“Now I’m speaking my mind and the truth WSL… I think Kelly (Slater) and WSL burned the tape!”
The Hawaiian surfer Johnny Boy Gomes, often cited as the best power surfer on the eighties and nineties, has slammed the WSL for ignoring his wild 1997 Pipeline Masters win in a recent best-of list.
“I’ve been keeping this in for a long time,” writes Gomes, “bcus I wanted to be cool and humble for my O’hana but now, I’m speaking my mind and the truth WSL. I can’t believe I’m the first guy in surfing history to make it from the trials to win it and still WSL didn’t even pick it as their top past Pipeline Masters winners list. We know the truth. I think Kelly (Slater) and WSL burned the ’97 Pipeline Masters tape… I’ve Neva Ask For Anything From Anyone but Let’s Do This wsl! Pipeline Heritage Heat Against Anyone or Maybe Even A Wildcard, Next Year.”
Gomes, who is fifty-seven and a grandfather, is described by Matt Warshaw as a man of “near-superhuman strength” and riding “in a tightly clenched weightlifter’s squat, with a ramrod straight back, leveraging his board into one massive turn after the other, and often riding deep inside the tube.”
In 1999, Gomes won fifty gees in the Backdoor Shootout, the biggest winner’s cheque in surfing at that point, and placed third in the Eddie that same year.
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Haha. Gross!
You forgot to write that his claim to fame was selling a lot of the green weed with Junior, Marvin and Pete Davi. How do I know that well I stayed at one of their homes and lets just say they sold a lot in the 90’s
But hang about i thought TCarroll was the best power surfer of that era ,or was it Kong ,shit hang about i thought someone said SunnyG was farrk or did they mean JBG , dam its so confusing…
Non Boy Johnny Non
I used to fear JBG. Guy is tapped. Skinny haole at Rocky lefts and he yells “Do Something!” Spray him on the next one and he shakes his head. No slaps though. Many years later I meet him and he is solid. Cool. Humbled yet confident. Very confident. No BS calls it like he sees it. True to himself. Would love to see a heritage heat at Pipe. JBG, Mike Ho, Tom Carrol, and who else?
cc: FJB
sightin’s report:
MAMMALS VIEWED
07/05/2022 5 Blue Whales, 300 Common Dolphin
07/04/2022 1000 Common Dolphin
07/03/2022 3 Minke Whales, 400 Common Dolphin, 2 Mola Mola
07/02/2022 3 Blue Whales, 1 Minke Whale, 2 Bottlenose Dolphin, 500 Common Dolphin, 10 Mola Mola
07/01/2022 1 Minke Whale, 1,300 Common Dolphin, 10 Mola Mola
06/30/2022 3 Humpback Whales, 3,700 Common Dolphin, 50 Bottlenose Dolphins, 5 Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, 10 Mola Mola
06/29/2022 900 Common Dolphin
06/28/2022 3 Blue Whales, 2 Humpback Whales, 2,400 Common Dolphin, 30 Bottlenose Dolphin, 10 Risso’s Dolphin, 3 Mola Mola
06/27/2022 1,000 Common Dolphin, 50 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/26/2022 3 Minke Whales, 3 Mola Mola, 4,300 Common Dolphin
06/25/2022 1,700 Common Dolphin
06/24/2022 300 Common Dolphin
06/23/2022 2 Humpback Whales, 1,450 Common Dolphin
06/22/2022 437 Common Dolphin, 25 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/21/2022 4 Blue Whales, 1,000 Common Dolphin, 50 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/20/2022 1 Minke Whale, 800 Common Dolphin
06/19/2022 3 Blue Whales, 2,291 Common Dolphin, 36 Bottlenose Dolphin, 1 Mola Mola
06/18/2022 9 Blue Whales, 1 Minke Whale, 1,500 Common Dolphin
06/17/2022 1 Fin Whale, 2,000 Common Dolphin, 500 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/16/2022 800 Common Dolphin, 50 Bottlenose Dolphin, 30 Risso’s Dolphin
06/15/2022 500 Common Dolphin, 50 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/14/2022 500 Common Dolphin, 100 Bottlenose Dolphin (including Patches)
06/13/2022 600 Common Dolphin, 150 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/12/2022 2,100 Common Dolphin, 80 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/11/2022 1 Humpback Whale, 1,000 Common Dolphin, 200 Bottlenose Dolphin, 40 Risso’s Dolphin, 3 Mola Mola
06/10/2022 2,500 Common Dolphin, 170 Bottlenose Dolphin, 1 Mola Mola
06/09/2022 360 Common Dolphin, 30 Bottlenose Dolphin
06/08/2022 1,400 Common Dolphin, 40 Risso’s Dolphin, 100 Bottlenose Dolphin (Including Patches)
06/07/2022 2 Humpback Whales, 1,000 Common Dolphin, 150 Bottlenose Dolphin (Including Patches)
06/06/2022 3,300 Common Dolphin
06/05/2022 2,000 Common Dolphin, 30 Risso’s Dolphin
06/04/2022 1 Blue Whale, 1,000 Common Dolphin
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Didn’t Jamie O’Brien also win it from the trials?
plastisizwer…voted off the island, just like JBG…
I’d like to see a list of those that have.
The WSL (established 1976!) has such a diabolically shit web site that it’s impossible to even find a list of past champions for any events. If you’re lucky, google will take you to an old ASP page but the links are all dead.
JO’B definitely won as a wildcard. He wasn’t on tour in 04. Maybe JBG is trying to say he got a wildcard on the back of winning the trials and JO’B got parachuted into the main event as a sponsor wildcard?
bgs are cool johnnybg ruthbg bgjesus.._
“Eh brah! No cum Nort Shore! Stay in town!”
A frequent ejaculation from the pressured regulars.
Heritage heat vs Jodie Cooper, Bud Llamas and Koby Abberton.
Don’t forget Carcass!
Bet he has a Swellnet subscription.
https://youtu.be/z_1sTI6c9O…
“if u got da ballz…itz got da power!” -J.B.G.
Backdoor Shootout hey, I’ve heard less homoerotic titles. I’d have called it the Half Nude Aquatic Play Fight Dance.
name go well with that tat!!!
Yeah mate, here’s hoping Pip wins a Pipe Masters too.
Tom Curren,trials to World Champion 1990. Very GOATy
Yep! For me that’s still the most impressive win!
Paging brutus!!
I rate Tom Curren the greatest of all time.
Kelly is just a poster boy for what was the industry.
“BIPOC” power surfer?
Is this how Johnny Boy refers to himself? Unless I’m mistaken, he considers himself Hawaiian. Wouldn’t ‘Hawaiian power surfer’ be more appropriate?
Derek obviously doesn’t want to ever go to Hawaii again
I don’t think Rielly has ever been to Hawaii.
We don’t want his crook brand of shysterism around here.
Whats a bi poc?
legit thought it meant bipolar, but just means the writer has a vagina
first 50 scared me…only got worse!
A club you can never join.
Although toilers giving it a good shot but nup, door closed ….
Edit: #woozl – deniers of history
Not inclusive then
Calling someone bipoc is what a person who sees everyone by their ethnic background says. Marxist division tactic 102.
Yes because we didn’t work out categories and visible or invisible segregation was fucked up. We have to label things so we can include all the labels and letters! So as to not “other” people, we just give everyone a letter. You get a letter, you get a letter, everyone gets a letter!!!!!
…is f available?
Something to do with Bitcoin?
every lil bit!
RDX KNOCKED…beat him away! thought he was selling bitcoins…vack away from the door…or you’ll just be a matt…nice guy/
He’s a BBIPOC. “Boyfriend”of “Black Indigenous Person of Colour”
It’s most certainly NOT an extra B.
Edit: it’s all very straightforward really.
Bisexual?
Maybe a typo
Bi poke, i get it now.
“tries will never work/”
Not to mention he was heaps good at bashing chicks and dudes!
Gender equity ahead of its time Mr Gomes, well done!
When you drop nothing but hammers, then everything looks like a nail.
Do you follow him on Instagram?
I do, the cunt’s like an autistic Mike Tyson
I do not partake in the plebian musings of Instagram, thank you.
My lofty thoughts are solely devoted to the intricate 6 -dimensional philosophical origami of BG.
me and ben are flyin kites/
Yeah Carcass should of called him for a reference. Mouth off like a bloke get hit like a bloke Jody Cooper. Half these mouthy chicks out in the line up with their Mals could get an education from Jonny rather than hide behind their gender
Jodie cooper clearly gets what she deserves