Connor O’Leary called “the Scarlett Johnansson of Surfing” by important tastemaker

Where do you sit when it comes to backside surfing?

As you certainly know, by now, David Lee Scales and I get together two times a week to chat about many things. On Friday, those conversations generally center around surf. Well, controversy exploded from last week’s Grit! after I openly declared that professional backhand surfing does nothing for me. The monotony, ungainliness, lack of poetry really gets me down and especially after the J-Bay Open where two goofies traded lip bashes on right-running walls that would have been delicately inscribed by our regular brothers and sisters.

Scales very much disagreed and we went back and forth, continuing the fight through today wherein we finally settled on the root of the issue.

David Lee holds the buttocks in the highest regard.

That’s what I remember most, from J-Bay. Connor O’Leary’s ample rump sky high, focus of all.

Now, I find the caboose fine, but it is not the pinnacle of the human body and when it is elevated such, especially during backside surfing, it creates a farcical ugly display. Scales, on the other hand, appreciates most though admitted that all booties are not created equal.

There is the farcical one, say Kim Kardashian’s, which is represented, in surfing, by Italo Ferreira. Then, he claimed, there is the perfect one like Scarlett Johansson’s, which he likened to Connor O’Leary. Yago Dora, he continued, a Natalie Portman.

I agreed that those were accurate but am not won over to bottom elevation in surfing. I don’t like it and don’t think I’m wrong.

But, no pun intended, where do you sit? All things equal, would you rather watch two women, or men, trade waves facing the shore, coiling, then accentuating derrière or do you prefer the more stately facing the wave then popping the lip with head held high?

I ain’t talking about doing backside surfing, either. I know it feels fine. I’m talking about watching it.

Listen then opine.