"Unbelievable strength!"
Boy is my face red. I reported, days ago, that surfwear giant Billabong was dropping longtime team rider Joel Parkinson. The rumor floated to me via my dry cleaner, a very believable Korean man, but just today Stab has published that Joel locked into a six-year extension and I am going to have to better vet my dry cleaner’s information moving forward.
How could he have been so wrong? So confused?
I’ll get to the bottom of this but in the meantime, Julian Wilson delivered a very fine post-win interview to a respectable newspaper with quality sources (The Guardian).
I’ve learned a lot about myself at this event and through this injury and the birth of my baby girl Olivia. Honestly, watching the birth of my first child gave me unbelievable strength to just suck it up, come down here and do what I needed to do.
I’ve got huge inspiration from my wife [Ashley] and the whole experience. I’ve got to thank my wife for that.
My number one competitor this last week was myself – testing myself, figuring out where I could go and where I couldn’t.
I was lucky enough to get some good waves come my way and I was able to surf pretty well. I can’t believe I’ve won it.
And are you riding the Julian train right now? Pulling for him to win it all come December? His narrative is very compelling. New father of a daughter, fresh off shoulder injury… in fact, I don’t think there has been a front-runner with a more compelling narrative in quite some time. Of course it is too early to think about December already but if Julian does well at Margaret River, very much in his purview, and does well at Bells then… Well, it is too early.
Ok. I’m off to the dry cleaner’s with a stern face right now. BRB.
Dry Cleaners are good for Dry Cleaning advices! Parko rumor wrong; let’s warm up a Guardian Interview… A+ Journalism -> 1 minute of wasted Lifetime I will never get back.
Korean? North or South? I’m
Betting North. Bastards.
dry cleaners should only be relied on for sound financial advice, and in the right circumstances, hand relief.
Chas didn’t you also mention jack f might be on the chopping block, possibly you have 1 out of 2 correct Unless he wants to take a pay cut of epic proportions as Joel has.
Chas, I think that you perhaps assisted Mr Parkinson in forcing B’Bong across the line for a new deal
I wouldn’t be reading any Title tea leaves based on what happened at Snapper.
So perennial number 2 for JW according to you?
huh? No. But that whole event was a one-off. Mens and womens.
Fall behind on Fantasy Surfer, did ya?
As if! FS is embarrassing. If you’re gonna predict, do it for money.
Too much starch in the ol’ shirts, huh?
Beachgrit: Come for the rumour, stay for the conjecture!
Intrigue at the Grit! May be feed some false intel back to the (north) Korean Dry cleaner. I smell a rat!
It is oh so obvious that Kim Jong-Un is trying to take down surfing one Beach Grit story at a time. If Sophie G. can’t kill surfing (and she and Kelly are trying), the North Korean’s will surely do it.
Gazza , Surfing ( not the mag ) survived Cook , American colonization,Christian Missionaries, WW1, the Depression , WW2, The Cold War , Vietnam , Chile,Nicaragua , Bin Laden , 2007. So like the man said when told he couldn’t surf Charlie’s Point. I DONT CARE SOPHIE DONT SURF and looking at Kim ,him neither.
kim is surely using sex wax. its the only way to explain that hair do.
(c)Hairman Kim Jong-un.
Sexiest man in North Korea
And all the girls love him
And he will never grow old
And so we say rough rider.
See mint royale’s sexiest man in Jamaica.
Don’t beat yourself up over the Parko gaffe. It’s not like you incorrectly reported his brother died of a drug overdose or something.
“His narrative is very compelling. New father of a daughter, fresh off shoulder injury… in fact, I don’t think there has been a front-runner with a more compelling narrative in quite some time.”
Really, entitled Golden Boy having a kid and finally winning a Title is really more compelling than ADS’s whole life, from the $7 surfboard to being chronically underestimated? More compelling than Gabe sacrificing his soul, dabbling in the dark arts of Slater on his quest to become surfing’s biggest villain and the most powerful competitive surfer alive? Fuck off, Chas.
But he didn’t mentioning the coddling at the high performance surf center. That would have blown up the narrative completely.
Surely Owen’s head injury comeback was the most compelling……
Definitely, but Chas has been skeptical about Owen’s whole story so I think he sees past it.
Nose injury?
Bloody oath!!!!
not as compelling as your last 3 words
Compelling stories sell. Me, I prefer a little drop of poison.
Did J-Dub actually go through labour? Yeah I know – he woulda if he coulda. But at least he has realised that sleep is relative and passing a bowling ball through your front-bum is ever so slightly more painful than a shoulder injury
Also the unbelievable luck to sleepwalk through his first three heats against choking opponents.
Strong family does make you strong though, no mistake about that.
Not luckier than Pinto finding the best wave of day not once but 3 times in shifting lineups in;
Rnd 1 v jj and the mullet
Rnd 3 v Parko at Snapper
1/4 v the Spartan at Kirra .
I thought the kid surfed stupendously well but some rookies don’t get that much luck in a year .
Yeah they say the kid’s a wave magnet. I’m skeptical of that woo-ish concept; on the other hand it is said that Griffin’s completely tuned in and carefully listens to his coach. So who know James, maybe Colapinto’s got his ear pressed harder to the rail than everybody else …
Apparently the snake calls him the sponge for his ability to soak information up! So from now on I will refer to him as sponge bob square pants and hope he makes West Coast Surfing Great Again for you dudes .Along as only the ear is pressed to the rail , and not his nostrils , he stands every chance .
I posted a comment after round 4 that the distractions of fatherhood, insomnia and pain are embellishing Julian’s competitive act . Probably the best way to be totally in the zone once in the water.