Mavericks has a winner and I am “absolutely polarized by it!”
How much of the day did you watch? Did your spirt soar? Crash? Soar again? Did you think about upgrading your quiver? Did you think about buying more rubber? Will you also buy a puffy jacket? Will you pair it with a beanie?
The Titans of Mavericks has officially wrapped after a long Friday of very many big waves washed through the metaphorical, and also very real, rocks and we have a champion! A man worthy to carry the triton! (quick question…the Titans of Mavericks logo is the triton. Did titans use tritons? Was it simple linguistic confusion or an issue of close enough?)
Nic Lamb! Nic Lamb is your man!
Congratulations to him!
I heard from our source on the water:
“This event is so disappointing”
“Everyone is seasick”
“So many seasick athlete’s lady friends.”
But then!
“It’s actually fun now that the waves are big and fucked up”
And if that don’t sum it all up I don’t know what does.
*CAskyjumper rightly points out that Twiggy was kicked out of the contest so….
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It was marginally better than the Eddie contest on Wednesday.
More upvotes need ova hea.
This event takes itself way too seriously. Who shall prostrate themselves beneath the Committee Of Five for induction? Tune in next year when la nina ruins everything.
I just watched the parts where Sal was in the booth, then switched to Pe’ahi videos from the past week…
“(quick question…the Titans of Mavericks logo is the triton. Did titans use tritons? Was it simple grammatical confusion or an issue of close enough?)”
Goddamnit it Chas, I hate having to post on the internet but this was bugging me all day. Even had to look up ‘assonance’ and realized I’d been a little off on that definition for a few years. Also, that I’d conflated triton and trident for about as long. Anyway, I’m guessing it’s a case of close enough on C5’s end.
Bugging me on the broadcast, that is.
I get conflate and configure screwed around lots…
The trident was carried by Poseidon,father of Triton. Poseidon, along with his brothers and sisters, overthrew the Titans.
And yet, after, found it within himself to raise Nicholas Lamb on high.
Soooo do the committee of five want to overthrow the event’s surfers? Also, when the event wrapped did they throw a party of five?
EL Oh EL
Maybe the committee of five are the Titans? A pointless old guard struggling to stay relevant in the face of new gods.
Dorian is Zeus, obviously.
If Maserati gave a fuck they might just get legal on the logo.
This kid the poster boy to begin with, no? Fishy or just Monterey Bay canning?
I watched most of the event, and it wasn’t as bad as the last Mavericks contest, not by a long shot! They did a lot right, obviously the waves that we had hoped for didn’t materialise, (kinda a big deal in a big wave contest – I know) but the clips they had going on were pretty good, the background stories of the “athletes”. Not a complete success, but far better than that Todos borefest! Maybe Sal saved the day!
I own a puffy jacket, I own a beanie, somebody get me a 10’6″ – I’m about to Titan.
An aside: I’m fine with guys wearing two-tone green wetsuits (or maybe it’s a lime green wettie with a forest green rashguard, I digress), but it’s so sad to see the style ruined by boring black booties.
Im surprised its not an Armani tuxedo wetsuit…that guy is a tool and big wave surfing it boring unless people are getting thrown over the handle bars Garrett McNamara style
Congrats to Nic but there’ll always be an asterisk next to this win because Twiggy was not allowed to compete.
I never quite understood what happened there. As butt hurt as the committee of 5 must be you’d think he boned all they’re girlfriends and then told them about it later as though it were a funny story.