A hit?
Two short weeks ago the surf world was set on fire as Justine Dupont exploded in anger at the World Surf League. The Frenchwoman had been up for cbdMD XXL Biggest Wave Award though lost to Brazilian Maya Gabeira in an approximate game of centimeters.
She took to Instagram immediately, sharing her thoughts on the process:
The @wsl announced that the record for the biggest wave surfed would be awarded to a surfer who does not finish her wave. I decided to smile about it even though I am deeply hurt to be subjected to a decision that I believe is totally unfairI’m especially disappointed and ashamed of this league which claims to represent our sport
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They are based on a report from scientists who use the word “approximate” in front of each of their statements. It is stipulated among other things that:
-The size of the 2 surfer girls is approximately identical: FALSE (at + or – 10cm)
-Our two waves are approximately the same distance from the photographer: FALSE these are 2 different peaks on the biggest beach break in the world.
-They define the bottom of the wave of my competitor about 2m below where the lip of the wave breaks.
-Images of the other surfer were used after the publication deadline.
Then withdrew, as a form of protest, from the upcoming French Rendezvous of Surfing.
The World Surf League’s dubious decision to award an unfinished ride when all other things are relatively equal was confusing, at the time, but clearer today as the mainstream media appears to be embracing the “Brazilian bombshell beating the boys.”
Per the Fox News story “Meet the Brazilian Bombshell Beating the Boys in Big Waves.”
It’s official. Maya Gabeira’s 73.5-foot monster wave at Nazare wasn’t just the biggest ever surfed by a woman, it was also the largest wave surfed by anyone — man or woman — in the world this year.
In the crowning moment of an incredible career, the 33-year-old Brazilian charged down the face of a giant wall of water at the same beach in Portugal where she nearly drowned in 2013.
“If there’s one thing I’ll never forget about this wave, it’s the noise it made when it broke behind me,” Gabeira said. “It was scary.”
“Brazilian Bombshell” + “Big Waves” = A clear marketing win for the beleaguered World Surf League which has rumbled through a series of gaffs since Coronavirus pulled the plug on competition. CEO Erik Logan, who had come from the Oprah Winfrey Network and styled himself as a “storyteller,” was only able to mimic already-out-of-date YouTube unboxing videos and maybe something else embarrassing that nobody watched.
With Kelly Slater eyeing television roles and Kanoa Igarshi being poorly re-branded, Santa Monica’s cupboard was entirely bare.
“Brazilian Bombshell” + “Beating Boys” = legs for days and let us keep our eye on this development. Let’s wonder if CEO Erik Logan rumbled into a hit.
A smash as fabulous as Baz Luhrmann x Brazilian Bombshell Gisele Bündchen + Chanel No. 5 – Justine Dupont.
Fun fact, once upon a time her dad kidnapped the US ambassador. For realz.
Aspire?!? Congrats you’re already there.
There is no finish line.
Trump is to dickheadedness what Laird and Maya are to big waves.
He’s set the bar so high, it’s almost impossible to attain.
And yet I strive.
I’m going to give you a break to strive away to your heart’s content.
Your inability to hold a conversation without deleting your views is lazy and to be frank. Ball-less.
That’s Haggis Breath deleting all those comments.
Since when is he an admin?
Shouldn’t give power to people like that.
They’ll abuse it and turn against their masters and their betters.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I think that’s all still there
Vulgarly Onanistic Never Righteous.
well I did say “possibly”
Laura just said I cracked up Greg with my DB Cooper/Murph the Surf comparison.
My life is complete. I cracked up Da Bull.
Hey come to think of it, TVC was on that Tonga trip in which I claim I witnessed RKS doing a duck dive take off.
Can you run that by him?
I think he was out the back when it happened and might have missed it.
Holy shit your brother could surf.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen quicker reflexes on a surfer, ever – maybe Kelly, but different.
Kelly and Tom in hollow lefts at K_______
Two best surfers in the world at the time.
Greatest show on earth.
Yes well now he’s taken up foiling so I’ve cut him out of my will.
Oh be nice.
He’s just a human being doing the best he can.
Be honest: What’s the best, most mind-bending thing you ever saw him do?
In Tonga he would take off super late, skitter down the face all akimbo headed for a wipeout, but as soon as he set an edge, it would all come together and it was like he was shot out of a cannon.
Pretty cool to watch.
By far the best and most courageous thing I ever saw my brother do was accept full and unconditional ongoing responsibility for the damage his drug addiction and associated behaviours did to his family and many other relationships over decades.
People get strung out over surfing, they tie themselves in knots over its supposed moralities and wig out over the WSL, the terrible Industry, blah blah blah, but it is as fucking nothing to stuff like walking through that valley, let alone with the unheralded dignity he showed.
Well said
What a hero
Total hero. Acted like a cunt for years, finally realised. Modern society’s hero.
I bet he’s still one
No doubt
Who you gonna give all them old quiksilver clothes to, now?
Stop telling porkies Ben or we might start thinking Kelly and Laird are really not your friends
I am retired from ESO/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Pensjonert ??!? !!?
Kjedelig.
Du er klar over at Beachgrit.com har en aldersgrense?
Du kjente ikke tilfeldigvis Joseph Wampler, gjorde du?
En astronom.
My friend David’s father.
Bahahahaha! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Brazilians pronounce Giselle’s last name “Bean-chee.”
She’s from Porto Allegre which Brazilians pronounce like “Poor-toe Leg-gray”
Years ago, she and the Champ – I call Kelly The Champ – were hanging out on the beach at Waimea.
Brown and browner.
Red bikini if I remember right.
On Giselle.
If I ever meet her, I want to ask her how much she freaked out when the Patriots came back to beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl.
That was kind of like Andy coming back to beat Kelly at that one Pipe Masters – where ST dumped a Coke on my brand new Macbook in the VIP area.
Because that’s where some people get to sit – if they qualify.
Andy beat Kelly fair and square and kinda did the impossible, but so did the Patriots in that game.
Patriots were down 28-3 in the third and it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_j8W-SDefU
I was watching it at Snappers (RIP) in Waikiki.
(The place closed after the owner was accused of sexual harassment. It all did seem kind of sketchy.)
It’s a Cheesehead bar but it was full of Falcons fans that day.
They were all counting their money and calling their bookies, but I said, “I don’t know man, I’m getting that Joe Feeling.“
As in Joe Montana, as in how he would regularly get behind the 8 Ball back in the day, and then pull off the impossible.
I remember exactly where I was when Dwight Clark made The Catch – Rivermouth was firing, and I was torn between the game and the waves.
I stuck around long enough to hear The Catch – January 10, 1982 – and then ran down to the Rivermouth.
This wasn’t the megasandbar year, but the year before.
Brady admires Joe Montana and he did get that Joe Feeling and he came back and did the impossible.
Without Gronk!
Bean-chee was probably making more noise than all of Maracana as that was going down.
I’ll ask her if I ever meet her at a party or something.
Some people get invited to parties.
Repeating yourself again? Does the memory start over with each lap around the tank?
Brown and Browner ?
What year is this ?
1790 ?
Well Kelly is part Syrian and gets in the sun a lot so he is very tan/brown and even though Giselle is from southern Brazil which tends to be more northern European, she tans well and so she was very brown so it was brown and browner.
1790? What happened in 1790: “President George Washington delivers the first “State of the Union Address” on January 8, 1790. Benjamin Franklin dies on April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia, PA.”
That’s white and whiter.
Take your meds Ben. Take your meds Ben.
(I assume we are back to that repeat yourself thing as you have posted this before. Originality is key, typically you are pretty original but this is recycled trash)
DuPont excelled in the explosive ordnance industry. Perhaps it’s in her genes?
Are you sure that lanolin was on your hands? Being that we are talking sheep and all.
Ah Doctor Jen , you clever girl , you not make mistake ….
Well it certainly fucks up the flow of reading the comments. Makes no fucking sense now.
Restraint in the use of vulgarity – like proper spelling and grammar – are also what distinguish us from the Mongol races.
Dingus Kahn – my mom called him Dingus – had a mouth like a chimney sweep.
Vulgar. So very vulgar.
Perhaps you could practice some restraint?
Joiny, this character is out of control!
J(oiny), this character is out of control!
(J) this (oin) character is (Y) out of control!
And why are all your posts deleted?
Ben deletes his posts when he has brief waves of sanity, reads them, and recognises that he not only sounds like a mental dickhead, but that he’s been intellectually outgunned.
Unfortunately this self-awareness never lasts.
Intellectually outgunned?
By Haggis Breath?
The biggest hipster wannabe writer in the history of the world?
Not.
Is that why the edited note always appears on your posts?
And, quick reminder for you, the topic is you labelling yourself as not “wise”.
Why would anyone listen to you for investment advice?
Not really
Deflecting the topic Ben?
Lame that you use the word lame.
This comment is so LOL (lots of lame)
Fuck! I hate it when he deletes all his posts
It’s rather cowardly, isn’t it?
I dunno about that, it’s more the feeling of missing out on something possibly unintentionally super hilarious
I have no issue with reposting the comments Ben has deleted if they were of any interest or amusing.
Unfortunately it’s just Ben realising he’s coming across like a dickhead and culling them.