With this dazzling clip from Alana Blanchard and Leila Hurst in Mex…
I slept terribly last night. We don’t have A/C and it was of those situations where the fan is just pushing around hot moist air. Toss in my wife’s snores and my dog’s farts and you’ve got a recipe for tossing and turning.
Felt a little slow all day. Went for a bodysurf, got some sun, drank a beer, put on some Fleetwood Mac. Feeling much better.
It’s nice when you can swing your mood from shit to shine. I think Alana Blanchard’s newest edit helped. I’ve been tempted to take shots at Alana in the past. I try to refrain. There’s nothing wrong with her gig. I suspect all the judgment I dredge up was socialized into me.
Her bikini shopping livestreams are pretty brutal, but everyone’s gotta earn a buck. I’d probably roast a guy for doing it. But she’s a woman and I have different standards because we live different realities.
It’s nice when you can swing your mood from shit to shine. I think Alana Blanchard’s newest edit helped. I’ve been tempted to take shots at Alana in the past. I try to refrain. There’s nothing wrong with her gig. I suspect all the judgment I dredge up was socialized into me.
It’s a very good clip. Gorgeous colors. Minimal model lifestyle lifestyle shots. Mostly just damn good surfing, and that is sadly rare on the female side of the sport. Blanchard and Leila Hurst are straight ripping Salina Cruz. It’s gotta be the best I’ve ever seen Alana surf. I’m sure some people will try to shit on it because the ladies aren’t John John. But who really is?
It’s more than good enough to be very entertaining. I wish I could consistently surf as well as either of them.
There is a lot of flesh on display. Resist the temptation to talk shit. Telling a woman to cover up her body is not a road you should start down. Remember to admire, not creep.
I wonder how many stalkers Blanchard has. Gotta be a shitload, right?
Exactly, I just looked up that video was 4 months ago…She is surfing all the time, why isn’t someone filming her throughout her training sesh?
Gee thanks that girl set fish surfing back a few decades, meanwhile guys like asher pacy are changing the game and this girl is just fucking up everything twin fins have worked for.
Bruno Mars put it so eloquently: “I wish I was a billionaire, so frickin bad”
So much vitrol! Rory is right. Surfs well.
Same criticisms could be made of any male surfer who has fallen off the CT. Take Brett Simpson, for example. Subject to interpretation but Alana’s competitive career is as good, if not better than Brett’s (save his performances at Huntington) and I could tear his technique and half-assed turns apart too.
Reality is Brett and Alanna both surf better than nearly everyone who reads this article. Deal with it.
I’m so guilty of holding Alana in low regard. I don’t even remotely come close to knowing anything about her except what I see via rip curl. It seems that I may need to readjust my periscope, maybe get over objectification.
Forum’s are biased by booty. Never heard anyone comment on Alana’s stance being more buttenuating than Gitzfibbons’. Thing is – we tend to be blinded by the water sheen coming off of those bikini-bissected baps. Thanks Turbo for seeing past the spotlight. Thought Leila was ripping though.
Once upon a time Leila’s dad and I surfed the same ocean.. If i was him I’d be prod of the way she is representing herself.. Alaina doesn’t do it for me but kinda like the midriff T and bikini bottom combo. Maybe if she was more punk
In Hawaii, there’s a lot of good looking local girls that rip but Leila and Alana get paid to be . . . ? ? ? That being said, I’ve surfed with Alana and Leila, and they surf much better in person than on camera – I don’t know why that’s so but maybe it’s bc we are used to watching jordy, JJF, etc., and when the girls surf we’re like “meh.”
i am with you, rory.
joyful!
let the love flow.
I want more from professional women’s surfing. I see glimpses from time to time(that tyler wright barrel) and I just don’t understand why there isn’t more.
and women who aren’t professionals. it would be worth seeking out some of the unsung rippers.
define more….
moaaar
Leila Hurst is truly inspirational, young girls can look at her and realize they too can get paid to surf around the world even if they happen to be ordinary.
It’s shot beautifully, the edit is ok, and the surfing… come on Rory…… come….on….RO-RY! The board under her feet looks like a skate grom feeling the first signs of the death wobbles. Little wiggle here, little sputter there. She bottom turns, digging in to release power off the bottom and engages. The crowd holds it’s breath…..It’s lacklustre… the spray dribbles over the back of the wave like the last efforts of a shaken up mountain dew. Look at the turn at 0:48, the hero turn, the turn they cut to a second angle for!!! The second half of it got lost somewhere. Send out a search party! and bring back some wood because the fire is dwindling.