"Teahupo'o is no joke and you've gotta make a decision with yourself..."
Teahupo’o, or Head Place, is in the rearview mirror as the World Surf League’s Championship Tour swings toward Central then South America. Yes, the El Salvador Pro opens its waiting period wide in just four days with the Rio Pro coming directly on its heels. Afterward, though, the cream of the crop will retrace carbon footprints back to Tahiti in order to ready themselves for the Olympic Games.
Now, many of the hopefuls excel “at the end of the road,” their courage and skill just highlighted. Vahine Fierro, John John Florence, Gabriel Medina, Jack Robinson and Ramzi Boukhiam to name but five. Others, like Jordy Smith and Kanoa Igarashi also performed well, showcasing work put in over the years to navigate the terror.
And then there is the case of Filipe Toledo.
The current world surf champion, sitting out the tour this year but still-Olympic bound, was at Head Place just prior to the Pro and felt it a good idea to post an unfinished baby barrel to his social media as proof. Maybe he was unaware of the forecast, that actual waves were coming and they would actually be ridden, providing stark contrast to his efforts. In any case, Toledo’s unwillingness to paddle Teahupo’o has been a major storyline heading into the Olympics. His historic 0.0 heat total and inability to give effort when in a heat with two old-timers legendary. Calls for him to relinquish his spot grew to a roar after countryman Italo Ferreira’s win. Ferreira the odd man out on Brazil’s overstocked squad.
But Toledo has shown no sign of abdicating, defiantly clutching his pearls. Well, one of the aforementioned old-timers, Kelly Slater, who just so happened to reach the quarterfinals in the most recent running, just offered advice to the timid lion. In celebration of week, Slater wrote, “Tahiti has been amazing. The energy, the people, the surf… if you could only bottle it up for everyone to experience. Thanks of all the support and fun this week from family, friends and fans alike.” The 56-year-old then went on to describe his experience and praise those put their heads down before remarking, “Teahupo’o is no joke and you’ve gotta make a decision with yourself if you want it and disregard what the brain is saying at times.”
Certainly easier said than done but also great advice. With under two months remaining until the lighting of the torch will Toledo turn off his brain and become the greatest sporting story ever told or… not? I, for one, am very much cheering for Filipe Toledo, wishing more than anything to be put right in my head place.
He will be surfing against Igarashi in the opening round.
More as the story develops.
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To gloat.
https://youtu.be/i1_FXgdcAD…
Kelly’s so competitive, he passed me in Age!… more as the story ages… prematurely….
Make it or break it + Kelly
Pip will get great at 3-4 foot, and more likely than not, it will be 3-4 foot. And we’ll all say “you haven’t changed a bit! you look the same as (the last time we saw you).”
All shall he revealed in the fullness of time.
“The 56-year-old then went on to describe his experience and praise those put their heads down before remarking”
Coulda swore that The Bald One was only 52 when he turned up at Bells a month ago?
Welcome to beachgrit. He’s actually 59.
and round that up.
Chas got an acquired brain injury from that guy with the yellow beanie.
Chas and Derek are displaying expert level trolling skills by rounding his age up to random larger numbers. The internet research agency would be proud.
yip, they always do that with his age
Shark bumps a kid at T-Street last week. Swimmer in Del Mar attacked today. The whites are really escalating things in the wake of the Trump trial and BG has remained silent about it for this sake of Pip Bait.
Speaking of White
https://x.com/Breaking911/s…
one philanderer deserves another, I suppose
You’re an educated man, I reckon.
Please read this. Former Chairman of the FEC, a witness who Judge Merchan DID NOT ALLOW to testify. Brad Smith.
Its a lengthy read, but I also reckon an educated man like yourself will take the time to read it.
https://twitchy.com/samj/20…
Its a shame Pauly Matt War-Shore keeps being such a kook labeling posts I’d like you to read regarding Brad Smith testimony not allowed by Judge Merchan.
But Pauly is an ideological clown, unwilling to let you read the truth, instead Paulu being content labelling comments Spam so it gets stuffed in the box of never read.
you mean an expert witness providing a legal opinion on what the law means and what the law doesn’t mean? yeah, that’s not allowed in any State jurisdiction or under Federal evidentiary rules either.😂😂😂
It was Bragg who placed into issue FEC violations.
Bragg had presented to the court that it was a foregone conclusion that Trump violated Federal campaign laws. And commie Judge Merchan allowed it to be accepted as such without affording the defendant Due Process.
As Chairman of the FEC, his testimony is most certainly allowed for Trump’s defense as guaranteed under the Constitution
Read his Thread on Twitchy dot com.
Trump was never given notice of the accusations against him as to these other “crimes” that elevated a misdemeanor to a felony. No notice.
Brad Smith explains why fat Alvin didn’t place it in the prosecutor’s filings
and the judge didn’t entirely exclude his testimony. he just limited it so that he couldn’t testify on the subject of pure legal conclusions, which he couldn’t testify about under any State law anyway. Trump’s team ultimately decided not to call him to provide that non-legal conclusion testimony. So once again, that’s on his legal team, not the judge.
As a lawyer and law professor, the fact commie Biden donor judge merchan wrongfully deprived Trump the defense witness Brad Smith is but more proof of this political prosecution.
Care to point out where in the transcript that determination was made?
the decision to limit his testimony, or the Trump team’s decision against ultimately calling him?
If it’s the former, that would be a combination of the transcript, the minute orders, and the motion in limine briefing. If you want to order all of that from the court reporter and the NY court and pay like $8K+ for copies of all of that, and then send it to me, I’ll give you page, line, and docket numbers.
But if it’s the latter, that decision is going to be among client and counsel—not going to be reflected in any publicly available documents beyond the fact that they didn’t call someone on their witness list.
The prosecutor offered up that these “crimes” that elevated NY misdemeanor charges to felonies were in fact committed. No evidence presented. Simply an allegation made.
Prosecutor: “He committed FEC campaign violations used to interfere with the Federal election”.
Judge Merchan: “I agree.”
Trump Defense: “Out client has Constitutional protections.”
Judge Merchan: “Not today.”
ok, so you DO have a copy of the transcripts and pre-trial orders! Just post a google drive link to where I can download those.
“This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up,” Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo began. “The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election, then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying on his New York business records over and over and over again.”
“With pressure mounting and Election Day fast approaching, Donald Trump agreed to the payoff [to Stormy Daniels] and directed Cohen to proceed,” Colangelo reportedly told the jury. “It was election fraud.”
Wonder why the #3 at Biden’s Department of Justice resigned and became the lead prosecutor on this sham trial. Colangelo.
Perhaps because he worked with and knew Bragg before he started at the justice department? Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven when it comes to government work
Before working at the DOJ, Colangelo worked for Attorney General Letitia James, who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a massive civil lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022.
During his time in James’s office, Colangelo was involved in Trump’s civil case and also led federal initiatives, which involved, at the time, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, as well as investigating the Trump Foundation.
He also previously worked in the Obama administration, and the Democratic National Committee paid him twice for “political consulting” in 2018, federal records show
a no good democrat to be certain!
But do you lay the blame at the feet of the grand jurors who indicted him and the trial jury who convicted him? Were they all just duped by the deep state left-handed pizza eating democrat machine, or are they part and parcel with the most elaborate conspiracy you could imagine?
How many felonies in NYC has Alvin Bragg reduced to misdemeanors?
I’ll save you the time. A shit ton.
When even this guy below calls bullshit, I mean, come on dude…
https://x.com/VigilantFox/s…
ok, but you haven’t answered my questions about the jury and the grand jury.
Trump’s Due Process right of notice of the accusations were violated. Much like the trial, it’s obvious Bragg never presented the Grand Jury with any specific “crimes” that magically elevated a misdemeanor offense under NY law to felonies. Simply stating Trump, as some accepted fact without supportive evidence, had committed these “crimes”.
It is REQUIRED under the US Constitution that Trump be provided notice of the accusations so that his due process rights are preserved and thus affording him his Constitutionally protected right to present a defense to those accusations.
You know it was prejudicial. You know it Com.
You had two licensed NY attorneys on that jury. Were they similarly duped by the jury instructions?
Waiting for my answer re: the jury, and I promise you I’ll tell you what I think the only potentially prejudicial aspect of this trial was, even though it’s the law in the State of NY.
Look forward to ID’ing those two attorneys. Those two will be the first two to secure book deals, I guarantee that. Look forward to ID’i h every juror on that panel.
The fact is it doesn’t matter that those jurors, with malice aforethought, wrongfully convicted Trump All that matters is the procedural defects that will be found to be reversible errors.
Dems well versed in political strategy know how big an error this political prosecution was. Dems will regret this move.
and there it is. the MAGA cucks just want to dox, intimidate, and/or physically harm the jurors because they DARED convict God Emperor Trump so that the jurors in any other forthcoming Trump trial fear for their safety.
But I’ll stick by my word and say that the NY State law prohibition (unique among allost all States) against sending copies of the jury instructions to the deliberation room after they’ve been read to the jury by the judge is absolutely moronic. To say that you can read 50+ pages of instructions to a jury and then have them go through the elements and other instructions by memory is total and utter bullshit in either a civil or criminal context.
In that sense, Trump might deserve a new trial, but the result is going to be the same.
and there it is, ya know, who first normalized this behavior.
https://x.com/kekw_memes/st…
ah I think that’s orange , trying to be white
$34.7 Million in small donations less than 24 hours after the verdict.
$52.8*
Christ dude way to bring out the nut jobs.
Kanoa scored a total of 0.73 in his round of 16 heat, he’s right there with Toledo to be fair.
had a shocker in that heat and he’s not a charger but he’ll have a crack. Pip has failed numerous times. You can’t compare them.
I reckon Kanoa like Leo Fio are underrated in heaving barrels. They fully have a dig.
On a kinda similar subject, I found this recent Australian beach scene photograph.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Looks like Beth has followers after all…
I’ll change her fins out, no worries, B and B
My guess is the waves won’t be that big and he’ll be fine.
seems like a phone call to Felipe….
“Italo here, how’s Lowers been? How bout giving me your spot at Teee’aaa’huuuupo in August?
Brazil would applaud that decision.”
Felipe can pretend he’s still ill, save face and do his cuntry proud
I don’t think you can just say, I’m not gonna compete so I’m giving my spot to tis guy.
not sure on the rules on this. I think the replacement has to go in as an alternate or would be someone that was the runner up in the ISA events.
For CT, didn’t they have to be in the top whatever last year or something?
Yago is next in line for Pip’s spot
Equally viable over Felipe.
If Felipe had anxiety during a CT that few watch, imagine the nerves when all of Brazil is watching draped in flags???!!!!
He pulls a Pip and he won’t be able to go home.
Exponentially more pressure on him especially if unknown girls are getting waves.
The unknown 14 year old girl from china really might die.
Maybe it’s Fil’s Portuguese heritage that prevents him from abdicating. Them Portuguese were always more the sort making others abdicate.
Do a Salazar and fall off his chair and die?
Pretty sure it’s igarshi. Could be wrong. I was thinking if Filipe surfs solid teahupoo and balks again you think he surfs the 2025 season? Could spell early retirement if waves of consequence and smaller tour numbers become a reality for the future.
Its all good. If the forecast looks big and all else fails he can always get Diarrhea again.
Getting Diarrhea has gotten me out of many jams in my life.
Might get some later today. Supposed to go over to the in laws.
You don’t look well Sean, better lay down on the couch and rest, you wouldn’t want to give whatever you have to them!
I heard beer fixes diarrhea by the next morning, true?