Hope springs!
You and I might have once harbored dreams of becoming professional surfers. Oh we were much younger then, of course, maybe twelve or thirteen when anything seemed possible including, but not limited to, space travel, financial literacy, being chaired up the beach after posting three perfect tens.
Alas, real life crept in and we realized our boggy bottom turns and mistimed lip hits would never get us to the top.
But might hope spring?
Yesterday’s running of the Lexus Pipe Pro, wherein the women were trotted out to face “aggressively mediocre” waves, was mostly a shameful indictment of the World Surf League. Except, heat 6 of the opening round delivered a gem that will buoy even the grumpiest of locals. For, there, Sawyer Linblad defeated Johanne Defay and Lakey Peterson in part thanks to her first ever completed backside barrel.
(3:27:30 if not already teed up.)
Amazing!
The Championship Tour, you well know, is as high as a professional surfer can climb and imagine being able to reach the peak without the ability to weave a back footed tube. Might you, too, be able to make it without a wrap-around snap in the trick bag? Might I be able to without a fully developed cutback?
Our aspirations alive once again.
David Lee Scales and I did not, anyhow, discuss the power of dreams but we did rake Filipe Toledo over more room temperature coals.
Never enough.
Enjoy.
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Could see Pip vaping lychee flavour
Chas, WTF. After being reminded the Inetia exists in your last vid, I decided to stop by and see what they’re up to……..
The Inertia just declared that Pipeline and Teahupoo don’t matter anymore thanks to Felipe’s dominance! LOL, this is a sad day for surfing.
I’ll listen to it later
you’ve perfected the ‘drop-wallet cutback’ PP
I don’t know how much trurh there is to it, but I was told that he is Filipe’s younger brother.
You addressing me? What are you implying?
This was a truly astounding revelation. At first I thought hmm, maybe due to lack of quality waves in SC, but common. Not one barrel before!
The level of “skill” on the womens side is so pathetic. Equal pay for em is BS and they should be reminded of it every fucking day.
I thought I’d been barrelled backside for years until…in the Ments…I saw an entirely different vision and went…ohhhhhhh.
Yeah, well, I had five Teahupoo campaigns, surfed every day, never got near a barrel. Key advice for barrel avoiders in Tahiti: wait for the south sets up the reef. They wind down the line for many turns!
Tears for Tiers
Wheres the tucker putin comment thread?
You know the normies are fast asleep
nah, we’re listening
My 8 year thing with a russian lass was the highlight of my sex life, super torrid!!
once you go eastern european etc
Bexy’s Russian Lassie
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Youd be shocked, i was,
she was perfectly built and shouda been way outta my league, but the ol bexy charm hooked her lil buddy.
[snort of coffee]
screen shot and beyond!
Photo (and with you) or you’re just another bullshitting online hero.
It was only 8 years. He probably didn’t get one.
You know i got receipts champ
three blonde triplets?
“Here comes those
Santa Ana WindsRussian hook-up bots again…”there is sex and then there’s eastern European sex, glad we agreed
She was so rude tho.
I luved it.
not your fault mate*
As in not Woke.!!
Ha! we have a lot in common mate. BG/SERIOUS
Can this be featured comment?
https://www.youtube.com/liv…
the wife’s from Moscow, complicated issue
Very complicated, no doubt mainstream news will tell us whats up
Incredible history here. Nikita Khrushchev the soviet architect. Lush motherfucker not unlike myself
No doubt playa!!
just the lush part
Tucker appointing himself well AT THE KREMLIN INTERVIEWING PUTIN. Best person doing it right now
At the top of his game.
might be the only true independent. fugazi level shit
and he’s not gay!
The most watched clip ever on Twit/X?
As of this writing, the post on X with the video has over 125 million impressions on the platform. (Austin American-Statesman)
pete? watch it later?
Russia is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The globalist hate journalists doing journalism, and would much rather have a complicit news media pushing a preferred narrative.
Its a great interview and then you think of Biden, what the fuken fuk??????
Biden stores his brain in a mason jar in the fridge like this trannie stored his nuts
https://x.com/ReduxxMag/sta…
keep it civil otto, more weight that way
Я об этом подумаю
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
me, chief & Otto: “we’ll think about it…” honorable mention: Ricmatic
Biden and Dump, what a choice… dump and dumper. We’re all fucked.
Yeah, vote for a racist braindead bigot or vote Trump, its so tricky.
I think you’re racist braindead bigot is Dumper. No less tricky.
Youre ignorance is wild
I’ll vote later…
OMG! Chief. Let me count the ways one can incite a verbal riot:
“He’s got a gun!”
“There’s a fire!”
“I’ve got a bomb!”
“Shark!”
“Tucker’s In Russia…”
“The Russian’s Stole the Election…”
Jill Biden to the skool children: “Eat at Joe’s!”
Warning – old cunt rant… Remember early on, in the pre-coach era, folks were questioning Kelly’s ability in the big stuff? What did he do? Forced himself to tackle dinkum Pipe and heaving Cloubreak. Became part of the furniture in Hawaii. Machado too, which led to the legendary ‘high five’ heat.
Overcoming shit off your own bat – not a feature of today’s mentored, hand-holding, bottom-wiped generation.
They might have to start giving esky,s to athletes that complete a tuberide
Eddie would leave!
Here we go. Another one of Chas ‘I’m such a feminist’ virtue signalling ‘I’m all about you girls’ articles.
“the event window is closing in two days. day two is gonna be big and gnarly.”
…and WSL have definitely painted themselves into a corner with this one…..again.
12 0r 13 yrs.old?
geez, I was 24 before I realized my dreams of becoming a pro surfer had expired.
wish I would have stuck it out, as I could have at least beat a World Champ and advanced to the 2nd round at the Lexus Pipe Pro
so many apps that can apply to CT Pros. “Not now boss, I’m surfing a heat and about to get my first backhand tube, ever.!” work-life balance, no?
Reuters reported:
“Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right
to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of
work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that
breach the rule.
The ‘right to disconnect’ is part of a raft of changes to industrial
relations laws proposed by the federal government under a parliamentary
bill, which it says would protect workers’ rights and help restore
work-life balance.”
Lyin’ Hearted ink Top Tear Pro Surfer, and now this.
Per NYT:
“Another reason he chose not to prosecute Mr. Biden was even less flattering. Mr. Hur cited Mr. Biden’s poor recollection of events during an interview with prosecutors last fall that lasted two days.
‘Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,’ Mr. Hur wrote.”
He talks to dead people
echo chamber? deja vu? plagarism encouraged!
“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury”
correction: Mr. Biden (who is cognitively impaired) would likely present himself to a jury in a daze of confusion, facing the opposite direction and trying to figure out where the closest exit to the pudding is.
speaking as someone who voted for him in 2020… I agree with you!
“Biden willfully retained” marked and unmarked classified documents at his home.
This “risked serious damage to America’s national security”
Yet Biden will not be charged.
Speaking of tiers
Agree that it’s weird. Want to read the actual report when I get a chance later tonight
Also, not sure if you listened to the SCOTUS arguments this morning (if interested, I linked to it below), but no way in hell that CO ruling is upheld. So a good day for Trump, which doesn’t make me feel great but them’s the facts, as they say.
https://www.c-span.org/vide…
Yeah, I listened. No one was persuaded, except Sotomayor. She was remarkably quiet, and that woman loves the sound of her own voice. The activist in her will almost certainly compel her to dissent.
lucky for you, you’ll have a decent choice instead of rotting oatmeal brain Joe, Big Mike, or Gav the Destroyer
insurrectionists are lining up to vote. but not this one. no govt listing for dis guy…thousand of lawyers at the bottom of the sea? “Yeah, that’s a great start.”
like Jack Sparrow’s friends, even the bottom of the sea wouldn’t finish them.
all movie heros are being replaced with …..(see Bond, James, Pirates of Carib, Marvel Heroes…) blackface fems. not there’s anyting wrong with dat…86’d and 007. a cause for REAL INSURECTIONISTS TO RUSH THE JUDGE’S STANDS
No need go backdoor
https://youtu.be/s1w2meSEQI…
if you voted for Biden, you probably need a cognitive test.
Speaking from experience, this is possible.