Four comfortable turns and a closeout twitch an almost-perfect ride in 2017?
Have you felt the thrill of mob anger? Under the flimsiest of pretexts becoming enraged at who knows what, exclamations of ribald encouragement yelled as you tear down a sign, throw a rock at the damn police or kick someone you’ve never met?
Oh I’m so…so…angry with the WSL.
I got such a tick in my groin when it was announced Filipe had officially interfered with Kanoa Igarashi. Oh I knew it was coming. It strained my nerves so much because I knew those judges in their loud shirts would thrust their thumbs down at Filipe.
But, I think, much worse, was this almost 10-point ride from Owen Wright in round four. When I read that morning’s WSL press release (who can stay up so late to watch live?) I threw back why sheets and opened my laptop to watch the wave.
An almost-perfect ride on those odd, backwash-ridden waves?
What bag of bon-bons did Owen serve?
Four identical backhand swipes, none presenting any difficulty or risk for Owen, and a closeout re-entry on a wave you would only generously call three feet.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, presenting what passes for an almost-perfect ride on the WSL in 2017.
Cue to 4:58.
Caveat: I know, I know, waves are scored heat by heat, scale is set on the first wave etc, put it into context and so forth. But this is nearly a ten?
Meanwhile, a backside 360 air reverse that 99% of the world’s surfers wish they could do but can’t gets scored as a 6.0.
No c onspiracy dez, he smashed it
Again, did Kaipo use my “Sailor on shore leave…” comment when the opportunity presented?
Who’s going to start the Gofundme to get Jay Larson back on tour to peg some 9.00s?
Backside surfing is in dire need of an overhaul. If Wilko taught us anything last year, the exact same backside turn is the most deadly weapon on the tour. And it’s such a bore.
Totally NOT a 9.73…more like a 9.67.
Hopefully Fiji is going to be pumping so we can see Owen get some legit high scores.
Judging tower moved to that click-farm in China?!
Chass, can you investigate?
Maybe the Russians did it?
Fuck me i’m back from Bali after 10 days and oh so much I have missed!!
Forget Bali – chinese learning surfing everywhere. The masses are coming.
Other than that russian packs of kooks everywhere. They try and control the line up as well as buying up property!!!!
Russians plus Chinese – it is all fucking over up there.
Owens wave 7 range maybe but a 9.73 fucken hell
Despite all this, no one ever blames Jerry Lopez, the Laird of Uluwatu.
If you could turn back time, eh? Totally all-time keyboard battles going down and you were wasting your time “surfing”.
I totally wasted my time surfing!!! Bali is not the place for me – I had waves but the amount of kooks – mainly Russian was out of hand.
I would have better wasted my time on here!!!
Owen & Tyler. Brother & sister. 2017 world champions? You can’t script this..
Ahem….yes, in fact you can.
Was it less than a point better than Kanoa’s best wave (yes) was it twice as good as Julian’s 1st wave (yes).
Time to take the tin foil hat off I reckon, why don’t you drop Davey or one of the lads a line and get some factual insight that your good readers can relate to. That wouldn’t make for attention grabbing headlines though would it ???
Technically, speed power and flow were all there. Only saw him hold back for one little section. If that was the best wave of the heat shape and size wise then the score makes sense. Its just excellent range surfing and since the judges cream themselves over safety surfing does that really surprise anyone? Its also a three man heat so no ones getting eliminated.
I will say the WSL pushing narratives seems so blatant sometimes.
I feel the meta-narrative 2017 is Owen Wright storming home for his first World Title post brain injury.
You can see all those little asian-american interns in Santa Monica wsl HQ logging the footage now so they can get the edit out soon as the siren sounds for the end of the season at Pipe. It’ll be so stirring: grown men all over Australia will come out of their houses with their trousers down weeping.
Little asian-Americans? Is that meant to be a put down or did I miss the nuance?
Interns are little. For example, Ciaramella. It’s the main reason they didn’t hire Currie. He was too big. Apparently, it has to do with tucking interns in bed at night, a practice dating back to the early seventeenth century.
thats what I meant….but asian-american little interns didn’t read write
its ok to be racist if it’s not against black people I guess.
I think the Meta Narrative will be how much people missed the WCT and now just have the WQS to log into for the late night jerkoffs. Probably be a few bald, over the hill Aussie surf writers lamenting the image of these fabled Asian interns – but we know where in Indo they get their rocks off.
Anyway.
Certainly won’t affect grown men in Australia.
Your comment became so (NOT) so much funnier once you racistly threw asians under the bus
Like the straight politician leading the gay pride march, the judges are going out of their way to prove they’re not goofophobic.
He ripped the bag out of it, but I feel ya.. Only in Brazil. Looks like a fun ass summer day at my local..
There’s a WSL CT comp running in Brazil?
I think my lil brother did that in 1987 and got an 8.5
you obviously missed the comeback narrative section of the judging criteria. easy enough to do