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What’s your favourite moment in Portuguese history?
Mine, and only because it’s the least remarked, is the Guerra Colonial Portuguesa, that lovely thirteen-year scrap (from 1961 to 1974) with its African colonies, Angola, Guinea-Bassau and Mozambique along with a little side-action on the Indian island of Goa.
The country even manufactured its own version of the famous Heckler & Koch G3A3 combat rifle, its soldiers enjoying carte balance to mow peasants, or terrorists as they saw fit.
Yesterday’s highlights included Gabriel Medina…
And, a loose-as-anything, Kelly Slater.
In today’s battles, in waves Surfline again calls “five-to-seven-feet”, although with a wind more favourable than yesterday, we’re treated to a few sparklers amid the tour’s detritus.
Examine.
MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal Men’s Elimination Round 2 Matchups:
HEAT 1: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Ricardo Christie (NZL) vs. Miguel Blanco (PRT)
HEAT 2: Seth Moniz (HAW) vs. Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA) vs. Crosby Colapinto (USA)
HEAT 3: Ryan Callinan (AUS) vs. Jesse Mendes (BRA) vs. Frederico Morais (PRT)
HEAT 4: Michel Bourez (FRA) vs. Ezekiel Lau (HAW) vs. Soli Bailey (AUS)
Once that’s cleared away we can get down to the biz of mowing through round three and then…then…to the sharp end of the contest.
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who won?
Holy Soli!
Heck yeah, best glass ever
Slats prefers da boat to da goat
Best not greatest
Karmic as called by Slats
Nice air Jack!…after that priority debacle!!
Great heat. Priority drama, surprise air, Kelly in the booth, Rosie with glasses
Yeah all going on!
Everyone asleep?
Rosie’s doing that Ronnie quiet yell emphasis thingy
But I dig her sexy librarian look
Italo’s first one seemed higher and more rad to me. Not sure if I seen it wrong, or Potz is right as usual.. Both sick but first was insane, plus had a turn at the start. What are they on?
Fully deserving of such a title. Good viewing
Then landing in the flats with no transition.. Heavy indeed!
Mendes again with a win. Shiiit this is turning out a surprising evening.
That was pretty sick there from Italo too..
Someone take me through the 9.87 that I missed…
Fully deserved I reckon
Fully inverted rotation about 2 feet above the lip of an overhead right out into the transition in the sweet spot on the foam where the lip meets the flats. Stuck it clean and rode straight out.
I’ve missed the last few heats, cunts keep getting sick at my work. From that description.. Gotta be Italo yeah?
Peterson Crisanto… I know. I was as surprised as you!
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Ok, so was it better than what Italo just did?
Yes
There were shades of Colapinto’s mental air at Haleiwa in 2016. It was rAd.
apparently its popular with millenials
Too bad they send them out in onshore slop at Supertubes when it’s offshore and barreling on the other side of the peninsula.
glad to see a stylish frontside air score higher than a rotation
Strider’s done that many in-water interviews he was holding onto Johnny Cabianca like he was going to drift away!
that was nuts.
But then Strider’s nuts, in a good way.
Through much pixilation I think I spotted Stridez rockin a bit of a vato vibe there?
Well he is from the hood,
Striderez Estevez holmes
hhhmmm…..not really. glassy point break then scrappy point break.