Small Kanoa Igarashi lowers the boom!
If there is one thing we haven’t thought enough about over the last twenty-four hours it is the Kanoa Igarashi on Filipe Toledo interference call that tilted our entire globe on its axis.
How even could we even? There are enough storylines, enough subplots, enough twists and turns to fill an entire episode of Game of Thrones. Kanoa Igarashi, for example, is now $100,000.00 richer. Filipe Toledo now has an actual nemesis. A small, Huntington Beach-based Japanese boy.
If professional surfing was Game of Thrones who, do you think, would Kanoa Igarashi be? Would he be… Ramsay Bolton? Or… Joffrey Baratheon? Or… Missandei?
And who would Filipe Toldeo be? Would he be… Tormund Giantsbane? Or… Samwell Tarly? Or… Grey Worm?
He would totally be Grey Worm but let’s transition back to the interference call that tiled our entire globe on its axis.
I hadn’t seen it up close until I watched this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXglaTCjfza/?taken-by=beach_grit
Are you even kidding me? Brett Simpson’s father, you may or may know, played NFL football on defense, I believe, and regularly brought the hurt. Did you think small and Japanese Kanoa Igarashi had it in him?
Watch again. Watch how he lowers his delicate shoulder to pummel straight into Filipe. He wasn’t trying to surf the wave no. He was trying to take a man stone cold out.
And the plot thickens. This is reaching Laird x Menstruation levels!
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Nemesis? If Kanoa is Felipe`s Nemesis I can now officially stand next to Ron Jeremy without feeling shame. Not even close
Like his intent, but he missed. If you’re going to throw the hammer, you gotsta hit the target…
au contraire! very poor tackle. doesn’t wrap up.
makes felipe look like bo jackson
Bo knows surfing !
FFS , IRAGASHI , was the worst surfer ever at J-bay , reminds me of a long long time ago , listening to Rabbit and Richard cram on how to beat dane Kealoha , after analzing his surfing they concluded , we can’t beat his surfing , so stop him catching a 3rd wave , and so the same BS continues!
Kanoa is clearly like the Dr. Spock with his cold rule-using skillz.
… am I doing this right?
True, it’s been a long day for me.
I’m just glad that someone listened to our calls for a mêlée. Imagine how much better it would have been with jousting poles?
Um, clearly Kanoa is the all seeing three-eyed raven.
How could this tilt the earth on its axis if the earth is flat?
Very, very good, some good wit there sir!!!
I’ve taken 3 days off work to rage about this because I kept yelling at my co-workers yesterday because they just didn’t get how fucked up this actually damn libtards MAGA
Beaten by such an inferior. In any other pastime it’d be an outrage! Sans elections, promotions, writing, et fucking al
come on, next thing you know you’ll say nepotism is real
Not to go on and on. But is there anyone in the fucking universe that thinks Igaroshi surfs better than Filipe?? Fix the god damned system yo.
they are playing a game within a set of rules, the best doesn’t always win
Nothing at that contest reached Laird x Menstruation levels.
It’s just exciting to see a Brazilian getting Brazilian’d.
I like kanoa more after this
You should try getting Stu Kennedy’s take on this.
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that’s what having a mortgage will do to ya
I wonder if Stuuey would’ve had the same reaction had it been Sunny Garcia, Michel Bourez, or some other gnarly or potentially gnarly surfer?
Game of Gnomes
Lame of Foams?