You'll remember him. You'll remember Filipe Toledo like we here in Paris remember Marie Antoinette.
Paris is in mourning today. Mourning the loss of a king.
Two days ago, Filipe Toledo was crowned King of Teahupoo after the magnificent wrangling of a barrel. A 9.67 ride quickly claimed as “the single greatest moment in surfing.”
The reign of House Toledo was supposed to last for generations, eons, longer than you or I.
Alas, as things happen, especially in Paris, it was short-lived.
But again, it was short, for yesterday Filipe Toledo paddled out at Teahupoo that had become burly and woolly, that had become menacing and mean and Filipe was sent home.
Fondly, we will sing songs to House Toledo and its rule.
You’ll remember him. You’ll remember him like we here in Paris remember Marie Antoinette.
A beautiful, beautiful boy, brought low before his time.
A sad day. A sad day.
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When Felipe scores 9+ on that wave. DEI scoring is in effect.
Love her her voice! I can play Fenme Fatale on repeat for an hour
As always a great piece. You’re looking like a French version of Miami Vice in those threads.
just watched the video……very funny.
“you’ll remember him young man”. classic improv.
ah better to have been King for a day , than a sad mad glad bad cad Dad not rad or had Lad?
Touche, you wicked man.
Urbn surf sydney closed.
dudes dead
olympic cliff diving…no bungy…portlandia…
Nod to Rico: never argue with anyone who buys their ink by the barrel. Just saying.
talk’s cheap takes money to buy whiskey. thames river wine. sauza by the river…let’s launch the gondola!
A parade in san clemente for Grif I assume. Is Pip’s parade in Santa Ana or Berdoo?
Lemoore
Just saw it. I know the Olympics love sticking to their schedule but running would’ve been a minor miracle.
How was Pip taking a coffee break during that heat he got eliminated in!? Lol, he seemed relieved to be heading back to San Clemente.
Yeah times winding down and buddy gets dropped off in the channel after getting tossed and instead of immediately paddling back out he has a yarn with his caddy while fucking about with his helmet lol. He’s gotta get with daddy Ricardo on deploying a less conspicuous way to chew up the clock next time.
“You nailed that like a split hog”
I really hope it’s Charlies wife not his daughter filming these.
It absolutely has to be a dapper sad looking French director man down on his luck smoking a cigarette and holding an iPhone.
Xox
What manner of dubious act is Chas having to perform to reciprocate?
beach slapped and banned by the House of Toledo?
Also whacked by the IG ban hammer. It’s a start.
And wearing fabulous Persol’s with blue lens.
One singular lens! He really is down on his luck! Sacre bleu!
Xox
fuck, what was worse, watching that stuttering garble from Chas or Felipe robbing me via sportsbet of a hundred hard earned AUD?
If you put a hundred on Pip to win a comp at chopes you deserve to lose it.
Bob, you are right and I am duly chastised, but it was 51:1, and the forecast was for slop when I placed it.
A hundred on Pup to win gold at Chopes?!? Lol
yes, duly noted and chastened.
Touché
Fuck he walked into that one!
Rekt
The old yo Momma basement internet hero gag gets me every time.
Looks like the shit is back on today. Appears the men will be rolled out at 10am and the women at 3pm. If I remember right a massive swell peaks today but does so under dogshit winds. Current report is 12-15ft. Wild if it’s actually on
Windy is showing a 10-20 kt onshore wind.
Yeah, I don’t get it. Now it seems the men are off and the women will be going out at 3pm. Olympic site says “very likely” to continue event today.
Felipe “Code Green” Toledo
If it’s over 4ft it’s all CODE BROWN to Pip…
Who?
There’s real emotion in this “Chas Hates Surfing”, even that last one. Which kind of warms my heart. Cuz it’s clear Chas loves surfing too. Yes he has earned the right to hate it. Idealizing it from the mire of cold rainy Oregon, only to find himself shackled to SoCals dystopian surf façade via a job. But this feud with House Toledo (and all the rest of Chas’s feuds and battles in surfing’s many kingdoms) reveals he still believes in youthful ideals.
I don’t know what it’s like to sacrifice an Instagram account with a battalions worth of followers. The thought of building one sounds like hell to me. So losing that seems more like a blessing than a curse. But I kind of get it now. The battles Chas loves to fight, need at least an audience to truly make a narrative stand. Especially when going against a banner like House Toledo. But that being said, a feud is a feud, and they have an army of trolls and media power too. So dirty or not it seems like it’s all part of the game.
Regardless, this is all very entertaining. Especially considering there are only 8 episodes of House of the Dragon this season (and MAX is shelving other GOT shows). So I’m glad that surfing media and culture has a rogue Knight taking swings, shuving it, even taking slaps to push surfings dark corners into the light. Good stuff.
And second account lost to mass complaining. Had 300k on Reports from Hell.
Admittedly Reports from Hell was America’s Funniest Semi-Surf-Adjacent Home Videos. Thousands of likes, then 25 odd on the BeachGrit posts.
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C’est parfait.
Exactement!
Looks remarkably like Jonah Hill
anti-smite-metic
Let’s not forget the 25 IG video postings of Filipe’s wave from all angles, gnarly face often included, during those infamous 11 hours. His PR agency was on fire!
Then it all went down in flames like cheap, fake Chinese silk lit with a match.
Exactly!! I think Currie alluded to that embarrassment as well in his post. House Toledo needs to hire a new social media czar, because the current one only serves to make him look worse.
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New Queen of France…… Chasinette….Don’t get beheaded by the Brazos while youre out there.
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