New and possibly fatal crack in the WSL's wall of Positive Noise!
If there was any lingering doubt about the quantum leap in performance in women’s surfing this year, well, it sure was curb-stomped for good on Friday when Caity Simmers and Caroline Marks delivered a three-heat performance for the ages.
Caity Simmers, the girl with skin like pastry crust left in the sun for a week, took every turn to the brink of disaster while Olympic gold medallist Caroline Marks invited favourable comparisons to the great Mark Occhilupo, even if the red bikini-swathed Jen See labelled her surfing, incorrectly I felt, as “overscored and mentronomic.
But new world champ Caity Simmers, who at eighteen years and 316 days became the youngest world surfing champ in history, has thrilled surf fans tired of the “toddler-friendly” WSL by giving her opponent the finger at the conclusion of the first of their best-of-three heats.
Here’s the play:
The camera is on Caroline’s final wave – which she claims with a cutesy little dancey bit. Then, it swings direct onto Caity Simmers. And she’s givin’ the finger. The girl commentator laughs, “There’s Caity just getting the jetski ride.” Which makes it even funnier! Caity’s also funny because she does it with her right hand, then with her left, is like, wait, don’t do that. Ha!
Caroline’s score hasn’t dropped yet. Caity’s had already come in, it’s an 8.3 which betters her total. So, I think not the judges getting the finger. Also, there’s that bit in her post-heat inty, where she’s, like, “She fucking wins everything” about Caro. So, feisty!
Caity Simmers’ “Pipeline for the fucking girls” moment, oft incorrectly taken as “Pipeline is for the fucking girls” was a window into her Miki Dora-esque mindset and which kicked off her credentials as the messiah of cool.
This cements it.
I think you’ll agree. Yes?
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Marks out of 10. Two says Simmo. But they are good friends informs Turpentine. BS streaking down the line. No mates at this level get real lads and lassies.
Can I get a T-shirt of that?
Goldfingers
With the Midas touch.
how fun it would be to see Caity become the new “Bad Boy” of pro surfing.
Caity and opponent paddeling for wave, they both miss it and as the wave passes and blocks the view of the judges/cameras, Caity hauls off and bitch slaps her opponent saying: “when I paddle….you don’t”.
She’s the best thing that ever happened to pro surfing!!
her and erin brooks and sierra kerr – so much to look forward to as far as girl surfing goes.
Coolest surfer in a long long while. I hope she goes through a rager phase and still wins anything she enters.
thought i saw that.
yeah, me too.
classic Caity.
I’d love to know what the animosity is about. Only other time i’ve seen it in a heat was when Joel Parko flipped one at slater.
I read it as a pre-emptive strike against the judges giving Caz a huge overscore for a million repetitive backside safety turns.
Imagine Erin Brooks doing it. A thousand rosemaries.
Or Bethany, the same. But she only can use just one middle finger.
She does it to you every post heat presser.
#doralives
#AIlives
#sunnylives
yes but would she compete against our Sasha , in a transbender winner takes all??
I like when the punks beat the jocks
This is how Mask becomes acceptable,….it’s like riding to school with a biker gang.
Coolest.
Cazza was ripping all day!!
Yep, she cool.
I want to know what the Ambassador of Stoke and Leisure is up to these days