Happy Hawaiian scoops up title five.
The Hawaiian Olympic gold medallist Carissa Moore has won her fifth world title after wasting American-Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb in good enough three-to-five foot waves at Lower Trestles, a short electric bike ride from San Clemente.
The just-turned twenty nine year old Moore raced her Cadillac Mayhems along the smooth walls with the frenetic energy of a man whose nostril hairs are frosted with coke.
With three heats in the offing, Moore needed all three of ‘em to despatch the ethereal and angelic looking Weston-Webb.
Tatiana, the world number two coming into Finals Day, beat Australian Sally Fitzgibbons to occupy the surf-off for the world title.
Described by the WSL commentator Chris Cote as “one of the most high-performance surfers on the planet” and riding “the most high-performance wave in the world”, Weston-Webb was unable to match the electric Moore.
Johanne Defay and Stephanie Gilmore filled the final two spots.
“Number five sounds good!” hooted Carissa.
Finals Day analysis coming shortly.
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3-5 feet? Try – 6-10 feet.Geez,some people think double overhead is five feet.Maybe if you are ,” Bigfoot”.
Here are parts of the 2011 US Open Junior final at Huntington with Filipe against John John, Connor and Kolohe – Kelly mentioned it during the heat between Filipe and Italo: https://youtu.be/vXKgwFwARbM
Sorry that video is completely useless to see Filipe surfing back then. This one’s much better: https://youtu.be/ZzRsKqaTOQI
Excellent report Steve. I was going to stay up and watch it live but the household device turned out to have a flat battery, so I slept through and watched the replays this morning. So good to see Gabriel and Filipe in the final, and to see so much of Filipe’s beautiful surfing, so fluid and radical and rich. A thrilling and memorable event.
That’s a sweet wok they got for a trophy.
3 to 5 Derek – have you moved from Bondi to the North Shore?
I concur on the 3-5, maybe the odd 6.
I still can’t get over what a cunt Slades was to turpel. He was a cunt in general but some of that conversation steering and name dropping was desperate feeling.
Whenever Kelly talks Jurpel pretty much just shuts up that free flowing garbage that dribbles on n on, battering the senses into mind numbing submission. For that I’m grateful …
I thought it was Kelly’s finest hour.
Stamping his authority on those other lemons whether he was right or not.
I especially liked the way he can see into the future, his shark breaching tales, and that Gabe’s missed air was so big it could’ve over a truck on the highway (hundreds of yards away), when Mick had said it only went over a house.
Kelly is unbeatable, at anything, including exaggeration.
P.S.
Turdpile is a twit who deserves everything thrown at him…
I’ll agree I’m not even a turdpull fan, and it was kind of funny how he did shut the fuck up, it was very kids in the sandbox.
As someone a bit older I never liked Kelly.
Till the last few years when he started to turn old and grumpy.
He’s taken to it quite well I think, and will no doubt now surpass us older blokes at that too before long.
And for that, I take my hat off to him.
Fuck, I’ve just written this up and forgot about the house/truck counter!
Classic.
Balls McLongdick = Mrs. Joe Turpel?
Nope still got a set of balls last time I checked.
it was pretty good I have to admit
4000+ comments over 7 hours. We all deserve an ELo badge.
my fare rather in cash pls…
We’re like the no fly list of surfing, we’re known but for the wrong reasons.
But with an asterisk!
Three to five foot waves? It wasn’t Pipe by any means but it was at least five to ten for their match today.
The slopey bit out the front doesn’t count, just the steep bit, cos that corresponds to the swell.
Oh you guys are basically calling it Hawaiian-style.
No
Just not kalling karlsbad kiddy style
5 to 10! You are fucking joking right? Where’d you grow up, on the Dead Sea?
Hey no one disputed the commentators and them calling it ‘overhead’. Or ‘biggest day at Trestles in months’. Overhead is not 3 to 5 unless you say ‘3 to 5 hawaiian’- that’s fine. Surf report said 6 to 10 feet yesterday at Trestles. I think a lot of surfers have adapted the Hawaiian system whether they they call it that or not. And I spent my teenage years in South Florida, so…….close.
I hate to break it to you, but a lot of people were calling bullshit on the overhead claims. I myself certainly did. And since when are the words of a commentator correlated with authenticity. I mean Joe isn’t exactly salt of the earth is he. Those clowns will tell you your fart bubbles in the tub are overhead to manufacture any sense of hype. It’s their job to reel in kooks and sell them gold plated boxes of Stockholm Syndrome by the dozen. No doubt that shit is selling like hotcakes after the Olympics campaign. I mean, these guys aren’t even surfers, they are “athletes” right?