A wonderful shift!
Now, describing the United States of America, Australia and Brazil as “toxic” may be unfair but is it unjust? Likely, though the three countries have completely dominated professional surfing at the highest level for decades upon decades and anywhere we see complete domination for decades upon decades we also see unfair power balances i.e. toxicity.
No?
Well, the sludge might just be draining away as a surfer from Indonesia and a surfer from Portugal bested all-comers at the just-wrapped Great Wall Motors Sydney Pro presented by Rip Curl, the second stop of the freshly minted Challenger Series.
Rio Waida (Indonesia) and Teresa Bonvalot (Portugal) took the wins for men and women in an exciting final’s day.
Waida (above) beat “Headless Horseman” Ryan Callinan and Bonvalot out-dueled Nikki Van Dijk in fine enough conditions causing the World Surf League’s Senior Vice President of Competition, Head of Tours Jessi Miley-Dyer to jubilate in an almost antiquated, much-missed, globalist way.
Per Instagram, Miley-Dyer wrote, “Incredible to see some new faces and flags on the top of our podium here at the Challenger series in Manly. I truly believe that surfing is a global sport, and that our next generation will come from all over.”
She emphasized the post with a strong arm emoji, the Indonesian flag and the Portuguese flag.
Many congratulations all around and thrilling to wonder what country may shine next. I, personally, would love to see a surfer from Mexico dominate or one from South Africa not named Smith.
Do you think, anyhow, an Indonesian surfer may receive a wildcard into the upcoming Championship Tour G-Land event or has it already been spoken for by Ultimate Surfer Zeke Lau?
More questions than answers.
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A different quality of waves. See what happens next year.
Jmd and the wsl completely ignore the ISA and its all-encompassing multicultural, non-commercial, every-nation-is-a-winner amateurish yet olympic approach to surfing, a labour of love from the man who created the Reef calendar. Fernando 1 , jesse 0.
well said! wish I had more upvotes.
The crumbs might be tickly.
Indonesia is the world’s best surfing country, so it’s about time they started producing competitive champions.
Many Indonesians have the same problem as Hawaii surfers – would rather free surf with their friends than compete, often in cold water in less than ideal conditions. Just lazy.
Like Seth Moniz, Rio Waida is half Japanese. Maybe that’s where the “fighting spirit” 闘志 comes from, although such attributes are cultural and not genetic.
https://society6.com/johnse…
Many Indonesian dont have the money or passports to compete at QS.
It is a bit of a different story than Hawaians
They should give the wild card to Mikey Wright! he deserves it
There’s plenty of shard in Indo so he’s not required.
Damn!
And you also missed the real story of the day, quite the scandal, that deserves some delving
As I rolled on my couch in my medicinal marajuana induced stupor…I caught a glimpse of the end of the female longboarding final
I was shocked to see a (very unenthusiastic) traditional a-la CT, chair up the beach for the victor.
Surely a clear and deliberate act of cultural appropriation as longboarders…just like they do in line-ups the world over…try to muscle in on their far superior, better looking shortboard cousins…and fuck everything up
Longboarding has had its black face moment
More questions than answers
I cant believe you left Hawaii off that list…and seemingly got away with it
Did JMD miss surfing at the Olympics?
That was international competition wasn’t it?
Inspirational, Rio Waida is stunning and brave!
9.5 for an essentially uncompleted ride
smells a bit fishy but looks very inclusive and woke , perfect wsl now off to exploit and overexpose a 3rd world national park , starting by drilling into the reef and building a tower so they can see better …..cunts
Good on you Rio regardless , couple sick turns before you fell off
I think the sponsorship by Great Wall Motors is of questionable moral value as we should be working to promote equality and inclusion, not celebrating barriers.
That documentary with Matt Damon about the funny animals in China who wanted hugs was clearly a sign that walls aren’t good.
Also, Ghengis Khan was merely misunderstood, and being shut out of the dumpling houses to the south clearly enraged him.
And to think some in their ivory towers might call this rational reasoning for Ghengis’ attacks on China ‘revisionist history’.
I know right!?!?!?
still lacks tranny division tho
Rio was already in the GLand heat draw on the wosl site (heat 4 against Felipe and Nat) last week though Chas.
There was always going to be an Indonesian wildcard given out and they just had to decide which one to pick.
P.S.
Kelly’s shitty TV show that received the lowest ratings of any in U.S. history (possibly) and was immediately scrapped due to being watched by 37 people worldwide (probably) only gave wildcards to the pre-cut ‘tournaments’…
If I ran the WSL, I’d assign every rider an old pop song based on their name and then play it every time they got to their feet, for the duration of the ride. Whether they liked it or not.
Perhaps just bad covers though… like this one could be done by an Indonesian group calling themselves Durian Durian.
Or if in Hawaii a local group called Dorian Dorian.
Does Tyler get Rick Springfield playing?
Demonstrate please.
Perhaps we should crowdsource the powerlist.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Oh yes. Of course. I forgot about that one. Perfect.
Put it into the spreadsheet please.
good one
I give JMD’s confected sincerity a 9.5!
Oh they come from all over alright – they come from all over San Clemente, all over Coolangata, all over the Northern Beaches, all over Ubatuba, all over Guaruja! And that’s it!
Do Aussies not believe in sunscreen? Callinan has the face of a forty year-old.
no amount of cream can stop this bastard
https://7news.com.au/news/n…
If God meant for us to wear sunscreen then he wouldn’t have given us Northern Europeans a pasty complexion genetically adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to be suited to gather vitamin D for calcium processing, from the weak solar radiation above 20 degrees latitude.
Oh wait…
Never been there, but a friend who has says that it is like being in a toaster oven sunwise. He’s from socal