More than a surfing victory! A rebuke to surf fans who believe this is Jordy Smith's destiny year.
Surfing is lucky to have the Brazilian Yago Dora in its stable. Yago, who is twenty-nine years old and the current world number two presents as a mix between Craig Anderson and Noa Deane wrapped up with a Chippa Wilson-esque aptitude for x-rated frivolity above the lip.
A short time ago, Yago Dora, the son of former pro turned surf coach Leandro Lo, effectively won the final of the Lexus Trestles Pro within the first ten seconds with an almost perfect ride, one that scrawled out the template for the rest of the final, and smashed Kanoa Igarashi’s heart into a million pieces.
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In pretty three-to-five-foot waves reminiscent of Kelly Slater’s breakout win at the Body Glove Surf Bout III win in 1990, Yago Dora similarly delivered a game-changer, “writing his name all over the Lowers left,” said Joe Turpel. He is turning in a surf movie part in this final.
“He’s an artist,” said the former pro Jesse Mendes.
Kanoa was praised for the speed he was able to generate but criticised for his inability to deliver spectators goose-bumped arms, although an old-school Kerrupt flip and shuv-it on one wave was applauded for “switching gears.”
Yago, and women’s winner “Baddie” Lou Sakura Johnson, were both powered by Matt Biolos’ Lost surfboards, a fine choice given the Bear Jew’s thirty-year relationship with Lowers.
Yago Dora’s win is his second of the season and puts him within a dusting of points of world number one Jordy Smith.
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Yago is such a pleasure to watch surf, its like he’s not even Brazilian.
I have done some number crunching not sure what it means but
Men had a total of 31 heats and 9 had score totals in the excellent range or 48.1 % of all heats had excellent scores.
Women had a total of 15 heats and 5 had total scores in the excellant range or 33.3 % of the heats achieved a excellant ranking.
The total number of womens heats = 48.3 % of the total number of mens heats in the event.
it is not far off being the women achieved 50% of what the men achieved in 50% of the effort , yet they achieved 100 % in equal pay.
I think?
Jordy fitzgibbons
A Yago vs Jordy heat for the title at pumping cloudbreak is what the world needs
Bustin down the dora
top 5
2 Brazzos
1 Hawaiian
1 South Africa
1 japanese
Keep dreaming’WSL
You can’t script this
brazzo stop coming, filipe lurking…
Finally a fucken left for the goofs. That heat was over before it started.
Dora seems like a decent cat !!
So glad you approved him!
You got to hand it to those Brazilians, they know how to keep the Seppos and Aussies humble.
I guess when you don’t have everything handed to you,—you try a little harder.
Nice try but this bait reeks
Can we nominate Joey T for top commentator of 2025? I think he really brought some top notch skills to this event.
Yes you can! sent via email.
😂😆 😂
You could’ve done a documentary about the word salad, jockeying for attention, the false bravado and excitement, the ego, the tension among colleagues, the shading of others’ success, and the outfit choices in the booth on Final Days Alone. It would get higher rankings than Make or Break
More than a surfing victory! A rebuke to surf fans who believe this is Jordy Smith’s destiny year.
Ummmmmm… I think we all know it’s Kolohe’s year
I give him a 2% chance of winning
BLSJ on fire!!
I hope she wins WCT.
Me too. Betty Lou rips
Would read, but samsung popups have taken over my screen. My favorite moment was the ski driver pausing for a long look at Sawyer Linblad as she paddled away from his drop off. Neck twisted like an owl’s.
Soon to be gone! New ad network coming this weekend.
Thought you meant Sawyer’s butt for half a sec…
Great contest very high performance and consistent surf. Trestles was the winner this week
Maintaining that back leg knee tuck when you’re literally in the air is peak steez.