Ravishingly insolent surf star scrupulously examined!
Filipe Toledo is a ravishingly insolent surfer who does not pull punches or take prisoners. His double-oop at J-Bay stood as a corrective to the safety surfing of Jordy Smith; the recent win at Trestles, uncomplicated by any hiccup or discontent, enforced the cult of Filipe.
Released a few hours ago is the eight-minute short film Flowness which profiles the recent history of Filipe, his move to San Clemente and so forth.
The effect of Family on Filipe is scrupulously itemised: the group prayers, Ricardo helping sticker up the boards, mama T helping with his baby Mahina (the little girl he created with model Ananda Marcal whom another pro surfer described to me as the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen up close), Filipe skateboarding down his street in San Clemente with Mahina in his arms, the clapping, the dancing, the soccer.
This short film is a moving examination of a boy in the modern world, the trials of sport and the importance of love.
Filipe’s surfing, of course, is of a standard few are able to envisage let alone formulate.
It’s upbeat!
I think its a phase, maybe that chick he wifed from the coffee shop is a churchie but I’d be surprised if he’s skipping a morning session before the wind comes up to pray to the Father.
a bunch of my secular friends from college got into it when they had kids but they go in the way that its a bad look not to decorate the house for Halloween and Christmas, not cause they believe in salvation or anything,
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I’d like to see these sorts of video profile things also mention what kinds skills the given professional surfer might have to support them outside of the walled garden of shitty “energy drink” sponsorship and contest winnings.
Can Filipe create bespoke furniture perhaps? Does Kolohe write mad HTML code for his church’s website? Can Seabass compose epic lyrical poetry to recite by a stranger’s fireside, thereby gaining a meal and safe bed for the night as the wolves howl in the near distance of darkening apocalyptic gloom?
Richardinho’s house must be adjacent to pedros tacos.
One of Somerset Maughan’s characters [forget which book] was described as having a “noble belly”, now I know what he meant.
Hey, but you gotta admit – he’s got one of those wide, warm engaging smiles. I reckon I’d like the guy.
I bet this grinds the gears of so many Braziians, how he just talks it up living in a rich white neighbourhood, and how it is his most important trophy as he shoves aside his Rio Pro trophy.
Haha, premiered on BG?
For looking a member of the Mexican Mafia, it’s a pretty bold move by his dad moving to a city that has board patrol checkpoints of the main freeway.
Are you having a seizure? Or have I just never noticed your Brazilian writing style?
Just a few too many beers when I was typing that.
The film is very unamerican, totally lacking irony and cynicism. Refreshing. I like this guy and obviously his surfing is next level.
Is irony and cynicism very American?
Revolutionary Road?