A frank exploration of a Brazilian favourite!
Filipe Toledo, as if you needed me to tell you, is the twenty-one-year-old Brazilian who famously took a woodcutter to Julian Wilson at last year’s Quiksilver Pro.
How can we forget Filipe’s dominance of 2015?
Filipe is also famous as the surfer who scored zero points in a heat at Teahupoo, the lowest-ever heat total in professional surfing. Was it a brave act of cowardice, as suggested on this website, or were his nerves simply shattered by a wipeout in an earlier heat?
I think it’s fair to say that Filipe owns the skies and waves under four foot.
His father, Ricardo, is awesome, too. Do you remember his blood feud with the big-wave guy Alex Gray?
This is what he told Alex via IG.
I think you this wanting suck my dick! sorry but will not give, I am well settled sexually, and besides, my wife will kill you!!! Fuck yourself…(winky smiley face sticking out tongue).
Earlier today, a seven-minute short (the internet’s equivalent of a four-hour epic) documenting Filipe’s return from injury was released.
Presiding over it all is Filipe, thoughtful, mournful, as he stares just past the camera, perhaps wondering if what the critics allege (big waves are a handicap) is true, and therefore a source of shame, or does he silently long for the day when he can again wield his woodchopper against his thunderingly boring peers?
Watch here.
So I guess you can take a world class surfer and turn him into a shite edit. Looks like a high school project. Toledo should be banned from releasing edits until he finds someone with film talents appropriate to his surfing.
We can this package any way we want, but the bottom line is that the most important market for surf consumerism, the good old USA, will always have a tough time accepting a tiny Latin man with a horrible mustache as a marketable inspiration. Absolutely nothing personal with Filipe, it’s just a fact of life.
That said, I wonder if any of the top 32 employ PR people to work on public image stuff? (JJF: Public speaking, Wilko, pretty much everything, etc.) Given the bank Gabs gets from Rip Curl, you would think they would want to find a way to better activate him in the US and Australia, which are by far the two biggest markets of surf related product. If it’s happening, I’ve yet to see it have any impact.
More of the Aussies need to follow Pupo’s lead and find a good dentist (looking at you, Wilko!).
humbly correcting, it’s just a fact of the ‘twisted american way of viewing’ life… people are not products, living your life is not a matter of ‘conquering the market’…
but when you’re getting paid to conquer the surf market, then it is
conquer the market is a mission for business enterprises, athletes are paid just for a simple mission: show the brand…
“please let the beach grit comments section focus more on gabs claiming”
Filipe is the male ‘Blue Crush’, except for all the differences.
Gawd! That movie is from 2002! 14 years ago!
And when Filipe rides that big reef barrel to win the contest, I’ll be cheering and jumping and wiping away the tears.
1. Is it that hard to have a native English speaker edit your English script? 2. Felipe gave double middle fingers to a close out barrel; he’s still afraid/not confident in the big stuff – he’s a small dude. 3. If he does develop balls as he gets older, he’ll be unstoppable, for a long time.
1- is it that hard to be not so self-centered, anglo boy?; 2- why should anyone depending on his body to do his work and put food back home, risk it senseless at the first opportunity coming out of injury rehab? 3- … well, I got nothing, so just fuck you self with your “big balls” and go pack any closeout you wanna…
1. Commenting on poor English is not indicative of xenophobia; 2. Its obvious you’re Brazilian, and a very sensitive one; don’t worry! I like brazilians! They taught us Hawaiians how to choke people out; 3. Big insult! On the internet though; typical; in real life, you wouldn’t say that to me. 4. Don’t take internet comments so seriously, and don’t burn people in the water.
1- yes, criticizing someone upon a cultural treat like non-birth language skills is xeno, yet its within the realm of the loose concept of internet ‘fun’ … 2- being a brazzo has no business with my choice to cherish safety conditions from people (all of them, not just brazzos) to do their work over just casting ahletes to the beasts or any harm conditions in their work environment just for our amusement, see mick, owen, bede, and yes, teahupo.oo felipe… 3- thought you were proud of your balls… I’m proud of mine, if not for the big belly in the way between I’d pleasantly lick on it… 4- was there even a 4, originally? haha… humour is always my way, don’t take my comments so seriously, ever… burn, never, specially for a bodysurfer, I’d be in serious harm… \nnn/ aloha ‘n haoles go home!
Walk the walk already
I watched this video on Surfline this morning. Toledo came on tour as a quiet looking skinny kid but soon revealed, both in his surfing & (spoken) personality, a quite eclectic nature. Felipe has the beautiful eyes that mirror a beautiful soul. I like the kid. I remember when he did the video of his new home in San Clemente & said: “Welcome to my home” so openly. Felipe doesn’t appear to be a surfing retard but instead a very graceful cultured young man. While ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ & ‘Riders On The Storm’ are probably too sacred for competition surfing, I gave the video a ranking of 4 stars this morning for intention & effort because it shows eclectic & brave part of Felipe. I have watched Felipe do death airs on 6 foot waves at Ballito, pull fearlessly into gnarly Box & even look OK at Pipe. Personally, I don’t doubt him. Soon enough, critics will be silenced.
I’m confused… Where does the Zionist banking cartel fit into all of this?
I figured I better scroll down and read before I scribble! I so wan’t to be a fan of this young man but his fight and anguish feels contrived. Were Adriano’s appears real! Please help me translate all the tattoo’s. What do they represent beauty or danger? Regarding soundtrack couldn’t agree with you more Nick Dee, hollow ground! Shaun White used ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ in one of his movies and killed it. Only two Stars for me, actually enjoyed the flash back editing..
tattoos represent that he had money and the artist had time available on the schedule, it don’t need to ‘mean’ things…
I watched nearly all of that and it was very bad. I thought it was going to get marginally better after that montage of him doing rapist eyes in the hoodie but it was contest footage of the fucking Rio Pro.
Circle jerk porn for the brazo poo storm…