On-fire rookie surfer Callum Robson ratcheted into silence by Brazilian champ.
The world’s best surfer in waves three feet and under, Filipe Toledo, has confirmed his reputation, whistling the wrench down on the head of Australian rookie Callum Robson in a dying three-foot swell at Bells Beach.
The just-turned twenty seven year old from Brazil now leads the world tour, snatching the number one slot, and the right to compete in a yellow coloured nylon jersey, from Japan’s Kanoa Igarashi.
Toledo growled velocity throughout the events, his Sharp Eye surfboard flashing fire, his frontside turns better than anything seen at the Bells Beach contest in its storied history, comparable, even, to the backhand work of Mark Occhilupo in the 1997 Super Skins event.
Australian rookie Callum Robson, meanwhile, utilised a heavy back foot to cut a swathe through the field, although unable to beat Toledo in their death duel.
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Correction:
Former Yellow Jersey wearer, Konoa Igarashi is Calijapafornian.
And…
Current Yellow Jersey wearer, Felipe Toledo is Calibrazzifornian.
So…
The Bi-California storm is up-onnit…
Including Heterofornians: Griff, Kolohe, Nat, Jake, and Connor.
Yep. West is Best.
And i quote: “Italo was eventually escorted away, but we were no closer to working out what his point was. There’d been no travesty of justice. Italo had surfed an underwhelming heat. He’d fallen on his first two waves, and his usually electric backhand was well down on voltage, as it’s been all year. He and Jack Robbo traded sixes and sevens, and when the dust settled Jack had won.”
Pathetic.. Filipe would have burned robson in 1 ir 10 ft waves… Though is not solved with a stupid mid season cut. Gonna stop watching this Wannabe tennis tour
Haha point taken! A case of mistaken ruminants. David attenbourough would chop my nuts in four for that one.
Felipe Toledo outsurfed every other surfer in the men’s draw of the competition, including an in-form John John Florence – he deserved to win.
Nothing about Tyler. Thank you.
Her post heat interview was bizarre to say the least….imagine if one of the guys said during his post heat interview that when his heart rate increases his nuts cramp up?
You mean Blue Balls™️?
No-one is able to measure waves properly, Hawaii standard on one end, Surfline at the other end. Its all a bit nonsense.
Final day looked small, but how small was yesterday or the day before? Filipe was in overall dominance.
Surf line is calling it an historic victory in 6 to 8 foot power surf!
Nick Carroll will report how amazing it all was shortly.
Sitting back watching the day unfold, seeing Toledo spin and twirl and flip away, I couldn’t help but think, who really gives a single fuck, except grouchy couch commentators like me and you, if Felipe ain’t a certified charger?
So he ain’t packing bombs at Jaws? Or getting the wave of the winter at Pipe? Do you really think anyone outside us tut tutters gives two shits whether he has the “big wave cred” bestowed by us, the spectator commentariat?
The little fucker surfs rings around 90% of the tour. So he ain’t winning Pipe. Bla bla bla.
His style is shit between maneuvers and he doesn’t charge big waves. If the tour runs all the events in small fast waves sure Filipe could win a world title. But if we run the whole tour in tanker and river waves Ben gravy could win the fucking thing so what are we doing here?
Well, the last I checked John John’s won Pipe once and Chopes never during his wonderful career. So JJF charges. Has meant fuck all for his world title runs over the years coz he’s only had a single win across his whole career in “the big stuff.” Pipe, chopes, Snapper, Brazil…they all get you the same points if I ain’t mistaken?
I’m not even a Filipe fan mate, so don’t get your knickers in a knot. It’s just amazing how far ahead he is of 90% of the “world’s best surfers” when it’s under 6 feet.
JJF has won an Eddie.
Indeed he has. Outside of maybe Kelly, is there anyone who comes close to JJF charging? Probs not. Lunatic! But his big wave prowess hasn’t really translated into contest victory success on the CT.
Felipe is easily top 3/4 surfer in the world in anything that isn’t massive pits. Probs the best in anything under 4 foot. Do we all want our champs to be big barrel killers? Sure. Felipe ain’t, that’s that.
But I’m pretty sure he doesn’t need our support from the backgrounds, no matter how much we might poo poo his small wave prowess.
I certainly agree that Pip is the best small wave guy on tour but the point of being a world champion is to be good in small waves AND big (ish) waves.
The question was never if John John charges he obviously does. The question has always been if Filipe charges. He doesn’t. The world title is a accumulation of events to determine the best surfer or at least it used to be before this finals day fiasco. It’s damn hard to win a world title not being able to surf heavy reef breaks well and as a result I can’t think of a single world title winner so far that couldn’t win an event at bombing pipe or teahupoo or Fiji if the cards play their way a bit during the event. Filipe would be an exception to this if he were to squeak a world title on a finals day at head high trestles and it bothers me. To me he would be a undeserving world champ if he were to win unless it’s massive chopes or gland and Filipe puts on a clinic and silences me and everyone else. I hope he does it but I doubt he will.
Ben Gravy not.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… Post event celebrations in full swing
Kelly’s looking like he’s about to steal the mic and do a flawless rendition of ‘My Way’. Or maybe just chomp on the cables.
My very own first downvote! Thanks kelly. Looking sharp in the photo, is that an outerknown merino jumper ?
Hells baa!
there’s no way his frontside turns were as good as Occ’s backside or the best since then. i can’t give a single example on the spot but more as the story and my research develops. and no offense to the champ this year! it’s just the waves in the pointy end were underwhelming and surely some digging would show a way gnarlier performance to ring the bell than felipe’s this year. again tho, he fucking won this year so all props to him!
Sacrilege to compare that performance to Occ at the skins.
i just watched some highlights of the skins event on youtube to confirm. the kalani robb/pancho sullivan/occy heat recap is honestly more radical and dynamic than any heat irecap i saw from this year’s recap. they were ripping. 2022 = safety surfing to the max
I concur fine sir!
Kaipo’s sponsors are a real curious bunch.
Big Pharma Tour?
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I’ll take a double dose, please.
Tortured myself with the prize giving
Fuuuckin’ hell
Tyler’s training up for a future career in politics by the looks
I give everything Tyler a miss, for the sake of my sanity. What godawfulness did she cook up this time?
Too much to remember really haha
Possibly in the top 5 most underwhelming CT events ever.
Wtf? You jest right? Incredible comp that simply needed to wait a touch for finals day instead of pushing to finish in Easter.
Loved Occy 97′ especially set to the music Jack McCoy chose in the occumentary. Best backhand surfing ever imo.
But that 9.93 ( or whatever it was ) from Felipe against John was as good as performance surfing gets no question.
Correct a mundo – Felipe carved that 9.93 wave to shreds in an exhibition of state of the art competitive surfing.
Big spray. No doubt.
What about the rest of the event?
Ah yeah that was a good heat, but the rest of it was kinda meh. The push to run it through several episodes of sub-standard conditions smushed it all into a ball of mediocrity rather than making it an exciting event.
Considering the dismal run of waves in Victoria due to La Niña influence, they are fortunate they got the waves they got – could have been much worse conditions.
Who won?
We all lost today.
“Full story to come!”
I think you got it already.