"So, I’m almost feeling like everything that’s happened to me is leading up to this moment in the Olympics."
The Olympics is now but 16 days away and, as you know, I am here in Paris to cover them. The surfing portion, of course, will take place in French Polynesia, some 10,000 miles away, but I only like poisson cru every so often and, thus, opted for the City of Light instead. I will be able to watch them on television just as well as I could in Papeete and, also, will stay just as blocked on Filipe Toledo’s social media channels.
Yes, the bravest coward must be trembling with greater and greater frequency each hour that passes but he is likely becoming joined by others. Oh, he alone is quaking about the the thought of paddling those velvet waters. The others, shaking with the revelation that United States etoile Griffin Colapinto may be close to reaching “flow state.
In a just-published Fox interview, the San Clementine declared, “I’m feeling really good. I feel that this year, the past few years, every year there’s been a lot of challenges that’s come at me, and I feel I’ve done my absolute best to get through them. In the moment, they were really hard. Sometimes, I get out there, and it’s like, boom, flow state right away. Or I’ll be challenged with a lot of different thoughts coming at me. It’s basically just being able to be aware of that, and use it to become more present.”
As surfers on the World Surf League’s championship tour know, a flow stated Colapinto is virtually unbeatable. The fact that he was just at Head Place and did poorly, extra scary. The 25-year-old explained, “Last time I was in Tahiti, I ended up losing to the wild card in round 2, which is as early as you can lose in the event. I lost to the wild card, and I was so bummed because I put in so much preparation, so much hard work for that wave, and I have been for a long time. It just didn’t come to fruition. In the past, those things haven’t really gone my way, but I feel like I’ve learned so much every time things haven’t gone my way. So, I’m almost feeling like everything that’s happened to me is leading up to this moment in the Olympics.”
Does a Colapinto win seem fated?
I shall go have a cold glass of Sancerre and ponder.
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Only Gerry Lopez reaches flow state…end of story guru.
Is this something to do with mens’ performance anxiety at shared restrooms?
Like not being able to pee even though you’re busting, at a communal urinal wall…?
Especially if you’re a little bit baked. Then it just compounds and makes it worse, and a whole Bibles-worth of characters come and go and you know they’re thinking, like, “Why is that guy in the bogs just standing there with his knob out pretending to pee? Did you seee that guy there too? He must be baked, and not being able to enter his flow state. Yeah, bummer dude. I’ll bet he really needs to go, too.”
think faucets and waterfalls and active volcanoes
flow…the amount of diarrhoea
State…the Provence of India you are in at that moment
“work” will set you free
Just sat down with lunch and I read Tyler – flow state [green face with greener ooze]
A wildcard won the event, Griff, you sausage.
I achieve flow state from the bidet on my toilet every morning too
COWABUNGA !
jjflo state
Geez, I wish I had the time to reach flow state… Definitely the wife and kids holding me back. Maybe my job too.
seems like the comment section has entered its summer doldrums, quality over quantity era. Everyone just saving ammo until Olympic Tahitian bloodbath begins??
Submitted my vacay time earned request to Negs a few weeks ago and was approved on the condition I come back to work one day a week while gone.
well deserved time off
I’m just here for the articles
Booties?!
Who wears booties in 80 degree water, when they get to the surf by jumping off a boat?
I am as fond of the warm embrace of a good pair of booties as almost anyone on earth, but even I leave them behind when the temps climb into the upper 60s
My friend got a centerfold in Surfer Mag at restaurants wearing booties, lol.
That’s fucked.
Xox
Teahupo’o even when good to pumping can be inconsistent…it just amazes me how many of the Men and Women just let the further Over and In 4 and 6 foot West corners go unridden when all they need is say a 3-7 point ride to advance and then time runs out. Come on coach’s…duh.
I know… I know…actual surf banter would be elsewhere.
sometimes the lack of upvotes is a sign of true respect, like not wanting to sully a memorial site with silly trinkets
that’s deep Rocks…thx
I hit my flow state around 9:30am PST when i finish my first cup. Get on my level Griff
I’m hitting it pre plunge nowadays. The sound of the grinder can set me off.
have to grind at night and preset for a 530 am brew, can’t handle the noise in the morning
Deep down he is as depressed as the rest of us.
more
Is California as flow state?
a flow stated frank is, …unbearable
On Tahiti’s waves, Griffin rode with flair,
But his mind was muddled, his words a snare.
Verbal diarrhoea, a torrent unbound,
Distracted him from the competition around.
He mistook the flow of words for a zen state,
But his focus suffered, his performance fate.
He spoke of everything, and nothing at all,
As his rivals rode the waves to stand tall.
His surfing suffered, his medal hopes astray,
Lost in a sea of words, he couldn’t find his way.
In the end, he learned a valuable lesson true,
That a quiet mind and focus are key to breaking through.
He ain’t gonna win shit. The End.
dang. I was hoping he would win a big pile of “shit”.
so tired of Colapintos Bodhisattva buulshit.
Bring back Matt Hoy.
Years supply of fertiliser!
Xox
what would Laird have to say about Griffin surfing whilst in his “flow state”?
You need more creamer.