Hammer.
Students of competitive professional surfing know that the game extends far beyond our World Surf League and its Championship Tour. There is, also, the Challenger Series, Qualifying Series, Junior Tour and International Surfing Association World Surfing Games, to name but a few thrilling iterations.
There is also, of course, Olympic surfing introduced last year in Japan and set to roll out in 2024, 2028 and likely 2032 as the Games will be in Teahupo’o, Los Angeles and Brisbane, all surfing hubs. But you would imagine surfing gold the very height of achievement? Would you imagine surfing so lucky to be included?
According to California superstar, and current number twenty in the world, Kolohe Andino, f*ck no and, frankly, the other way around.
In a shockingly frank interview ahead of the aforementioned World Surf Games, currently underway in Huntington Beach, Andino unleaded a rebel yell:
“Being honest, more than surfing needs the Olympics, I think the Olympics needs surfing. I think the Olympics are pretty stale and boring and that surfing is the best sport in the world. You add surfing to the Olympics, I think more people will watch it.”
Hammer.
He followed a question from Pete Townend if he would attempt to qualify for the Olympics again and quickly answered, “100%. That’s like asking if the sun is going to come up tomorrow.”
Andino was subsequently defeated by Huntington Beach’s own Kanoa Igarashi, surfing for Japan, in the quarterfinals but, man.
Stale and boring?
Ouch.
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never forget the rock slide…
…kohole who?
Chloe Andeeno, who the fuck is that?
How s about retiring mid comp at Trestles right after scoring a perfect 10? Ledge
Kolohe’s 540 is nothing compared to these 808s
awesome memories an more innocent time.
Not a gun in site…
nanylon sisters
the plynthe is the vest!
ooh la la…ooh la la
Hmmm, sure he won’t be complaining about the extra $$$ the Olympic exposure brings to his and all surfers’ bank account.
all give-aways for nature/
Just seems like you can’t put surfing in a box, it seems to elude everyone and seems to have a spirit, a mind of it own.
A sport? With actuall rules?
That will ‘never’ define surfing…
But it seems some will never tire of ‘trying’ to ‘sell’ it..
But you can put fish in a box
Bartons favorite 80s tunesmiths.
sardines in oil or water?
Deaf jam
tomato sauce…
gofundnature
Stale and boring pretty much sums up kolohe s career as a pto surfer , paid too much too soon , too comfortable to be hungry , no results
Seems to be a pattern , Fred p , Julian Wilson , etc etc
Fuck that. Jules doesn’t have a world title but he has 5 tour event wins and a triple crown. Kolohe hasn’t won shit.
The carbohydrates in bread are easily accessed after being freshly cooked but once the bread goes stale, become locked-up again within the gluten proteins.
If we toast the bread, it ‘relaxes’ the chemistry again, allowing our body to more easily break it down.
Perhaps the Olympics need to be toasted?
But… I’m no food scientist.
It’s such a bummer that Florence got the bum knees and not this sorry bitch
ouch!
Projection at it’s finest.
the surfer had considered getting an otter tattoo recently, “but this may have changed his mind.”
Last nighta little dancer, she came dancing to my doorLast night,</u> that little angel, she came pumping on my softtopfloor.” absolute chaos…”its better than surfing…more people are watching this.”8.45M views!
https://www.tmz.com/watch/2…
So good.
d00d should get “Otter’s Bitch’ tattooed on his ass.
Win a contest Kolohe otherwise your opinion doesn’t mean much.
I suggest a heart transplant. Put Jadsons heart in Kolohes chest.
Better find another heart donor, Jadson well deserves his.
How about a strong-hearted charging, hard-working, humble, happy, blue-collar, low income, crap-sponsored surfer from California? All this with a non-manicured, receding hairline.
Yeah good luck finding one.
C’arn now….Nat needs his heart as well, recently becoming a father and all…
Being honest, more than surfing needs
theOlympicsKolohe, I thinktheOlympicsKolohe needs surfing. I thinktheOlympicsareKolohe’s surfing is pretty stale and boring and that surfing is the best sport in the world“Yeah, PT…that’s what our sponsor’s told us to say…did I say it right?”