Come to the end of the road!
It was Sunday morning in America, yesterday, and the last hours of summer with nothing to do but luxuriate. It was a gorgeous day in southern California, sun shining and hot, some small but fun waves on tap. No major sporting events on television as we’re still a week away from the start of college football, two weeks away from the National Football League, but there was day 2 of the Tahiti Pro Teahupoo presented by Hurley on the computer and I imagined it would do very well, airing in the wheelhouse of typical American sport consumption with no competition elsewhere.
I flipped it on and watched for a few moments, a smattering of minutes, but couldn’t really get engaged. The surf looked fine, interesting enough, and there were some fine enough storylines but… my mind wandered and then I received a revelation.
Is professional surf watching only tolerable when sitting under fluorescent lighting in a cubicle, on an interminably long road trip, when there are pressing chores to do but unpleasant chores like putting fitted sheets onto beds etc? Or must there be some other event happening, another televised game or some such, to have on concurrently with professional surfing running in the background?
The interactions on our patented “comment live” feed were slim and I had the distinct feeling that no one was really watching anywhere because, again, it was a glorious day in southern California and probably the rest of the United States from the looks of it.
Well, I don’t know that the contest will run today but I am out early and, as you know by now, would rather wear the shame of posting our Tahiti Pro Teahupoo presented by Hurley without it running rather than wear the shame of not posting it and it running.
Also, today is a work day. Enjoy the slightly better alternative to your job.
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East Coast. Australia. It even has the indicating stick on the left hand side of the steering wheel.
I guess my consideration of NP as a dual wave comes down to it being able to be surfed by beginners when its small, its a fun small wave reef that is completely different at size. It is not completely killer like Teahupo or CB but those waves when small would not be beginner friendly. Maybe high tide CB? Still looks possible to get dry docked?
I’ve got a 97 Ford Exploder surf wagon for sale. Willing to do a BG deal. Runs well. Haven’t had any problems with it, other than some corrosion on the terminals which prevented it starting one morning, otherwise, all good. Few specks of rust here and there. Plenty of grunt for trips on the beach. (I haven’t taken it off road and I don’t think it has done much, if any work in that zone) We sourced it from a bit inland. Selling to purchase bass guitar…
Yes, the even’s are the go but I do believe it’s goes 12-15’ at some point.
Yeah millennials are almost as bad as the boomers who think their shit don’t stink
If they have overlapping heats to get through the 16 quicker, I wonder what the shirts will looks like…
My mistake.
Sorry.
I don’t recall you answering the first round of questions!
And we’re done. Event off etc. See y’tomoz morn.
It’s on! I mean, off.
7 rounds in two days!
hope they brought their supply of Adderall.
Do they still drug test?
And K ( ell ) Y Jelly to lubricate the proceedings ….
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I saw Spearhead once and was not impressed.
You into Franti?
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Luck and staying calm is what kept me alive.
I recently read a book of amazing survival stories and the common factor was staying calm and of course the uncontrolable aspect of whatever luck is
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if I dissapeared tomorrow the world would never notice
Houdini was very popular
Kanoa will not sleep tonight.
He avoided the Box , time to pay the piper …..
getting same elimination round replay I saw a couple hours ago.
Goodbye Lenin ….hello Instagram
Any news from the polyp bureau?
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This was a couple of hours ago.
Gabriel or Owen ?
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Der Hammer , danke sehr 007
You’d be brave to bet against him winning it, ay!
Jesus, is there any other wave (maybe Cloudbreak) that runs from “playfulness” to “serial killer”!
many
North Point
No disrespect to NP, but does it do triple overhead below sea level type serial killer!
By the way this is my favourite Ralph Wiggum moment:
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thanks for that DC, i remember that one well, i started out being a Homer/ Barney fan but the parts written for Ralph were brilliant.
Having never surfed Cloud B or TP, i can only go on my experiences at NP, and at small sizes it is a very fun right hand point, if a little sectiony, over 8ft it is terrifying on your backhand and it does get surfed at 3x oh, it peaks on an outer ledge then doubles up and throws wider than its tall, like chopes. I have heard of guys getting stuck under the ledge under water and getting pinned from the sheer force of water.
Watch some youtube of it with Taj, the power of it is incredible.
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Rosie doin interviews in the barrel.
Let Jaddy force Kanoa to take a set , get scraped , and do the jet ski lap of honor / shame around the lagoon ?
I just watched the update video on the wsl instagram, apparently long waits between the sets but if they can run a few heats today then it takes the pressure off them to run all day the next 2 days if the wind goes weird or something, otherwise they might have to run the final in onshore, or worse, wait for the next swell. By the looks of a few videos of the sets on instagram today, I think it’s not a bad call to run it if not too inconsistent.
I am convinced that they intentionally fail.
Surely they can just stream the free surfing today, all the setup is there. They could even play ads, I wouldn’t complain.
Should’ve been here last week.
Did you watch the trials? didn’t actually look that great. Or maybe just because it was filmed on a calculator.
Cinnamon! Cinnamon! Clean up on aisle 4!