*Compared to what next year will bring!
And hoooooooo-eee! We’ve got a champion! Not the one we deserve either but… but… a gift from heaven! Grace dripping down to us from the gods! The world’s best surfer doing it in the world’s okayest waves!
Hoooooooo-eee!
I’ll admit that I had massive doubts re. John John Florence’s competitive fire. Oh his skill is beyond any sort of questioning but his fire. His caliber. I’ll admit I had massive doubts.
But he has proven himself and now and is a champion! Young too with how many more in the barrel? Four? Six? Twelve?
Zero if Gabriel Medina has anything to say about it and this is what excites me so. Gabi proved his fire years ago and reminds us of it each and every tear that runs down his still fresh cheeks.
So now we have a true rivalry! John John Florence vs. Gabriel Medina! Continent vs. continent! Blonde vs. brownish-black! Hurley vs. Rip Curl! Talent vs. talent!
Could anything be more delicious? Next year will be the greatest since Andy vs. Kelly! Gird your loins…or to quote the wonderful World Surf League “You Can Script This!™”
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What’d they do, hit him with a baguette?
wise words
And that’s all to the good comrade! Vive le difference etc
My thought is that Expression Sessions are boring. The only thing that makes this shit any different to another day in the water is the fact that somebody wins and somebody loses.
I agree, I think expression sessions are boring but I still think format needs a radical reboot.
Most of the time, we are seeing nowhere near what these guys (and gals) are capable of delivering.
We get mediocrity far more than we get excellence.
“I consciously don’t consume any of the products or brands associated with pro surfing.” This comment here is exactly why pro surfing is in trouble, because even the people that watch and enjoy pro surfing are not buying a damn thing. Of all the surfers I know, about 30 percent watch pro surfing. But among the entire group of surfers, 0% have a Samsung galaxy (which is a good thing because their houses would have probably burned down), 0% own a Jeep (because Jeeps are fucking terrible) and 0% buy any of the other god awful junk that is repeatedly rammed down our throats during ad breaks. Those that watch do so because they want to see good surfing. Despite the frankly dire wave quality in contests this year, we still got some good action and some memorable moments. But as a mechanism for exposure to new markets and driving sales for sponsors, the WSL offers fuck all. Speaker decided to stop streaming events on youtube because youtube shows you how many people are currently watching. Sadly those numbers didn’t align with his claims about viewership. Any decent marketing team considering opening their wallets for sponsorship would do a high level of due diligence and demand accurate metrics before handing over the bennies. Which says a lot about Samsung and Jeep. They both drank the Speaker kool aid, and now they’re lying dead in the dirt in Jonestown. Sadly Paul didn’t drink any of his own bullshit and is still alive.
You’ll have to ask Nick, wasn’t the Mod’s…
Ok what can we talk about for rest year and it is still Oct
What are the topics
1) Next wavepool possibly in Africa or Nepal funded by WSL Pure
2) Which brand is fucked and going under
3) What new brand is going to emerge
4) Anything Sharks
Maybe we should go off subject and broaden our horizon’s or plan a Beach Grit Meet up at Rory’s. I’d say Wigg’s might be a better spot.. Can’t tell if his place is safe!
Yes I think so we need some new ideas via brainstorming. What about we all go to Sumatra to brainstorm – Mandiri beach breaks been epic of late
Slater upgrades Wave Pool 2.0 in memory of ADS
Vaguely surf related homoerotica butters this sites bread during slow news days.
and how would a collective be formed ?
not questioning the why, just the how.
do you reckon that would work?
I don’t think the individual has any power whatsoever.
Well, I did turn off the boring telecast yesterday as soon as John won the contest so I could have a very needed, early & long night of sleep. John’s a simple guy so I don’t expect John to entertain me with his speeches, which parrot what the media are also saying: “I worked for this all my life since I was a cute little blonde boy”… snore. Apart from being overscored on not a particularly high air, John surfed extremely well in the final. It was enjoyable to watch, just as Medina’s world title was enjoyable to watch. I like the surfing, I like the competition, I like a true winner. John blitzed the Portugal contest. Well done to him. I will watch Pipe. I will give the WSL one more chance next year. The white world was crying tears for a white world champion, just like the white world want Jesus to be white (rather than a dark skinned wog like me). When you understand most of those Jews are not Semitic (but Huns, Khazars, European), you will understand Jesus was not white blued eyed but a freaking wog boy. Your superstitious saviour (‘Jewish insurance policy’) is a wog boy sent by a superstitious wog Babylonian (Iraqi; Iranian) god hijacked by a bunch of Khazars & Huns.who con the gullible desperate white Xtian world they once lived in Palestine 2000 years ago for a short time between their home in Babylon.
..well that went as expected pretty quickly.
You forgot that Brazilian jesus is also sweet and gay
Jaime O’ Brian spent three hours paddling around the pack like he was surfing Pipe at Keramas in 2008 (getting super pitted, mind you), It was as though he was surfing by himself. So greedy. Then I’m deeper, he burns me, i bump his rail so we both go down, and then he has the balls to give me shit. I basically told him how organized lineups should work and I was in the right spot- but he couldn’t fathom someone who had the inside position on him. I’m sure he’s a cool guy deep down–but he acted like he owned Keramas, and I wasn’t the only one who noted his behavior.
Nah he is not cool…..guy is a deush
a viewing highlight this afternoon was the advertising between heats with quality mainstream brands such as 40 winks bedding and John deer ride on tractor lawnmowers adding to the amazingly creative WSL snail ad. Clearly Paul speakers WSL delivery strategy is beginning to gain traction like a John John deer tractor with the target market of 40year old plus Anglos.
I know nothing about marketing, but…..I suspect that when you make an advertisement as clearly stupid as the ‘Snail’, better to not use the word “stupid” in the copy. Pretend it’s irony.
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What is that of??
With a banner that reads “BeachGrit, Ultra Hard Surf Candy” you might be asking alittle to much…
Do tell your global secrets. I have know allegiance other to my loved ones. By the way “what the fuck” are any of us doing about Aleppo? To consumed with our great white dove JJF.
Please calm down. We all know that the French can’t fight.
I’ll fight any bastard that says the French can’t fight. I mean I can’t fight but I’ll give it a bloody good go beating you round the head with a baguette.
Woah there old sport. Who kicked who in the balls in Anglet? That’s down my yard!
Your right, his world title means nothing until he proves himself in Hawaii.
And on the battlefields in the Middle East…
I am using that as the opening line for everything I write for the grit from here on in….
I really hope that WSL let the surfing decides. After the robbery at Teahupo when JJF clearly lost to MEdina, and Trestles Gate, WSL stole from us surfers the entertainment of watching JJF and Medina decide the title race at Pipe. It was a shame what WSL has done. JJF doesn’t need any push. JJF is a true legend. WSL stole the brightness of JJF first title.
2016, the year the Brazilian Storm realized how fucked the judging is and always has been. Welcome to the real world. No less legit than any other title, cause the judges are on crack EVERY year. Mick fanning’s savage bottom turn at pipe? Please. Time to cry yourself to sleep, little brazzos, you bitches lost!
Medina’s world title was fair, square & DOMINANT. No judging help required. Snapper was a call the judges made due to the different waves surfed. Apart from that, Medina dominated Fiji, clearly won at Tahiti, was ripped off at Brazil, dominated Pipe. When the waves were on, Medina dominated. Medina denied the judges the chances to rob him. Like Andy’s titles, like Mick in 2007, like many of Kelly’s last contest heroics or total dominations, Medina’s was a DOMINANT world title, won with a clutch & heroic performance under pressure at Pipe. There is no doubt about John’s greatest. Be rest assured, white blonde Anglo-Saxons can still surf & win contests. But John was helped this year & it all ended in a very boring way yesterday. How better would it have been if John won at Pipe, at his home, with all his family & friends there? John needed a little help (because he is only the best big wave surfer & a top tube pig in the world but not the overall best surfer in the world). With the monkey off his back, John’s contest performance should improve in the future & could easily win a few more titles based on his own merits, without biased help of the judges.
oh please. Your memory is shorter than your micro-penis and your judgment is clouded from all that brazzo jizz in your eyes. Medina got plenty of close calls, like everyone else who has ever won a title. The difference is that unlike John and Kelly and other white blonde Anglo-Saxons, he cries like a little fucking bitch when he loses.
Post of the year.
Aaa…not at all with you…have you had one of those days in which you suck in the water?
He is the toughest contender because he never sucks…that’s all.
And of course Medina excites me more when I see him surfing 100%.
Get the fuck out of here with that garbage. According to you, he’s the best big wave rider and best tube rider in the world but NOT the best overall surfer in the world? Does he suck in small waves? He’s obviously wave above average in small waves. Overall, I’d say that makes him the best. Until Filipe catches a wave in a heat in Fiji or Tahiti, or more than one wave at medium pipe, he will never be close to being considered the best overall surfer in the world. When Medina paddles out to Jaws, Code Red Cloudbreak, phantoms, 2nd reef pipe or even jacking sunset or Haleiwa without a jersey on because he has to, he will never be even close to being considered the best overall surfer either.
Your tears are delicious mmmm
Best surfer won. Medina lost to JJF in Teahupoo. Surfing decided the outcome we witnessed. And no, don’t call yourself a surfer — you’re not one of us.
you are defecating thru ur mouth. when in the hell JJF won that semi in TEahupoo??? You know nothing about surfing judging criteria.
Shut-up damn kook. JJF outsurfed Gab in the semi @ Teahupoo with insane late drops & barrels, leading then to the epic KS-JJF duel in final. Brazzos’ luck from past couple years ran out. The best surfer won and the world agrees (except for a handful of crying Brazilians). Medina’s lousy style and dreadful wide stance doesn’t represent good surfing. Stay away from the ocean, kook, and stick to rollerblading in your speedos…
style wins. last two years were some of pro surfing most darkest days, so very hard to watch. the american storm! we’re so passionate! maybe not.
Gabby has style and balls (his win at Chopes in spectacular conditions proved it) in the water. ADS doesn’t have much style but surfed his ass off to win the title. My money is on Felipe next year if he can figure out (i.e. grow some balls) the reef breaks.
But Kolohe could surprise and maybe just maybe Jordy gets his shit together and finally wins one.
No matter what I’m already looking forward to next year.
Next year! Hawaii’s going to be epic… the Storm are balls deep in plotting total dominance this Winter.
There’s a plenty of “balls deep” jokes to be made here.
Yeah the Gabby hate is kinda trippy here. I understand the etiqutte/personality issues, but the guy has a great style and is an animal in the water. Peeps need to chill on this Us vs Them crap and just can it with the xenophobic shit
His personality may suck but he’s one hell of a surfer.
Fuck can’t deny that one bit. Saw him get drained across the entire reef at Keramas…switch pig dog. We are all products of our own environment, and I know growing up surfing in Santa Cruz, being a great surfer in an area with dozens of really good surfers can lead to some unwarranted entitlement.
How can a goofy go switch pigdog in Keramas?
I got lost in thread land I thought I was responding to Osis’s comment about Jamie O’Brien getting kicked out of le Anglet. (See post below) –It was Jamie getting switch tubes at Keramas and bein a wave hog. Haven’t met Gabby just have heard some not so great things…
The Gabby as Wave Hog certainly isn’t a secret and I think that’s why most guys on tour are rubbed the wrong way. Everyone is out there trying to warm up and he’s trying to get every wave. Was his run-in with Jordy at Cloudbreak (I think?) the only one this year? Or the only one caught on camera?
From what I hear this is commonplace. He has a lot of friends on tour–but for the most part he’s in a pretty hermetically sealed entourage. It’s not just burning people though…it’s hucking airs onto people’s heads during freesurfs seemingly numb to the repercussions. If that what it takes to be the best, I sure as hell wouldn’t trade my life for his! Then again I’ve never met the kids, just going off of rumor.
He is the biggest cry baby bitch on earth, which is made more annoying by the fact that he is also one of the best surfers on earth
filipi is a one-trick-phonie. shows up does same twirl at every contest. in portugal against conner he couldn’t even do power carves, so he decides to cut and run down the sandbar to twirl some more. jordy is the one to watch next year.
I agree…Felipe has some serious gaps but he can be fun as he’ll to watch. The real question with Jordy is it his physical health that will limit him or his mental state.
jordy is less good than filpi in hollow lefts
808.
which incidentally is the score Connor needed to win the final…8.08.
Illuminati confirmed