Matt "Wilko" Wilkinson is the first goofy to win since Occy '98. Glory years!
How must it feel to be Matt Wilkinson right now? Oh sure he is no competitive slouch but who would have predicted his coming out of the gate and winning the first two events? Who could have guessed that, after a 45 day waiting period, he would stand on the podium, face done Aboriginal, ringing the Bell? If you were watching the webcast, and of course you were, you know that he is the first goofyfooter to win since Occy in 1998. Let that sink in for a moment. An almost 200 year drought.
It is an amazing story and for sure they will be selling Glenn Hall feet in Ireland as good luck charms. Do you like Wilko as a champion? Part of me misses his journeyman aura of fun. Of drink and goof. Part of me wonders what will happen to the WSL if Wilko chases ADS as champ at year’s end. Part of likes the ride.
The rebirth of Jordy is a good thing for professional surfing. He disposed of Mick in his semi final heat with such poise, such boom. Mick was surfing very well on what Joe Turpel called those big hunks of south Australian ocean. Or maybe it was Ross Williams. Pete Mel said, for sure, that Jordy weighs 200 lbs. He looked completely spent in the final. Exhausted. Maybe it is tiring lugging a man’s weight through the water. Maybe he had the tougher draw. Maybe surfing in semi final two when there is lots of thick whitewash to paddle is a recipe for guaranteed failure. Whatever the case, Jordy failed at the end but maybe staked his claim in the rest of the year.
What do you think is happening in Brazil right now? Southern California was supposed to get lots of rain this year, you know. An El Niño cycle. Except the storms didn’t line up the way it was planned. There would be a few days of rain and then nothing. A few days weeks later than nothing. Could the Brazilian Storm be like Southern California El Niño? A Brazilian champ then Wilko, Jordy, Conner Coffin?
How wonderful, speaking of, is the world number two right now? He has a face built to squeeze and a rail game made for gilded Las Vegas bathrooms. Could professional surfing’s savior come from Santa Barbara? Would Bobby Martinez stand and applaud? Let’s keep our eye on that boy. Let’s watch him good.
Are you excited for Marg River? It happens in only a few days time. And will you dress as a Bells winner for Halloween? It would be a fine idea.
Jordy looked more tired in the final than the night after his wedding…..
I support Milko’s campaign, as long as he attends heat win interviews as a double act composed of him and squeaky Micro and they finish each other’s sentences.
1.) I would stand in line for a Glen Hall lucky foot. They say we make our own fate, but still I could use some Ol’ Irish blessings.
2.) Love the tradition at Bell’s. The ringing of the bell, the aboriginal heritage.. Wonder if Bobby would compare its wave form to playing on grass very “Wimbldeonesque” or clay courts like the French Open? But not a contest that keeps my attention.. should i apologize for thinking that out loud?
3.) Please interview Bobby and if he is selling gilded Santa Muerte’s put me down for one of those please!
the real question is: are there enough rights for wilkos backhand to win the tour this year
jbay, lowers at least…
jbay yes, lowers not so sure he would be the main threat
I mean, righty point.. pannel seems a little inclined to goofiest on that conditions lately, resenhas on it ‘n all…
oh no, coming from behind it backside at lowers is huge, way easier wave to surf than Steamers
Get it while its hot, a Microacademy surf franchise coming soon to every beach near you
#teammicrorules
Can someone at Stab put the fake James B to sleep pls? It’s @disqus_vN7xLEEwvp
Can someone in brazil please put the real James B to sleep please?
Cavy? He also has a fake toofattosurf account going, I reckon we’ll all get alternate cavy accounts soon, should be mayhem.
Also fuck you. Haven’t told you that in a while <3
nah, I’m one and only… and you must reckon I give a little trying to keep fair to the language…
This is disgraceful Tia, even by your sub human standards. Why burden poor BeachGrit with the ugly plight of STAB? I come to BeachGrit for the peaceful and intelligent conversation not for your horrible racist remarks. You need to learn how to be a gentleman like the Prince of Ubatuba and stop being a dirty dog.
that was a ridiculous fucken wetsuit you were wearing at Bells Wiggs. what the hell were you thinking.
I was wearing the one in my profile picture back at the house but my girlfriend told me you could see the hair on my freckle when I duck dive….. I had to go with the back up the kooks at Quiksilver gave me.
Well it was a joke. You should have borrowed Filipe’s underwear.
You would love to see me in a pair of Filipe’s Hurley Compression Panties, paddling with my head on the deck, wouldn’t you!? Pervert!
I loved the fact that Ronnie said “see you in couple weeks at margies”. I think starts fri 8th Ronnie! Not too much time to prepare but guess if they surf main break will be pretty similar to lumpy Bells so shouldn’t matter.
Man, I need to get on Tour, I could easily satisfy all those involved: Pete’s single-minded fascination with 200 lb men; Ross’s thick thighs fetish; the judges’ and Pottz’s desire for cutbacks and safety turns (of the man variety); the male fan, becoming a target to be ridiculed for the utter lack of progression in my surfing (i.e. no airs); and the female audience, who will get to feel sorry for someone when they watch my terribly awkward, socially retarded post-heat interviews! Heck, I can even carry around an umbrella to arouse and excite Nick Carroll!
lol, this is fucked-up funny…
You check all the boxes, seems like a no-brainer.
Can you fly? You’d have to fly. And wear a dress. And be 30 year old Julie Andrews.
it’s almost like he purposely uglied it up a notch just to kick Fred Pawle in the nuts.
god bless him
Bells really is the counter-argument to extending the waiting period; that thing dragged on longer than the last days of the roman empire.
Snapper is the only one that has needed an extended waiting period thus far longdong.
I half expected the judges to give it to a regular footer to keep up with tradition…
Good call on Connor, most things that come out of the states have hype and then very little substance ( not just in surfing either) but could watch it the kids rail game all day long.
Thankfully they skipped those pristine offshore conditions for another five feet of wind lump.
How do you stop turning your head and easing off the gas when passing by a gruesome wreck on the highway? At what point have you become numbed to the carnage and saturated with eleven million seasons of Walking Dead gore? Well, a man knows when to walk away from a burning foyer and step into the wasteland with that baseball bat in hand. I suppose this is the year I became a man. Not for naught…
This reminds me of my own sorrowful experience with a lovely lass, a rival suitor and the bitterness of unrequited love.
I first saw her along the bank of an unnamed tributary digging up Badenian mollusks with a stone chisel. I watched her, mesmerized, from behind a screen of willow branches as she bent to her task, grunting contentedly, her breasts swaying lazily and bra-less ‘neath a frayed Def Leppard t-shirt. Small beads of perspiration dribbled steadily from her heavy brow… falling harmlessly to the hardened sand and evaporating like leaking petrol on hot asphalt.
I disrobed.
Moving quietly through the willows, her nose twitched as that of a frightened meadow viper and her head swung my direction. She rose abruptly from her position on squatty, muscular legs – dropping mollusks but firmly clutching the chisel. Her dull, expressionless face framed a pair of jaundiced eyes that glistened like Cēpacol® in a highball glass. We stood there, suspended in the matrix, staring at each other for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, I asked her if she would like to join me for supper. She disappeared quickly into the brush and I never saw her again.
I came to find out later she ran off with a flamboyant, mustachioed Pro-Gamer with a penchant for tattoos and a history of moderate to severe Crohn’s disease.
“a man’s weight”….. Fucking love it
So many questions after Bells like; will Kelly retire with a modicum of dignity left? And Taj, Parko, Kai et-al? And if Fred Pawle labelled Wilko a Yobbo after Snapper, what nomenclature will be appropriate now?