Brave Filipe Toledo grows riper each year!
And just as the chronic craving for the sundown drink begins, Filipe Toledo, one of the sport’s most delicate organisms, has been hoisted up the soft sand of Sunset Beach, Oahu, following a conclusive win at the Hurley Pro.
The almost twenty-eight-year-old father of two who seems to be growing riper with each year was untroubled throughout the event torpedoing Liam O’Brien, Kai Lenny, Eli Hanneman, Seth Moniz, Caio Ibelli, the fancied Joao Chianca and Griffin Colapinto to take the 10k championship points and the one hundred thousand dollars.
The win, his twelfth since he joined the tour ten years ago, ain’t enough to steal him the yellow jersey from Jackie Robinson, but it does propel the pint-sized Brazilian into second place on the tour rankings.
Although lightly ravished in the high-scoring final, Colapinto, who was in seventeenth place after a catastrophic Pipe contest, now moves into sixth position and world title contention game with 7800 tour points.
JP Currie’s analysis of Finals Day to follow.
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Griff’s 9.17 was an absolute JOKE….which almost cost Fil the win. I went through the comments to see what the peeps thought and they agreed which is good….at least I”m not the only one who saw it for what it was.
I disagree with Jen below. The womens final was not well surfed.
Only watched the edited highlights.
Never thought i would see Sunset reduced to the final hit over Vals reef. If progress in surfing means both Sunset and Margarets become dependent on “ finishes” in shore ish break, the dream tour is killing itself.
Hurry JP, drop the story
So is this an intro for JP’s write up? A BG forward so to speak. My Surrrrf attention is waining Derek last thing I want to do is scroll through this twice to the ground.
Leaving Hawaii anyone below Italo should be cut and ten highest placing qs surfers promoted.
That fuckkkk some egos up!
It was a super lopsided draw. JJF, Ethan, Robbo, Kelly and Gabby on one side, Felipe & Italo on the other (and it’s not even the type of wave either of them excels at).
Fuck yeah Filipe well done. Respect. Maybe use a bit of the prize money to cover up that techno/y2k/matrix/spiderman vibe chest piece.
As for Chazz s wrap up, i sense the joy of online gambling will be a good part of it. Got me seriously thinking about it, i hate gambling but the fomo is overwhelming.
To make the cut fair they need to stop doing seedings from last year. You come into pipe in your position and it’s reset after that.
Sick of watching the top dogs get the wild card.
How good would it be watching Medina vs Felipe at Margs and Medina needs a result to requalify.
So am i correct in saying if you miss the cut after margs then challengers start may or something, and you got rest year to get back in top 10? Is that how works?
Yep. Off to the CS with you losers.
and then endless cycle of low ranking to come against the big boys – pretty hard to get new blood aint it!!
Oh hell yeah. Vicious. But Joao – hell look at him. Dinged by the cut last year. Killing it.
he’s a gun rate him – guess tho what would be fairer is maybe just random draws straight away all the time rather than seeding – then a couple of fuck ups and even a Fil could fall off tour ( not this season probs!!)
Yea – you’ve got a good point. Random draw and start at R32 ffs Weasl !
Out of interest i just looked up challenger series events on wzl – they only confirmed the first 2 rest not listed ? New petition ? run out cash?
Yea – someone mentioned that the other day.
Fuck nose. Watch that space.
Really weird. I’d guess it’s got something to do with the WSL wanting to announce it at a strategic time to build excitement. Like during the finals at Margaret River.
“Here’s where the poor cunts who shat the bed this year will be heading next, Joe”
very weird or run out cash??
Exactly, isn’t supposed to be easy. He wanted it and fucking sent it to get there. Nothing but respect for Joao (even if he might be a bit of a tosser}
His surfing at Pipe has my attention slightly bummed he maybe a tosser..
*cunts
chef! exxlusice kitchen shot shot
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Meat…it whats for dinner.
men need more B1 vitamins, so I bought B-complex, C, &zinc…London Broil sammies on deck…https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.ne…
Come on DR, drop a highlight reel that I now have to look for without going on the Wzzl’s site.
Tired o Winning was blowing up over Toledo. Off to Youtube.
up next, take-offs, and bad white line calls…N-95s
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Strrrrriike 3!
Danes sushi looks funny in sweats
yep. very painful!
It breaks my heart that Felipe can win an event in Hawaii. Does this mean we have to stop throwing shade at him now?
It’s his second Hawaii win I’m pretty sure, therefore no we don’t…
Really weird scoring today, compared to previous seasons.
A few years ago the scale was re-set and 8’s became 5’s.
This year it feels like they’ve raised the scale again. None of the waves in the mens final looked like 9’s to me. When was the last time the judges threw a 9 on the first wave of the heat? If JJF gets a legit 10 on the first wave, they usually give it an 8.5 to leave room just in case. Felipe surfed great but his final heat was far from the best performance of the event, but his heat total shows otherwise. Griffin remains the most consistently over-scored surfer on the tour – getting 8’s and 9’s but when you look at his turns he’s only got 1/3 of his rail engaged.
The right result in the final but goddamn that was a weird day of scores.
Not to mention brisa getting underscored and should have beaten Molly on her last wave. Commentators were baffled
Nah. Brisa don’t move.
Sub-optimal conditions and several priority/apple watch issues in both events too.
I expect nothing and I’m still let down.
Its possible they had trouble transitioning from judging the women’s to the men’s.
Any sport that the judges have to put out a brief in the morning defining what they are looking for in esoteric flowery mumbo jumbo doesn’t have judges, it has selectors. There is no way an athlete can train for moving goalposts.
Woz “judges” are nothing but narrative scripters.
So true. I used to judge the no fear contests and I would be able to easily push my friends through by hyping them up to the other judges and downplaying the other contestants. Its the difference of a half point against and half point in favor that changes everything. Also scored a very young kanoa Ig multiple perfect heats when he was like 11.
Used to judge. Yip I can see why.
Too lippy and played favourites. I’d push you out off the panel also.
Mr. Tron, I remember stealing your name back in the day, do you remember that? man you threw a fit. But yeah the contests actually discontinued, no more money. I made about $50 a day, still my highest paying job to date.
Threw a big enough of a fit to not remember?! But yeah, I reckon after accommodation & travel I actually lose money by Judging.
Fuk yeah!!
Fill you lil rippa!!
Who won the chicks with diks comp?
Maybe next year wsl will have an event on Nal Hutta, and have one of the local girls in the booth!?