Shark.
I know this has been discussed, both in the Open Thread and on Longtom’s Pulitzer-adjacent Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons presented by Hydro Flask contest wrap, but not as thorough, or specific, as I would like. So, what are your true feelings surrounding Kelly Slater’s stuffing John John Florence in the dying minute of that semifinal?
A fantastic flourish a la great showmen or cheap, funny, character revealing?
I’ll show my cards here.
I loved it.
Loved the implicit rage, loved John John’s shrug, loved Kelly enjoying a Backdoor just for the sake of enjoying it knowing that his Pipe Masters campaign had reached its end and that he might as well catch a wave that he enjoyed even though it fundamentally goes against every “rule” in our sort of surfing.
But I don’t want to influence your opinion, not that I hold myself highly enough to think I could, so what did you think?
High water mark of 2020/21 World Surf League season or low-ish water mark?
Tell me true.
Also, are you happy that Kelly Slater is my new shark or sad?
More as the story develops.
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Shark. – or shad
Kelly’s wave = barrel. New interference rule = Nah.
Chaz I DM’d you a screen grab of Kelly flipping John the bird after JJ pulled one off Kelly under his priority. Did anyone else catch this? Character revealing for sure.
Apparently some clever fellow bought up all the possible domain names that Washington might change their name to and Dan Snyder is the kind of asshole billionaire owner who would rather go without a team name then pay off some internet troll.
Barrel for Kelly stuffing 2J.
Nah for Kelly jumping the Shark.
The Inertia?
Haha, that’s funny!
Merry Christmas and I hope you get that Wiggoly Dantes jersey and the Stab premium membership I know are asking for.
No, what I’d really like is –‘world peace’, that would be just fine.
Thank you.
I’ll do my part and send Maurice a present that says “From Bex”.
Darth kali Slater
One must remember the words from the The Mahabharata
“A good man is not wholly good and a bad man is not wholly bad” unfortunately Kali is no man but a Goat Demi-god so this may not apply for this fire stealing deity who may one day , like Prometheus , be punished …. when his inter subjective entity fades from lack of believers ?
Merry Xmas Surfing Sinners and Grinners
Merry Christmas. May St Nick bring you some T Strand swell soon.
Waiting for the wind to blow from the Pole ? Come on Santa send us a swell …
merry Xmas C415 north .
You must be the most well read, non uni graduated surfer in the history of the ocean not named Ke11y or Longish Tom.
What an amazing dinner guest you must be.
Thanks Hip … I did go to uni for 3 years in France but just for the absolute fun and joy of knowledge and never to be duped , or have it be put over me by those cunts who for whatever reason , birthright or education or wealth , who think , they are a band apart or better than we …. the buck stops here …as a humanist , I am not worse or better than anyone else ! …. I usually annoy the shit out of dinner guests but …. when the party heats up I am a very talented dancer , joker and stand up philosopher while remaining empathetic, like our boy Jesus …. Merry Merry Men , Girls and not so sures are we at Xmas
I have a hippy gear myself when I decide to rise the flame on the party….. let it simmer early, then flair up.
We are all we are… nothing more nothing less easily forgotten by the sands of time.
Leave no footprints has always been my aesthetic. Funny how that works, both my work and surfing…. a moment in time, frozen in memory, yet wiped away clean as completed. Poetic and frustrating.
Beauty ,like our existence ,is ephemeral …..
One day a perfect sand point … the next a wobbly backwashed close out shorebreak … Surfing has helped me to embrace the beauty of the moment , the now , and at the same time to be a part of , rather than a warrior fighting and cursing , the seemingly infinite cycles of season and tide and moon ….. and time itself .
From our existence to a three second barrel, and everything in between: everything is just a heartbeat of the universe. Here, then gone, never to to return, always to be replaced.
That’s the spirit ….
“ Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying.”
Happy Holidays All. That was a great segue….
Hippy!!! This is one of his pieces.
I’ll post some garden pics of my place when the time arises. I
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Beautiful form and colours SB ….
I hope these are not Les Fleurs du Mal ( rider ) ? …..Giggles .
Baudelaire killing , the beauty static, …. forever
I have to google all your stuff JB….clueless me…
Anyway, thats HIPPYS arrangement.
I just asked him if it was ok to post, and he offered to get me some herbs at the shop…guess its ok to post then. IRL I dont know him, txt abit….we’ll meet someday but we are in same 10 miles or so.
Thanks SB … happy days
I have to google all your stuff JB….clueless me…
Anyway, thats HIPPYS arrangement.
I just asked him if it was ok to post, and he offered to get me some herbs at the shop…guess its ok to post then. IRL I dont know him, but we are in same 10 miles or so.
Impermanence and change are the only true constants.
We learn to live in THAT moment when it all comes together.
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Fuck you
Wsl YouTube intellectuals have come out to play ?
Cursing myself for being stupid enough to click on the link.
Merry x-mas Bicko
WHO FUCKING CARES?
Just because Slats says it’s a party wave does not make it so. Sounds like revisionist history to me. JJ doesn’t look like he’s very happy about it. Sme11y will take any opportunity to hog the spotlight, that’s a well-established fact.
I know my opinion is about as important as everyone else’s… meaning REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT, but as me NOT being a competitive person, If you’re the GOAT or pre-GOAT status, do whatever the hell suits you! If not getting that one last title means less to you than riding the majestic curls of a world-renown pipeline, then fuck all else!
Let’s call the site Kellygrit and give him a 51% stake.
K-watch.
And all the articles can be written in Thailand?
Cheaper paper and ink.
If he had done that to Andy when andy got that backdoor wave to win pipemasters and the title, what would the rules have stated? Would it have changed the outcome?
To me it shows a lack of respect. I don’t think John ever got a word in when Kelly was like “party wave brah, party wave…” all
This is one of Chas’ important articles as he states there will be more as this story develops (it won’t develop).
you are still talking about it so it has served its purpose.
Boys will be boys.
A bit of fun on his way out.
I’d have to watch again..would JJ have made it to the face?
Doesn’t look like it according to the picture here?
That was not a party wave, Slater rode it ‘alone’, no way your gonna stuff two guys into a four foot barrel. Slater burned JJ and JJ didn’t look too happy about it.
Digitally altered perhaps
Are there any eye witness reports ?
Maybe it didn’t even happen…
True. it may have been a deepfake
Stick it to them. Be the stubborn Goat.
Just noticed the QS 1000 Volcom Pipe pro vanished from the schedule. Rumor was true.
That’s an insane amount of events scheduled …. they’re fucken dreaming.
They should have wrote the contract in ( volcom ) stone ?