Introducing Santiago Muniz!
Remember where you are at this exact moment reading the name Santiago Muniz for the first time. Take in your surroundings and stock of your emotional state because someday your grandchildren will ask you and will expected to provide a proper accounting. Like, “Yes little ones. I was shuffling home from… a woman who is not your grandmother’s apartment very early in the morning, a touch of autumnal fog dusting the field feeling… hungover and ashamed until I checked BeachGrit on my phone and saw a picture of Santiago Muniz.”
“Santiago Muniz…” they will coo in response. “…gold metal winning Santiago Muniz with those eyes and that hair and that tango in his step.”
Yes, Santiago Muniz, from Argentina, beat Kanoa Igarashi yesterday in tiny Japanese waves to win the World Surfing Games not 100 km from where the Olympics will be staged in two years’ time. Reuters has a better accounting than I could ever muster so let’s head there first.
Argentina’s Santiago Muniz won the men’s gold medal at the World Surfing Games on Wednesday, while Kanoa Igarashi and Shun Murakami claimed Japan’s first ever medals in the competition.
Gold for Muniz, who also won the event in 2011, gives him a place at the 2019 Pan Am Games, which is a qualification event for the Tokyo Olympics.
“I am so happy. This feels like a dream,” Muniz told the International Surfing Association website.
“It’s amazing to represent my country. I can feel the energy coming from my team. It’s a beautiful feeling.
“This has given me even more motivation to get to Tokyo 2020. I am excited for the opportunity to qualify, but I have got to take it step by step.”
Etc.
Now, there is much debate across BeachGrit’s various bureaus as to the future of face of professional surfing. James Prier, the brains behind our business operation, insists that Kanoa Igarashi is the future. With his Bulletproof Boy Scouts good looks, small wave skill and competitive drive it is a safe call but I feel he’s missing… something. Fire? Spice? I don’t exactly know but am all in on Santiago Muniz.
He’ll win gold, do the morning talk show circuit, tango with Kelly Ripa, get cast on Bachelor in Paradise then get cast as the Bachelor. What happens after that is up to him but let’s just say that a recurring role on a future Baywatch retool is not out of the question.
And we all know which other famous surfer had a recurring role on Baywatch, don’t we.
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Well, you do know that Santiago is Alejo Muniz brother, right?
Backward fin Beth would be screaming like a 16yr old girl at a Beatles concert for Santiago. Thats if his surfing prowess extends to the woke woman.
Also I dropped “gold metal winning…” in there and am sad Ben Marcus is no longer with us. Ben? Could you reprise your roll for one more night? (I know I know… role. Your role.)
I thought I was a grammar Nazi but it turns out I’m just a mere Trotsky.
Probably best to avoid Mexico and ice in that case .
Yes Ben, revise your (t)roll.
$10 says he’ll be back within the month.
You know what they say:
“Once you go ‘Grit, nuthin’ else gonna fit.”
Last I heard, he was getting high fived at the fucking surf ranch for showing those BG dicks a thing or two about a thing or two. I count that as a win.
He claims someone handed him a hundred dollar note in appreciation for his efforts here.
He was stoked.
Says something about his current place on the Industry food chain methinks.
That wasn’t for his efforts here.
Now look what you went and did. Go to your room.
Your right.. WSL is all me or not at all!
BG should start play harderball, get say JJ, Chris Ward, Brucey, maybe Tom Curren and do a global high profile Expression Session everything and anything goes, higher the girls a Club Roxy in Honolulu..get some great sounds ask for donations from the grumpy locals… Tour globally..streamline Live.
The kicker…do it on every date a WSL contest runs.
Tell Ben Marcus he can play the roll of pink panther the trash sweeper.
Are they giving out gold “metal” instead of medals – at $1200USD an ounce I need to start this surf game to get rich!!
Never herd of the guy!
His bro Alejo surfs for a different herd ?
He looks like 2/3 of the teenage surf bros in Newport Beach.
But he can dance the tango.
The scales tip in his favor.
And roll his rrrrrrrrrr’s.
I can roll my rrrrrrrs too.
Can I have my hair, chin and six-pack tummy back please?
Some fucker stole them a few years ago.
chas, do you find the stories or do the stories find you?
I sit at my computer each morning chanting mantras to the Universe. Then we are all gifted with things like this.
Chas, you must have missed this one…Aussies dominate at surfing World Masters!
“I, Chas Smith, call to the Universe in the name of Stephen Hawking and ask that you deliver unto me the surf gossip contained esoterically in normal news. With the swagger of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Beach Grit as my vessel, I invoke my incredibly niche surf journalism talent to produce the greatest rumor on the internet in the last 3 seconds.”
Get yourself a Google home and you won’t even have to sit at a computer! Just chant from the sofa. Or bar.
I got one as a gag gift last Christmas and the thing listens to me! I mean not in the “Ok Google play The Japanese House…” sort of way but to my private conversations about robbing banks etc.
Next time you get on a computer…
Top ten most famous bank heists
101 ways to rob a bank
You won’t believe what happened next in this bank robbery
(*Big Brother, this was typed only as a joke and by no means represents my true character)
point break’s already been made… twice.
Just like the Surfline editorial team gifted us with this deep, intriguing and insightful story today:
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But really the joke’s on me… As a premium member, I pay for this.
Good choice Chas choosing the Latin Lover over astroboy !
So solly to see Igarashi fall. And just heard he groped a girl in high school, so no more future for him…
Google maps led you astray mate?
Nice, can’t wait to see a re-enactment of this from Santi!…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
there’s 2.28 minutes of that soft porn??
Soft porn ? I thought it was his coming out video ? Hi mum hi Dad I’d like to announce that I am …………….a rollerblader……… . While on the subject of Lifesaving and Surfing collaborations (eg baywatch ) after 60 years of conflict/ war/Cold War Surfing NSW just signed a peace treaty with Surf LiveSaving NSW.
ok, gay porn.
Did Baywatch ever get an emmy for there amazing montaj’s? They where surely the best in the game and inspired millions.