All your favorites back in the water!
A full set of waves just went unridden. Pottz mocked the competitors. Turpel added something drab. Where are you? What are you doing? Tensions are extremely high right now. Backs are against the wall and we have a perfect swell angle with a little shadowing from Australia but it fits right into Keramas with improving conditions.
Can you say M-Rod?
“Just not finishing that first ride but some great hangtime and…” sorry. I’m acting like a court reporter here, live blogging what Pottz is saying.
That man is the worst person who has ever been let into a broadcast booth.
Ever.
Respect !
I missed it all but sounds like WSL epicness all day.
Best thing that’s happened to surfing since the ASP
Ronny calm down. Fuck he’s pumping a waist high wave. This wasn’t a close heat, the kid posted an 8 heat total. Pump the breaks.
This announcing booth sucks.
KP, it was slow at high tide. And where is contest director Pat O’connel?
Now Luke is talking about “action packed” heats?????
Add moron to the booth, now “local” or tourism agency employee rose colored glass spin of his “home island” favorites. Rio is not a tour surfer. There’s a few that qualify for that honor.
It’s sad that rail surfers are now forced to hail mary bad airs. Michel… you don’t need to be desperate.
You’re opponent is not a tour competitor. Just lay rail.
matt george is armed with cliches.
Tickets…..he has tickets on himself. I reckon he was practising those one liners the last few days
auditioning. no thanks
No judgment on him personally or anyone actually, but I never trust westerners, specifically Aussies and yanks, re-locating to the 3rd world permanently. Like what are ya running from fucko? Dunno why.. just reeks of mail order life. Not wife, life. Dramatic comparison but they all reek of Sharky Ward.
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Don’t trust anyone.
Especially surfrats
Agree. They were always the problem people in Central America and Mexico, for me. Not the ‘locals’.
They probably need to be near their factories in Indonesia and China.
I’ve got a solid Newy bias here, but how can anyone not like Rhino. What a great lad.
Is Slater on his firewire???
on that Akila Aipa I think
His mojo is certainly returning…
hells yeah. turn of the day
Feels like he’s harnessed the Ocean again… Been years since I’ve seen that from him.
Back on the anti eco foam? Has looked solid OFF the epoxy’s. Those Aipa’s are PU’s yeah? If not then maybe his foot is better.
yeah pu/pe’s painted up to look like FW’s.
they look so much better under his feet. He can actually do turns now.
Word. He looked so jittery on the corks.. surely he’s seen light now and will stick with the foam.
Master vs Apprentice. That turn was epic.
Even Ron Dog is celebrating Slater – seems like he has gone a bit easy on him since Slater mentioned the crap he always gives him on the Swellian podcast.
yah — that was a good heat. smart tactics, decent turns.
How long till the Aipa hits the Firewire production sheds?
According to LouLou it’s the Aipa
I think we can all agree the wozzle just plain sucks. We all love surfing here but the wozzle is an abomination of our true love. They’ve sold out the heart and soul of the sport of kings and not even made a dime! Everything about it is the worst. It is an exercise in futility, doomed to fail like their soulless corporate surf brethren quiksilver and billiabong before them. If they want to succeed the formula is simple and been said here before: strip down the number of competitors, make the tour a roaming “purple blob” circuit, put the best surfers in the best waves in the world. We can bitch and moan about the wsl, commentators, judging, marginal conditions etc. but they will never change. Money making ventures based off the spirit of surfing can be successful but only when they are founded by core, run by core and marketed to core individuals. The wozzle is not core. #ELO is not core. But ill still be watching the odd heat on mute, reading about all the happenings here and enjoying the Two John v. Gabe duel to Pipe. And though there may be weeping and gnashing of teeth on that day the wozzle burns down, I will be leaping for joy for it will mean the return of surfing’s soul to its rightful heirs: the core Lords.
Thanks for that monologue in Marketing 101 Mr Lecturer
You’re welcome but don’t take my word for it, ask Hoyo and M. Cole…
Bitter old guys who’d do anything for another moment in the limelight? Id rather not
Cores love it
Been watching all day
If you can actually sit through entire heats today, not on mute (except for maybe Louie Eggs), you are a more patient man than I.
Why no four man heats? Too exciting?
Must be hot… everyones wax is melting off, a lot of slipping off.
Fucking with grammar’s only funny when you know the correct bit.
You cannot misspeak at this level! What are you? A politician?
he’s better than George Bush at mangling the English language.
High praise?
Are they really so thoughtless?
Have we discussed the absolute crap state of the WSL app? When I have it in landscape mode on my iPad I can’t see any of the scores.
Also that game of them hiding the scores by blurring them out is about as amateur hour as it gets.
Could we get some articulate commentators?
Fuck me, how are Chloe’s ankles and knees after that air. Who cares.
Just saw Rosie’s bra and half a tit in that interview with Conner.
Dang. I miss like half a day and this happens!
me too. highlight of the contest
Might be easier if they decide to open the pearly gates of the the good range from 6.0 to 7.99 ?