Those turns! How can a man not fall in love?
Margs is almost over! Just a couple more days, a few more heats, and we can move on to the magic! Rio! Who will win? Who will lose? Who will contract Hep C? Only time will tell.
Pretty damn stoked the Tyler Wright took the women’s win. Gotta be my favorite female surfer. Finally surpassed Coco, though it’s a close thing. So much power behind those turns. Little bit of a crush going on. I have a thing for athletic women. The finely tuned female form does wonders for me. Way better than the waif deal.
It’s about time someone drops another all ladies surf vid. And I mean pure surf porn. Can the cutesy bikini poses, cut the soulful stares into the distance. Just surf. That’s it.
Or drop the best on a boat trip somewhere, do some unvarnished coverage. Get an all female crew, lady filmers, leave the guys on shore. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my thirty five years on earth, when it’s a same sex trip girls are just as foul and funny as boys.
I am a man, so I could be wrong, but there’s gotta be a demand. So many little girls learning these days, finally moving towards equality in the lineup. Not too long ago women weren’t supposed to surf. A stupidly sexist attitude that shouldn’t have existed in my lifetime, but did. Definitely part of the reason their performance angle suffered as long as it did. Shallow talent pool, less to draw from.
The lack of females in background roles is a problem too. So many stories I’d love to write but can’t. No matter how hard I try the male angle creeps in. Not really fair to tackle issues I don’t understand on any real level. Couldn’t, no matter how hard I try. The dick and chest hair and socialization run too strong.
Cori Schumacher’s a voice I miss. Outspoken, intelligent, amazing writer. Killer surfer too. But she’s moved on to bigger and better. Can’t blame her. In the larger scheme surf is totally unimportant.
But it’d be great if she passed the torch, or someone just picked it up. I’d kill to see stories written by women that didn’t include health or yoga or beauty tips.
Am I missing someone? Could be, it’s a big world, I don’t know everything in it.
Watch Tyler Wright win Margaret River here.
Drug Aware Margaret River Pro Women’s Final Results:
1 – Tyler Wright (AUS) 18.67
2 – Courtney Conlogue (USA) 14.70
Drug Aware Margaret River Pro Women’s Semifinal Results:
SF 1: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 17.44 def. Tatiana Weston-Webb (HAW) 12.17
SF 2: Tyler Wright (AUS) 15.07 def. Carissa Moore (HAW) 14.07
Drug Aware Margaret River Pro Women’s Quarterfinal Results:
QF 1: Tatiana Weston-Webb (HAW) 15.00 def. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 7.20
QF 2: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 17.33 def. Laura Enever (AUS) 6.67
QF 3: Carissa Moore (HAW) 14.57 def. Bianca Buitendag (ZAF) 6.40
QF 4: Tyler Wright (AUS) 16.53 def. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 8.74
2016 Samsung Galaxy WSL Top 5 (After Drug Aware Margaret River Pro):
1. Courtney Conlogue (USA) 26,000 pts
2. Tyler Wright (AUS) 25,200 pts
3. Carissa Moore (HAW) 19,500 pts
4. Tatiana Weston-Webb (HAW) 18,200 pts
5. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 15,600
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Having now watched the heat analyzer after getting back from Coachella, I see that Tyler pretty much took out the men’s and the women’s final. Good on her.
Geez I think that was your earnest article! Nice work!
BTW I was referring to the latter part of the article as I think Tyler was consistently overscored on flat mid-face turns and she fails in comparison to the likes of Carissa, Steph and even Conlogue…
PS. Women surf writers. I could not give a stuff if they are male or female or martian.
Write something interesting, don’t use it as a platform for your equal rights bleatings.
Do what every other kid who became a writer did. Submit your work, knock on editors doors, submit your work, write something interesting, submit your work keep submitting your work.
Just don’t fucking complain about how hard done by you are.
Oh boy nothing could get me more surf stoked than reading an article in a surf mag or site written by the perpetually aggrieved Cori Schumacher.
What I see are a handful of exceptional women surfers, best we have ever seen. There are about 6 of them. From where I sit they are well paid, have an endless supply of boards and travel the world. If you believe what you read in the media Steph Gilmore earns more than $1million a year. She is worth every cent plus more. Tyler, Sally Carrissa I’m sure earn more than average wage, and they deserve it. I have no idea what an average women surfer earns nor do I care.
My point is is that it is a free market you earn what you are worth. Yeah life sucks for some but I’m sure they can go back to school and get a job like the rest of the world.
I paid to see Stephs movie and I loved it. She made a good movie, so did JJF and Taj and Kerrzy and Jordy.
Step up to the plate make me want to pay to watch you surf and you will earn big money. Stop blaming being female. Just do it. Steph did.
The rest of them could not win a B Grade heat at any Boardriders club in Australia and should send a letter of thanks everyday to the surf companies that pay them for being below average..
Neoliberalist right there ^
Give up trying to sound intelligent, son. Steph’s movie was boring as. Cheap & boring documentary.
man i have so much keyboard smashing frustration on this issue. not tyler wright’s turns. tyler wright’s turns are amazing and wondrous. but the whole media thing and good women’s surf writing and whatnot. so frustrating.
Seek and Ye shall find
always thought Wendy Botha wasn’t bad
This Italo vs Cbass semi is the biggest fucking travesty of scoring I’ve ever seen! What the actual fuck are they doing with Cbass’ scores?! 9pointfucking1?! For what?! Utter, utter bullshit.
Have I gone mad? Am I actually having some sort of fucking psychotic episode? I’m done with this shit. That scoring was complete BS.
going to disagree. Italo didn’t really have any Italo-like turns. SeaBass won that one.
I’d agree he wasn’t totally on point, but the scores for Zietz were fucking outrageous! Go have a look at his 7.17 in comparison to Italo’s 5s and tell me that’s fair!
yeah, both that and the 9 were 2-turn waves, judged on size… think italo lost on his falls, despite the overscoring…
I’ll give him a pass….fucking guy has been robbed in so many heats….the WCT has had such a history of screwing guys in close heats…..Yadin nicol, Wardo, Ricardo Christie, sea bass, pat Gudang…..fuck I’ll say it…..even Pupo. Every once in a while, I’m ok with a smaller name getting the score to win a contest and actually pay his bills. Good for Sea Bass….the guy truly rips and might be the nicest guy on tour.
Kinda agree on the 9.1 from the semi but surely you’d rather see someone let loose one crazy turn that just three of the same to the beach? SeaBass surfed critical and got rewarded, at least in the final anyway.
Yap, 100% with you on that one. Even his 9.13 in the final was ridiculously overscored. Julian should’ve won that one, smoother and a lot more flow, no jerky, miss-timed moves.
She shreds. The girls top five is way more full of shredders than the guys top 5, come to think of it.
Get fucked! I hope that this is a poor attempt at humour.
OK, so I may not have looked ad the guy’s top five before writing that, HOWEVER, I’d certainly rather watch any of those 5 ladies than goddamn Wilko. And at least half of the rest of the guys tour.
how bout courtneys air drop to the bricks with 2 seconds left in the heat..more of that!
Cori’s torch is a tough one to pick up. She earned something from surfing’s cartel through talent, hard work and temerity and used it, deservingly, to bludgeon said cartel. Female surf writers today are seeking elevation from disadvantaged start with all the “dick and chest hair” stacked against them. Occasionally mainstream Mag’s pay lip service with a guest editor here and a feature there but how good would be it be instead of a ‘swimsuit’ (!?) issue to hand the reigns over to a wholly female team for one month?*
*Props to Gra Murdoch for doing pretty much this with the last edition of White Horses.
Good work Rory.
I just don’t understand why a female hasn’t risen up with a legit air game….Kerr’s daughter might be that girl….cause her dad is a fucking boss
I particularly enjoyed Ross Williams’ analysis at 1.43 – “she left a really good taste in the judge’s mouth”
“Mikey Wright, he is taking direct control of this heat”- one more huge leap for female equality and freedom
Nice headline.