Getting swole.
Through three World Surf League events this year, Brazil’s Italo Ferreira has a dominant lead over the rest of the field. A third place at Pipeline, win in Abu Dhabi and second at the just-wrapped MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal has netted the former champion a whopping 23,885 points, over 6000 points more than his nearest competitor.
Absolutely dominant though might Ferreira be… bored?
Seeking new thrills?
A whole new competitive arena?
A stunning new social media post shows the effervescent goofy-foot in the gym working out, leg pressing 600 kg while an entirely strong man looks on. That’s 1322.77 lbs for the metric-deficient.
The current world leg press record is held by bodybuilding legend Ronnie Coleman who pushed 1043 kg (2300 lbs) for multiple reps. Ferreira over halfway there. Now, do you imagine world’s strongest man competitions and/or bodybuilding pay better than competitive professional surfing? Do you think people are more impressed with big muscles than cat-like ocean reflexes?
Back when I was in college, a skinny pal and I thought it would be a good idea to “get huge.” We would go to 24 Hour Fitness and bench press, squat etc. then go to McDonald’s and eat 20 cheeseburgers because they were on sale for $1 each.
It didn’t work.
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Round of bloody applause that was a tantric read.
Seeing ADS have a proper roid rage at Kelly when out at lowers was awesome.
Love to see Cole on the piss and break someone.
Surf+gym+bad style=olympic gold and maybe this years WSL crown.
Selfies in gym with cartoonish body builder < JJF with family on a boat exploring the world.
WSL=Poopoo touch
Italo looks at your poetic effort, prints it on an A4 piece of paper, chews it up and gobbles it down with a few glugs of red bull.
He’s the king of his own game.
More breaking news Tarti West said she consulted with her psychologist and decided to quit the tour for the rest of the year. I think she was in danger of not qualifying anyway.
Mitch Salazar was picking her as a title contender this year last contest.
Probably she heard that Mitch was thinking about her and said yeah I’m out.
He probably started calling her my little chalupa.
You forgot the crushing childhood poverty.
Since all the sports teams left Oakland because of all the crime, they announced that they are going to have cricket matches. I’ve never seen one.
Iif you didnt grow up with it youll probly hate it.
On the news they said there a ton of Indian and Pakistani computer workers here in the Bay Area that will like it. I’ll try and watch if it’s on TV.
My dad played on a team here when I was kid. All Indians.
Silicon Valley is full of them. They have a bad reputation for being A holes to women in the workplace.
I guess you need a really big field to play regulation cricket that’s why they’re using the Oakland coliseum. Figured I’d try and watch some since half of BG is Australian.
And the cooler lid
Fils the best ever til he gets scared, but I mean no JJF, no Medina? – thats two asterisks right there. Im trying to pick a guy for a right point in El Salvador and its tough. Sea of mediocrity.
So JJF is the orca waiting in the depths to tear the sharks heart and liver out?
you’re looking at this from the perspective of surf culture according to the rest of the whole damn world though—Brazzos, on the other hand, eat this kind of fuckboy shit up like an açaí bowl
NEWSFLASH
During Timmy aka DanesS&SS’s absence he’s continued to photograph his Gordon Ramsey-like gastronomic endeavors.
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A lump of raw fish, something green with some white stuff, a plop of a ploppy brown substance, and a small cup of dark brown liquid.
A preview of what’ll be served during the upcoming inaugural Otto vs Johnsknees eating/drinking contest…
in unrelated news, i have a shartcle idea for you @Chas. Homeland Security advisor Kristi Noem is in El Salvador visiting thier prison, which begs the question will she stick around for the WSL event?
Supposedly they hired ELo to do marketing for the prison.
Let’s just hope she wore her MAGA cosplay attire since she is apparently some sort of police officer now https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
What’s in the teacup Italo?
Love him or hate him he is one of only about 5 men worth watching in a heat these days.
What was that old Dave Parameter maxim about professional surfing “Never be boring”. Italo said “and I took that personally!”
it ain’t always pretty, but you’re not wrong
Jordy would disagree.
Hates his style, outright.
Can’t say any of the current top Brazzos surf with style. Italo is more of a fuck styly do anything necessary, Yago is just searching for air sections forgoing any style to get there, Felipe surfs like a coked out flea. Couple of the others are skirting the edge of stylish surfing until the end of any wave when their lame ass claims make them look like spastic drug addicts.
gonna have to somewhat disagree re: Yago though—he’s capable of surfing kind of pretty when he wants to, but you’re right that he throws that style out the window when he’s hunting an air section
Exactly correct.
Is the WSL drug testing? Italo is not passing the sniff test…
If you ever wonder if someone is on steroids overdeveloped traps and shoulders relative to rest of the body are the easiest tell.
Look at his trainer if you need an example of what I’m talking about.
Along with back acne, atrophied dick and murdering your entire family while they sleep.
Are muscles on your skull a sign? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I think you get that muscle from having post heat tantrums in portable toilets.
That is old school. Most people don’t use those drugs. Athletes now take testoterone gummies that leave the system quickly, BPC-157 and a bunch of other stuff that is not legal in most sporting organizations. I bet he would not ass a test for that stuff. Not sure of the Wozzle’s policy.
I want them to drug test the commentary team.
but not the commenters!
For taking prozac?
Exactly! Or some other unknown substance that allows them to maintain unnatural levels of optimism when comps are running in junk conditions