"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.
Lightly essential.
