A who's who of surf stars!
And we’ve been so busy discussing sharks and things that we haven’t caught up with Olympic surfing in quite some time. Are you still on the edge of your seats about who will qualify and for which country? You should be. Things are very tight after the just wrapped Tahiti Pro Teahupoo presented by Hurley.
As you well know, the top two surfers per country on the World Surf League Championship Tour rankings are invited to attend but they also must attend the 2019 or 2020 International Surfing Association World Pyramid Scheme Games, this year in Miyazaki, Japan. Very close to where the Olympics themselves will be.
Therefore, a who’s who of surfing celebrities will be participating including, but not limited to, Kelly Slater.
The greatest competitive surfer of all-time is currently number 10 in the world, behind Seth Moniz, John John Florence and Kolohe Andino. John John Florence is currently injured and will likely fall down the rankings… or will he? Kolohe Andino has not shown a stretch run gait yet in his career, Seth Moniz is too young to get a proper read on and then there’s Kelly Slater, surfing in his own pond next, surfing France, Portugal and Pipeline after that. All waves he can successfully weave assuming he doesn’t get cute like he did in Teahupoo.
So let’s say Team USA will be Kelly and John John.
Team Australia, as it stands now, will be Owen Wright and Julian Wilson
Team Brazil will be Filipe Toledo and Gabriel Medina
Team South Africa will be Jordy Smith and Michael February
Team Japan will be Kanoa Igarashi and Shinzo Abe
Team France will be Jeremy Flores and Yves St. Laurent
Team Portugal will be Pastel de Nata and Sopa de Pedra
Very exciting.
The World Pyramid Scheme Games kick off Sept. 7 and runs until Sept. 15.
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No, he can only hear the cries of all the dead animals.
Not to be forgotten is the fact that this Olympics stupidity was rammed thru via the force of personality of a Brazilian-La Jolla-based Reef sandals mogul. How could that high level thinking possibly go sideways ? Footwear millionaires are very stable geniuses. With any luck the crap Japan conditions will cause a generation of kids to give up on surfing. Thank you Fernando !
Bobby Biscotti, or Salvador Salami
Shinzo Abe’s backhand is not to be under-estimated.
“I know it’s wrong to say,
But turnabout’s fair play,
Always knew that you,
Were suffering a fool.”
And we have gone full circle!
I think he was just going off on one, which we are all entitled to do on occasion, especially if it’s a topic close to one’s sore points.
How about 3 strikes before judgement?
Just to be fair eh?
Fishy? You go outside, take some deep breaths, come back and make a joke about helmets M’kay?
Trying to watch The Round of 24 QS 10000 In Galicia .If someone knows someone at the WSL tell em it’s not working and I don’t want to watch Rnd 2 heat 23 AGAIN …. THANKS
see if they will take bets on the result.
Just wanted to watch the battle of the OZ kids Ciblic v Robinson v O’Brien . Liam lost but Banting just saved the day v Jesse Mendes .
could be a few secure qualification after this event. aside from that I am hoping for a pupo showdown in quarter 4.
Could get a beer sponsor ….. Sam Miguel … ? The beer you drink when your rooting for Pupos … ? Jaddy is probably in , Banting is getting close , and Deivid Silva looks dangerous …. ?
ribiero almost safe. Robinson is going to put himself in a good spot. O’brien is putting himself in the mix as well.
Morrisey taking the piss , I think ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
shit, check out the wall thickness.
I would call him Sir …. the big , even those with relatively small heads , don’t ARGUE ..
He’s right you know, about the dark history of phrenology.
It’s entirely debunked of course but a lot of oldy-times assholes used it to their own nasty bidness.
Just sayin’.
He ain’t your enemy.
You two need a beer and a kiss.
Here’s a rant – just drove 90 min to get home in time to watch the WSL shit show that promised to start 8 pm aedt…. 20 min later I’m still waiting ( the Spain QS 10 k point event),.nada . Wtf
Tried via fb – nada
Cunts
…was his version of abstract art-ed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Does anyone remember this film called The Point (?) about a kid with a round head in a land of the pointy heads ?
Rolling Stoned ?
Just spoke to Yves Saint Laurent on my Ouija Board and he’ll be definitely riding a Pyzel Ghost on the walls ( and possibly through the walls ) in Japan and will have CoCo No 5 caddying for him in the Chanel . Oh I do like those Chanel Bottoms….
Peruvian surfing article
“The ancient inhabitants of Peru were the first to ride the waves, in narrow reed vessels known as caballitos de totora (little reed horses), a world away from today’s fibreglass boards”
https://www.theguardian.com…
Hello Olympic Gritters
This little piece was penned by Pindar to celebrate the win of a racehorse at the original Olympics about 500 years before Jesus rode the wave pool on the Sea of Galilee …… Pondering ? ……sounds like an apt name for surfing in a pool ?
“But if, my heart, you wish to sing of contests, look no further for any star warmer than the sun, shining by day through the lonely sky, and let us not proclaim any contest greater than Olympia….” . Thinking that some of our more creative chaps could throw their hand into the rings to step up and Slam for Zeus ….
Going to keep an eye on the proceedings as the second best surfer in my club , ELOUERA BOARDRIDERS CLUB , an Italian / Australian / Canadian , with the very Scottish name Shane Campbell ,will be teaming up with Pete Devries and Cody Young and others for Team Canada . Go Shambles !
https://csasurfcanada.org/s…
Team Italy will be Papa Giuseppe and Mario Vincenzo.
Franky Fettuccini, and Louie Linguini.
Team France for the rather over-priced tres chic win!
CB you know they also have el cheapo supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl for the common people / surfers who spent more time surfing next to the channel than shopping at Chanel ?
“Of course” (imagine a French accent)
But the team rider posted above was too good to be true!
Now if only YSL made Board Bags instead of Hand Bags Darling CB , that would be absolutely DEVINE !
So funny cuz the article I sent in last night contained more or less that sentiment.
Can’t wait to read it . Enjoy the weekend …. hope spring has sprung in Newy ?
Yup. Heat’s just hitting this afternoon. Flowers are blooming. Junkies shrieking. Magpies worse than sharks.
The Warbling Magpie is high up on the surfing pecking order …. ?
Eye see wot you done der.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Eye see … oops
I work with Chinese alof and one bloke took a photo of some ysl boards in a ysl shop in Shanghai last year with a text saying something along the lines of “I bet you wish you could afford these beauties for the quiv instead of the shit your riding currently”
Dominican Brothers where art thou . Light the bonfire of the Vanities …. ?
It need to be a pretty big fire to cleanse that town
Ok, so you know about phrenology and you dont think it was important? That’s a bad look my guy.
For anyone interested: it was a big part of scientific racism which was used to justify white supremacy. Think actual scientists publishing reports using skull sizes to justify whites being more evolved. And the whole country just kinda went along with it so they could do some slavin’ and segregatin’! I’m not discounting modern science at all with this. I’m fully vaxed and am terrified of climate change. I’m pointing out that a giant group of people willingly went along with obvious bullshit so they could profit and maintain power. Check out the wiki above too for even more info on how racist society was.
Another example (not US history but still white supremacist): I’m sure every Californian here under the age of 35 had to do a California Mission project. I learned about how great the missions were for the indigenous people in class when I did mine. Now I know that they were essentially slave compounds. Here’s a link from a reputable source:
https://sandiegohistory.org…
US history books continually ignore or totally misrepresent the plight of people with higher concentrations of melanin and it upholds the white supremacist power structure of the United States by making us look not that bad when really everything was fucked.
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