No regrats.
Last week, current world number one professional surfer Filipe Toledo thrilled his countrymen by winning the 2022 Oi Rio Pro in front of a throng World Surf League CEO declared to number in the twenty-thousands. He was passed, shoulder to shoulder, all the way to the stage where roars drowned out anything Chris Cote was attempting to say.
A beautiful moment and one, days later, Toledo would ink upon his lower calf in commemoration.
The tattoo featured a lovely hillside church, four palm trees, a barreling right with a thick, foamy lip and the years 2018, 2019, 2022 underneath.
Surf fans immediately grew concerned. Yes, Toledo had won the Oi Rio Pro in 2018, 2019 and 2022 but he also won it in 2015. A four time champion.
Why had 2015 been disappeared?
A simple accounting mistake?
Early onset dementia?
A cryptic numerological message meant to signify some great, likely troubling prophecy?
As panic begin to set, one brave surf journalist took it upon himself to solve the sphinx-like riddle thereby comforting millions.
The background scene is, very clearly, Saquarema. There is no Sugarloaf nor Christ the Redeemer. No festival nor Morro da Urca. Very clearly not Rio de Janeiro proper and, even though the event is named Oi Rio Pro only the 2015 event was contested on those sands. 2018, 2019 and 2022 were all out front the aforementioned Saquarema. I would imagine that Toledo has another tattoo celebrating his first victory, somewhere else on his body, and, aside from mass shootings, assassinations, war, pestilence all is right with the world.
Right?
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Tickets on himself
I don’t believe in tattoos so I can’t comment.
Births Deaths are over rated , the shit inbetween is what matters.
How many commemorative tattoos can you fit on a male German lower leg though?
no one surfs small to medium size waves better. no one.
tho a few years back
he did elect to miss the birth of his first child to get a 17th in Portugal.
priorities.
Surfed w him one day several years back at Ponto along with about 5 of his WQS straggler mates. It was like watching a video game. Not only was he doing gigantic airs all over the place but his paddle speed was on tilt. He was catching literally 3 waves to the rest of our 1, maybe more. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen out in the water.
I feel like I’m missing the part where this is solved.
Flipper Tattoodo
Filipe Tooledo
Even tattooists prefer to skip Rio
Hayy das mi fwend!
Kid deserved the chance, but had no shot by the time the stiff moron dropped ahead
was that the contest when he missed the birth of his child?
Portugal. 17th place. daughter was born healthy.
Its probably there just should have gone pano mode. I am sure when he wins next year he won’t make the same mistake.
I can’t REMBEBER the 2015 contest. I can tell you that finding Chas’ spelling and grammar errors has become a pursuit more enjoyable than Wordle.
“Very clearly not Rio de Janeiro proper and, even though the event is named Oi Rio Pro only the 2015 event was contested on those sands.” You forgot the comma after Pro. Please keep it up to cure my work boredom.
Chas logging into his computer to write this story https://ih1.redbubble.net/i…
No genitalia?!
Yeah, I concur happily. There had been a sudden flowering of cock-based art here in this space that I came to lament
blame it on la nina, la pinta, the santa maria…or rio…or Columbus who sailed out of either Lisbon or Genoa…either way…grand cocksman for sure!