"Don’t let anyone get you down or keep you from achieving your goals!"
And this is the end, beautiful friend, this is the end, my only friend, the end. With the cancelation of the Ok Pro Teahupo’o, we now have our official final five who will each be invited to the first-ever championship day, at Lower Trestles, wherein they fill fight to the death.*
On the women’s side we have: 1) Carissa Moore 2) Tatiana Weston-Webb 3) Sally Fitzgibbons 4) Stephanie Gilmore 5) Johanne Defay.
For the men: 1) Gabriel Medina 2) Italo Ferreira 3) Filipe Toledo 4) Conner Coffin 5) Morgan Cibilic.
Coffin’s run into the draw is particularly inspiring especially for the hardworking, under appreciated, work-a-day folk. A light blue collar hero like Bruce Springsteen before him but premium surf magazine Stab, still buckled under woke pressure, was frustrated by the turn, writing, “Connor Coffin fell short to Leo in the quarters but managed to smash his acoustic guitar into the back of Griffin Colapinto’s head. Connor got enough points this comp to take Griffin’s spot at Trestles, stripping him of the opportunity to win a world title at home. I’d love to share my feelings on this, but this less than appropriate YouTube comment does enough: ‘Connor winning lowers would be like a white guy dunking in the NBA.'”
Condemnation was swift with Coffin, long a BeachGrit favorite (listen here), taking to Instagram and writing,”Stab, thanks for your continued ‘premium’ journalism, you could spell my name right. It pissed me off for a few minutes, but then I thought about all of the times people have doubted me, said I wasn’t good enough, said I can’t do something that I wanted to do and how I’ve always channeled it and combined that with passion, hard work, and love to accomplish my goals. In posting this, I hope it encourages you guys to use negativity and spin it into a positive and don’t let anyone get you down or keep you from achieving your goals! Also, I’ve known @griffin_cola since he was a kid and I’m always happy to see people I know do well in life!!!!”
Jimmy Wilson added, “Most NBA players can dunk regardless of ethnicity. That’s just a dumb reference. You and Morgan both earned your way to Lowers.”
Fioravanti, who beat Coffin in the quarters at Barra de La Cruz, weighed in, “Great post bro. You work hard and deserve being there as much as anyone! Keep it up,” thereby opening a deluge of professional surfer support.
Jack Freestone: Powerful words. Fuel to your fire brother. Can’t wait to watch you go mad in the event.
Conner’s brother Parker Coffin: MVP OF THE LEAGUE WAS WHITE LAST YEAR! nobody deserves to be more than you… fuel the fire with it !!!! LETS GO!!!!!
Lakey Peterson: Smash em at lowers Con!!
Seth Moniz: Most deserved brother! Fuel the fire and prove them wrong once again
Sage Erickson: You deserve that spot 100% best rail game on tour by far.
Johanne Defay: So pretty to turn that into good words! Gréât Spirit, amazing surfer !! #letsgo
Joe Turpel: Proud of you Conner!!!
Etc.
Stab, with a mission of being accepted by, and allowed to tag along with, professional surfers is certainly tucked under its warm down comforter, spooning Rocky Road ice cream directly from tub to mouth while hot tears stream down red cheeks.
Sad.
*Achieving points by pleasing judges with a series of turns punctuated by an air reverse.
Concise. I consider myself now in your debt.
@way_outthere:disqus To clarify, i feel in debt to you provided your opinion is that @disqus_nEmZsdyY0S:disqus was not implying that white people can experience racism. Otherwise you can go fuck yourself.
Except that 2021 was clearly dominated by Medina and Italo, the only asterisk would be if anyone else ended up “winning” in their place. Conner-mom-and-daddy-are-loaded-Coffin and his power-surf-trust-funded-carves wouldn’t stand a chance without judges loving him with generously high scores. Of course judges are human beings and invitations by the Coffins to their Hollister Ranch private surf sessions orgies and to their humble Pipe house won’t hurt. Who would you rather please, tits shaving Medina, favela carrot top Italo or the millionaires (billionaires?) Coffins and their dreamlike lifestyle with hot pussy raining down and lobster BBQs ? I for one welcome our powerful California midget future WSL 21 world champion* overlord, a toast of the finest Champagne old chap!
.. If looking for contemporary American blue collar hero, surfing wrong sport to be looking at. I gotta say good for sycophants at stab for finally trying to have some kind of critical, albeit silly and poorly written, opinion about a pro. Now if they can get that little guy with the beard to stop weaseling clips of himself into pro milieu and following it up with disingenuous self deprecating comments, they might scratch they way out of the hole of failing news journals.. hey, if The NY Times can do it, why not
Thats the truth
I am little confused about the racist trope reference. If the implication that the comment about white guys dunking, as dumb as it may be, is somehow racist towards white people then you really are denigrating and trivialising racism experienced by people of colour. (White people don’t experience racism, the perpetrate it.) I hope that not to be the case @disqus_nEmZsdyY0S:disqus because you are better than that. Please correct me if I am wrong.
A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled labor. Like the guy that mows my lawns….
I had to google blue-collar.
Sacre Bleu? Suck Me Blue? French tongues are always slipping
Workingman’s Dead is about as blue collar as it gets.
Yeah there either lol
A Porsche 918 pulled up next to me the other day, maybe an exception.
fuckers at stab live in a constant identity crisis. BG should start producing their own video content and put these imbeciles to rest, for good
Problem is most of the corpos need constant dick sucking, if that were to happen BG would just end up being Stab 2.0. There must be a very small market for company’s that don’t mind their advertisers taking the absolute piss outta them.
I had it on pretty good authority that a certain action camera brand wanted to work with BG but couldn’t stomach the negativity and went with Stab.
What’s Stab?
If this has upset your apple cart wait till the ultimate surfers winners get wildcarded to intrude in the finals on the day!
Big brother style!!
Elo is all ready frothing at the stories to be told , there will be drama and tears !!
Sage is incorrect. Ethan has the best rail game.
In order, by chances, in my opinion…
Ítalo
Gabe with Morgs just below
Conner
Philip
And I hope Italo, Gabe and Conner hold back the joy and celebrations, because there’s nothing in this fucking year to celebrate. They are experienced athletes, they know that this year is totally fucked up by rules / important stages canceled / athletes dropping out etc… A broken schedule, a circuit broken into pieces…
And I also hope, more than anything, above all, that Fil, if he wins this shit, will keep his mouth shut after seeing these asterisks this year going to carry it.
Blue Collar? A complete lack of an air game doesn’t make you Blue collar, it makes you one dimensional with zero chance of advancing at Trestles. Bilbo Baggins has been been fluffed and feted around the globe his entire life. When Mummy and Daddy have a vacation home on the sand at Pipe you are disqualified from working man status.
The irony is his younger brother Parker is a far more dynamic surfer and actually has the repertoire to be a legitimate title threat.
I’m sure he’s a lovely human being but in the context of a world title showdown at Trestles in 2021 he’s a compete fucking waste of space.
Unless of course he’s finally going to bust out the secret move he and Gerr have “working” on for the last decade.
He just keeps on dropping in on you right?
His brother a title threat…LMAO
The dunking thing is a super weak reference.
But aside from that Conner is a dead on guy and I personally love his surfing.
Plus, I heard he’s been ramping up the WaveKi in an underground bunker and we’re finally going to see The Turn at Trestles.
lol “The Turn”
Thought it was The “secret” turn?
That’s my move
So secret no one has seen it happen
Surfing’s most tantalising myth!
Used to be Alanas nudes
Then I saw them hehe
Ringo narrated Thomas the Tank engine
GANGSTA
Slater’s egomania. Brazil’s competitive dominance. Hawaiians believing YouTube. Chaz’s boundless pettiness. In a chaotic world it’s nice to have some things you can count on.
“It’s not a movement, it’s just another fad
Like a cry for help in a world gone mad.”- Agent Orange
In Chas’ defense that piece of shit Porsche he purchased starts out at 80k brand new, used is significantly less