With dazzling Hawaiian commentary!
The 2016 Backdoor Shootout is running today. Kind of snuck up on me, wasn’t on my radar.
But the Shootout is a cool contest. Only one that caters to locals, has longboard, bodysurf, and SUP divisions, in addition to the shortboards.
Longboards are out right now, guys are kind of struggling to thread the needle, taking plenty beatings. Worth tuning in. Up next is SUP (which should deliver some carnage), then bodysurfing, more SUP, then shortboards, which is what we all really want to see.
All you guys with the ‘Eh, slow down, this ain’t the mainland’, guess what? You know why we’re hurrying up? Because all of us guys have to have two or three jobs to afford to live where we grew up now.
Will Mason win it again this year?
Yeah, the production quality is a little low, but not too bad.
Kaipo and Rocky are killing it from behind the mic, though, putting the WSL to shame.
Kaipo’s dropping some especially brilliant gems.
“That’s my public announcement number two for this morning. All you guys with the ‘Eh, slow down, this ain’t the mainland’, guess what? You know why we’re hurrying up? Because all of us guys have to have two or three jobs to afford to live where we grew up now. So, that’s why, if we’re in a rush, move over. Don’t act like that with your bumper sticker, ‘slow down,this ain’t the mainland.’ We gotta hurry up because we have two jobs, bruddah. Three jobs, bruddah.”
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Watched some of this yesterday, around the time of Bruce’s’ heat. One of the commentator was alright, trying to keep his simpleton racist colleague in check. I learned that apparently JJF is not a Hawaiian, that the Da Hui do great work including occasional beach clean ups and not to go to Kauai, as apparently they don’t like tourists in Kauai. And here I was thinking that some of the best surfers in recent memory were hawaiian, I am glad that I have been set straight! This is a great event for Hawaiian tourism!
The best was definitely the casual child abuse reference at 4:28:20. Cocked and Ready! Hahaha
4hr 45mins while discussing onion-shaped heads:
‘Kona Olivera with a take off and an ejection, there.’
‘I think that’s Bruce… no…’
‘Bruddah, that’s the blackest I’ve seen Bruce in a long time’
This is epic. When my boss complains I’m behind on deadlines, I’ll be blaming you, Parker.
But there’s no jazz hands 🙁
Hey – I’m as buff as a pro surfer! That surfer being Makua Rothman.
JOB set the bar high in the islands.
I’ve got a bigger rack than Carla Delavigne.
How many people are gonna use the same fuckin thumbnail pic?! There are a minimum of 3 Lairds here now, it would be great to differentiate
If you don’t have a avatar you get lumped with the default setting of Shaka Laird…
how does one change?
Up early Longtom?
Obviously find a photo first…
Stick it on your desktop.
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Next to the default avatar, click on the “choose a method” box and upload it from your desktop… No more Shaka Laird!
this casual commentary,with local insight,and actual humor is a welcome relief after a year of that other sterile crap.
nice to learn and laugh instead of cringe at what stammering,repetitive shit is about to come out of certain ‘pro’ commentators…sorry,analysts.
wasted lifetimes inside those nightclubs
Freddie P is on the beach but they should get him on the webcast also.
so now retired from surfing comps he’s just watching comps?
They said that he is doing the commentary on the beach. Maybe that’s part of his Surfer Poll hosting duties? Either way, I like Freddie and find him t be a good listen so they should rotate him through the booth.
how many tubs of vaseline did Da Hui go through in the 70’s with those shorts? they nearly look fuckin denim.
Can’t have a backdoor shootout without plenty of Vaseline. As Turtle warns in North Shore, “Don’t be there, else you gonna get drilled”
type in “vaseline bad lube” on google. there are many differing opinions about its benefits for anal sex. people are afraid to stick a petrol product up their arse i guess. who knew.
The internet: saving sphincters since 1993. No wonder da Hui were so angry in the ’70s and ’80s
Exactly the same around here./ Fahking tourists lollygagging.
In the words of Jarvis Cocker: Everybody hates a tourist.
Beachgrit (and life in general) would certainly benefit from more Jarvis quotes.