The WCT's hottest new talent since Filipe Toledo…
Wasn’t it a thrill, back in December, when the San Clemente teenager, Griffin Colapinto, became the first American mainlander since Kelly Slater to win the Triple Crown.
Griffin, who was nineteen, combined with Kolohe Andino to make it a San Clemente one-two. His success in Hawaii wrapped up a spot on the 2018 WCT.
In this five-minute short by the WSL, we meet a kid who took his scrubbing brush and his hammer and his garden shears to his surfing and shaped it into something that separates him, clearly, obviously, from the hundred other teen prodigies.
Some quotes:
“This kid is… special!”
Forehand air, backhand airs, power hacks, there is no real weakness”
“Really aggressive throw tails.”
And from Rosy Hodge, the journalist entrusted with the post-heat interviews at tour events.
“Griffin, you better get used to those moments, because you’ll be dong them all year on the WCT.”
Although this profile short doesn’t take the viewer especially deep into Griffin’s life, you do leave the cinema with the feeling that this is a surfer who approaches his game with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
Watch his last-minute Hail Mary at Haleiwa last year to beat Jordy Smith for proof of the instinctive trust he has in his surfing.
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Gallo Pinto rips
Aren’t we all Special?
top 5 for lyfe
How high next year you reckon? I mean, this year? Takes me months to adjust.
Depends how good Kolohe goes…….lot of chips on the table for a Californian to do good
Which kid we talking about? Griffin or Chloe?
Biggest bluff since kolohe
I’m not sure how I know this but Adelaide’s daily turd towel “The Advertiser” published an article on 6 November 2011 at 12:30am touting Kolohe Andino as “on the crest of a dream” and “the next big thing”. The highlight of Kolohe’s career thus far has been a social media jousting match with a 40 year old comb forward balding loser from a defunct music television channel. I think you’ve cooked the goose on this one, Doz. Rosie’s not a fucken journalist!
And Rosie also thinks he’s going to “dong” them all year! Sheesh.
Would you dong a chick who wears the same shoe size as you?
It does depend what country you’re in, I’d suggest…
Yes, I’m talking Euro 6-11.
If I’m a size 45, in the European measurement, does that mean you only make sex with fairies? (And by fairies, I mean bottom of the garden sort.)
You got it!
I’ve never been that fussy to think about it. I’m a size 9 so there is little doubt I’ve donged a full range of shoe sizes from 6-11.
saves a few dollars on shoes.
I’ve done some pretty husky bush pigs myself back in the day
out of desperation. And once just for the sake of achieving a personal record.
So to answer your question, yes.
First, why are you reading a South Australian newspaper? Did you cross border?
And re: old combover man, sometimes it’s like looking in the mirror! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
He pulls some smoking hot chicks mate it’s not all bad news.
…but has this melancholy cuckold vibe…
I lived in a caravan park in Robe for a few months back then due to a drug problem.
But you moved closer to the drugs!
Some people move to Byron, some people move to Robe… follow your dreams and so on.
Poor Byron.
Wait, is that even the right way around?
I wasn’t there to get sober I was there because it was within my means financially.
Fucking hell cunt. You are loose.
Who’s your pick for the year Wiggs? I’m keen to have it print.
Wigg’s got the injury replacement didn’t you hear?
I’d love to see Kikas string a couple together but he won’t win. Probably gonna be the bum buddies Gabby and John for the foreseeable future?
Yeah, Kikas looks really sharp. I especially like his… who the fuck is kikas?
Freddie. The narrow eyed Portuguese bloke.
of course
Will struggle to re-qualify
Imagine the groupies that kid bangs!!!
Put some boars in his compound brah!
Shit! Did I tell that on the net? Fuck, I need to stop drinking
You did say that. Funny as hell. I quit drinking. Feel a whole fuckton better for it. More money to spend on stuff now too! Fuck AA, bunch’s religious nut jobs. just put the bottle down and don’t look back. Be a man about it.