We need The Match.
The Michelob Ultra PURE GOLD Haleiwa Challenger, stop one of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing presented by Monster Energy, is on hold for the second day giving us all a chance to pause, to reflect on a seemingly rehabilitated, rejuvenated, re-inspired John John Florence in association with Florence Marine X and also Monster Energy.
A near perfect score in his heat, the highest heat total of the day.
Imagine with me now that the North Shore’s second favorite son (following Jamie O’Brien) is all the way back. Engaged. Head in the game. Will he be able to pause the inevitability of the World Surf League Championship Tour trophy swapping back and forth from Gabriel Medina’s Brazilian mansion to Italo Ferreira’s Brazilian mansion for the next decade-plus?
Or have the Stormers put enough distance between themselves and Florence to keep professional surfing green and gold forever?
As much as I enjoy watching Ferreira surf, enjoy observing his stoke-ed, the best rivalry the WSL has is Florence vs. Medina and, to be honest, I do not for the life of me understand why a separate three stop tour, say Pipeline, J-Bay, _____, isn’t instantly conjured pitting only the two of them against each other.
Best two out of three.
Do you follow golf?
I don’t but followed The Match between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau because rivalry is interesting and rivalry is fun.
The World Surf League acting like heat formats, tour structures etc. were etched in stone tablets atop Mount Barney by Rabbit Bartholomew himself, inspired, then brought down to the masses is ridiculous.
Pit Florence against Medina.
The People™ demand.
5 mil US so about 7 mill Aus. That’s fuckin cheap. A house in my street in Miami just went for $2.4m. No water, no view, 670m2 block, just a normal suburban street about a km from the beach.
Miami, Florida? Or Miami, just up the road from Burleigh?
Yeah burleigh
In the postgame show Strider tried to compare the Momentum generation with the current San Clemente crew, with Kolohe leading the charge, Ross had a hard time keeping a straight face and said nothing hoping Kaipo would start talking, classic.
Hahaha classic
Really ?
Cripes
Kinda goes to show what a wally Wossy Williams weally is in that case.
Surely he should’ve told Stwidey (obviously in polite gentlemanly terms, so as not to get offside with his wOsl bosses) to shut the fuck up and piss off back to Malibu and sell some rich people more real estate with his wife…
Strain level 69
John just has this looseness, and approach, that I think separates him from the others.
If he’s 100% , he’s gonna be da guy.
I only watch golf when I have a standing wank
You might want to relax your grip a bit there. Sounds like you’re choking the shaft.
Too strong a grip will give you a hook. Too weak, you’ll slice the fucker. Careful
The People may want hardcore surf action, but that ain’t the WSL’s ideal audience. They want a Valtopia of safe content and social media engagement.
If I never see JOB surf pipeline or any other wave for that matter on a soft top again it will be too soon. Same goes for you pineapple head.
novelty surfing, or novelty anything blows
I happened to look at Italo’s Insta today.
Totally lost the plot. He looks like a fucking caricature.
Yes, more Red Bull than human
A cariciature which accentuates the best parts no?
Like what?
Dose well defined obliques for one, in HD!
Each to their own!
Yes i must have seen the same as you, at the football stadium. Not wearing any surfwear, doesn’t even look like a surfer. Is that a bad thing? Def not Kay Lenny.
Scrolled down a bit, seems like he’s making some coin n having a good time, all this on his ability to ride some waves every now and then. Playing the rockstar card on social media, just like Tony Alva would have done nowadays. Will probably age well, depending on how much cocaine will hover around him. Good game plan.
On your recommendation I just looked at his insta-thing.
Good on him for not looking like a surfie slave in surfie wear.
His image at the football is far preferable to the surfie caricature that the usual pro surfies get made into by their surfiewear bosses.
The black jeans and boots suits him in a way that it wouldn’t suit JJF or Meds.
Now he just needs to add a glammed up biker jacket.
Mid/late ’80’s Hutchence crossed with Bowser from Sha Na Na…hahaha
“Why do you dress like that?”
Bowser: “‘Cause these are our clothes.”
The WSL HQ will most definitely need 2 more fully stocked Michelob PURE GOLD mini-fridges to conjure the idea. Maybe 3.
You’re all going to die from Omiwuflu, so what does it matter!? Also, why are White people and foreigners on stolen land? If you’re not 100% Polynesian, you probs should be bailing! So many mixed messages coming out of “Da Islands” these days. MF’s can’t make up their minds what they want to scream at the sky about. Hawaii will be one of my favorites when the Civil War starts. Nobody knows who is who. LOL
All you need is a black friends badge like I have to complete the aura! As for dying I refuse to die until we have moved beyond the greek namings and into some truly bizarre naming sequence for the next variants…North Shore here I come with my Mick Fanning soft top and Laird’s cologne to smell fresh for the local hotties
Not a whole lot of woke bs in Hawaii at least compared to America. The same processes of acceptance still reign. Definitely a lot of white people complaining about other more recent and wealthier whites moving in though ironically.
Do italo and gaby even whoop?
I bet not. That’s why money on John. He has a personal digital fitness and health coach.
After yesterdays Trini & Tobago gaffe your Credibility Recovery is in the toilet. No coming back from there, Chas m’boy.
Please tell us more about this digital fitness that is proven to motivate and make me a better athlete. Make sure you use the words “i use this” and “game changer”
Hopefully not. They don’t need to. Actually, nobody needs to.