"I had to ditch the drums and go straight..."
The second day of the J-Bay Open, men’s division, is currently underway but surf fans, everywhere, have thoughts fixed on the fate of Italo Ferreira. The Brazilian champion was not having the greatest season of his still young life. Early stumbles had him comfortable above the dreaded cut line, as the tour rolled into Margaret River, but nowhere near challenging for a top five slot. A little fire in Lemoore, though, and it seemed like the effervescent muscleman was back.
Alas, average El Salvador and Brazil showings had him in 11th place coming into J-Bay but surf fans, everywhere, held high hopes for a dominant showing in South Africa and a dominant showing in Tahiti.
Ferreira was forced into the elimination round but looking very good against Maui’s Ian Gentil…until, that is, he took a high line to floater to flats and demolished his right knee.
The World Surf League, increasingly Stalinist, quickly scrubbed the closeup footage and mention of injury from on its quick recap vid leading surf fans, everywhere, to wonder if that right knee has been deposited in the same place as former CEO Erik Logan.
Thankfully, the beloved Brazilian has more clout than Logan and took to social media himself, declaring (in translation from his native Portuguese), “I had to ditch the drums and go straight p/ the hospital after making a mistake and injuring my right knee. Unlike last year I was unable to carry on after being in so much pain. I’ve been working hard to be strong and avoid this kind of injury, but unfortunately there is the risk! Hope it’s nothing major and I can go back as soon as possible, just with other plans! Because i cannot achieve my ultimate goal. Everything has a purpose and if it’s meant to be that way, one way or another in the future I’ll figure it out and God will show me the best way. Thank you for the strength.”
Logan sleeps alone.
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Why doesn’t anyone explain the knee injury … PLEASE !?!? It’s kinda crucial to the subject. Anyone who has an ACL injury knows the difference between a 2nd reconstruction or a simple meniscus tear ??? Medial ligaments , anyone?, anyone ? … Is there a Dr in the house ?!?!?
I gone thru winkipop
button maybe more than 10+times
With no jet skis savings,
No one to watch or help,
On my own
Then I come in in juc
With no foot cuts
(amazing )
Hitch back
And then i surf bells beach catch two waves because the tide high is too at winkis..
Meanwhile italic
( First gold medalist)
Gets saved by jet skis straight away,
Cries like baby (when he safe on the stairs )
Imagen swimming for another two hrs
And the Ranger gets nothing, no
Prays to ..d to save us
Cheers Ranger W
PS send all brazilian..rls
Compo
No tears from this Aussie
SCooby doooooooooo
Charles, I’m so proud of you. Your writing sucks more and more every single day.
Stalin, who had 10 million people murdered, and the WSL, who- allegedly- disappeared footage of Italo’s knee injury. Except that you can watch the full injury- with replays- on the YouTube stream of day three of the event. Try doing some actual reporting, Chas, you piece of shit moron.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Chas is such a rebel. Look up Circe Wallace. Then you’ll know why.
No explanation for Chas being too lazy to doing anything other than concoct click bait headings appears when I Google her.
what is your job with the WSL??
Which part makes you think I work for the WSL? The fact that I called Chas out for being wrong about them scrubbing the internet of the injury footage? The footage is right there to be seen, if you stopped being a moron long enough to go have a look. Or my comment that bitch slit has become purely a click bate site? That part is pretty indisputable so probably not that. You’re just one of those people who says stupid senseless shit with no basis in reality. So many of you on the interwebs. I don’t work for WSL. I’m a building contractor on the Kona coast of the Big Island.
She’s the man of the house I think. She explains Charles’s book deal too. It’s sad he’s got attitude and doesn’t surf as well as Jonah.
Oh, is that his wife? She must be so proud.
What’s to be gained from rubbing the internet of the footy of this? The Wozz gets increasingly worse every day it keeps Elo’s axing reason in the dark.
You can see the whole injury with replays on the day three YouTube stream. They seem to have edited out the replays of his fall and the part where the ski is taking him to the boat in the heat replay, maybe trying to be sensitive to Italo and his family? Or maybe they just didn’t find it relevant to the heat recap, focusing on the scoring rides and who won.
ELo should produce a game show where Brazilian athletes are brought on and challenged with scenarios to see if they can weave God into the reason that scenario transpired. Acceptance into Heaven is the prize, allegely.
Then come out with a US remake starring bethany, brett simpson and richie collins.
I want to see a video of the gruesome labia injury Jonah Hill recently endured!
He has a fine career in high-performance boogie boarding ahead of him.
Disappeared BG article.
Hurry hurry before it, too, disappears.
https://beachgrit.com/2023/…
“I had to ditch the drums ….”
Amazing translation. Who is your translator, ChasGPT?
https://www.southcoastregis…
Ocean Beach making another meth run?
from inertians: “I had to abandon the heat and go straight to the hospital after making a mistake and hurting my right knee,” he wrote on Instagram (and we translated).
I love the phrase, mistranslated or not. I might steal it.
His career is predicated on those knees. Dude lands in the flats more times than my stupid jokes.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
If I went for as many full send maneuvers as he has all would be left up my legs is two stumps above the knee caps.
ditching “the board?” taking a a drumming?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OlNm…
How did you get this picture of me???
splatt signature series…ImAkook2
Who has time to watch all that? Give it to me in the recap, dang it!
Click the fucking link Charles. It goes directly to Italo’s fall.
I joke! I just want two stories for price of one!
Well, you give us 20 stories for the price of none so there’s that.
If that’s the end of his career, here’s hoping he goes full-on maradona – a fat, charismatic, full of coke, god-like South American sports idol.
I think we might be 2 3rds of the way there already…
No more Elo until we get the “rumor” of why he got canned. Someone, anyone?
1- supporting the wrong candidate(s); political or otherwise.
2- made joke about too many caipirinhas
3- complained about BG blogs & comments
4- didn’t fwd his dismissive letter about the three amigos for review to the three amigos
5- put Felipe’s signed t-shirt on e-bay
6- dengue fever or foot-in-mouth disease
7- Baily’s ladders, HydroFlask, Corona…
8- Blew up at Barton’s critique
9- got back-Stabbed
Tried to touch a man on the penis.