"There's steaming coming out of you, bro!"
Did I tell you about the time I went on a Mexican holiday with Filipe Toledo? And what a wonderful boy he was – how he cheered sunsets, how he never used his higher ranking in the hierarchy to steal the front seat of the pickup for the long drive to the beach or to claim the biggest bed and so on?
Oh I did?
Well, just as fabulous on that vacay was his filmer Bruno Baroni. He never complained about a damn thing, was always helping, and, at night, was very good at improvised bongo.
Of course we all know what happened at Jeffreys Bay this year. No one even came close to touching Filipe at the classic right. And those two oops? And the way he tagged the thing to the beach, even after he knew it was a ten?
Here, in this eleven-minute cut by Bruno Baroni, we follow Filipe as he tests various boards and, ultimately, rides to glory.
Watch!
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Exhilarating. Breathless. The last wave was incredible (like most of them). What a performance.
Two. The fact that he did two. In a row. Is a full roter the new claim?
Toledo races down lines faster than Whitney Houston snorts them off a bathroom sink.
Are you dero’s deadset sponsored by Hash Oil? Classic, 1980’s Tracks mag will be spewing.
Yes! When Chas and I started BeachGrit in 2014 we were sitting at his kitchen table, drinking vodka margaritas and, at one point, smoking some terrific medicinal marijuana that left me white-faced and holding onto the bench lest I spin off the curvature of the earth. This is of a similar ilk.
It’s extraordinary that you were both requiring medicinal marijuana simultaneously. What a win!
So much emotional pain to wash away!
I’m more concerned with the Vodka Margaritas.