And you thought being a judge at a women's QS event would be…safe?
Richie Collins is a complicated individual. Devoted Christian, hateful bigot, Trump supporter, anti-immigrant, loving father who doesn’t hesitate to get violent.
Lifelong resident of Orange County, the Arizona of California.
His daughter, Meah, is an up-and-coming ripper. Sixteen years old, one of OCWeekly’s People of the Year. Solid big-wave game, good contest ability. Enough skill to compete with the lower ranked women on the ‘CT.
Still not at that Carissa/ Defay/ Wright/ Etc. level. But very good. Very young, plenty of time to tighten her game.
Meah’s down in Cabo competing. In the Junior event as well as the Pro. Doing well. Semis, so far, in the juniors. Knocked out in round five against the pros. Edged out by Malia Manuel, lost by .3. Solid result for a teenager.
Close heat, but I didn’t see it. Slow event, small surf. Running in the background at the moment and the commentators are playing rock/paper/scissors to decide where they’re going drinking tonight. Background noises sound suspiciously like cracking beers.
No heat analyzer for the non-CT comps, can’t watch Meah lose. Don’t know how close it really was.
But Papa Bear ain’t having it. His little girl got burned. He’s an unhappy daddy. Makes sense. Tensions run high in youth sports.
Just learned that you can see the edit history of Facebook posts. Excited at first, couldn’t wait to see how he’d toned down the comment. Lo and behold, Richie ramped it up.
A homophobic Christian threatening sexual violence may seem odd at first glance. But it’s not a gay thing, really. It’s about power. About establishing dominance.
And maybe it’ll help Meah in the future. When it’s too close to call, when the judges are agonizing over who deserves the win, they’ll hesitate for a second.
“Oh man, we’d better let Meah through.”
“Why? It’s super close.”
“If she doesn’t make the heat her dad’s gonna jam his cock down our throats. He’s willing to go to prison for it.”
“Really? That’s fucking crazy.”
“I know. But, jeez, I tried that shit back in college. It really ain’t for me.”
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Best of luck to his daughter. Not for surfing, necessarily, but for the off-chance that she will be able to have some semblance of a reasonable life while enduring this human garbage father of hers.
So he gets Taj haircut and feels all enboldened
some of the worst fighting skills ever. is he supposed to be a tough guy?
Very sad to embarrass your child like that. Sit down Richie and perhaps the media should stop painting him in the brawler light as clearly, from that clip, he ain’t no badass. He’s just an angry old man with a mouth. Sit down man.
This is the same Richie Collins that rants on facebook about his love of Trump.
So it all makes sense now.
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I hope that she gets in the WCT, because I would love to see him storming the judges tower
Ha! Richie Porta would be fighting his way to the front for the privilege.
Both Richie and Lance have been polarizing in the past, and may continue to do so, but both have also been huge contributors to surfing and its progression. You may not like um but it doesn’t dimmish the influence.
Totally fair to question the religious contradictions but I do reject any claim that this family aren’t surfers just like the rest of us.
Jesus’s father, God, once said “I hate fags!”. It says so in the good book so it has to be true!
To be fair to Richie, webbed gloves are getting harder and harder to find. The ice he’s smoking is 1000% stronger according to the DEA than it was two weeks ago. Plus wavetools has turned in to Pureglass and Newport just sucks. He’s doesn’t have a lot going.
Bat dad!
Riche Collins is a douche always has been always will be
Would have been awesome if that guy Collins attacked in the video was a badass, and not just a skinny wuss. Couple of scrubs, the kid and Collins.
of course he was, but when did Charlie throw a chair at a judge?
Threats of homosexual violence? Poor timing, Mr Collins, terribly poor timing.
So he is supposedly a Christian?
And he ain’t afraid to tell you.
Damn… Why those americans just can’t surf in peace and share the waves in a cool vibe? It is so hard to respect each other in the water??
yes , those damn Americans , and their parent/kid duo’s going to contests and getting agro/upset at results/ judges , we are so lucky that this does not happen in any other country !
did I miss where Brazilian dads threatened to shove their cocks in ASP judges’ mouths? Or are you stretching with a false equivalent here?
shit , a lot worse than the empty rhetoric from RC, threats and abuse from the Angry Parent syndrome , its a global condition , and shit I can remember chasing a judge over the sand dunes at Philip Island for a bad call , so I guess these days sexual threats seem to be the new MO!
It was god’s will, Rory…
The gloves and pink/ yellow boards were a harbinger..surprised it took so long
That is, after all, what Jesus would do.