"Some people's logic is so backwards. Everyone knows where that wave is and they want to single me out."
It’s no secret Koa Rothman, the middle son of North Shore enforcer Fast Eddie Rothman and brother to big-wave world champion Makua, feels coldly towards BeachGrit, his feelings laid bare on the Bert Kreischer show.
“They suck, they suck,” Rothamn told the Floridian funnyman.
At our end, however we regard the popular YouTuber whose golden-brown glazed handsomeness will stop any man in his tracks, as one of the greats of the sport.
His courage and pugnacity count him a a man of sound ethics.
You’ll remember five years ago when he sent a message to the world just prior to the opening of the Hawaiian season letting visitors know he’d be enjoying any wave he damn well wanted at Pipe and, therefore, not to take any drop-ins personally.
Now, Aussie locals have attempted to muzzle Koa Rothman during a recent holiday down under. After surfing a popular big-wave near Manly called Deadmans, Rothman returned to his car to find a sign warning him to not film for his YouTube channel.
In a follow-up video, this time Koa Rothman is welcomed with open arms by Ours kingpins Wayne Cleveland Jessie Polock although one Ours surfer laments his recent episode at Super Suck, Rothman addresses his critics with a disarming logic.
“Some people’s logic is just so backwards,” he says. “(At Deadmans) there’s 100 cameras there, Channel 9 news is there, their local station, drones are everywhere. Clips are all over Instagram. Everyone knows where that wave is and they want to single me out.”
As for the Super Suck critic, who felt Koa revealed a tightly held secret to the world Koa correctly pointed out, “I surfed with 100 people and 80 cameras.”
Watch the full ep here.
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Haole stay home. That’s doesn’t apply to all visitors. Only ones with 0 Aloha or respect. Also stay the f**k out the water if you going to waste waves. Learn how, den send em. Don’t crowd breaks with mediocre paddling and blowing waves. Then act like you all all hard and tell others you “surf”. MOST hard kooks in the water never been barreled in their life. Just chill, learn to surf, learn how to respect then wait in line. Not hard, just takes dedication.
Fuck this guy.
jealous of what? being poor and surrounded by ice heads?
Are vloggers like the 2024 version of Quey journey men..
It is impressive how people can make a 10+ minute clips about catching one wave – that they fell on. Also hasn’t towing 4ft cape been happening since 2003. Is this really ‘psycho’?
More questions than answers. Obvs..
Indeed, friend gorilla. Our Mapalehu mango tree went off this season.
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Fuck these pop ups Dez!
I thought you said Jewishness was inherited from your mother, Derek?
Next level DR.
t our end, however we regard the popular YouTuber whose golden-brown glazed handsomeness will stop any man in his tracks, as one of the greats of the sport.
This is Filmin’
This Is Whingin’
Fil Wouldn’t Go
Next heat US Open: Kanoa v Kolohe
Huntington Beach hop off!
No one hops like the K bros.
Where’s Koby when you need him.
In the gutter one hopes.
If Koa thought the situation was hot before, wait til Koby sets fire to it!
Maybe they targeted him instead of the 100 others cos he’s well-known as an international douche, and all the others aren’t…
“international douche”
😂
The guy comes across as an absolute flog.
Ours! Sorry for being an old bastard, but I’ve known it as Piker’s Hole since the 1970’s.
Ours is a shart name. We’re rolling things back to 70’s . Pikers Hole re-instated.
Targeted localism threats, wow. Perhaps locals need to get on the Google Adwords train and catch the tourists before they leave their accomodation, or distant homes.
Is his girlfriend ok?
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By combining the ‘news of the day’ the greater los angeles and california USOlyOrgs should invite Sam & Koa to be Ambassador’s on Improve Plastic Bag & Straw Recycling as:
In 2014, California tossed about 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste into the trash. But in 2022, plastic bags accounted for about 231,072 tons of trash, which is almost a 50% increase, according to data from CalRecycle, CALPIRG, the consumer advocacy group.
“This can’t go on,” the editorial board wrote. “We need a do-over — a second plastic bag ban that fulfills the promise that lawmakers made in 2014 by passing Senate Bill 270, and that voters embraced two years later when they rejected an industry-led ballot measure to overturn it.”
Also invite: Surfrider Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Heal The Bay, Departments of Sanitation and Sustainability. Also WSL.
Since surfing is nearly dead and instead of sitting in polluted waters waiting for a second of nirvana, place these poor souls on cannibus gummies (or pure herb flowers) and direct said soldiers to scrape the loins of the earth to nit-pick every bit of plastic and put them in their proper place. Wherever that place is…
If the bronzed Aussies just stood their ground way back when, Hawaii would be chuck full of Aloha spirit. I guess this is what happens when you leave it up to the Jews to create the atmosphere
Bloody oath.
Sounds like ‘quick-paced Pennsylvania Ed’ walked into a power vacuum amongst the local dumbo’s back in the day and didn’t have much problem getting them sorted out, to his advantage.
Could have been some westy bogans instead, and the place would be covered in flanno, mullets and ACDC flags…
Thunderstruck with ukuleles and pahus
have the alarm signals gone off yet? HB is anti-climatic live!…need re=placement wheels…don’t let me down~liquidados and soul patching…sushi& coastal protection…talk is sheep. got whiskey?
full of pink jump suits!