SHAME (barf).
Lower Trestles’ famed cobbled stones are still ringing with yesterday’s thrill. “Where were you on Sept. 6, 2024?” will certainly be the very first questions surf fans ask each other for generations to come. Unless named Kelly Slater or Filipe Toledo, the answer will certainly be “Watching Lexus Finals Day and open thread live chatting with friends.
At the end John John Florence and Caitlin Simmers hoisted the championship cups, deserving after a year’s worth of quality work in all different conditions.
Both number one going in, both challenged, though, by upstarts seeking to spoil the entire World Surf League season. Caroline Marks pushing Simmers to the brink, taking it to a third round. Italo Ferreira bull raging from fifth to almost first.
Yes, Florence and Simmers deserved the tiaras though somewhere during the day, the judges absolutely lost their minds and started throwing completely bizarre scores that had surf fans baffled in the open thread live chat and Richard Lovett plus Jesse Mendes wildly confused in the booth.
None of it made any conceivable sense. Italo getting excellent marks for an accidental air. John going even better for a ride worse than his first.
The chaos, thus, infected the passionate Brazilian surf fan who, for once, had reason to believe a fix was in. Grieving at the end of the contest, he wept whilst walking up the Trestles path, Order and Progress flag sagging behind him. He wept arriving home, wife and children pestering with surf related questions. He wept over a piping hot bowl of feijoada.
And then he got angry.
Heading into his phone, he unleashed a flamethrower of passion across various World Surf League social media channels. Poop emojis, barf emojis, Brazilian flag emojis one after another after another.
Rage.
Pure undiluted rage.
I, for one, understand. I was rooting for Marks and Ferreira too but not for good and decent patriotic reasons. No, I wanted them to win because that’s how much I despise the World Surf League and victories by those two would surely have forced a reckoning.
Thanks a lot, judges.
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How are the Brazilian fans gonna feel when the Green Bay Packers turn their back on them and head back to Wisconsin after this weekend?
2 title for JJF given by WSL. Congrats WSL..good job. As well done by Beachgrit ..jokking with Brazilian fans taken it for grant. Well THE BAD NEWS FOR YOU GUYS:
Next year you will have more Brazilians and more surf, more competitors willong to win and robbing from them will be more and more difficult.
The sad thing is JJF doesn’t need to get help to get there but he does and a lot.
1 st heat Italo WON easily ….JJF carves never bit IF snaps and airs.
We will never go to know if JJF would be able to win IT without WSL pushing him to the cup.
Sad and bad for this champion league.
And all the other questionables victories over Gabriel and other competitors during the year.
So you’re saying the WSL should drop Rio because no one likes surfing in raw sewage?
Haha Ian Gouveia, Alejo Muniz and Michael Rodrigues leading the Challenger. Yeha next gen! Maybe Julian Wilson’s return might spark something in Willian Cardoso, or Thomas Hermes.
Have a sook, cunt
I second that and anything else Andy C says that includes ‘cunt’.
Eetalow’s a shit cunt
Have a bit of class. Your guy lost. Deal with it instead of throwing sads around like confetti.
Fuk they must have a lot of free time on their hands…
Sure Italo might be the best close out surfer in the world, even if his airs are flailed and hucked with no style, variety, or nuance. But Trestles isn’t known for being a close out, and going on close out sections repeatedly shouldn’t be rewarded by the judges. I thought Ethan and Griff both won their heats against Italo. The Brazillian audience, being the WSL’s biggest, should be grateful they repeatedly were gifted a reason to keep watching.
JJF won without a doubt in my opinion, and deservingly so. I am not saying Italos airs are nice or ugly. The only point is, if judges are scoring them well, why don’t other surfers do it?
Seemed like the other surfers were being more strategic waiting for the good waves, that weren’t plentiful. Going for a close out huck might put someone out of rhythm for a good wave. Italo’s ability to froth on close outs and boost is impressive. Even the flailed ones (they weren’t all) added drama that the judges seemed to fall for. But think about it, Italo winning a world title hucking hail Mary’s on close outs at user friendly point break? I’d fire all the judges for garbage judging like that.
It’s beautiful to read the eternal complaints (cry is free?) about Italo’s airs. However, other surfers just didn’t do them because of their soulful appreciation of carving-only surf. Surfers who honorably refuse to perform airs which unpurify the essence of true surfing. Surfers who purposely sacrifice a heat win in order to show the world that wave-face-only surfing is the way of beauty and elegance. Surfers who are unbreakable and won’t give in to the system. It’s so beautiful to see the altruism of some surfers.
Fuck yeah Paulo
Paulos rule cunts
No JP missive? What are we to think without his sage?
Maybe he’s running up a mountain with only a bottle of aged scotch?
Sure, hit his head and cut himself, all part of the experience.
Understand, he missed the finals because he assumed that they scheduled it for Saturday.
If I may, I’ll give you the cliff notes.
Italo blitzed frustrated people and ran out of gas while John waited yet the wind never ruined it. You can’t beat the best dude in the world when you’re out of gas.
Imagine fighting Marvin Hagler, then Thomas Hearns just to face Ray Leonard in a “final”…. he’s gonna light you up.
Ok, let’s move on to real estate.
It wasn’t the gas in his tank. He could’ve gone all day and night.
Unfortunately as much as I love him, Italo’s rail game just isn’t world class.
Mendina and John tick all the boxes.
In that shit surf, rail game is superfluous.
Safe too.
Maybe still gas in the tank, but definitely hints of tangled caffeine come-down and that resigned paranoia that comes with it.
They do have a fetish for that after drinking
yeah I am lost ,no friends, no family , no future No reason for ron…ahhhhh…but I have BG , which …???
I hear ya homie, that layback should’ve been a 10!
I’m just glad the Australians lost. Are cops still beating up women and children for not wearing a mask over there?
Cops are as fucked as fuck, and will always do fucked stuff, not that “beating up women and children for not wearing a mask” was a thing besides a couple of isolated incidents. We can talk about America though. Do people, including cops, in your country, still worship the fuck out of guns and shoot the fuck out of innocent cunts on the regs?
Nah too busy arresting people for sitting on the beach without a permit these days @socialnarcotics:disqus you got your beach sitting compliance documentation in order?
No, they just shoot your dog when it runs up to them to say hi and they get skeered…. fuckin losers!!
Funny how butthurt Ozzies assume I’m American when I’ve never even been there
Not good for you then if people think you’re as dumb as the average American.
Oooooh the burn it stings
It does a bit though, doesn’t it.
They shoot kids in skateparks too
It’ll be the breakdancers next
here’s hoping
U need to ween yourself off fox old mate and if your a yank check ur own history..
I don’t have a TV and I’m not American mate!
Well thank fk for that then..
It’s ok, we handed in our guns so we’ll lose again once the government goes all tyrannical on us. I mean I know yanks think that paying too much tax on tea is the sign of tyranny but we really DGAF.
Ok guy.
As much as BeachGrit has lost all credible writing abilities, apparently sportsmanship, and grit are gone as well, CRYING are you serious, this is where we’re at in the world, so sad.
Yet, BG feels that enough pseudo-intellectual babel laced with ridiculous amounts of overly descriptive adjective laden nonsense makes for a readable article, but then again in the comments they follow suit with “buttery” script. Meaning… true surf, surfers, are lost, the art is lost, the purpose is lost, the words are so truly lost. Crying … good grief, good thing he isn’t a boxer, refs, and judges, are notorious for irreverence in their given sports. Many a champions, and championships, have been won/lossed by a single flag, single bad call, 1 penalty.
But have you tried a can of BRAZILIAN FREE CRY RECIPE ?
That might help…
Pseudo-intellectual babel? Pot met kettle.
shit do you write the narrative for Lost?
Are we all lost here on BG..help save us…am looking up now what pseudo-intellectual babel/adjective laden nonsense……fark will I ever be able to understand Ron , wil AI help, asking for a friend?
So what you’re saying is, “some sports have judges”.
You seem smart. Can you deconstruct the white male patriarchy for us, at least as it pertains to the noble pursuit of a surf champion crowned in chest high mushy waves? Bonus points if you can compare to the travesty that was Australia’s introduction to the sublime art of dancing to 70s break beats.
Vai para casa babaca.
I used Goodle translate to troll the brazzos in in Portuguese in the comments of WSL posts, (they were not happy about it 🙂
Aprenda o que é surfar bem assistindo JJF, Ethan Ewing, and Griffin Colapinto.
Learn what it means to surf well by watching JJF, Ethan Ewing, and Griffin Colapinto.
Chore Brazzos Chore!
Cry Brazzos Cry!
They get you this worked up?
I’m just trying to help educate them. My contribution.
It’s this kind of entitlement that contributes to them acting the way they do. Juat saying.
BRAZILIAN FREE CRY RECIPE
Ingredients.
1. 1 can of Red Bull
2. 0.2gm of Cocaine
3. 0.1gm of Methamphetamine
Technique.
1. Open can of Red Bull
2. Add Cocaine and Methamphetamine
3. Mix well
4. Drink, and repeat
Handy Hints.
1. Prepare 2 dozen cans before drinking first can
2. Drink 4 cans before every heat and/or online comment…
ah there’s better way….mix all the above into a liquid, then take a mold of a big penis…freeze it …….then please sit on it for an energy anima…last much longer and puts a smile on ya face and can be used in groups..win win!
you had way too much time on your hands in prison
actually living in liberated France opened up …a lot,LOL!!
Gold
important note – before opening the Red Bull cans, use them to crush your rock base into powder for optimal mixing.
Is this shark cocaine and meth or some lab created shit?
John’s turns and repertoire were more vertical and butterier and he showed more speed and power but in more control with better flow more variety they had to give it to him
Logic has no place in emo BG articles. Cry, curse, stomp your feet… you’ll fit in quickly.
As were Ethan Ewing’s power carves and turns, 10X better than a single air rotor repeated twice a wave and errantly overscored.
Same with Jack who got Robbo’d. Someone finally smacked the judges during JJF’s first heat.
Maybe Ethan should’ve done one of those airs when they score so well.
If full rotes were scoring high that day, they could have also gone for the same maneuvers. Why didn’t they?
you know why.
That is what puzzles me… The judges score the airs so high and yet some surfers simply refuse to execute them. Why is that?
because they can’t land them?
“There’s no such thing as a free cry”.
“You can’t have your cry and free it too”.
“Don’t spill over freed crys”.
Tear tax ’em
Cry is free
Free it is, and crying we are.
Same.
Brazos seem to take more than their money’s worth.
YOU ARE NOW ALL MY SLAVES!!!!! EAT FAECES!!!!! jajajaja
Free Cavy. 👊
and DSS&S!
They all need to book an appointment at there local Ophthalmologist.
*their *ophthalmologist. Babaca
Thanks Cap