"Some days the pain is worse than others. I won't be one hundred percent."
Yesterday, the surf world reacted with shock, joy, whatever you want to call it, after world number three Ethan Ewing made a surprise return to the game after fears he would be bedridden for months following a wipeout one month ago.
Apart from a brief note to fans and a video of the wave he got hurt on, Ewing, twenty-five, had maintained a strategic silence following the wipeout.
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The baby-faced Australian from Queensland’s North Stradbroke Island with an ass described as “overwhelming” was driven by a desire to keep Gabriel Medina out of the Final Five, back when it was thought the WSL would make up the numbers with the sixth-rated surfer.
The favourite to win the contest is reigning world champion Pip Toledo, whose daddy, Big Rick, has claimed the only reason Pip don’t charge Teahupoo is ‘cause he wants to save himself for the Finals, something that didn’t bother mad-dog Ewing, and which also don’t ring true ‘cause his zero heat total was in 2015.
Anyway, the Brazilian filmer Bruno Lemos got hold of Ewing down there at Lowers yesterday and got a few words out of the man with camellia-white skin and dishwater blond hair. He looks rather tired, not surprising given his journey from his island home to Los Angeles, but not a whit less charming than usual.
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“When I first did it I thought, I’m not going to be surfing for a long time, maybe, ‘cause I knew there was something wrong with my back ‘cause I slammed it really hard on the reef,” he tells his South American interlocutor. “I got some scans, there were some fractures, not too bad, no risk for the spinal cord. Very lucky.”
Ewing admitted that some days the pain is “worse than others but I just have to keep doing my physio, getting better and better each day. I won’t be one hundred percent but I’ll do everything to put on a good performance.”
Apart from keeping Medina out of the mix, Ewing “didn’t want to finish my season injured and in a bad ending.”
The one-day surf-off will run some time between September eight and sixteen at San Clemente’s Lower Trestles, likely around the 14th or 15th.
I don’t think its bad for sponsor bonus either, and marketing content, if he wasn’t there its just ethan over for the year, whereas here , even if he loses he kinda wins
You keep saying at the end of the window. More likely Sat, Sunday or Monday. Sunday most likely.
The talk is of decent conditions. Will believe it when I see it. Regardless JR will do the killing this time.
3.1.$.0 Tortuga is PRicelss
Went to the end of the earth .San Diego…aND LATER la Paz TO FIND THE TURTLE…
this WEEKEND in Santa Barbara…to bring HOME a Tortuga…for Brooke…
Not a dolphin…not a killer whale..a tortuga…
And let’s buy fish farms in Hawaii, Dad…
You are what you eat…
Message in a bottle…?
BLOUDY SUNDAY~
the quorum callers agree~
It’s clocking 65 mph right now. 140 by Thursday.
Glad to be the getaway e-bike driver
Fuck it. Go hard Ewing. Can’t have Toledo winning another Comp in knee high waves. But he will. Boring
Is there a thing called ‘doing a Ewing’? There should be. Anything where you defy disbelief and come back from a hopeless situation to do the equivalent of surfing a five man heat at trestles for the wozl baileys ladder cup trophy.
We still call that ‘chuckin a Bradbury’ after the 2002 winter Olympics phenom Steven Bradbury
painkilling injections will take care of it on the day
calling a lil bit of westerly means more lefts and less rights. or the otherway around…no offense to windina, but the breezes are not even mentioned.
i usually only zero in on s_line forcasts for hawaii, but i’ll make an exception for San Clemente. back after this commercial…
Sept 7th & beyond. behold!
Beyond that, another storm is pulling together right now in the Southwest Pacific, outperforming model guidance so far and due to strengthen over the next couple of days, likely becoming stronger than its predecessor. A second trough of low pressure is expected to push through this area on Wednesday, not as strong as the parent low but pushing further northward. As a result, a better-sized SSW swell will line up around the 12th-14th. Early estimates for this storm have it producing more swell than the SW/SSW pulse before it but very likely still smaller than the S swells on tap over Labor Day weekend. Again, surfers stuck in the South Bay, San Diego, etc. should be more optimistic about these more westerly angled swells than the souths on tap around Labor Day.
The South Pacific isn’t looking like a slouch heading into mid-September either. While there isn’t currently anything mind-blowing on the charts both the Southeast and Southwest Pacific have the potential to produce some swell for the back half of the month. Doing its best to make up for a lackluster couple of months.
Confusing, yeah?
Regardless of the Ewing soap opera, Robbo bashes Chianca to the far horizon, and then makes EE look like he has actually got a broke back. Griff will be stiffed and Tolly gets pebble-dashed. The Zen masters destiny fulfilled.
his biggest risk at trestles is walking across the cobblestones to the water … and if he can survive the journey across that hell-scape, which is in no way guaranteed, he’ll be fine. I hear Pip has hired muscle to carry him to the water to avoid the risk of hitting that reef, errr rocks.
hired brazzy muscle taking in the shade or avoiding the rock dance or lining up for their next manouver?
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Last year I learned during the championship interview that Jesus personally told FT that he was going to be world champ. Do you think Jesus has contacted him again this year? Can you imagine being so self-absorbed that you think the “son of god” has nothing better to do than help some clown win a surfing contest? Either way, he’ll probably win. Class A douche bag but dude rips the fluffy perfection.
I bet they run on Sunday, with Hurricane Jova swell and maximum crowds on the beach.
Wearing a hat with your name on it is nah
My plan on showing up to Trestles with a batch of Ethan Earwig merch is looking far more promising!
https://youtu.be/j3fkDQiCuf…
Not sure how dudes can conjure up conspiracy theories of Ethan taking an 8ft slamming on Chopes reef as staged. Like WTF…. Sure it’s all very exciting but get a grip.
you sound frustrated.