Asterisk.
I was there, on those sacred cobbled stones, but left before Filipe Toledo stuffed a raging bull Italo Ferreira in order to win his first World Surf League Championship Tour. The crowd was certainly in favor of the King of Saquarema, who moved to San Clemente sometime in the past few years, in order to burnish his safe wave credentials.
And he looked flawless.
Sharp as an eye.
Or tack according to world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater.
Ferreira had seemed to be on an unstoppable run, charging from first heat of the day, against Kanoa Igarashi, through Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson. None stood a chance and it felt like Toledo, lightly fragile, would not stand a chance either but the crown “world’s best small wave surfer” don’t come easy and he truly is, without par.
The peanut gallery will continue to call Toledo out for his lack of spine, heart, in waves of consequence but today he is the champion of Lower Trestles and, therefore, the world.
Italo, on the other hand, so inspiring, looked cooked by the end. Not Gilmore-esque who won the women’s crown at number five.
Filipe, though, dominant.*
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I just want to see the surfing he could do in heavier conditions if and when he transitions his skill set (as you said “advanced and innovative” ) into those waves.
Could be game changing.
two words: guts
what does obelix think of these asterix`s ?
“Ferreira had seemed to be on an unstoppable run, charging from first heat of the day, against Kanoa Igarashi” Did I miss something in the first 10 minutes of the “FINALS” heat 1 where neither could be bothered to take a wave.
This 100%, Stephs best left this year was a 7.1 at g land . Second best score a 5 I think . After years of fat rights on tour they decide to have a surf off at a fat right. She’s not really the well rounded surfer a world champ should be.
excellent point
I hope u can all find solace in knowing, ur Mom’s ALL go when it’s big no matter what!!
There is no debate that he kicks everyones ass and is worlds best surfer in high performance waves. It’s funny seeing people try finding excuses why he can’t surf waves of consequence. The (fair) question is: should a 2022 world champ be able to surf heavy waves (the pinnacle of surfing). Gabe, Adriano etc etc all can, it gives them some kind of legacy, even Jadson is known to charge and will have a better legacy than Fil because of that. Probably Fil doesn’t care, fair enough, but we are allowed to troll him about it.
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No.
THE Queen.
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100% true
What about before he had wife, kids and millions of dollars.
Charged Waimea like Fil never would.
So is this
Meh, Flip was number one after 10 events and number one after the Top 5 surf off. Whatever way you want to spin it, he won legitimately this year.
Yeah, so he doesn’t charge as hard as you want. Big fucking deal. Plenty of big wave chargers can barely do a turn in normal waves.
Flip didn’t make the rules, but even if it was the old format of best after 10 events, he still would’ve won. Save the wahhhhs for Carissa Moore, coz she’s the one that got dudded with this surf off
Fran(c)k, but fair.
I feel like the asterisk should only be used for happenings like half the year being cancelled or a boat full of world title contenders being swallowed up by a whirlpool. But not because a surfer doesn’t charge scary waves, or because someone that may have beaten them to the championship was injured. Yeah John John and Gabe are more complete surfers, but their bodies/brains are (hopefully only temporarily) broken, and all that’s part of being an athlete. And besides there have been other world champs who haven’t been chargers in heavy waves, although you have to go back a bit. Hardman for one, maybe Curren and Occy too.
Not Curren. According to Kelly, he paddled out alone at 40-foot Japan when everyone else was too scared.
Haha 40 foot is a bit of a stretch. It was about 12-15 feet and gnarly. It’s very shallow and rocky there. Charged for sure, but if that place ever gets to 40 feet, we’ll all be dead in these parts!
And others weren’t too scared. They all headed further south to more renowned spots that can handle typhoon swells like Nagata. Curren was the first to surf that spot at that size, hence it being named after him. A name that still stands today.
Italo is a tweaker
Yeah but he went. And he would have gone over the ledge at Chopes too.
I heard that the Queen choked on an asterisk.
i fucked off down the road for a surf halfway through this shit-show. i think it was bigger than trestles.
better conditions anyway.