Stuff happens.
I often write “more as the story develops” at the bottom of my various pieces of surf journalism hoping beyond hope that something might. An extra bit of insight. Another angle. Someone clarifying. Oh, I never go searching for the “more” as that’s not how surf journalism works but this very morning more did develop concerning The Melee at Nazare and landed right on my keyboard.
What joy.
You’ll recall, two days ago, when all hell broke loose at Portugal’s most famous big wave. Rumors of fights and near fights in the lineup. Surfers jumping on other surfer’s ski drivers. Two men taking off on one wave and becoming very incensed. I did my best to get to the bottom of who was involved but lips were zipped and details sketchy.
Well, this morning it emerged those two men were Nic Von Rupp and João Guedes.
Von Rupp writes, via Instagram:
Shit happens, it’s the way you deal with it that matters! Dropping down this wave feeling @joaoguedessurfs board on my heels was one of the scariest moments out at Nazaré. No bad vibes here, Joao and myself are friends and glad we both are Ok after this. Watch the full #vonfroth episode link in my bio. This clip filmed by @maquinavoadora
Very cool. But how do you think the matter was dealt with?
More as the story develops.
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can’t get an incandescent light in the hardware anymore unless it is a special bulb for accent type shit. The LED’s are super cheap but our electric bills are super high, LOL.. I live in a pretty progressive state, but they won’t let clean energy come into the state because of tree cutting and the like. It is the ultimate in hypocrisy.. I guess we need more Nuclear so we can dump the waste in Alabama or something. save the trees, fuck the kids!! (trust me, I am a Brower acolyte and love the wild, think that we should save the wild forests and mountains, but where we live.. Pave the shit and build it up to keep us closer together/leave space outside.. sprawl sucks balls)
the most populated states feel disenfranchised by the system as the popular vote (of which they have a lot of those votes) would determine the president without the EC.
OK, I guess you don’t care about what he said about you!?
About who?
Bam! Old schooler! See how easy that is!? Mr VRupp was quick to dismiss. I dont think he has the right kind of friends around him, he needs a Scorn!
grasping at straws
That seems a bit harsh on the previous administration but is point taken.
I find Trump a vulgar, misogynistic, racist serial liar. His administration has done some positive things but for me his personal behaviour is disqualifying.
JFK
addicted to amphets
Serial womanizer
While on the job
Loved universally.
Get off your moral high horse
Dudley Doright.
people forget Mayor Daly in Chicago and JFK getting elected….
Haven’t seen that part of the country. On my list.
Ike I said,
Almost
But we’re used to that social security keeping our disenfranchised fed, clothed and housed, I never really thought about it but maybe it also keeps them away from extremism too. I always think we should raise it rather than take it away.
Guess we’ll just have to become a solar and wind energy exporter sooner rather than later.
Interesting fact for you, my great uncle was a very small part of the government that brought our welfare system into being.
How much speed did Joao get when he took the high line … and then when he got stuck in Von Rupp’s track
Crazy speed!
8 mins is too long for a video now unless it’s John or Dane or maybe Coffey. All teasing us getting all slutty with their sexy porn.
Yeah, not when towing Nazare.
If they actually fought it might make Von Rupp’s vlog watchable.
Hey Chas
A few days ago you told us that Kahlil had stopped following Kalani, but Kalani was still following Kahlil, and that you had a major groundbreaking exposé about their soap-opera you were going to reveal.
Has that story developed yet ?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Yes! More soon!
Did Rory Parker get elected?
Should I care so much? I have stuck with the idea of what America was in my mind, and I had hoped Trump was some kid of bizarre fluke, but half the country voted for him. Even if Biden wins I have lost my feeling of loving this country. I love Northern California, my friends and family that’s it. We are so divided and the white middle American fear is sad.
You’ve got everything yet its still not enuff to fill your hollow soul
ha.. that goes for both sides right? it is amazing how American’s complain so fucking much, when there is so much about it that is great. Look at the 35% Latino’s voting for Trump.. they want that sick job, that car, and that opportunity to provide for their family, they want to be able to cuss out the government without fear of getting arrested. American’s just don’t get it. I am a full on centrist, hate the two party system and think they are all fucking crooks. I love when they all piss in their Wheaties and cry.. Fuck if the Trumpies were winning they would be telling the left that Biden was a sore loser for challenging it all..
Except the Dems seem to accept the results if 2000, 2004 and 2016 are anything to go by.
16?4 years of lying to get him out
. Billions wasted on a witch hunt
You don’t have good or real opinions
Yes I do
Maybe a couple
there were some court cases involved in there though. And 2016 yes they did.
If I didn’t know how to think for myself I’d vote Dem
If I didn’t want to be cancelled, sacked or abused and attacked I’d say I vote Dem but I’d vote Rep
YOU dont get to vote for any of em. you are fucking australian. and south australian, the lowest of all australians. vote for downer’s daughter and shut the fuck up, you simpleton. so fukn dumb.
Triggered!!
hardly. just harsh truth for ya. american groupie. prob your dream to visit. 🙂
Don’t be embarrased
I get under a lotta skin
let me guess…you wanna go over and shoot guns with some ‘merican. you also have fantasies that because you’re ozzy people will assume you’re “bad ass”. told you. you simple. easy to figure out.
Now you can feel good, for the rest of the day.
I’m here to please!!
Stop pretending everything is OK. The socialists are destroying this country!!!!
He’s actually English pretending to be ozzy and dreaming of being a redneck American
Super confused.
Really mate … I don’t agree with just about anything Bex says … but I like his attitude and humour ….you, you’re just nasty
thanks, cunt
Haha, you’re all tip and no iceberg
cheers, billy!
This country did not used to be that way it is now. So much bad info being listened to by mainly the right. A president that is doing everything he can to cast doubt and distrust of the media and the election process, for his own selfish benefit. That’s not healthy or normal. it’s lazy to just accept it as the new America.
Yeah the Dems only took 4 years to stop crying about 16 and spent a trillion dollars on fake witch hunts and only then cause the election came up,
Have a little go at Biden.
The most shameful candidate in American history, a decrepit old fukwit that is barely up to remembering his own name.
Go on.
not lazy, man.. the left spouts biased shit all day long to fit their narrative. I read the NYT’s and other liberal media outlets every day and the wsj (best paper in the country) the lib media uses leading adjectives/adverbs and sentences that are completely biased throughout their progressive reporting. It is insane. The right just lies about bat crazy shit
In local news – your soulless mate Alan Jones has come out lying for Dump, again. If you believe his drivel we’re gonna have USAs problems before too long.
Jones: “Oh I don’t know where these mail in votes for Biden have came from”
100 Million Early Voters: cast ballots before election day
We’re lucky to have him.
Keeps things democratic
But spreading lies and disinformation is undemocratic to my mind.
Then your ABC Love seems misplaced
Seems only to those who like their news packaged into skewed bricks of disinformation by the Murdoch media empire.
Fair and balanced =fox
supporting a rock spider. classic. zero shame. sad.
He’s mates with your dad probly.
I’m buying a stuffed bald eagle, an AR 15, and a flag pin to fill that hole.
From that footage the fool that fell is at fault here. He clearly whips in behind NVR after NVR was already dropping down the face. I don’t tow and have no idea what the etiquette is but you’re pretty SOL if whip or drop in behind somebody.
Trump will boycott the Inaguration? Calling your opponent the “worst candidate in US history” then losing is humiliating no?
he won’t boycott he will show up. He will fool himself into being prideful, then he will say, “what a small crowd you have Joe, my crowd was much biggerly”
This seem possible.
l don’t love your disdain for democracy.
Still counting, Benito
Beats a monarchy like home though Bexy, right? Explains your unrivaled love for US politics.
We made you
Isn’t that everyone’s fear, that Dump wants to dismantle the democratic institutions by lying about the ballot and cheating through the courts and install himself (and his family) as a type of Fascist Dictatorship like Benito Mussolini?
How do equate disdain? MAGA landslide as you stated no?
I believe blue landslide was the prediction.
Or the lie
haha. racist who supports right-wing christian zealots is sad. 🙂
God bless your tiny brain
irony
Yes, and both equally incorrect. I do recall you predict Trump landslide, but perhaps this looking on Disqus in your timeline is incorrect?
Remove Covid
Landslide
You should celebrate Covid
That not what you said last week.
I say a lotta things
Nice try Bex. There no shame in having a position, admitting completely wrong is simple and honorable.
I think Biden win easily, you find quote in reply to Jen, I was wrong as were you. Life goes on.
I’ve blocked Jen See.
She’s too aggro
Jen seems a very pleasant, thoughtful well educated woman. I enjoy her writing. Plus she owns a red bikini which I imagine she looks quite nice in.
Is the MAGA landslide as predicted here imminent??
If maga is running off crying to a judge when shits not going your way, then yes.
Hell always be your President, forever.
Well maybe not yours but Hippys.
Dictatorship on the cards you reckon?
They’re all called president for the rest of their life.
Idi Amin also!
Also Obama Hussein
The two term President?
He almost cured climate change!!
Sadly increased racism
So you mean yes? I think you say Trump landslide?
so sad. you got nothing. what a loser. 🙂
Now we’re equals!!
gonna have to hustle to get on my level, bruh.
It’s a long way down there
literally and figuratively above you. 🙂
Depends on how you filter the comments
Not as crazy as this…https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image…
Is there going to be a helicopter moment like Nixon, when he finally realizes it’s over?
Looks like AZ about to drop for Biden, with PA shortly behind. GA still possible. Plus popular vote margin of 5 to 6% when it’s all over and done with. Fuck the Electoral College–only reason these are even close since Clinton.
Yea it’s some bullshit for sure. Just let the country vote and count them. Whoever get’s more votes wins. This thing is going to get dragged out for weeks. Dems have won the last seven of eight elections by popular vote going back to 1988
Fuck that.. I do not want to live in California, nor with Californians telling me what to do, or Floridians for that matter. I like a broken legislature.. slows the roll a little. even with a 4 million difference in vote, it is pretty much 50/50 so to speak
No worries, don’t even visit. Tired of getting stuck behind tourists driving fifteen miles an hour wondering where the “redwood tree is that you can drive through”
it fell over the day that the sierra club booted their Executive Director, David Brower, one of the bombs in saving the forests, mountains and rivers. Ironically, that amazing Ansel Adams photo of the aforementioned tree, is actually of Brower with the car at that tree. The next day the San Fran Chronicle Headline was “A Giant Has Fallen”… which Giant they were referencing is of debate to many.
but also, thanks. my point is. why should the whole country live the way 30 million in one state deem it to be the only way?
Electoral College is basically affirmative action for the flyover states.
Typical rich coastal cunt talk
hahaha. this. is. great.
I’ve always thought of states like Alabama and Missisispi as like having a slow kid in your class. They need extra help.
Wow
True colors!!
Lot of dumb crackers
Quick adjustment but not quick enuff, klan boy
haha
Anyone who bashes the electoral college doesn’t understand that most of the people in this country don’t share the same values as many of the coastal wackos. Not everyone believes that it should be legal to shit in the streets and steal from people who have more than them because they have worked harder. Most of the people who live in California are turning it into garbage. It is a great place that is being ruined by idiots. Sixty to eighty percent of graduating public school students in California read at a fifth grade level. Dumbasses! Social promotion baby! But don’t worry, the democrats will tax other people’s money so they can keep you fed.
All the people that are turning it into garbage are from other states that came here because of the new lax drug laws, which was a mistake. You can’t sleep on the streets in Minnesota, or wherever. Go the fuck back home everybody.
You’ve lured em right in….. It’s great when the trash takes itself out
Some sense finally!!
Haha, spoken like a true fool that went to Hollywood once on vacation and thinks that the whole state is like that. ‘Hey lookey there Ma, them fellers are wearin’ a dress.’
“…steal from people who have more than them because they have worked harder.” You mean like how the blue states support the poor red welfare states? Besides Texas across the board the ‘costal wackos’ kick waaay more into the economy than the red states. Look at the top 10 most federally dependent states
1 New Mexico
2 Kentucky
3 Mississippi
4 West Virginia
5 Montana
6 Alaska
7 South Carolina
8 Indiana
9 Arizona
10 Wyoming
Pathetic attempt to downplay CAs education. Notice anything in the top 10 least educated states?
1 Mississippi
2 West Virginia
3 Louisiana
4 Arkansas
5 Alabama
6 Kentucky
7 South Carolina
8 Nevada
9 New Mexico
10Tennessee
50 bucks he’s dead by Jan
Oh shit, don’t go there – he better not go to a state where Dump wants the counting stopped:
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Or Chicago anytime
ha
Is this offer only open to Derek. If not i`m in.
I would take that bet.
Send it over, Derek will hold it.
Pick a date.
2025
No.
Either way trump is on his way to jail. And I’m fine with kamala being pres. Joe’s given enough to this nation. Just saved it, actually.
None of that makes sense
As usual
Cry your MAGA tears bexy. It’s sweet nectar.
I know
Without me you’d feel nothing
I self pleasure to your comments.
Fire when ready.
I’d like to see Joe croak asap so Trump supporters can enjoy having a black woman pres.
Can you imagine the blowback after that though? If their retaliation for Obama was Trump, what kind of hell will they unleash as “payback” for Harris?
98% of surfers will back down from a fight due to a surfing infraction. It’s the other 2% that you have to watch out for. Odds are, nothing happened.
too much “positive vibe warrior”. we need some primal violence
I’m doing my bit. Yesterday, after an alright morning beachbreak, was riding home on the Kymco 150cc rustbucket scooter I inherited. Cruising at 80 clicks, (the speed limit), in the left hand tire track, about 30m behind the car in front. When I got driven past by a fucken Landcruiser, who didn’t even get into the opposite lane. I did what the 2% do; when I went passed him at the Coolum-Peregian roundabout, stared wildly into his eyes and flipped the bird with extreme prejudice.
If you see a red Landcuiser, rego plate 222-ZGA, feel free to do the same.
YES!
Publicly shame recklessly bad driving.
bad riding too
Love it.. squeeze a Lemon in the eye brother.. fuck the db.. did he have a sup on his roof or a Salt Life sticker on the back.
Nah, no stickers I can remember. Not even roof racks. I’m pretty sure he was feeling out in his place. As much as anyone on a scooter can look capable of putting anyone in their place.
Depends where you live
Great point. Those numbers are based on living and surfing in SoCal since I was a kid. However, the few times I saw surfers actually fight, it was usually the instigator who got whopped.
Here n Hawaii you could probably reverse those numbers.
It’s become rare to see a fight here though. Everyone knows jujitsu so better be careful who you start with
Not so much as an acai throw or a table jump?
I miss the old days..
Or not sharing their Tapas. Is that too much to ask?