The Surf City El Salvador Pro enters the record books.
The Surf City El Salvador Pro came to a merciful end, mere minutes ago, thus closing the book the the longest surf contest in recorded history. But certainly you are aware of windchill, the phenomenon wherein even though the actual temperature may be, say, 14 degrees Fahrenheit, a blustery breeze can make it feel like -14 degrees Fahrenheit, or to quote the National Weather Service (RIP), “As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature. Therefore, the wind makes it FEEL much colder.”
Well, the tortured cosplay of Mitchell Salazar, slippery brown rocks and Corona Cero combined to make the 8 day Central American slam feel like 35 years.
At the end, history was also made as South Africans Jordy Smith and Matthew McGillivray faced off in the finals. It was the first all-South African last frame since 1988, or at least according to Salazar. Apartheid, as you know, officially ended in 1990.
Jordy Smith beat the springboking upstart by a score 14.26 to 9.33, catapulting hisself to 5th on the rankings.
The waves were inconsistent.
I did not watch but did watch Smith take out Andrew Tate acolyte Cole Houshmand in the semis. The San Clemente sophomore had been magically advancing, some proposing by energy his incel leader was sending from Romania, but it all ran out, in the end, and no waves came from the G.
McGillivray bested Crosby Colapinto in his semi but it was boring.
Our heroes and heroines will now board planes and fly halfway around the world to what the World Surf League is calling the “Aussie Treble” brought to us by Great Wall Motors.
First the slavepool, then the mega-jail, now into the teeth of a trade war.
Huzzah.
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What a shit article
Make Pro Surfing Rad Again!….less wave pool apartheid cringe could be a start
It would be better for you two to celebrate, outside of South Africa….
Mitchel screaming like a little bitch at every maneuver and Turps talking about Matt jumping out of a plane at 30k feet which is effing ridiculous
That b@itch slap knocked the last bit of journalism out of your meth head.
Lazy title for clicks and even worse writing. You got your dates wrong and left out on what is actually a good story…Jordy winning on his dad’s board, etc etc …. More on this as your 🧠 regenerates further
Saw him on a Mayhem in a couple heats?
He was switching between mayhem and Smith shapes. The final was only on his dad’s board and he said it was a dream come true to finally surf his dad’s board in a final. Truth be told he was probably better on the mayhem …that being said this article was terrible 😔
the only thing that matters to Chas, is Cole’s photo with Andrew Tate.
other than that, it was some people surfing on the edge of a jungle.
I’d like to announce my second highest heat total for the local boardriders I’m now a member of:
Zero points.
Off the back of this stupendous result, I feel it’s probably time to transition my extraordinary skills and good looks to other lucrative markets like OnlyFans.
Great day for South African surfing, with two surfers in the Final for the first time in 41 years!
Maybe all the snivelling whiners who are constantly complaining about poor quality waves and conditions for WSL events can finally . . . stop complaining.
Wow. So succinct. I love it. Also, its kind of fucked up that there was no mention of the women’s results here.. especially since the women’s tour is now way more intriguing than the men’s.
Bryan’s technique with power a joy to watch. Giving us the rivalry with Simmers I thought Brooks would have.
Simmers should have won that easily.
And Nichols likewise in the Final.
Gabby surfed her Final yesterday- she was way off her best today.
Skatey Skimmer has an Achilles heel — she weighs 90lbs dripping wet. Can’t push power on a flat-snap sort of face. But outside that she’s the proto-GOAT
totally agree.
Doesn’t this mean Apartheid™️ has to return?
Fuck apartheid and the white supremacists in the whitest house.
here ya go guys and gals…forecast for Bells is looking really nice….lot’s of overhead clean good surf , with a 6 ‘ plus swell at the end of the event…today temps 32 , waters 18.5 and it’s double O/H…best run of surf for awhile…and best 2 weeks coming up…well better than the last 6 mths…onwards and upwards yewww
Back-to-back jordy?
Did JP Currie quit?
He’s checked into foil rehab.
Not the foil, surely.
Thats why he loves Italo’s surfing. Lot of squatting down.
I like this
Looking forward to Oz. Comps always start around happy hour here.
I like that
Also starts around happy hour for some Australian comment section regulars
In Oz it’s always happy hour
Good vibe coming from the old school cruise to victory of the tall man.
Great Wall Motors?
Its Baoding well for the WSL.
yes get on the china train now , it’s the best game in town…..LOL…..
don’t get on the China train……
don’t get on this tran….errr…train either https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1911115714976428285
ah I thought there was a trans -am mustang ???
It looks like Australia is caught between China and business vs USa and protecting us from china if we become the 91st sate of the USA,LOL..???
Fuck Trumps trade war. We’re the ones ruling the world! First Musk takes charge of the US and then we dominate the comp.
Last win at Bells in 2017. Long time between drinks.
And the best americano on Tour, em número 12, we have the Great Cole Houshmand!
GO USA
Someone should write an article:
‘From Tom Curren to Cole Houshmand, viva California’
Meanwhile, Yago and Miguel are finally scoring some wins. With style, by the way.
Ítalo depends only on himself from now on, should move to Fiji for awhile.
Ethan Ewing, same as always. Top 5
Filipe will stay in the top 10 for another year, than that’s it.
And the 2% crew, got seriously hit by Trump’s taxes.
sounds like you just volunteered yourself for that article. I, for one, would be eager to see how your long form prose reads.
I’ve never been in Cali for more than 10 days, Com… but I could write….- From the Brazilian Nuts to the Brazilian Storm.
From Fabio Gouveia to Gabriel Medina. How surfing evolved in Brazil, the land of sunshine, rainforests, great vibes and beachbreaks.
that’s not what I want to hear about. I want the Barton Lins El Salvador contest breakdown, but only tell us about how great the Brazzos are and how terrible the Yanks and the Aussies are.
Aussies are fine. What’s not fine is California arrogance.
I don’t believe that this event is finally over. Somehow it’ll still be on tomorrow and we will all still be in purgatory.
Huntington or Trestles? Sooooooo much better, no?
Trestles was kind of firing this morning though. You should come on out and find out about REAL homeschooled idiot groms on e-bikes.
RJ’s was a bit scrappy this morning, but at least some swell in the water.
heard that was the place to be.
RJ’s ?
Is that near Larry’s ?
Scrappy this morning ?
As in, a breakfast eating/drinking contest ?
Were John’s knees (or elbows) there ?
Rasn’t Jhere.
like Larry’s in a sense, he Wasn’t There.
wasn’t crappy. wasn’t solid neither. Therefore somewhere in between, a space I refer to as scrappy.