What's a Brazil?
Stab magazine, the premium surf publication you have known and loved for decades, is wonderful at many things but mostly wonderful at its lack of self-awareness. Writers penning passive-aggressive diatribes in the royal “we,” a modern ethos somehow centered around “if-you-ignore-it-it-goes-away,” large social media numbers with minimal behind-the-paywall engagement and, best of all, being a “voice of the youth.”
Except.
There is no youth in surfing anymore, premium or otherwise but probably especially premium as recently revealed by the august researcher Craig Sims.
That did not stop the today Oceanside, tomorrow Cocoa Beach-based surf blog from, un-ironically, posting its list of “your favorite male surfers” just hours ago.
Who are they?
You must subscribe (here) but, as a little amuse-bouche, Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater and Mick Fanning all make the top ten.
Brazilians make an appearance at twenty.
Taj Burrow beats Italo Ferreira by a large margin.
Do you like them apples?
Oh you would.
Mom jokes… love you boo!
Mums said to inform you she is getting tired of the giving strappy to your husband. Ya limper!
Did you come up with that all on your own, or did your bullphag husband help you?
Now here is a thoughtful rebuttal! Quite the shame its been made in defense of any type of socialism.
Defense of socialism? Where/how? None has been made in this space by me. Just pointed out the idea that contributing here is a form of it. If we are going to focus on cogent rebuttals, it’s best to stick with what’s actually been said/type. Not what you project.
Ooooow. “Projecting!!!”
You understand the concept of projecting is only valid when there is a recipient willing to be triggered, right?
Not at all. Projecting is when one party projects onto another their own beliefs, fears, or straw man arguments. It has nothing to do with a recipient other than usage as the projector’s target. You like citations, right?
Projecting, or projection, is unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else. – Karen R. Koenig, M. Ed, LCSW
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. – Psychology Today
In psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories, the process by which one attributes one’s own individual positive or negative characteristics, affects, and impulses to another person or group. This is often a defense mechanism in which unpleasant or unacceptable impulses, stressors, ideas, affects, or responsibilities are attributed to others. For example, the defense mechanism of projection enables a person conflicted over expressing anger to change “I hate him” to “He hates me.” Such defensive patterns are often used to justify prejudice or evade responsibility; in more severe cases, they may develop into paranoid delusions in which, for example, an individual who blames others for his or her problems may come to believe that those others are plotting against him or her. In classical psychoanalytic theory, projection permits the individual to avoid seeing his or her own faults, but modern usage has largely abandoned the requirement that the projected trait remain unknown in the self. – American Psychology Association
You project in nearly everything you’ve said to me, and all the belief systems you have ascribed to me.
Commenting here a form of socialism?
“Hey, listen, man! No rapacious free-market remuneration fer commenter efforts and it’s all in service to BG owning the means of production.”
Whew, Stab-level silliness.
“the ayes have it!” great thread from us boys & girlie men
I’m pretty sure most of the brazos identify as them/they hence not in the running.
Revisionist history is a comfy pillow for weary minds, isn’t it? I forgot the new rule discarding current evidence(s). S.A. is wonderful now having been liberated. Havana is also.
That’s obviously the point of colonization but what about the indigenous residents?
Were they better off?
Pretty funny Barton has now become the arbiter of all things in the world. Stick to surf commentary that I will listen to, the rest nah.
your friend is gay
So colonization was a good thing.
If we’re being really inclusive it should be more BIPOCS and less Bipeds.
Funny thing, that.
How many places are better off after the colonizers left?
Attention Morons: Look up the countries supporting BRICS… ohh, but J-Bay will be “phyerrrring”.
Why? Educate me, please. I’m interested in why I should look up the countries supporting BRICS, that’s all. No need for personal insults or distractions and deflections and projections. Just straight up an answer to a question posed open-mindedly.
Okay. Within the CONTEXT of this article which purports to the absence of “media” coverage for the Portuguese speaking Brazilian surfers, I will acquiesce your request:
BRICS – Is a conglomerate of “developing” nations seeking to replace, or bypass USD as the world’s reserve currency. USD has historically been traded in petroleum, which up until the last decade or so, was summarily agreed upon as the fuel for the commerce engine of planet earth.
Regardless of anyone’s positional issues for the following strawman monikers, or buzz words; “Greenhouse Effect”, “Global Warming”, or currently “Climate Change”, petroleum still produces EVERYTHING needed to continue operating planet earth in its current form. Contrary to the control-freak demonic liars pushing for carbon taxes, petroleum has been refined to literally zero-waste in all applications of its usage. Its is also VERY CHEAP and quite plentiful.
Back to BRICS, and the article’s supposition: The controlled media blackout of anything good from Brazil will continue, then likely worsen due to the B in BRICS being at commerce loggerheads with US, UK, CA, AUS, NZ, FR, etcetera. This is a generalized statement encompassing the issue thoughtfully posed by our news writers here at BG.
While the abovementioned diatribe is likely nothing new to a learned man such as yourself, you requested my further thoughts and I have given them to you free of insult. I also type fast.
Thanks! I knew it is Brazil, Russia, India, and China’s loose economic alliance to sort of challenge the USA/EU alliance as global economic superpowers, but that’s it. Now, I know more, Hawk. Thanks!
If male Brazilian surfers are poorly represented on this list of “Favourite Male Surfers”, then it is squarely the fault of publishers and so-called “surfing journalists” who have not communicated to the surfing public that Brasileirios are doing the best, most progressive surfing in the world for the past decade, as evidenced by multiple world titles, etc.
If the publishers and journalists were doing their job properly, than Brasileiros would dominate this list.
BRICS is an interesting phenomena. You might consider looking into it, then reformulate your thesis.
Nothing to do with economics (?) Lazy journalists are the problem.
You may want to compare coverage of surfing with the kind of journalism devoted to F1 racing or football – people who can write and do an incredible job covering the sport.
Surf journalists are laughable in comparison –
Please take that back.
I don’t think so.
When someone regularly posts factually incorrect content, facts that can be easily verified with a five-minute Google search, when someone regularly posts misspellings of important words in their copy, when a so-called “journalist” with a specialty in surfing STILL DOESN’T KNOW why the CEO of the WSL was sacked a full ten days after the fact – it IS your job to know – then they just are not very good at their job.
This is all basic stuff – not difficult or complicated.
comparing surf journalism to football and F1 seems a little apples/oranges — but putting that to the side … as a perhaps slightly above average (in terms of quantity) consumer of surf media, I think I’m inundated w/ stuff about/involving the Brazilians (and actually have spent some time in country there and love/respect the people). So if I were to vote in the Stab poll (can’t remember if I did or not) leaving Brazilians off my own top 10 list would have had nothing to do w/ exposure or appreciation for their progression in small to medium waves. I would just much rather watch Nate Florence (or JJF) navigate another slab than see more flips and flights from the Brazilians. And I would rather poke my eyes w/ hot knitting needles than watch another clip from Lowers, which is where Pip hangs out when not on tour. Not to say I wouldn’t love to surf a good (uncrowded) day at Lowers, or many of the small/medium waves the Brazilians rip — just like I’m a huge fan of right hand point breaks, personally. But not all that interested in watching other people surf them. So no offense to Brazilians, and nothing to do with surf journos, just not generally the ones I would pick when choosing ‘favorite’ surfers (to watch on a regular basis).
for those of us that can’t do backside: where’s, what’s, and how’s to get to the best secret left in Cali? and who rides it best?
I’ve seen some recent footage of a bunch of people going left at Malibu .. seems like a super cool choice bc it’s usually more than 2 or 3 per wave.
places I’ve solo-ed from the By_Goner’s era south to north across our dial: Bird Rock, Black’s, T-St, Oceanside, Haggerty’s Hammerland, Lefts&Rights, Pismo, Fuller’s-by-the Sea, Humboldt Harbor. https://i.pinimg.com/origin…
You are the type who *loved* Kelly when he surfed Trestles – and idolised the other Anglo-Saxon gringo surfers who regularly surfed there, but when It’s a Brazilian “I would rather poke my eyes w/ hot knitting needles than watch another clip from Lowers, which is where Pip hangs out when not on tour”
All kind of ways to rationalise –
yeeesh, go ahead and stereotype the gringo … I spent a while in Brazil back in the day, took the Rio Negro back into virgin territory w/ tribal peoples, was in the São Paulo airport when the national team returned from the World Cup, love the country and its people. And fwiw, never cared much for the Cali stops on tour, regardless of venue. My point is that it’s one thing to admire the talent and athleticism and progression — all of which I do — and even think it should be scored higher (in some cases much higher) than Ewing’s figure skating cutbacks — while simultaneously not finding it your favorite thing to watch, and therefore not ranking the top Brazilians among one’s ‘favorites’. And the comment about Pip was about Lowers, not about Pip (which I think you understood), and the only surfer I’ve ever loved to watch surf Lowers was Pottz, way back in the day, for reasons anyone who has watched the clip will understand. And all the best to you JSC, I’m envious of the life you’ve created for yourself.
you realise that the “articles” here are just fodder for the real content, cunts in the comments section. far better writing and Derek etc don’t need to pay a dime.
I was on the beach in Hossegor in 2011 when Medina won his first comp. I thought: This kid is fucking amazing. Then years later I saw him drop in on Kelly at that pipe comp and I thought: This kid is an insane competitor. I love watching him surf.
I saw Italo get a Bell tattooed on his arm when he won Bells and then I saw him almost drown and collapse on the steps. I still think he is fucking rad.
I saw Toledo absolutely dominate those waves at JBay and thought he was surfing them even better than anyone could mind surf them. I don’t care if he shat himself at Teahupoo, I would too – at half the size. I think he is an incredible surfer.
I saw a young JJF school Taj at that comp in Gland or Cloudbreak (or wherever it was) and Taj goes “this cunt is just too good”. And then of course he did that radical layback at Margaret River and he blew everyone’s mind.
Fuck, when I watch Josh Kerr ride that twinny at Keramas it blows my mind as well.
I don’t really care where a surfer is from. I think deep down everyone is the same.
That the kind of attitude I like – thanks and muito obrigado!
i may not belong here but there is an opening at the Pool for CEO of Help People Find Their Gear
https://youtu.be/_wE9BNcN6Xg
TAj’s wildcard at Rotty was awful.
Not as bad as Mark Occhilupo at JBay, but really bad.
That TB effort was such a classic defiantly took him down a peg or two.
keeps me up at night…and pissing out beers. worried? read more JP/
Mason #3, Mikey February also in top ten!
Here’s the full list if anyone actually really cares:
Sterling Spencer
John John Florence
Mason Ho
Ben Gravy
Tom Brady
Kelly Slater
Michael February
The Hemsworth Brothers
Mick Fanning
Matthew McConaghey
Noa Deane
Flea (the Chilly Pepper)
Nathan Florence
Jonathan Wayne Freeman
Asher Pacey
Rob Machado
Luke Cederman
Poopies
Feces
Filipe Toledo
Bobby Martinez
Gabriel Medina
Creed McTaggart
Jordy Smith
That guy at your local who talks too loud
Kai Lenny
Mark Zuckerberg
Balaram Stack
Yago Dora
Miki Dora
Jamie O’Brien
Ryan Burch
Tyler Wright
Eithan Osborne
Kaipo Guerrero on cocaine
Joel Parkinson
Italo Ferreira’s thighs
Jai Glinderman
Joao Chianca
Josh Kerr
Parker Coffin
Mark Occhilupo (fat Occy only)
Ozzie Wright
Joel Tudor
Albee Layer
Jackson Baker’s moustache
Ryan Callinan
Julian Wilson
Dane Gudauskas
Chris Cote
Tyler Wright….classic.
A in spelling…Now do longhand~blue ink!
Poopies and Feces. WoW.
TMI xox
Here’s a list of all those brain washed faghots and carpet eating hags responsible for the fall of 1st world nations:
EVERY IDIOT THAT BELIEVES ANY SOCIALIST.
ailing sculptors take notice! lots of future statues to carve…