"Most dudes I know would love to be dropped in on by her"
A short clip of the Hawaiian-raised surfer Brittany Hokulani Penaroza dropping in and then wiping out atop a surfer at Desert Point has split the internet, a few celebrating the manoeuvre as female empowerment at work, the majority calling it dumb and dangerous.
Posted by the master filmer Riordan Pringle, the talented boy who shoots and cuts all of those Mason Ho clips, we see Britt Penaroza joining a fellow surfer on a wave before taking too high a line and being flipped off her surfboard, which almost decapitates the man already on the wave.
Pringle named it”The Britt Flip” and called it “the most controversial manoeuvre of the summer.”
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Comments were split, roughly, ten-to-one against Penaroza.
For:
Since when did surfers become so fragile. Hahaha. Brit is fucking amazing for charging deserts, can take a joke and a backflip. People need to party wave more, take themselves less seriously and be less critical.
Most dude I know would love to be dropped in on by her
Most of the male friends around me are chivalrous and confident enough to not be threatened by a chick testing herself on a challenging wave. I think they are also just men who don’t take themselves too seriously and enjoy surfing for surfings sake without the need to fight out in the water or the comment section… especially with women.
Brit is a courteous surfer. I heard this swell was packed and agro. She ended up with stitches and a funny clip. No need to get their knickers in a twist
Against:
Seen her drop in like that on the shoulder at bowls and rocky too many times. Hopefully now she’ll be more mindful. Also, funny to see the blatant double standard from some in the comments.
I don’t give a fuck if I dropped in on that guy and wasn’t supposed to if he did that to me I’d be waiting for them on the beach or the parking lot and he pay a fucking price
And from Penaroza?
“My best move yet.”
Her response to the “haters”, as they’re called in the online community, was simple:
To all the grumpy people saying ID deserved it, I got 5 stitches in my foot because of this and couldn’t walk for a week
Which garnered a frenzy of replies:
play stupid games you win stupid prizes
Maybe you shouldn’t be dropping in on people…
you did deserve it. Glad you finally got some consequences for your actions. Don’t drop in on people. You aren’t special, and the rules *do* apply to you.
the consequences dont make your actions correct. I hope those stiches help you remember not to do it again. Its easy, just look for other people and pull back if someone is already on the wave. It was YOU who fabricated a dangerous situation, it could have been the other surfer who got injured. And theres no need for that, there are more waves to catch. Even if the guy was snaking and being a dickhead, its better not to create these dangerous situations. It was your foot, but couldve been someones neck
imagine trying to defend a blatant no look drop in and then btching about the outcome
Thoughts?
I come on the side of female empowerment, pro-Britt if you like, and if the surfer being dropped in on was a white male, well, all the better.
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Haven’t seen the clip (just the stills above) and she may well have burned the guy accidentally or on purpose, but the misogyny on here is fucking brutal and unworthy of you all.
Surf equity is that way –>
Oh no I’m worthy of being unworthy.
From the clip, looks like the guy she dropped in on, actually dropped in on someone else first.
Karma?
I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick
I’m forever indebted to you for this! HOW I missed this album is beyond me. And now I know where our college boy label “Gash Man” came from.
Well, it’s Deserts. Whether she was in the wrong and burned this guy or whether she just dropped in after he back paddled her, she’s the one who decided to paddle out at that zoo.
Or, for the trans haters:
Girl with strap-on + DRs anus achieves the same result.
THIS is legendary!
Yea, Mrs Madeoff* did that to me in ’22 and in retailation I went out and bought a new board. I showed her…until she took that really cool Billy Tolhurst board from me.
*Never question who rules the world!
The nose of my board does not discriminate. Don’t care if you’re an online prostitute, or not.
I told you Hawaiians are the worst. Entitled and drop in wherever they go. She deserved it
Just call her jewish hawaiian and derek will write 10 articles about her.
That still shot looks more like a backside under the lip no-look bum tickler…
p.s. fuck Instagram!
Still confused why the dude kicked out when it looks like there was a lot of wave left to surf. Seems the most egregious fuck up of the clip.
100%
Maybe he wanted to go check to see if she was ok? I kid. I kid.
Well this is a tough call. It says “athlete” in her Instagram bio so clearly she’s a pro surfer. If this dude doesn’t wanna get burned nextime maybe he should change his bio from bricklayer to athlete like the rest of the rippers
repeating one of the comments on insta:
“Love how he did all that, just to kick out”. Truth.
Deserts is over-rated.
Here is my opinion https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRz2L-lUZQ&pp=ygUUZmFydCBub2lzZXMgMTAgaG91cnM%3D
“To all the grumpy people saying ID deserved it, I got 5 stitches in my foot because of this and couldn’t walk for a week”
drops in, kooks out, near killing the surfers she dropped in on, claims the victim status?
what a fucken cunt
I’d make her not be able to walk for a week too! ; )
She’d be too sore from pegging your bitch ass?
I’m sorry about your sister man.
Everyone knows she deserved what she got. Change the gender and she’d get a bunch of 5s.
BUT, bbbbbuuuutttt she cut her foot and couldn’t walk for a week…might be time to toughen up!
Id also like to come on her female empowerment!!
I think she should be allowed to drop in coz she’s cute. And I’m as shallow as desert point. The grower section
My wife uses that same excuse
I don’t get it. They’re acting like the gods must be crazy dropping a coke bottle onto unsuspecting surfers just out and about hunting and gathering waves.
Just keep at it, ya know, building that pedestal for your click bait, higher and higher, and even higher still, until eventually that click bait pedestal is so impressive that Kelly announces his kid’s name is “Click Bait”.
We don’t have to wait much longer. Finals day is right around the corner.
So, after cutting her foot on the reef, she now has two Gashes.
Truth*
I don’t understand
Female Anatomy 101.