Hawaiian redefines possibilities at two-foot Huntington Beach…
Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. And Seth Moniz, whose name has been in lights since his back-flip at Waco in May, just got everyone harder than honeymoon dick with a backside jump in his round five heat at HB.
Hawaiian-born Seth, the twenty-year-old son of the photogenic former pro Tony Moniz, took his heat with Evan Geiselman into the cosmos with a backside jump that looked like a kiteboarder getting hung in the wind.
“He’s on! He’s on! He’s on!” said the commentator Peter Mel.
“That was… that was some superhero stuff right there,” said Strider Wasilewski.
“It was…that…inverted. I don’t know…” said the pro-in-booth Dion Atkinson, trailing off.
“That’s a ten in my book and if they don’t give him one they can throw ’em out of the judging booth because this was ridiculous,” said Strider. “He was superman!”
The wave scored a 9.87. Two judges threw tens. Two scored it a 9:80 and one unimpressed son of a bitch gave it a nine-and-a-half.
Watch here (it comes in around the 1:24:24)
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i just cant believe people watched the event. What type of contest is held in shit waves like that? The east coast of oz had bigger swell. What happened to having contests in places that have big swell? or does that scare the little kiddies now?
It certainly was a commendable recovery, but he landed flat on his back. In what fucking world should a back flop be a 10?
“I got chicken skin just watching that.” What is this shit Strider?
Seth Moniz…bridging the gap between Waco and HB since May 2018.
Neat sure I guess, but more sad that this is the most exciting thing to come from the US Open.
p.s. no one else needs to share the clip on Instagram, please.
A pleasing wet twirly-hop.
It was relatively distinguished in its general presentation from other wet twirly-hops of a similar rotational value in this context.
This much, we can say.
Great, 2 more weeks of 360? 540? banter.
Weeks? Hopefully Months!!
I’ll start. If you’re upside down, then you’re spinning against the grain and therefore cancelling out the rotation that you have done to get to that point. It’s just a straight air.
That. Was. Crazy.
He’s currently #2 on QS, not counting this result, so he should be poised to qualify.
Well done, young man!
Finally something to talk about other than the shit surf.
Nice fluke.
I’ll tell you what’s gonna be a fluke. And that’s if my son survives the day.
Little cunts fukked off in a foolish pursuit of a grovel. Which there won’t be anywhere and my fuel card is not in my wallet. Leetttle fukkah
Occy used to steal his dad’s car ( left near the train station ) to surf black rock , and have it back before his dad returned on the evening train but the big problem was that he was only 15 and had no license .
I’m with you Wiggs. That was a flyaway where his board coincidentally ended up in the almost right spot.
Whats the story ….has it gone back to Facey live exclusively?
tried to watch on WSL site and got blocked.
I jump in via the Vans site. http://www.vansusopenofsurf…
WSL app on the tablet worked for me, LT
Who cares mate it’s shit
Strider, “Redonkulous !”
But yea, I saw it live, impressive considering he was behind in the heat and needed something big. Massive.