Much on the line!
The extended Thanksgiving weekend, in America, starting Wednesday night and extending through Sunday late is the sportingest time of the year with almost too much action, from college football to the pros, college basketball to the pros, and professional surfing.
Right now the women are in unruly Honolua Bay with much on the line.
World titles, Olympic berths, etc.
The swell is set to build through the day. “Pretty sizey fashion” according to Ron Blakey. Barton Lynch is currently advising the meditation in order to keep emotions in check.
Also, the men have just kicked off in burgeoning Sunset.
What does that mean?
I don’t know.
But shall we watch together and chat?
Who do you have?
What are your hopes?
And here (for Sunset)!
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Hooters, motorboating, skin tight lululemon yoga pants showing the moose knuckle.
Some of my favorite things in life.
Will Double John surf Pipe?
Are we about to crown her?
Caroline Marks for the Eddie.
that was a mean drop
Wesley dantes siiiick
Summer Macedo seems nice, awesome she’s from the West Side of Maui, but she has no business being in a World Championship Tour heat w/ Carissa.
she rips Lahaina Harbor! but hasn’t translated that to general aptitude
This is evolving into another great day! I’m such a QS fan right now.
I’m going to call it faultless.. Man i enjoyed that!
Check the Pipe forecast, Pretty solid Triple Crown possibly epic if the Pipe swells are west enough to wash the sand off from this north.
Meanwhile at Sunset, Ross W, Chris Cote and Wyatt McHale seem to have found the groove as a commentator combo.
So good to have Tyler back in the mix – good win
heavy heat, fun to watch.
Classy to go and talk to Lakey’s mum, and then Lakey. Good stuff.
5.8 for Billy well undercooked. Glad he got through.
Seems pretty weird that Lululemon is mainly a girls brand and they are sponsoring the Girls CT event, but… there ad is about a bunch of guys surfing jaws. Who are they Targeting? I would have thought clips of their female rider shredding would be way better or probably even thier target demographic working out. I dunno
They make tights for skinny wimpy effeminate men like Chas: https://www.lululemon.com.a…
Ha! We punch in at the same time…
Does being in the same [chat] room at the same time prove Chas is NOT Nick Dee?
Have you ever slipped into a pair of Lulus? I haven’t but dream…
Flakey Peterson.
Brutal. Shattered. I felt sorry for Lakey. Her last turn on her best wave was so sick.
Tyler ripping. Body/legs is/are much thinner but it makes her stance look really solid & accentuated.
Wade.
Power, timing, weight!
Fuck, I had a very big weekend. Double screening this shit and doing fuck all at work.
He’s pretty much gotta win, but you never know.
I’ll be there Dec 8 so look out! Yell at me if you see me. I’m supposed to write some things about Pipe but I’ll probably end up just surfing Sunset the whole time
Beach Grit needs to start a world-wide public petition to get Nick Carroll on the WSL commentary team and also get the ADL and Israel to lobby the WSL & US govt. Vote Nick Carroll 2020.
ha ha I’d only say four things a heat.
No. Winning Pipe Robbo will only have 13,320 points. Needs at least 22,000 WCT points to qualify.
I missed Jack Robbo. Very glad he won. He must make the final to qualify. Dropping his lowest result, he only has 11,930 points. If Robbo comes 4th he has 18,230 points (possible qualification). 5th only 17,230 points (impossible to qualify). If Robbo wins the comp, has 21,930 points. These guys are Robbo’s prey:
1. Jorgann Couzinet (current 10th qualifier) has 17,310 points and is out and can’t add to his total.
2. Barron (current 9th qualifier) is out for 17,600 point total.
3. Jake Marshall (current 8th qualifier) with 17,950 points appears out of the comp (maybe injured).
4. Connor OLeary (currently 7th qualifier) has 19,650 point but must make the quarters to improve his total. OLeary needs a semi to protect from a Robbo win.
6. Matthew McGillivray (currently 6th qualifier) won his last heat and now has at least 20,880 points. Needs to get thru his next heat to guarantee ahead of Robbo
7. Miggy Pupo (current 5th qualifier) is out for 21,000 total (looks safe to qualify). Robbo must win the comp to be ahead of Miggy.
Then there is Ethan Ewin another Aussie outside chance with 13,700 points from best four results therefore in a better position than Jack Robbo. Also Carlos Munoz, Nat Young, Stu Kennedy & Morgan Cibilic have more points than Jack Robbo.
Thanks for this.
Robbo showed consummate control, he was a big step up from Kolohe. As he must be if he gets onto the CT and wants to be a contender.
Today was the biggest hurdle for Jack. He seems to get in rhythm at sunset so I expect him to make finals and potentially win this thing tomorrow. His past sunset results he tends to start peaking towards the final rounds. Should be a good day viewing. Go Jack !
Ah I don’t have the hate on for Cote like half the commenters. He’s been really good at the HI QS’s, he doesn’t endlessly repeat stock phrases and he keeps a lot of space open for the color guys.
Go Jack btw!
WSL should have offered NC a gig as commentator. NC & Sam George are in every doco. NC has the rare breeding of an articulate upper class journo & aggro feral 1970s bred surf animal.
rosy looks 40 years old