Big, fun messiness! Barton Lynch can't stifle his laughs!
I just woke up. Ugh. My eyes are still blurry etc. and I can’t see well but well enough to know that the Oi Rio Pro is back in the water in big fun messy conditions. Kanoa Igarashi just played to his base by asking Peter Mel if he could say something in Japanese then went on forever in Japanese.
Many “arigatos” etc.
The rest of the commentators made sure to say “Igarashi” with much Japanese inflection afterward.
Barton Lynch just laughed about trying to find scores on the “big lumpy” set waves.
Overlapping heats.
So far…
Filipe T. beat Adriano de S.
Kelly S. beat Seabass Z.
Kanoa I. beat Ricardo C.
Plus the elimination heats have wrapped. Jeremy Flores and Ace Buchan got tossed.
The other commentator, not Barton Lynch, just said that Owen Wright paddling back out after his head injury was the “greatest comeback in sport’s history.”
Do you agree?
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This morning
https://youtu.be/UaZfqnItmzA
So is the open thread or not? Obviously Derek is busy and Jen and Chas are sleeping
I forgot a big and important detail about the event and the sponsor:
Right here in Brazil we are in a long weekend, because of a holiday: Thursday to Sunday, Corpus Christi!
All places filled with tourists from outside and from within the country … the most wanted places? Beaches!
It is understood why run with the championship to end Sunday …
Martin “I dunno, for me, his boards just looked a little small, I’d like to see him/her on some bigger equipment” Potter, ‘89WC etc etc
Strider, educating the vals: “as a surfer we are part of a community, you can go anywhere in the world, tap your brother on the shoulder and paddle out – and now it’s growing into something bigger than we ever imagined”. That’s ELo firing a silver bullet into the heart of the grumpy local right there…
(Sorry I missed the event and am “live commenting” the post show)
Kaipo for awkward segue award: “surfing is One Big Family. And speaking of women…”
“Pottz and Pans” makes a wonderful loving partner. Is kaipo buzzing on the crowd, or has he been into the nose beers? 👀
Haven’t heard much hype about Gabriel Medina Instituto. I imagine it’s Daddy Day Care Center is world class.
A safe place for every whining claimer to whine freely and fully.
The other side Praia da Vila very tubular spot, and when it breaks, it’s fantastic, could put a good show!
And a guy talked about the conditions there … said that Barrinha was way more glassy, and without bumps, than the left corner …
There was no need to put the competition either yesterday or today in the water, because conditions will be clean and glazed for, mainly sunday, and another swell is coming monday … Some people are saying it’s all because of the sponsor … that Oi, the main sponsor here, want the contest to end Sunday, with sun and a huge crowd on the beach … It will be a big piece of marketing for the company if it happens
And … I believe it, for past events here and their sponsors … some events, real atrocities, in absurd conditions… but sponsors here never care about the conditions, only about the crowd and weather. It’s a big propaganda for next events, and to increase with a certain crowd of people, not only surfers.
One of them, again in Itaúna – Saquarema, was the last day with Mick and Taj in the final on a Sunday …
The next monday, after the last day, it was 6’0 glassy and tubular, and all the people knew that there would be a swell arriving
Paulo , it happened this year in Australia on VIP Sunday at Snapper .WSL set up to run in front of the Pleasure Dome but instead the contest was run and well in front of a tent next to a breakwall / groyne . So Finals Sunday which could have been run at good waves in front of a tent was delayed so the best in the world could ride soft tops around the corner in front of the 5 Ring Circus which lead to an unHappy Monday in dwindling conditions and pissed of everyone until Italo went full circle and …. California came second again .
I remember Bicko! I was here too in BG section. Its a shame from both events!
How is the Vibe in Brazil Tonight ?
Well, it’s Friday night! Crowded bars ad crazy nights, and girls, scattered in many places in the city!
But for Saquarema, with the reports about Barrinha and all the things about sponsors, I’m very disappointed … and curiously surfing friends, including some professionals and shapers, speaking very little of him …
I think that if there are favorable conditions, they should move to Barrinha … but Itaúna is very good if it is clean, glassy and without bumps … but besides this, there is the thing of the sponsors and the fixed idea that the place has to be Itaúna, because of the affective memory of local and national contests of the past, with music festivals…
There is something in between, as there was in D’bah…
God Paulo , I would love to be there ! Friday Night in Rio or Saquarema. Have Fun !
Hummm…
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lame
Hah, no.
LGR , I have even decorated them with my very own cultured pearls .
how much money is the WSL paying Jaddy to throw this heat?
Medina surfs sooo well.
David Silva understands English better than Pete
Come on, Pottz, ffs. Michel Bourez surfs a really average wave very gingerly, mistiming turns, and Pottz goes berserk with praise.
When everything is “awesome!” nothing really is.
No Joe to blow smoke up his bum has left the 89 champ in the lurch ?
88 and 89 world champs.
do bad they cant get anybodies perspective from the 30 years since then
Still prefer em over Pete Mel and Strider
There’s a surf shop in Anglesea with one of Damian Hardman’s boards hanging up on the rafters. It’s signed by Dooma “88 & 91 world champ”. I know his was the last of the split season titles, but surely he refers to himself as 87 & 91 world champ? Or maybe he’s just trolling Barton?
Silva goes Pony on son of Tony ? Hi ho Silva .
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
“friends” in g-bangas
The reason that Pro Surfers and Pro Surfing EXISTS ! The Dream / Hope of an ENDLESS SUM of friends in G-BANGAS ?
I love Grif. He’s doin’ all you yanks proud. Pity he had to slay Rhino in the process. Tuning chicks on the way to his heat. He just went excellent range there Potz.
Im not sure americans care all that much
Well I can care for them. I’m in excess as far as empathy goes, us Aussies and yanks gotta stick together to weather the storm!
cool, thanks for unity.
All we care about is that the brazillian looses
I don’t mind if a braz wins. I felt happy for ADS’s little comeback. I like Itty, and don’t mind a bit of Yago. Have definitely warmed to gabby too. But yep, want to see Aussies win and, if not, a Hawaiian or Yank.
im actually a big Panda fan
Yeah that little comeback just came crashing back to earth. Career over. None too soon.
F the Brazzos
This attitude lead to the end or signaled the end of the Australian Domination of World Surfing ? I am Australian and I’d rather be beaten by anyone except Americans in surfing and Dirty Pommies in Cricket and Rugby ? Love Americans , love Pommies but will never side with them in sport ….
haha true true. I just like the yanks, as a grom I loved Slater and seeing their fall from dominance mimicking our own current state.. all this combined with the Trumpster making me believe that America truly is GREAT again. Australia shall, in true Machiavellian style free “rome” (surfing) from the hands of the barbarians!!
From Midget and Nat’s First Wins to Mick and Steph’s Last . Probably more pissed off now with the new regime trying to rewrite the record books as if we never existed . Surfer Mag ran a comp about Quiksilver going back to its roots at Newport Beach . FUCK THAT ITS ROOTS ARE IN TOR fucking QUAY and not in Danny Quok around the Clock Bob McNight Land … ummmm. That was Cathartic . I was surprised a few years ago reading in Tracks that I was supposed to be happy as an Australian that JJ won . Great news for Hawaii , certainly , and I am happy for him and my Polynesian Brothers but certainly nothing to Celebrate in Oz ?
For a few years you could get Quiksilver T-shirts that said ‘established 1970’ when it was really 1969.
no JJ or Andy? or they are from hawaii, so dont count?
Hawaiians
Wrong
No what that Hawaiian Sunny said when he won? “Its a USA title.”
griff-dog the thirsty little poon chaser
Thats the spirit ! One day they were signing bums and Boobs and now wham bam slam on Instagram ?