It’s hotter than a spoon at Hunter Biden’s house as world champions and Brazilian surf fans storm the WSL citadel in what some are claiming were, at best incompetent, and worst, racist, decisions against BIPOC world champs Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina.
Brazilian surf fans poured on the vitriol and death threats following Gabriel’s shock quarter-final loss to Australian Ethan Ewing and, same, when Griffin Colapinto controversially beat Italo Ferreira.
It followed Griffin Colapinto’s clear-cut defeat of Filipe Toledo in El Salvador last year which was met with cries from Latin surf fans to create chaos when the tour hit Brazil.
(Read, Brazilian surf fans apoplectic following Californian Griffin Colapinto’s “shock” win over world title favourite Filipe Toledo, “World Shame League! This event was a joke!” and Latin surf fans vow to create chaos at next World Tour event in Brazil following Filipe Toledos controversial loss to Californian in El Salvador, “The biggest protest in history in Saquarema! Bring banners, balloons, planes, boo all the time! Make them leave due to emotional stress!”)
Now, all tears can be dried, after YouTube’s Old Surf Dad did what the WSL should’ve done and posted an edit with all waves from the final run in split-screen format.
All comments in favour of Italo, save for one soul who gave it to Colapinto although that might be an echo chamber, confirmation bias sorta thing.
Small sample.
Italo won this heat. I like this dual screen perspective. Italo is not just faster but also actually more powerful and always smashing a more critical spot. Better sync. Almost in another league. Interestingly enough, Medina’s Left on QF was better than these (compared to Griffin’s, by a landslide) and scored lower (8.63). Its on their website’s heat analyzer still. Decide for yourself. I like old school rail surfing
WSL don’t want Brazilians on top! They already got all the money and stability they wanted from us. The funny thing is that every part of the year is the same thing and when we go to Brazil the judges start to drop scores afraid of the public lol hahaha.. At the end the WSL brand loses value, surfers, surf brands and the surf culture in general. But that’s what happens when a company wants to do for money and not for the sport culture. Surf doesn’t allow that type of business, and the CEO’s will find out the wrong way.
I would probably rather see Griff win…. Particularly in CA But not like this….. Italo’s 8.43 was so under scored. That was disgusting
And in favour of Griff.
Actually no. Grif’s frontside had more variety, more fin and rail engagement. Italo’s backside had the best tube ride, more variety and speed. Grif’s Left could have been a 8.50? Yes maybe 8.70 was overscored. Italo’s left could have been a 9? Yes for sure, maybe he was underscored. Grif’s right was pristine with great finish – could have been a 9.10? Yes for sure but never less. Italo’s right had the best tube ride but weak finish, could have been more? maybe 8.50? Yes. Now do the maths and Grif is still the fair winner by a small margin and thats competition at is highest because they are 2 great surfers.
How do you score it?
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
Colapinto is Californian and white. The judging is a marketing strategy
15 goats for my daughter?
SPAM: this not what I signed up fur…
Paet 2 La’ eorifinale’s final
LaLefty…
You’d think if they were gonna have a pro wave pool event they could make the thing 12 feet+ tall, grinding and scary. This is gay
busy with the second cuming.
Great, now we just need to post one from the Coastal Edge Steel Pier Classic, maybe between Joeljitsu and the ‘winner’ Richie Cravey, who probably only won because he’s a marine biologist. You know how ‘those people’ use their influence to bias the judges!
forecast?
I wonder if Dirk’s missus has a thing for Griff?
call his mom for reservations?
don’t forget ol mate Neymar , he could go a threesome…..
Pump and pump and gyrate spazz air spinny spazz out claim claim
Runman?
dinner is only served when hunger and the need to cull transgressors of Surfing’s moral code!
fanning got slapped by Eddie for insulting Jews…so Mick decided to become very rich so he could mingle with eddie and of course eddie gets a cut…prime cut!
Chas will be targeted by Brazilians , and will not relent until he has a Brazilian …in pubic /public?
basically Gabs has accused the WSL of cheating ……fuck don’t ya luv the smell of drama/threats/hypocrisy with a tinge of nationalism…Fuck Yeah!!!
“hotter than a spoon at hunter bidens house” so many things wrong. First, why would he be heating spoons? That’s a heroin thing bro. Or hash, maybe using hot knife technique. But hunter was smoking crack, no spoons needed. Second, I hope you never go through the humiliation of a public fall from grace. Rehab is hard enough, I couldn’t imagine trying to rehab with cameras on u all the time.
dope!
Yes, Hunter’s a poor, beleaguered soul, he ain’t no senator’s son. Not no mo’. If’n you didn’t vote for his pappy, you ain’t black.
Cut the man some slack, Jack.
You can cook crack in a spoon with baking soda which is actually freebasing. The preferred method for cooking crack is in a microwave with nail polish remover. Hunters mishandling of foreign affairs put people in danger. His actions were extremely selfish. He deserves all the criticism and is lucky he didn’t do time for any of it. Italo surfed better.
be careful who you call a black cunt ,as he might be suffering malnutrition……the obvious signs are if fingers and toes are scattered around….well they make great saucissons/and meat pop porn!
brunch, cunt?
Typical Italo fidgeting between turns and then a shit claim at the end.
How much does it cost to get guided into a barrel at surf ranch by raimana like that pottery scene in the movie ghost? I think I could make that barrel myself pretty consistently but at this point that’s not the experience I’m interested in.
$500 per wave…
Jen See did you Acai him there? …away from the sea. Si or no?
* plan it…they did.
will Griff and ethan be killed in Brazil……front page of the Age today….fuck read what Gabby posted…should be suspended for at least 10 events or more….makes Joel T look like a lite weight…
” “Surfing has been my life and my love for this sport is unconditional. I have put all my heart into and want to leave a beautiful legacy one day when I look back at it.
“However the surfing community, especially in Brazil, is mesmerised with the poor clarity and inconsistence (sic) of judging for many years now, but lately it has been even more shocking.“It is quite clear that judging is now rewarding very simple surfing, seamless transitions and have taken critical turns in critical sections off the criteria.
“This is very frustrating and is stagnating the sport.
“Fans and sponsors will not accept this to continue and will in a near future be drawn away once all they want is equal and fair judging to the sport.”
Medina went on to claim that feedback sought from the WSL by coaches and surfers had caused more confusion than clarity.The WSL rejected the criticism and said Medina’s comments were “unacceptable”.
“Surfing is an ever-evolving, subjective sport and we appreciate a robust debate around the progression of our sport and the criteria used to judge our competitions,” a WSL spokesman said.
“However, it is unacceptable for any athlete to question the integrity of our judges who … are elite professionals.”
so WSL says his comments were unacceptable……….maybe they should suspend all Brazilians and the CT in Brazil??
or…….?????
That’s sorta like kicking all the Surfers out of Torquay because you punched someone out in the Pub in 1978.
If Gabs comments are,”unacceptable” , well WTF are they going to do about it without the Brazilian hit squads descending on WSL HQ?
I other words Joel T -soft target , hmmm Gabs maybe not so…??
how did you hear about that incident in 78……and I didn’t eat him!?
comin’ to NatGeo/
Justified and Ancient.
As much as you love a wave pool on the tour. This controversy is exactly why the ocean is the ultimate destination for world champions. The pool has no mono to mono it is just 1 surfer against the judges. Make it a specialty event. It’s obvious to all us surfers it doesn’t belong. If you replaced it with Cloudbreak or Snapper do you really think any of the pros would be upset. All of you have lost sight of surfing’s greatest joy. The ocean.
Freerider…