a 6 billion people global scale.
JJF for the win.
Legropes started the decline, this is just another nail in the coffin.
The surfing Olympics happen on the Oahu nth shore each year, no gold medals, just recognition.
Personally I'd like to see the Olympics held in a wavepool. At least then it would be something different to the norm rather than holding a chop hop contest in the average waves they are bound to be competing in. Surely with the technology behind Kelly's wavepool they must be able to build something with varying sections to create some degree of spontaneity
Nope not a fan at all, can't see many pro surfers getting more excited over a gold medal than holding up the Bells or Pipe trophy. Maybe restrict it to an age limit ie under 21's. The surf industry are stoked as it has just opened up a massive new market = $$$$
The below is what changed the whole game in the olympics.
edition.cnn.com/2012/07/22/opinion/greene-olympics-amateurs/
Personally I don't see the point.
Whats the average surfer going to get out of it. Maybe a two minute snippet of footage on tv in two ft crap.
It will probably inspire the next generation of Zillas and Euro kooks and even aggro Aussies to hassle some more for competition success
It all stinks of the corporate dollar and in reality it will only be a lucky few to get paid
As for the nine to fiver it will put more strain on the already limited resource of waves.
Most weekends are a right off already with a small army sitting on anything that remotely resembles a peak.
But I suppose we all got to get with the times or get left behind.
I just think the people that are pulling the strings haven't got anyones best interests at heart.
Ego and money driven 
