Look yourself in the mirror and be honest.
What would you do? Like, spell out your reaction moment by moment if he dropped in right in front of you and proceeded to do some air or something that would certainly be shaming but not, like, the best thing you have ever seen in your entire life.
This is important.
And it is important because it happens all the time at waves many of us surf regularly.
1. Lowers
2. Australia’s Gold Coast
3. Brazil
4. Europe
Do you like that? Do you like how I expanded from wave (Lowers) to region (Gold Coast) to country (Brazil) to continent (Europe)?
I did. I thought that was very funny.
But back to Gabs. He does this sort of thing all the time and easy to say, “Ooooh I’d punch him in the face!” But he never gets punched in the face. He gets splashed then paddled away from. So be honest. What would you do if Gabriel Medina snaked you?
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Really honest.
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Its going to be entertaining dismantling your polemical gibberish.
This level of comment skill belongs in the anal cavity of the Inertia.
Really honest? Okay, here goes…
I’d do exactly as I did when Chris Ward hopped me at my local reef. Paddle up to him, sit on my board, and and 4-6″ away from his face calmly tell him “Don’t EVER do that again”. If he made even the slightest twitch… well, no need to speak hypothetically, now is there?
Well Gabriel has dropped in on me twice, once at Teahupoo and once at Bells, and both times I laughed at him.
Yeah but yer a celebrity writer who swans off at will to access much better surf than the rest of us.
You can afford to laugh boyo.
I would of just hired Wardo to go “full-domestic violence” on him.
It’s all too fucken obvious now that I’ve started watching the trestles comp. No-one wants to watch the early rounds. I watch the Olympics. Usain wins and is the Olympic champion. I watch the soccer world cup, I watch the NFL super bowl, I watch anything where the season culminates in a champion. In one game. In one game. Thats what people want to see. I love test cricket but I wouldn’t take an overseas guest to to it. Thats where we are going fellas.
Ross Clarke-Jones could’ve but didn’t drop in on me once. Best cunt ever. Neva4get4life.
Gabby or most pros would paddle in or away from me & vice versa.
I doubt I’d be surfing at any spot he’d be at.
Fuck all, he’d still cry though
I wouldn’t say anything if he did it once but if he did it twice, I’d politely ask him to please not do it again. What that chubby beardo guy did is a super prick move – splashing water in someone’s face that you know won’t do anything – It’s like splashing water in a little kid’s face. That hipster wanna-be will one day mess with a mental who will end up biting off one of his fat fingers.
Simon Anderson dropped in on me once at North Narrabeen. Greatest moment of my life to that point. Then he apologised. I thought ‘he’s gone soft’.
I would laugh at him then ask him to play ping pong in my dojo.
Where death awaits those who fail.
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To quote BG’s own DR: The best surfers get the best waves, get any wave they want and if they want to drop in on your disorganised jabbing of the lip, if they want to paddle around you to takeoff on a wave from its most critical juncture, it’s their prerogative. If you sit out the back hissing at the unfairness of it all, then you are a kook.
And to also quote Dynsdale Piranha. “Cruel but fair”
i want to see how long that hipster beardo was trimming on that maxi mal, but it might not really matter
That portuguese bodyboarder most likely disagrees with you. An open handed slap can be quite effective.
An unconvincing & unruly precedence. Digression is the better part of valour.
Surfing is a meritocracy right? I’d have to look in the mirror and be honest. Guy on yellow board? Kook.
Accept the fact that he can surf better than me, then follow him to shore and get changed out of my wetsuit next to him sans towel.
Near perfect.
What if Gab Medina naked you?
Then I would face him, hands on hips, and say ‘touché’
In fencing don’t they say, “on guard”? I know nothing about fencing, but I foresee a duel scenario here.
You know I was envisaging a little sword play, but I’ll leave the homoeroticism up to Chas.
I’m sure he appreciates that! It’s right up his alley, so to speak.
Blow my drop before he even turns on it, blame him with a fist shake as I go down.
Can I come over here more? I know I occasionally come now but I feel like my asshole new stepdad is essentially kicking me out for good. Like not a direct – ‘You have to move out, David.’ But I’m getting the vibe he doesn’t want me around there. Probably wants to manipulate my mom unmolested, he thinks it will be easier to have his ‘friends’ pop by if some mouthy adult-child isn’t always sitting in the same spot on the same couch every day. Jokes on him though, even if I move out I’ll still go over there when he’s at work and shit on the floor.
free country
I miss you.
If my run in with Josh Kerr at 6-8′ Greenwall during a Rusty board demo in 2010 is any guide… I’d probably just cuss under my breath in his general direction (“fucking jabroni”) and stalk him in the lineup for 5 minutes before finding a different spot.
P.S. to clarify, I was not at the beach to participate in the above said board demo… it was just a coincidence that it was going on… don’t know why I felt the need to clarify
I’d put him in a head lock face first in my hairy arm pit so he could taste the salted sweat crystals of a hard working grown man who just got done putting a solid eight in working with his hands. Delicately tweaking his neck. So for now on he paddled for a wave with a procurious look back to the peak..
This too.