...and Hurley!
So tell me and tell me true, is today’s Teahupoo forecast really going to be what World Surf League President of Content, Media and Hyphy Rap Dancing Erik “ELo” Logan calls “48 hours of #mustsee?” Is it going to be, as he also calls “EPIC TAHITI?” The “monster swell of Kanoa Igarashi’s young life?”
Oh he didn’t describe it as the monster swell of Kanoa Igarashi’s young life but will it be?
Do you believe?
I was in the channel, on a boat during a medium-sized Teahupoo swell once many years ago with Mikey Wright, Leo Fioravanti and Kanoa Igarashi. Kanoa did not like it and refused to paddle. Oh, I didn’t blame him. Seeing that beast up close is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life. The reef is right there, like right there, and the lagoon that folk gets washed into is literally* filled with razor blades and MMA fighters pointy elbows and the wave, that wave, is thick and fast.
Reflexes, man. You need reflexes.
Will any surfers chicken out? There are a full 32 of them. The entire field minus four and one of those four is a young Tahitian hell charger.
*Various dictionaries have officially changed “literally” to “figuratively” to reflect usage.
Superficial Jingoism at its finest. They wouldn’t have given a shit had he not been a zaffa
ooh, looks like I got under your skin. You will be ok
Is anyone else having issues with loading LT’s breakdown? I keep getting a shitty pop up and then an “aw snap”.. the fuck?
Everybody needs to stop giving the WSL credit for a good day of surf. Mother Nature took care of business. Those assholes just filmed the shit.
Shit was embarrassing for all to watch
It’s only the faecaphiles who actually like watching shit.
Them and ‘furries.’
When did he do his back in. There was a clip in the bridge of him getting limed. Is that old footage from last year? Like the wozzle trying to paint him as a battler.
Yep. Last year.
Ha! Reef shade! Cheers
Who was looking like a winner today lads?
Jaddy baby.
Nah, not really. Gonna be pretty hard to knock Gabby over. He is looking ice cold. Start of his well published ‘back half of the year’
He will win Chopes, the pool, one of the Euro comps and Pipe. 2019 WCT champ.
*Edit: no asterix
Quality call out to self
Jadson looked pretty thuggy for the first time. Straight said he was trying to prove a point
Tier one: Gabriel and Owen
Tier two: Jadson, Adriano, Caio
And just to be clear WSL. That was an epic day. Well done.
It’s a long wrap today and I still feel like I left half of it out.
give yourself a half hour at least.
or not.
The longtoms really have their work cut out for them today. I wouldn’t want to be a Longtom etc.
there’s only one , at least one who writes. anyway , it’s done.
beer o’clock now.
One and only. Cheers
I specifically tuned in to BG at this hour looking for your daily wrap, this after subjecting myself to what, 10 hours of fully focused viewing? I must be insane.
Looking forward to it.
It may have to do with the infrastructure available to them in remote areas, i know little about satellites, bandwidth etc but if eventually they want to go pay per view they better sort it out. Fox has live sports sorted out usually as they should. G Land next year will also be interesting, in saying that Cloudbreak was always excellent.
Medinas wave was not a ten
true, it should have been an 11.
Its interesting how two people can look at the same thing and see something different.
GOAT in surf and surf commentating.
I wonder if the outgoing tide bottoming out caused it to slow down at the end there. Incoming tide all morning tomorrow
They could do a lot worse, but I think he’ll have better things to do with his life.
Agreed – a perfect pool wave can never replace the climax of not knowing whats coming or where it will break!
Great event so far… give credit where it is due… WSL… improved the enjoyment and quality of watching pro surfing.
It’s all about the waves i reckon. When they turn up, regardless of whether the WSL/ASP/ISA/IPS is running it, it’s worth a look…
Except for the majority of people who are unable to watch the feed (technical issues). At least I was able to watch on my phone.
That sucks mate…. I watched it on Fox in Australia and it was fine but friends had issues watching it on the app. Better than the facebook livestream last year… that was utter poop
Well i wouldn’t go that far. Kiddding Kells
Gabriel Wisdom! You really are from San Diego!
I’ll assume Damo won, the screen has gone frozen, but BG kept this shit up to almost 2000 comments?!!!!!
Notice neither of the principles is watching?
Oh thats calculated
I saw Chas jump in for a sec
Seemed out of his depth
Ya rekon
Ghosting the shit out of us
And that jazzyp especially
A repeat of last year’s final with Owen taking the win this time is my guess.
Excellent call.
Almost right