Big big.
The suds are not yet dry on the singlets but there is no rest for championship tour professional surfers, as the saying goes, save most of every heat, all those lay-days and that weird four months between the end of one season and the start of another.
Yes, Pipeline was historic yesterday and a full rundown from top-tier analysts JP Currie and Jen See will be available shortly but the aforementioned CT pros have no time for reflection for the countdown timer for the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach is officially under 24 hours and shrinking fast.
The forecast for the early hours is not favorable, though, and according to the World Surf League’s official witchcraft partner Surfline, a XXXL swell arrives Thursday that will pack enough punch to quake booties.
35 – 50ft the subscription service declares.
Big big.
Will the World Surf League run, is the first question, after turning down a Pipeline day last week for being “too big and good.” Who will the conditions favor, if they do, is the second.
Eyes turn toward the Rocky Point rental home of sitting Sunset Beach, and world, champion Filipe Toledo. BeachGrit’s many citizen-surf-journalists have reported, daily, on the timid tiger’s comings and goings since he shamefully bowed out of the Pipe Pro, refusing to give effort in bigger conditions then feigning food sickness. He remained a story throughout the event, thrust back onto center stage yesterday as the women put on a show for the ages. It was formalized, in the famed Open Thread: Comment Live section that there are now, officially, five women braver and better than the lilting lion in waves of consequence.
Caity Simmers, Molly Picklum, Carissa Moore, BettyLou Sakura Johnson, Moana Jones Wong.
Toledo, it has been noted by those citizen-surf-journalists, exclusively surfed Rocky Point after bowing out of Pipe and claiming he didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, making good on that claim and not proving anything to anyone.
Was he saving all that gas for maxing Sunset? Forcing all surf journalists, citizen and non, to eat lukewarm crow?
Discuss.
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Jessie Miley-Dyer-Straits one wonders what magic she will conjure with that forecast.
She is so inclusive she gives daily examples of being incompetent to others who are terrible at their job…
Did toledo pull out???
Safer Beaches Down the Road for Pip
Toledo saw the XXL swell coming and quit
Pip is no longer in the conversation
Except he won Sunset last year and he’s world champ, so…
He just pulled out of the rest of the year
He got very lucky he didn’t have to surf the first two rounds because Kai was sick.
It was huge and I doubt he would have made it.
Very good chance he’ll draw jjf in rd 3 unless there’s some upsets.
Edit: assuming he even surfs???
He did? Dam, thought it was Barron
Your right… maybe I’ll pick him for Surfvival
Eddie would go. Interesting combo of events?
If Surfline is a witch, does that mean the WSL believes themself to be a warlock?
Almost makes sense.
After all, the etymology of “warlock” is that it comes from the Old English word wǣrloga, which meant “breaker of oaths” or “deceiver”.
Makaha baby
only thru old film clips. where has she been?
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Jack Johnson last week🤙
Let’s be honest. It’s pro surfing at sunset.
They aren’t going anywhere near the peaks. They only surf the inside.
So long as it doesn’t get bigger than six feet the small wave tour will go!
Val’s Reef Pro ™️
If it’s a beautiful west northwest holding at 6X overhead they can’t not not hold it for my sake.
I Will Go!
^ for triple negative !
Toledo’s wife must be cursing this forecast. She probably just got done cleaning his pipe undies.
*panties
Anyone able to make Surf-Vival picks for Sunset yet?
No! You gonna Pip?
Pull out of the league? But I made it past Pipe for the first time!
they opened the pick window a couple minutes ago (1030 pst)
Wait until the heat draw is released. With some big names spudding it up at pipe there’s gonna be some tough matchups in rd 3.