"Switzerland is the number 1 place I've ever seen..."
The ink on the freshly released ’25 World Surf League Championship Tour schedule is not yet dry and yet a proud surfing nation already finds itself very worried. Yes, Indonesia, which has long been a must-visit location for surfers, has produced its most successful one ever in Rio Waida. The universally adored spark plug is adept in all conditions, brave, and ended the ’24 season ranked 9th in the world.
Hopes and dreams of a possible title dancing in Batavian heads.
Except, as mentioned, worry is currently the pervading emotion for Waida, you see, has left the palm-fringed shores and is currently bathed in alpenglow.
The Olympics’ own organ published a feature, overnight, detailing how five-ringed surfers were spending their off time. Medina went to Bali, Billy Stairmand to the Maldives. Waida? He traveled to Switzerland and appeared to fall in love.
“The nature here in Switzerland is on another level, felt like I’m in the heaven and felt like I’m in the dream,” the twice-over Olympian wrote on Instagram. “It’s so beautiful, the most beautiful place I ever seen. I mean it’s hard to compare with ocean and beach but this place might be my number 1 place that I visited. The reason I came here is because I wanted to do something that I love to do, which is hiking, see the nature, see the beauty of this world, and be at somewhere there’s nobody and listen to the sound of the nature. And inhale beautiful fresh air and exhale all the bad stuff.”
Number 1 place ever seen?
A snowboarding future just over the Matterhornian peak?
David Lee Scales and I did not discuss Waida’s love of Switzerland, during our weekly chat, but did discuss the revamped tour and what it means. I think you’ll find it extremely informative.
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Lived in Switzerland for half a decade, by far the most beautiful place I have ever been to, everywhere you go is breathtaking. Unfortunately, I have also never seen a more stuck up people.
In Scotland, it’s pronounced; “BAWZ”.
get him on a pair of long skis, on a sunny fall morning, and he’s never comin’ back
GO BLUE!!!
Could become a Sherpa if pro surfing doesn’t work out!
reading the comments below, it appears many commenters do not seem to see the surfing link.
Well when I saw the picture of Rio standing in the semi snow clad alps, all I could think of is……
what a great place for a manmade Wave Pool.
speaking of beauty and dreams and stuff, any of you see the Saquarema Pro poster?
pretty cool actually.
You mean this? A wave pool where it belongs – a fucking rich landlocked nation.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
This is ridiculous.
Wy would you put a Wave Pool here?
should be on top of the mountains.
Location, Location, Location!
What he meant to say was , nice to be somewhere away from all the cunts that have completed the overall fucking of Bali.
Alaia bay has pulled Rio in . Not surprising as it’s power housing the future of pro and recreational surfing to the max. The origin as history will note.
If Chaz spent more time actually surfing or in the pursuit of waves maybe articles like this and my comment wouldn’t have to exist.
If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.
not so fast
What if the balls in question were merely part of her collection of: various-bits-of-anatomy-in-jars-of-formaldehyde ?
I have a weekly “chat” with my garbage collector, too. Should I also make a pod of that and share it?
But do you make up random idiotic stories while chatting to yourself in a house of horrors mirror?
Yes, but the random idiotic stories I make up pale in comparison to what Chas dishes on the regular.
I haven’t listened for for over a year, TBH.
Can it even remotely be considered surf-adjacent? If so, by all means!
We’re all riding the universal wave of expansion, and then in trillions of years, contraction. A multiversal seesaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVbQ0YotLs&list=RDjCVMPDIz6z8&index=27
Well done, sir.
Expand on this idea, add a goofy still from an insignificant movie, top it off with a clickbait title. You could well be the next BG litterateur.
I bet he thinks youre great
noble rot?
this is what happens when you realize that the WSL judges have set your scoring ceiling at 6.8 max, no matter what you do or how great you surf, and you need to come to peace with the fact that you will spend your days ripping the guts out of waves only to be rewarded with yet another 5.2
You reckon Rio’s scores are getting lowballed by the judges ?
I can honestly appreciate the fuck outta this…good on ya Rio!
Please re-phrase the start of that so it doesn’t read like you appreciate this piece of complete shit that Chad wrote.
Oh is that who wrote it?