John John Florence and Jadson Andre mashed in the soup by a buckaroo pilot!
Wow! What a day of professional surf action. Has beachbreak ever looked so fun? How do you think you would have fared in those conditions and be honest. Would you have scored a tube that could have resembled a respectable score or would you have been scratching around, tilting at imaginary peaks on the horizon?
I certainly would have been the later. Either that or smashing vodka/ginger beers in the competitors’ area before hopping on a ski and giving professional surfers rides back into the lineup. Did you see John John tossed from the ski into a boil of whitewash? The driver scrambling, madly, back into the saddle after losing the grip and splashing in the soup? What possessed John John to slide back onto the sled after the mishap? Because he cray that’s why!
And remember Joel in Rio? That backflip? This might be the greatest time ever in ski driver mismanagement/alcoholism. Bravo WSL! Entertainment par excellence! Will you accept my application? I drink usually starting at 3:00pm but could start earlier if needs be.
Cowboy ski drivers of the WSL from BeachGrit on Vimeo.
Why is it that only Hawaii, and Tahiti have good water patrol?
Add to the reel that one punk Damo Hobgood slammed into post-barrel, circa one decade ago @ Teahupoo. Still cringing over that one.
amateur hour here. and i’m not talking about the ski drivers
Happy with this version of the article Chas?
…are there more?
Yes!
Let me know if you need help next time. I’d love to be part of the ‘golden age of writing’
You missed Jadson’s ski driver’s nose dive to ski flip
And Alejo being dropped into the shorey with a fucked knee only to be smoked by another knee breaker while the ‘water safety’ guy was trying to help him, they truly are a bunch of bumbling, clumsy Frenchmen
It is the golden age of ski driving even more than writing!