A blonde on blonder final!
John John Florence has just won the Oi Rio Pro again. It is again, right? He won last year, yeah? And what about Brazil, do you think, turns it on for him? Do you think the pressure just drains away in those warm samba nights?
I was actually cheering for his competition, Jack “Mother of Dragons” Freestone. Yesterday I posted his pic on Instagram and captioned it Mother of Dragons. He gave me an ok emoji and “haha” and then added “Mother of dragons, hopefully father of the Oi Rio Pro.”
Any surfer with a sense of humor is tops in my book. And look at how close he got. Second place! Step-father of the Oi Rio Pro!
Congrats to both and more detailed analysis soon.
But watch final here!
Watch post-final show!
Oi Rio Pro Men’s Final Results:
1 – John John Florence (HAW) 18.97
2 – Jack Freestone (AUS) 16.13
Oi Rio Pro Men’s Semifinal Results:
SF 1: John John Florence (HAW) 18.73 def. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 12.66
SF 2: Jack Freestone (AUS) 16.50 def. Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.67
Oi Rio Pro Men’s Quarterfinal Results:
QF 1: John John Florence (HAW) 15.17 def. Dusty Payne (HAW) 8.50
QF 2: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 12.97 def. Davey Cathels (AUS) 10.00
QF 3: Jack Freestone (AUS) 12.50 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 11.60
QF 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 15.77 def. Adam Melling (AUS) 6.00
Oi Rio Pro Men’s Remaining Round 5 Results:
Heat 4: Adam Melling (AUS) 10.80 def. Michel Bourez (PYF) 10.00
2016 Samsung Galaxy Top 5 (after Oi Rio Pro):
Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 24,500 pts
Italo Ferreira (BRA) 18,750 pts
John John Florence (HAW) 18,700 pts
Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 17,500 pts
Caio Ibelli (BRA) 17,200 pts
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interesting to notice that although the shitty waves the best surfers on tour have been winning in Rio. Jordy, Bourez, Toledo, JJF.
nice to see JJF ranked 3rd, hopefully he’ll stop doing stupid mistakes and beat the shit out of everyone else.
James B is now a staff writer for stabstitch, baiting white people on Rio comp? Beachgrit better sign up Cavy the Slave Owner quick fast
Just….. Frustrating…. Waves….. No…… Can’t watch……. But do anyway………
There was a contest?
Sigh of relief that’s over. Thank fuck no locals made the final. That leg is 3 steps back for surfing in general, here’s hoping Fiji can even it up again.
10 points for a party trick was infuriating yet not surprising. When will these judges realise they cant score airs on paper alone. Two surfers do a full rotation. 1 is Gaybe, weird wide stance knees way apart, upright body, arms flailing above shoulder height, no grab, awkward style at best, gets scored 8-9 points. Surfer 2 does full rotation on same size wave, same height in the air but gets a proper grab, tucked in low to board, smooth rotation, aesthetically pleasing body position, lands the same and also gets scored 8-9 points. This cant keep happening!!! This shit is why kids think its just about doing any old air not HOW you do an air. Sunny was bang on with his Instagram post!!
Hopefully Fiji gets swell!
Imagine how many vials of gypsy tears Borat could have collected in the last moments of Gabby’s semi final loss.
Watching Medina lose was like mainlining pure afghan schadenfreude
that final was easy on the eyes. next one should be too. fact: brasil surfers don’t like big waves.
Aha, tell that to the crazy brasilians charging every winter like man cunts!!
Old mate Burle is Brazil’s Laird Hamilton.
remember when Gabs won at big, perfect Chopes? And at Tavarua? Yeah, me too.
Don’t mean to troll but it’s really too bad he got there through the same two turn combo in every single fucking heat. At least the Brazilians were going for broke.
You didn’t see him getting tubed in the semis then?
Not JJF, the mother of dragons? If Pottz is raving about your approach something is going wrong.
Got ya. Pottz only respects the bottom turn.
The plot thickens. JJF and Medina finally in the race. Freestone and Ibelli fighting again, now for ROTY.
Ibelli got any game at Fiji, Chopes or Pipe?
It’s his rookie year but he definetely charges. It will be a great side story the ROTY race
to be seen, he is a rookie
he has the “glen hall” effect to his advantage, cuz pretty much any wave he drops will look quadruple overhead.
Who was the South African egg man on the commentary panel throughout this event? Have we seen him before?
He looks like a large Zika virus baby….
that’s Rosie’s uncle, Giggs
Gigs Celliers. He is a knee boarder. I don’t mean to offend anyone here but I thought knee-boarding was for people with disabilities. I’ve obviously been mistaken.
You gotta give him one thing – he was the beach announcer at J-Bay last year, while Pottz & Joey were looking for the section on “what to say while someone’s being attacked by a shark” in the wsl commentators manual, he actually got the rescue underway.
Credit given where credit is due. I have always been a fan of Gigs Celliers. Such a nice patient guy, a perfect combination with short tempered Peter Mel. If anyone can be credited with saving Mick Fanning’s life last year, it was Gigs Celliers, who was wide awake & ordered the sleepy boats to Mick.
Amen Nick! I posted a comment in stab saying he was a dead-ringer for Shrek! Then felt total remorse when I remembered J-Bay!
Save Micks life ? I think this decision was made by the shark.
Not sure we’ll be seeing too much more of him on the commentary team.
I was wondering that too. He looks like Hank from Breaking Bad.
I enjoyed his comments, I mean, wsl has a good plan going on. Use Turdpel as baseline then anything esle that comes along will look good.
On to Fiji…..the real 2016 tour finally kicks off
Minus Trestles and Portugal.
Back on the day, when surfers would chat with us I sent a question which was used during the stream. Kelly was on the booth and I asked what he thought about Bells, Brazil and Trestles. Man he got pretty upset, wouldn’t stop talking about how high performance Trestles is, and how good of a wave it is and bla bla bla.. it was quite funny. Didn’t imagine he was such a Trestles lover.
Can’t argue with the King.
I think he got pretty piss off because I put Trestles on the phrase together with Bells and Brasil, which is understandable. His rant was fucking awesome! Man, I miss those days.. when the webcast was directed to us surfers.
It certainly has changed. Bells gets a bad name. I never surf Bells either. There are so many good waves around here. I wish the tour gave up on selling jerseys to the people on the beach and went totally lean and mean. Setting up at the best spot every morning. It sucks that council permits etc. are involved. It’s a unique sport which doesn’t really work by setting up in the same place for two weeks and hoping for something decent.