The '89 World Champ is in the best form!
If this is truly the ’89 World Champ Martin Potter’s retirement lap then he is making me teary-eye’d. Have you been watching his performance at the Male Rip Curl Pro Portugal?
Have you been at least listening? Rare bits of true, deep-baked, knowledge are being dropped every fourth heat, or so. Unfiltered gems that I’ve been wanting, that I’ve been waiting for, for years. He is a man reborn.
Martin Potter, who won a World Championship in ’89, knows professional surfing like few others, like no others even, having both won a World Championship in ’89 and sitting in the booth for the past goodness only knows how many years watching every turn, every stinking squirt off the top.
I’ve wanted insight, true insight not just throw away responses to Joe Turpel’s meaninglessness.
And Martin Potter (’89 W.C.) has delivered at the Mayo Rip Curl Pro Portugal.
For example, on the post-show today, speaking about the Patrick G. vs. Griffin C. heat, he dropped an absolute bomb. Pat G. had just completed an air that Griffin C. watched from the lineup and Potter, who clawed a World Championship from the maw of ’89, said, “He’s such a grommet he still likes watching good surfing.”
I stopped dead in my tracks and am still wondering about it. Is it true? Is watching good surfing an exercise for the young?
Is that part of the “grumpy local” phenomenon? That “grumpy locals” are old and can’t enjoy the spectacle anymore?
I would very much like to know more about all of this.
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All those floaters have finally taken their toll on Adriano.
Poor Bugger but it’s going to make the injury wild card selection more exciting than the title race ? Now we have not one not two but three ex World Champs and a former Rookie of the year in the selection process .
That’s Pottz’ inner voice running roughshod over his Broca’s area. He’s referring to himself. Pottz is the grommet.
“Is watching good surfing an exercise for the young?”
In 1989 it was.
The less I surf the more I watch
The more I surf the less I watch
It’s true. Between the time zone issues and offshores, I haven’t watched a single live euro heat. Heat replays are slung together pretty haphazard, but they work ok.
I was on holidays / surfing in France when the Surf Ranch Pro was on and have still not bothered to watch the replays .Watched today’s dismal performance by Travis Logie sending those guys who lost out to pasture in conditions so bereft of power that even Yago couldn’t find 2 ramps in half an hour .
I watched for 7 minutes last night before I went back to making money on Facebook marketplace instead. That’s about the sum of the euro leg for me
I’d bet grumpy and jaded old bastards like us make up 90% of the live viewing audience.
form in the booth may very well be influenced by Portugals relaxed attitude towards substances that in other countries are deemed the downfall of society. a few nose beers without fear of prosecution is likely to get him back into the form that got him the “89 world champ” handle.
nose beers? is that with a straw? btw, rumor has it that gerlach shaved some of the 89 champ’s back rug and those shavings are glassed into Connor’s board as a form of holy relic.
That’s amazing if true. Fuck it, it probably is true, now that I think about Brad.
Sarcasm but…. Almost believable.
Peter must be thinking: they’re all still pussies.
is this what they were referring to by calling out W Carmichael’s “’89 world champ inspired spray”? i hope so.