USA! USA! USA!
Surfing’s celestial sky has radically changed, this year, with old stars fading away and new ones being birthed. The two brightest, possibly, America’s Griffin Colapinto and Australia’s Ethan Ewing. Brazilian storm clouds not longer obscuring the horizon.
Both reached the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal final, paddling out in glassy headish high surf while doctors, at home, wiped tears from their eyes, trying to focus on the present moment as Colapinto and Tim Ferriss would want. France’s Johanne Defay, you see, had just denigrated their work with a stunning win over the surfing medical miracle Tyler Wright.
A heavy burden.
Colapinto got off to a quick start after baking himself in an infrared sauna, posting two respectable scores before Ewing found rhythm.
I actually have one that looks almost identical in my garage at home though rarely use it. Watching Colapinto’s early dominance, certainly makes me rethink my program. Could I, too, dominate with a little extra heating?
Time will tell.
The San Clementine looked like he was running away with the show until midway through when Ewing employed his luscious bottom and smashed out the highest score yet.
Americans dreaming of a return to surfing dominance holding breaths.
Doctors, in America but also world wide, beginning to cry again about Wright, unable to dam the emotion. What went wrong? Should they have added 9 mm of extra airway instead of just 7 mm?
With less than ten minutes to go in the final, Colapinto made a rare mental error. Ewing did not initially capitalize, though, and fell on a wave that had all the scoring potential needed. Colapinto rubbed his very handsome buttocks right in it by snagging a sneaky barrel right before the Bonsoy Brew Break.
Surf fans forced to wait to see if he bettered his score line.
Doctors texting each other, wondering if they should make a support group wherein they could freely discuss both failures and next steps as it relates to Wright.
When live action returned, Colapinto had vaulted to a healthy lead thanks to a 8.27 score then chasing it with a fine backside tube that was missed because of the aforementioned BBB.
The score a 9.97 though not a 10.00 because the mid-sized Yeti cooler was already packed and ready to be sent to Bells Beach.
All hope lost for Ewing who purchased a plot in comboland.
Chas, get a Colapinto and a Ewing one size fits all jersey. Let the misses choose her favorite? Hop in that unused sauna and have a couple man on man heats. Don’t leave the Porsche running in the garage at the same time..
How did any of you endure watching this crap event? I gave it a few tries and just couldn’t care at all. Plus we all know this years winner at Trestles comes with an * without the cowardly lion present so what are we encouraging the WSL for with our views?
glittering general titties? see Strider? see Lucy? see Salma? see Selema?
The better surfer won.
Great, Ewings surfing is boring
Could you understand this story ?
Huge talking shit anonymously on the internet, but no evidence they actually surf…?
You’ve been to Indo, what is it, three times now since you posted up in Singapore? Would you say you’ve stuck more Hurluley stickers up on random walls, storefront windows and poles in Indo than the number of times you surfed there? My guess is more stickers
I’d say you’re a bitter old man. But your efforts here already prove that. And the invitation still stands. Seems I have quite a bit I can teach you, from where to put stickers to where to surf. But I’m thinking you’d probably need a surf lesson or two before getting into anything over waist high?
I remember you said in your posts dropping pics of the stickers that you would rather have been surfing but it was a little too big for your comfort. Why didn’t you paddle out, get out there, stay wide so as not to get in the way, but at least put in the work to get the best vantage point to really see the mechanics of the wave?
Do you believe everything you read on BG, Otto?!?
What’s there not to believe? Your first time there. Swell was beyond your comfort zone, and that’s okay little buddy. Lucky for you channelbottom had shipped you your sticker order. Cause shit, if you don’t want to paddle out and study the wave, that’s fine, but we all know what that means. What do you do? “Well, I do have these Hurluley stickers.” you thought to yourself.
You keep dodging the question. I’m looking at Lombok again, or Telo islands. I’ll even chip in a few $ for your ticket. Link up with Gorilla in San Fran and fly this way–been trying to get him over here too.
I appreciate the offer to chip in. This year is the third phase on my Montana property.
Phase 1: Cabin/Porch/Conex
Container Sheds ✓
Phase 2: Barn ✓
Phase 3: Pasture/Fencing/Used Tractor (no ✓)
All available funds are budgeted for this Phase, which I think is even more important than the cabin and barn cause completing it will allow me to actually work the land, not just live on it.
Also, if you’re so jealous you didn’t get any stickers, I can mail some to you, or you can just ask Channelbottom for some.
Wsl add!
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He earned the win fair n square I’d have given a 10 for that tube best wave of the entire contest.
God Bless America. Jesus Christ has smiled down once again on his favorite land, the one true Earthly Heaven.
glad I went to bed.
griffs bodhisattva crap is as annoying as Tyler’s medical miracle crap….but it makes for great fodder for surf journalists.
I will watch the joey d. heat though because, well it’s joey d.
and I’d like to analyze Tylers medical miracle malfunction
If Crosby was Australian his nickname’d be Bill
I’ve liked how the commentators were trying to draw parallels between Curren and Occy on account of Ethan being a man of few words and Griff being a man incapable of forming complete sentences.
Both pull tail, and one possibly rod, yet neither of the updated version have 3 kids each already out of wedlock running around.
Up vote for “possibly rod”
Griff CocaColaPintoBean’s flex claim isn’t what it appears. Rumor has it that it’s actually his secret turn of sorts hand puppet claim, a suggestion of his VR guru. “Griffy Griffy bo biffy, banana fana fo fiffy, fe fi trophy! Grifffyyy!”
Believe it! That claim has staying power.
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They even have an all you can eat buffet they call “The Otto.”.
Well, you know why they closed your favorite restaurant, the WSL Flagship Restaurant and Bistro, right?
There were too many kooks in the kitchen.
Supposedly Matt Adler, when told to think of the biggest kook he could to be inspired to be Rick Kane for the first part of the movie, said “There’s this guy Otto…”
No need to dismiss your attachment to the all too often Hollywood remake production. You know, the story about Rick Kane and how he decided to take the Singapore financial hub by storm, parlaying his career trajectory to propel him to new frontiers, scattered throughout Indonesia, where he’d take his huge brain and put it to good use visiting Indo reef breaks where surf sessions were spent mostly riddled with fear, occasionally dented by moments of lust for Beach Grit fame. Fame that had to earned, not given. That meant one thing. Put BG stickers here. Put them to there. And then comment on a Beach Grit article and attach a pic of his accomplishments.
Sound familiar pal?
Otto doing his arm chair philosophizing. Emphasis on the chair. Not so much on the philosophizing. Fly this way and we’ll paddle somewhere together–your choice of reef and size. We can discuss the strengths and weaknesses of filial piety vs liberal democracy. Ready when you are…
Griff visibly 2% better than last year! Mind Boggling! How do they do it?! He just keeps getting better…more as the drama unfolds…
Has to stomach a cruel loss to Ireland today also!
Somewhere out there is Matthew McCuntahey…
Ehhhh griff just wanted to get yah ear for a minute fore all this world title business
mud
“Ewing employed his luscious bottom and smashed out the highest score yet.”
Nice, cap tip from Derek, I’m sure.
is ethan a barrel dodger? the tape says yes