A glorious finish!
I am not a sleeper-inner by nature but, for some reason, I cannot wake up early enough for this contest. Well, better late than never. Pottz just said there are “cute little barrels” for this perfect finals day. “Days like this you dream of being a free surfer…” he just said.
What did we miss?
Filipe beat Igarashi in Quarter 1
Fred beat Julian in Quarter 2
John John has dipped out due injury, sending Jordy through.
Kolohe beat Medina and I will go watch that replay now but after the rest of this fabulous day.
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Well 1000 comments on the Bali open slather one and 270-odd here, that’s the difference the Australian audience makes.
I have no scoop on this but going on the way knee injuries go, I bet J’s isn’t too bad, probably just shaken up some scar tissue. Might even do it a tiny bit of good.
is it more concerning that the crowd on the beach was larger than the online viewing numbers?
You call it the kookpound? I call it the idiotditch!
Congrats to Fil, JJF, KS, Jordy, Frederico and Kolohe in first place… and to the people of Saquarema!
And to Barrinha, RJ! Fantastic when called out
And for WSL and Oi… SHAME!
Worst window and event call I ever see!
Respect! Great spot. Great surfing area. Thank you, people of Saquarema! Okay, the contest – longtom can report. 🙂
Biggest improvement
No Joe.
Although I didn’t catch any of it.
Good was it?
I see GMed fucked up again.
Fuken idiot.
sally fitzgibbons had nice wetsuit choice. i think west suits from southern chiba prefecture?
I think his past mental and performance instability is due to performance enhancing drugs. He has stabalized alot mentally but his performances are not as impressive. got to clean up before the olympics. crazy charlie looks like he would do anything to win
A simple correction…
This is what we call… a true Maracanã!!!…
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Not the first nude roof party I’ve been to, or the highest I’ve been at one.
Give me drama or give me death!!
What is your opinion of Saquarema, Luke Egan’s Shoulder Fetish?
Or if opinion is too strong, your feeling?
That’s the Spirit . Never Forgive Never Forget . And Jebus said …. CRONULLA CORRECTLY . Now I bet that Matty Washwar can pronounce La Jolla , named after Matt Hoy AH ?
Here is my Filipe Toledo winner’s speech if I was his speech writer in English: Thank you, thank you! Wow, you guys and girls! Wow, wow, wow! Thank you so very much. I am so happy and honoured to be here. This place, Saquarema, is so amazing. So amazing and beautiful! And you people of Saquarema are amazing and beautiful! The waves today were great, okay – but yesterday they were even better. Yesterday they were great! Did you see me beat Kelly Slater? Haha. This is a great surf spot! Thank you for letting us have this contest at your surf spot, surfers and people of Saquarema. I want to come back here all the time and surf and hang out. This is such a great place. Thank you, my fellow competitors. Jordy, please try to do better next time. Haha, it’s a joke. Kelly, you don’t have a next time. It’s not a joke. Smiley face. Gabriel Medina, I’m going to smash you in the face – this year is mine. Haha! Let’s party and have a good time everybody! Yeah woooooo!!!!
unlike other professional sports, NONE of the athletes in the wsl are collage educated. sometimes it shows. this is ok.
I wonder if any read books while they travel….
I just copy and pasted Al, as the ending to my story. Hope is OK. It just seemed too fitting.
i suppose it’s okay. you just do your thing, stevie wonder. got your back here.
I was already off on a flight of fancy in an alternative universe, but yours is better.
you just wrote your thing did you. well better take a look at that. didn’t quote any russians by chance wouldn’t have would you
not allowed any more.
I had to go cold turkey.
big struggle.
let it out
Can we get an AnarchoPrimitivism and surfing write up? Would be really interesting.
Barton is going to South Africa. excellent news.
I’d like to see the Hobgood brothers comment for a contest.
Im bored of the 1980’s perspective
a people’s sport
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Gabe Medina has his own book! anyone read?
yes i read it. it’s one of my bedside books. it’s about finding your inner peace and strength and being rich and cool. i like to roll up on it.
that girl made it herself and was hoping to pluck a strand of his hair to sticky tape into the final page before she fritzel’s him.
Possibly why he shaves his whole body to avoid being plucked like a chook during the OI ! Don’t touch the Hair Pro ..?
Yep
can you give us a synopsis Julio?
Book commissioned by the champion’s team on the occasion of the first title (written by a journalist who can lay a rail) as good as Tim Bakers and Sean Doherty biographies. Kid was 21!
Kaipo is so lit up on something, not sure what
crazy eyes
Brazzo nose beers? its been a big couple of days.
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer too.
when in Rome.
I would go
The whole contest zone looked pretty snowed under from an observer’s perspective.
Not as much as Full Power Flavio Padaratz on the Podium ? No need for a generator to power the two sites just plug in to Flavio ( I love him for beating Slater at Hossegor in 94 the same year that Brazil won the World Cup , Football in California .)
can anyone confirm rumours that the Russian government has approached several WSL surfers offering large sums of money to defect in an attempt to bolster their olympic team?
yes i can confirm. the sums of money are very large indeed. there will be practice sessions in an experimental wave pool in a secret central-asian “zone” and around the famous secret points of vladivostok and kamchatka.
Viktor Shtrum
you need to get out more steve
what????!
read different books, i mean.
and when i say famous secret points i mean famous secret points
was trying to upload a picture Putin riding a great white but failed.
Or the one of him fondling a dolphin …
not necessary, fellas – we will have a russian world champ within ten years and i will hold his hand up. also, john john’s lost leg – i will hold that up too.
Saw this film as a kid . THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING …
https://youtu.be/k3TpBfnaEmI
Look at the real thing, James Bickerton:
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3.75!
2.00!
Not cold enough ! Just joking . Looks like my last surf in the Baltic Sea except it’s missing 80 more VALs and the 40km directly onshore wind ……blowing from the Arctic Circle . Om Om Om
the 2024 leper games?
Kalaupapa 2024 .
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Come on you guys, let’s think positive, let’s support. Think ahead to the future. Can you dig it!
Gulag Archipelago Open ( Or should that be closed ) and we can get Nikolai Gogol and The Dead Souls to rock the Tundra …. ?
China informed my mate , that he was on the short list of possible coaches , even though he never had asked for the job . GDay Chine !
Jason O’conner?
Jason Bourne , he got more passports than Kanoa ? Nah an ex pro surfer and successful Plumber who got a random email from the Chinese Olympic Surf Team. He is very talented and could have made a flush team while fixing their shitters at the same time . Gold Gold Gold for Australia (and its surfing plumbers !)
righto. I thought you were suggesting they approached “china” to coach the Chinese team and suddenly the Kirra imitating wave pool made sense.
Woh really inovate art there, a fish head at the pointy end? why am i still watching. Muchoa Obrigaoou oi oi oi
A win and 3 out of the top 4 surfers in the event. Another great event for San Clemente.
But only Pete Mel from Santa Cruz made it onto the podium and Gerroa with a population of 300 and a dog and a few seagulls won the women’s event ?
ahhhhhhhhh, Griffin seems to have caught the San clementa curse from ka
i’m surrounded by two incredible human beings
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I think having bob briknell? show up out of nowhere was a shot across the bow, lol.
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what are you saying, john wayne?
He’s saying if you’re not in the top six you’re not in the game.
Filipe nowhere near as popular as Medina because he lives in Cali, imagine if Medina won…
Is he taking over from Kanoa for the biggest celebration ?
The difference is that one of them FELIPE is the greatest high performance surfer on the planet and the other one , looks like Astro boy having a bad hair day realizing he is a soulless mercenary robot …..
good thinking, james. kanoa needs a manga.
quick, quick! we gotta write kanoa’s manga adventures before the buzzbirds come diving in!