The House of Monster ready to split?
The 2023 World Surf League Championship Tour season is nearly upon us, or not really nearly but maybe somewhere around the corner. Oh, I can tell that you are starting to thrill, beginning to get in the mood for hand jams and priority interferences. Joe Turpel and Raspberry Waz.
Like Christmas morning in late January.
The lackluster Challenger Series is entering the stretch run, who will qualify, who won’t, with its Saquarema Pro won, yesterday, by Gabriel Medina. There was controversy bubbling, the already-on-tour multiple-time world champion did not need to be there, but there he was, anyhow, squishing dreams under his brutal heel.
Blowing hopes to smithereens with sprays from his stark, white surfboard featuring a Monster Claw right in its middle.
That just so happens to be new and surf fans immediately turned their attention to Filipe Toledo, who did not surf in Saquarema, and a potential civil war bubbling in the glucose brine.
Toledo, of course, also surfs for the Claw.
Now, there is no apparent beef between the two Brazilian Stormers, not yet, but each is likely to be in contention for the 2023 crown, both almost certain to be standing on Lower Trestles’ cobbled stone at the end. Which will Monster throw its weight behind? Who will receive the best masseuse, board caddy, chauffeur, chef etc.?
In other professional sports, like the National Football League or National Basketball Association, when another superstar is brought in to the fold who plays the same position as another superstar, it causes extreme tension.
Much side-eye.
The House of Monster ready to split?
Intrigue.
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Charlie’s looking a bit worked up.
It’s poetry. I whole different thing.
oilman, landman, sports-writer…taught my daughters to drive…in a VW along the flower road/
his chin strap not included
Speaking of chins…. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The customer is not always right. The artist needs his or her drawing hand smashed..sad really!
the cute lipstick kiss tat on the cheek tho…
It will age well tho
From Bethany’s mouth to WSL ears:
“Commentators are like the most annoying people in the world,” she says. “They just say the same old thing, over and over again. If they could just acknowledge my surfing, even, like, 25 percent of the time. I’m okay if you want to mention Soul Surfer, but I don’t think they should be talking about the shark attack in the middle of my heat.”
She said that while making eggs in front of the camera for a Vans series profiling Pipe Masters competitors.
“I’m not one to be hating on people, but if they’re doing such a bad job,” she continued, “they shouldn’t be there.” Then she laughed. “You got my buttons pushed.” (Source: Interview w/ A. Haro)
Now I want eggs…..with shark fin
If I have to bet, I’d say none of them drink that shit.
As the belligerent Pommy cricketer Geoff Boycott has said on many occasions. It’s all a load of bluddy roobish. Modern day surfing, cricket, everything.
It always amazes me how the drinks I like the least have the most money to throw around. I am looking at you too 805.
money laundering fronts for cartels most likely. I don’t know anyone who drinks that crap. why would you when coffe and related products exist.
Related products, like Meth?
Hell no. I would rather pound a case of red bull than do a line of tweak. Hailing from San Diego (ground zero for crystal meth) I can say that tweakers are 10 times worse than heroine junkies.
This is true. You can almost see meth eating a tweakers brain in real time. It would be sad if meth wasn’t so obviously, immediately terrible for you.
The monster logo is supposed to be a claw mark? I’d assumed for the better part of 20 years that it was just lines of cocaine.
Lines of kryptonite.
That’s a claw is it? I did not know that.
Not icicles?
Chas, you have the amazing ability to make nothing out of nothing.
But always with good cheer
He doesn’t do “click-bait”. He finds a new word, and builds a semi-surf adjacent story around that word. It’s a where’s waldo of words…….internecine
Chas is a drama queen at its worst.
Pip is moving to Rockstar, they are going to release a collaboration drink called Popstar
Pipstar*
there
Won’t go on a critical drop star
The real question is which one of them will get this tattoo next? My vote is Filipe https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Could be the new DHD logo. Could even be Darren Handley’s back.