A Blood Feud custom made for today!
Some mornings I wakey wakey eggs and bakey and nothing has happened in our surf world. Nothing at all. Maybe Shane Dorian’s super cute kids did something cute but that’s it.
Other mornings I wakey wakey eggs and bakey and Surfing magazine’s online editor Brendan Buckley has posted a story titled Sunny Garcia Hates Me and Sunny Garcia has responded directly on his Instagram with an added bonus of Joel Tudor weighing in and the Mother of Dragons is in the final against John John Florence guaranteeing that Futures Fins is beginning the greatest (fingers crossed) streak in sporting history (2x champ and counting) with the wild hopes of unseating previously 11x unbeaten in a row (can you even believe?) FCS.
I love Shane Dorian’s kids but these other mornings are better.
And let’s tuck in. First here’s Brendan on SurfingMagazine.com:
Gabriel Medina landed an air at the Oi Rio Pro earlier today. It was a great air, a 10. Jimmicane snapped a photo of it and we decided to run it on Instagram. I was given the responsibility of captioning it. “Power surfing makes heats. Progressive surfing makes memories. Gabriel Medina just landed an air worth remembering at the Oi Rio Pro.”
And that’s when Sunny Garcia hated me.
“…I bet whoever wrote this quote sucks ass at at surfing anyway [fist emoticon]. Good surfing is always remembered your Mag sucks now that Flame is not there”
“don’t get me wrong I love watching guys do airs but saying power surfing makes heats and airs make memories lol give me a break the person that wrote this is a kook”
Sunny is a power surfing god, guru, goliath and more. I love the way he rides waves and I respect him like I respect my father. And I wholeheartedly respect his opinion. But I’ll stand by mine.
Too many pulled punches at the end? Yes! But Brendan is a wonderful human being, handsome, funny, kind and more. I love the way he writes and I enjoy reading him like I enjoy my father etc. and you can read the rest of his opinion here but let us now move on to Sunny who took to Instagram this morning and wrote:
Had a long day yesterday and made some comments about power surfing on @surfingmagazine and as always they got twisted lol I’m a power surfer but I like good surfing by anyone but when a editor of a Mag says that power surfing wins heats and airs are more memorable I’m calling him out in it because the truth is incredible surfing will always be remembered regardless if it’s a air or @thomasvictorcarroll hack at big Pipe even if I like the later 🙂 Brendan Buckley I don’t hate you but you are a kook and @gabrielmedina fucking rips and there’s no denying that 🙂 and @surfingmagazine please get a new editor
Who won the round? Who is more convincing? Maybe Joel Tudor? He came screaming in off the sidelines and wrote:
@sunnygarcia I’ve hated everything about that magazine since I was a child – they have told myself and @vans that longboarding is not a legitimate style of wave riding to be in the pages of their magazine! That was straight from the editors mouth —- flame was notorious for being open about how much he hated longboards – THAT MAG CAN EAT A DICK
No! Not Joel Tudor! In a surprise uppercut from the grave Surfing‘s legendary and dead photo editor Larry “Flame” Moore knocks out the competition and takes the whole feud! Longboarders objectively stink so terribly that our very own Derek Rielly has instructed his children to shoot them on sight.
Did you see that coming? Did you see Flame standing victorious at the end? That’s why I love these other mornings.
Is Legitamite like Vegemite?
You’re an exception to the rule, Timmy! But, drunkily seriously, I can’t stand that really old fuckers can pick off the best waves on longboards and then not make up their minds, fading this way and that. It ain’t close-mindedness to the style. It is a disdain of the gross hogging.
Brendan Buckley has a point, but only that big power moves are more common than big aerials. Beyond that, he is being silly. Does no one remember Mark Occhilupo’s surfing? Which do you remember, Dane Reynolds’ aerials or his power turns?
where’s danny fuller when you need him?
I guess this is what happens when your career peaks at age 25. I will say though that I’ve surfed with Joel plenty of times and he’s always been mellow and fun to watch. His kid’s super nice in the water as well.
Did I just say something nice? Well, BJJ is for kooks. There, I feel better.
Truer words never spoken
Dane’s Haleiwa turn, i still remember it, and the jaw dropping silence from Ross and Dorian that followed.
Yup…..
Wait, what? Joel Tudor still surfs? Thought he quit years ago. So weird.
“…longboarding is not a legitimate style of wave riding to be in the pages of their magazine!” Fair enough. I would say that’s their call, wouldn’t you? I love logging, but even I think it would dilute Ing. How many pages does it get? An annual issue, a happenings page, or what?
Longboarders are too sensitive sometimes. Do you need a mag to edify your craft? Are we evangelizing the shorties? Maybe we should start with SUPers? Do we have to be told we’re “charging with lots of soul”?
There are other mags that do logs and that is fine. Take a look at TSJ and you’ll get some damn good longboard coverage.
Do you think Sunny is down with longboarding in Ing?
but seriously, fuck longboarding anyway.
Thanks buddy. I’ve been totally Burnsy’ed.
Fuck, how dare Joel Tudor make me side with Surfing.
BELIEVE ME; “KOOK” is not only who don’t surf good. This guy (BB) “surf good” i mean he like the Circus he can make all the backflip and shit,…but he still a KOOK.
His sentences make him a BIG KOOK. Who hate power surfing? only a Kook.
I can speak from first hand experience and probably Mikey C as well. Buck is not a kook. Actually the complete opposite, I’d say when he was living in jersey he was easily the most standout progressive grommy coming out of jersey.
I had the privilege of surfing with BB in New York City! He is very not kook.
Hes a very VERY weird dude, but he absolutely killed it when he was still here. relative to NJ at least haha
the kids got a transworld surf tattoo in his arm pit from the cali rally one of those years, of course hes a fuckin weirdo
Joel Tudor is perpetually stuck in the 1950’s. Not saying he doesn’t have style cause he does, but it’s the same old same old boring surfing. Sure, he will be remembered but probably not what he thinks he will be remembered as. Seems to me that a lot of people have the same opinion, that he is quite the ass.
I genuinely thought that the only people that say ‘go eat a dick’ were people from movies? I might start using it conversationally.
Great waves make great memories. The box store companies and magazines of surfing have a invested interested in making memories out of the forgettable Rio contest year after year. I don’t blame Brenden and I don’t agree with either of them. Maxing Pipe or Fiji will always be remembered before power surfing and backflips.
Burch arching and hacking the shit out of left in Peru is infinitely more memorable to me than any air in a comp or otherwise.
Cloudbreak at 8ft is unforgettable.
First Yellowstone Trav, now Sunny?! Captioners are on notice, write something innocuous and you will be maimed … by REAL surfers! And, wow, just wow, Joel told them! “They have told myself” wait, is Joel also Surfing?