Ewing rarely looked troubled on his road to victory, delivering the death blow to Matthew McGillivray, Jordy Smith, Yago Dora and Jack Robinson.
In very good, but less than perfect, four-to-six-foot waves, the Australian Ethan Ewing has won the first event of his career, solidifying the twenty three year old’s position in the coveted top five.
Ewing was untroubled on his road to victory, delivering the death blow to Matthew McGillivray, Jordy Smith, Yago Dora and Jack Robinson.
His season has been transformative, career-wise, including three third-place finishes, at Sunset, Bells and Margaret River.
This medium-sized boy with perfectly even little teeth that sparkle like mother-of-pearl and with a blue glint and who surfs as if he was on a tight rope, leaves South Africa rated third in the world and with a one hundred-thousand dollar cheque and ten-thousand tour points.
Full report from JP Currie to come.
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Ethan was overscored on his first wave in the semifinal, Yago should have won.
Isn’t Kelly the still the best? Lol
Climate change is making poison ivy stronger and itchier (Grist)
ZThongs are not welcome on this beach…(UAE)
My once thriving home office (derived from Apple & Microsoft soft- and hardware) is now belly-up in a wading pool and my mind has succumbed to the dreaded internet surf…
For my entertainment mostly…
Clients are down from the low hundreds…
Followers are very few…
Not a searcher…
But a human scanner…
his qrt final 8.5…
Or selective blindness, adverse to asterisk’s yes?
Straight as a curl.
chest beating, my go to claim while “exiting the barrel”
Well deserved win by DoubleD.
Claiming is so gay
Not claiming is staying in the closet.
farrrrkin hell.
Enjoyed the final. Ethan and Jack: has the brash boistrous Australian archetype disappeared? Civilized unassuming calm self contained, which used to be the definition of a man right?
As opposed to gossipy emotional frantic Trump. The right will tell you that what I’m applauding in temperament is really just the feminization of the Australian Man, similar to the sissification of the American man, who was soft and weak until Trump came around. On Jan 6 they gave us a taste of strength, but a different type of strength than Ethan and Jack give us. And then you have the Brazilians, the opposite temperament, which is reflected in their air game and their joy and fanatical competitiveness, just like Ethan’s approach in the water mirrors his temperament.
recreating the stoke brought about with the WSL J-B finals broadcast…very inspiring! or their target audience?
https://imgur.com/yQ1cver
got up to pee, comp screen was blinking, Yago was heaving…punched in a 10, for sure…6 hours ago…will have to go back and rewind, I guess…or else i was dreaming…
DR, to his folksas they age: “Mom, pops–I’m living my dream and am fulfilling the Rielly family name: I generate 2-paragraph surf click bait that contains homoerotic phrasing, all to entertain 4o and 50 year menopausal men who anonymously comment on my scribbles.”
It’s all very Restoration-era Paris! The commercialisation of literature, prostitution of talent etc.
There’s prostitution of talent and then there’s whoring yourself out to the Larry Pages and Suckerbergs for a few crumbs, Dez…..
“He’s so renaissance, he doesn’t even know he’s renaissance!”
Prostitution of talent? That means we, don’t the line bitches, should get paid.
Menopausal men is a lol
Gave me the heats!
Y’shoulda seen what I wrote in case of a Jackie Robbo victory. And, yeah, clicks are my kibble.
The man with the best booty on tour won. Good on him.
Would you eat?
Yikes!
Untroubled?
He won by .3 points
And his triple pump bottom turns are ugly
I don’t think I have ever seen a move or wave of Ethan’s that is ugly
Double and triple pump bottom turns are poor form.
His top turns are very smooth.
He was way over scored in the final.
Commenters thought he got a seven something and they gave him a 9.13
jack was and is the better surfer.
Jack was my pick and one of my favourite Surfers. But he clearly lost that final.
Check the heat analyzer. ewings 9.13 was way too high.
Pete thought 8 at best and I agree
I thought they were both over-scored. But regardless of the numbers, Ethan took it.
Great comp despite the usual WSL telecast cock show, but a really great result all the same…..honestly judged with the undisputable Men’s winner.
I reckon his one and only claim look-a-like was more of a “cop that” to the judges….
Let’s list our guesses on Pip’s excuse for skipping Chopes in the meantime. I’ll start, “I cut my nails too short and they’re bleeding and stinging”.
Went out for cigarettes
My favourite excuse personally.
Transit visa issues. Tried and true.
Shoulder!
this has layers…
He hopped his shoulder out?!?
Wait–that’s where he’ll be sitting, if he decides to go.
He started his excuses back in round one when he fell off and started nursing his shoulder.
“Oh…. might have to go talk to my doctor after this one…”
And then pull a Slater by surfing Trestle’s the entire time?
did i sleep thru 3 days of epic surfing?
day 1 small
day 2 huge
day 3 small…
where was Medina?
Even if he doesn’t go to Chopes, Pip finishes either 1st or 2nd.
The only one who can pass him is Jack with a third place or better finish, which he’s likely to get but …. ?
Fil will flag Chopes, I really think he has to. Right now he’s either 2, 3 or 4 heats from a Championship without Chopes. Nothing to be gained there but some respect …. and that’s not very fucken likely even if it’s a normal sized swell. Goose eggs again.
like the generals that don’t go to war, history will judge him if he doesn’t go to the mecca of the super tunnel;;, and we will be the first to judge
Is his insta already disabling comments? I can’t comment but I suspect I’ve been critical there in the past.
Sorry DN – Idk. Don’t do the socials.
0.0 #neverforget
Dog ate his board.
This is my new favourite haha. Well played.