“Surfing’s fun brother. Stop spraying your negativity.”
Former tours surfers Kolohe Andino And Julian Wilson, two men who are popular, admired, celebrated and let’s face it, erotic artifacts for any breathing homosexual man, have squared off online in a wild blood feud.
Two days ago, on the Instagram account of Rivvia Projects, Julian Wilson’s start-up clothing label famous for a style which suggests the sex kitten look meets New Romantic, a clip of Wilson surfing Lowers, Kolohe’s home wave, was posted along with the caption:
“Straight from the cobblestones of Trestles to the social media internet. A very recent clip of the boss himself, Julian Wilson, giving the Lowers lineup a bit of an education in high performance surfing.”
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Lowers, of course, is the high-performance wave that gifted Filipe Toledo two world titles and Kolohe has long been associated with the wave.
Kolohe shot back, “Sick wave. Fucked caption.”
Since leaving the tour Kolohe has discovered a fine candour in his work. When launching his own clothing label, 2 percent, he stunned surf fans with a profanity laden screed on Instagram.
“Surfing culture, big time surf brands and the ‘surf lifestyle’ are FUCKING dead,” wrote the thirty-year-old Daddy of two. “You got every FUCKING up and coming kid thinking they are one of the Paul brothers. Trying to gain cloud in any way, shape or form, with no gumption, no backbone, or no idea. These kids are not leaders, they are followers.”
The short message on the Rivvia account launched a cavalcade of stunned responses, some for, some against, the Californian.
“Surely this isn’t the real Kolohe? No way he could be this big a wanker.”
“Fkn sook. Have a listen to yourself.”
Brother’s a bit neggo now he’s washed up.
Then, this exchange tween Kolohe and Wilson.
Wilson: “Surfing’s fun brother. Stop spraying your negativity.”
Kolohe replies, “Tell your IG intern to get a grip. Trestles don’t need no education on high performance surfing.”
Wilson retorts, “It’s called tongue and (sic) cheek. Lighten up kid.”
And the intern himself,
“IG Intern here. Really sorry if I offended anyone. I was just trying to keep the boss happy so I can hopefully get a full time job. Julian Wilson told me if this post gets 1000 likes I’m officially hired.”
BeachGrit has always held Kolohe Andino close to our hearts. I knew his daddy Dino during his wild nineties epoch and first met the boy prodigy, then sixteen, on a holiday to the Canary Islands where he exhibited what were then exotic flavours of aerials. Kolohe’s sense of humour is light and legendary.
My favourite Julian Wilson moment came some years back when I was commissioned by Surfer to do a Hot Seat interview with the kid. Without any responses to my questions that deserved ink, I made up the interview using quotes from George Hamilton, Adolf Hitler and a few other notables.
Crazy thing? No one noticed.
not up to me whether or not Pip is a SC local. but no one else in that town thinks he is though, and one thinks Caroline is either.
you mean when there was no such thing as non-coastal South County? I don’t disagree.
What Wanker wears Rivvia that shit looks corny AF…
can’t say much for 2% never bothered to look
that’s a problem that most people in the SC area aren’t going to experience
He’s mostly harmless
“Trestles don’t need no education”…..ha, good stuff
Kolohe is one of the best surfers in california, but he did not win a single contest in all of his years on the CT (almost 10 yrs). It doesn’t make his opinion irrelevant, but he’s not Tom fucking Curren. He’s just another pro in San Clemente at this point get real
I imagine KA writing with tongue lodged in side of mouth.
I know, it’s close enough and she’s spent a lot time at that wave.
It’s a “born there and grew up there” standard down there. There are old codgers at the Red Fox Lounge who will tell you that not even Biolos is truly a local.
I was born down there, spent a fair bit of summer time as a grom down there, and lived there between 2007 and 2014, but I was still considered an outsider at the shitty break at North Beach I paddled out at on the daily.
Messing around with nothing better to do. A total surfer thing. Nothing changes. In or out of the water.
Any chance of a link to that Surfer piece?
Also, what people, queer or otherwise, are keen on Wilson’s polished dome??
DR will provide the link if he gets 1000 requests.
I looked! Couldn’t find!
If they are claiming Phil as a local then they have bigger problems than I thought. Lucky they have Caity. She has more gumption than all of them.
No, they certainly aren’t claiming him and never will claim him as a local. Caity is not a local either.
She’s close enough and put in a lot of time at that wave.
Kolohe had the personality, Jules had the surfing
Bustin down the door (2024)
Worked at an undisclosed surf company back in the day and we would “ICE” (Smirnoff Ice) the pros (and each other). It was always funny to see the athletes have to take a knee and chug a bottle. JJF did it. Many others as well. The only one who didn’t take the medicine was Julian.
Bros Icing Bros.
Never took off here unfortunately.
Why would they take the knee? Was there implied threat?
Icing” — or “getting iced” — is a frat star drinking game. The rules are simple: If a person sees a Smirnoff Ice, he or she must get down on one knee and chug it, unless they happen to be carrying their own Smirnoff, in which case they can “ice block,” or refract the punishment back onto the attacker. In order to dupe people into stumbling across the beverage, participants have devised creative ways of presenting them with Ices, like strapping the bottles to the backs of dogs or burying them in vats of protein powder.
this is the real reason why he never won a world title.
Kolohe is the king of Tresles and king is the king of Trestles also, it’s a crazy kingdom
At least Julian Wilson won some WCT events. Kolohe on the other hand has won nothing, will never get back on tour, and has slowly transitioned to becoming a thinly veiled white supremacist and bitter surfer. Btw, why is Kolohe criticizing up and coming surfers, he was the most cocky douchebag growing up, enabled by his even bigger douchebag dad.
White supremacist? Do tell
I think the epithet white supremacist gets thrown around a little too liberally.
You got it backward – it’s not that nobody noticed, it’s that nobody read it.
San Clemente in the streets.
Brazzo in the heats.
The Aussie goes in, to bat for the yanks.
….and he finds the boundary. Nice shot, mate.
Kolohe’s right.
And his hot take on kid chasing cloud – searing
Kolohe, perpetually angry he wasn’t gifted his dads “size” despite being gifted a surfing career by said dad.