We could all learn so much. Some of us more than others.
The professional surf watching community was left in various stages of stunned outrage, yesterday, when five judges sitting in a booth overlooking Narrabeen’s wobbly lefts and rights deemed World Champion Italo Ferreira’s fabulous full rotation air in the dying minutes of his heat against Connor Coffin to be incomplete.
Per the great Longtom’s assessment, “My main beef with the panel goes back earlier in the heat to a left that Italo surfed that should have been at least a point and half or two better than Connor’s scoring waves. That critical underscore fucked the correct unfolding of the back third of the heat. Italo was flayed and cooked either way. The best guy did not win. He knew it, we knew it, the whole beach knew it.”
Ferreira, in a display of passionate emotion, stomped his board in half.
Hours ago he responded in a statement, posted to Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CN1lO-wBCyM/
“Isso desmotiva qualquer um, só que eu não! Eu ligo o foda-se e vou pra próxima. Obrigado pelo carinho” which translates (via the translation button) as “This offends anyone, except me! I’ll turn the fuck on and move on to the next one. Thank you for caring.”
I assume the correct translation would actually be “This offends everyone except me…” but you get the picture.
The high road.
That beautiful high road.
An object lesson for all of us, how wonderful it is to let go, move on, be gracious.
We could all learn much.
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Veni,Vidi,Bitchi
CC outsurfed by IF
This demotivates anybody, although not I! I switch on the “fuck it” and move on to the next one! Thank you for all your kindness.
P.S: what I really wanna know is the whereabouts of Ellen De Generis.
It translated to this would hurt you, but not me….
Such an arrogant posture! Who is he to say that I would be hurt?
I’m probably not the first to point this out…But it sure helps to have a Rip Curl sticker on your board when they’re sponsoring the entire tour. Might as well give Gabby the title right now. And it also looks like they’ll push Connor into the top 5 so it won’t be all Brazzos in the finale at Lowers. Or maybe they’ll try to rig an all Rip Curl top 5?…Gabby, Morgan Cibilic, Connor, Owen Wright and Crosby Colapinto.
Pro surfing is stupid…
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CRY IS FREE
Yall need to get your translations together. he said: this is demotivating to everyone, but me.
You are correct.
Not sure….Otto’s pretty smart, maybe he can think of something.
What a kook I am! I thought all the hub ub was regarding the HUGE air backside rotor Italo did at like the 4 minute mark, not knowing there was another (not as high) rotor (I feel like an even greater kook for typing ‘rotor’) later in the heat (I’ve been mainly watching the heat analyzer. Muted I’ll note so as to save my brain from being ‘Turpeled’….kinda like wearing a helmet.) That one was definitely debatable. As someone else mentioned, Italo should have just claimed it and jumped off his board before white wash gobbled him.
Moved from Brasil a long ago, but pretty sure “…Eu ligo o foda-se e vou pra próxima…” means something like “… I turn the fuck you [mode] on and move on…”.
Even higher!
I was just kidding of course.
Robbed!!
And just like that, Italo became Medina
I bet they’ll grind it out today in even worse conditions so they can pack up their stuff and go to Margs. Is this the future of the tour? There are closeouts all over the world in big cities to run events, Back to the eighties.
It’s Minimalism man. It’s art.
The world tour this year.
https://www.bauhaus-dessau….
Sounds great to me, but know to some around these parts it could be deemed racist and maybe even sexist; has the scent of the patriarchy.
Let ’em complain.
Not sure if having a bit of a tantrum then assuming the whole world is on your side is taking the high road.
In my personal economy it is!
Ha! fair play to you Chas. I dare say a bit of arrogance can help a man on his way sometimes. By the way my girlfriend bought me Welcome to Paradise… for Christmas and I loved it – read it cover to cover in under two days (which for me is frankly amazing). I think I fit your illiterate target audience to a tee.
Oh man… thank you. And illiterate readers are so underserved!
We can all do turns – but we cannot rotate in the air and land on the board. We just can’t. So someone please explain how the fuck a turn could ever score higher than a rotating air? Should the impossible not beat the possible every single time?
We can all do turns, but some do the turns much better than others. What if someone like Italo started surfing switch. Should he be scored way higher because of that? What if someone could do kick flips consistently, should that be scored because it’s really hard? What if Italo could be going down the line then do a back flip, land on his board and keep going. A certain 10 yes? No. Certain turns (the ones done by Morgan Cibolec for example) will always score as they should. By the way, I do think Italo was totally robbed, just arguing the idea that, for example, a flat low height rotated air should always score higher than turns.
If someone knits a sweater while riding on the wave they should get a 10 no matter how ugly the sweater is.
9.5 minimum for sure.
We would have adjust the scale if knitting a yellow Bennie, no? That would a 12.
Although it’s always a good idea to “let go, move on, be gracious”, PLEASE do not do so when it comes to Ashole. Please!
Oh you don’t worry about me. I ain’t no gracious champ. I’m a toxic surf journalist!
Good boy Italo. Bottle that rage. Save it. Cherish it. Unleash it next comp.
World Shame League is right