Wild parties breaking out in Bucharest.
In a moment few saw coming, yesterday’s Rio Pro wrapped up in small and bad waves with no Brazilian to be found. On the men’s side of the draw, San Clemente’s Cole Houshmand bested city-mate Griffin Colapinto to hoist the green and gold vuvuzela over a crowd of absolutely stunned Brazucas. On the women’s side, Australia’s Molly Picklum took out Hawaii’s Luana Silva to raise the green and gold acai bowl.
Never, not in the past six years of the Brazilian Storm, has the home field been so… dominated by foreigners and especially foreigners from damned California.
Well, the gathering San Clemente Squall blew right in, Houshmand and Colapinto trading blows in the final frame, which just so happened to be the highest scoring heat of the day.
Houshmand outliving, outlasting, out-loving the more seasoned Colapinto set off wild celebrations of the streets of Bucharest where “Gs” Andrew and Tristan Tate surely toasting one of their own beating odds and making it to the very top.
What a day to be alive.
With two competitions left before the “Final Five” head to Cloudbreak, the leaderboard has been thoroughly shuffled. Jordy Smith in first still and still just a tooth’s skin from second place Yago Dora. Kanoa Igarashi firmly third, Italo fourth and Ethan Ewing jumping into fifth, replacing Barron Mamiya. Griff climbed to sixth, Filipe dropped to ninth and Houshmand all the way up to twelfth.
Who do you got going to Fiji?
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Who’s going to Fiji on men’s side?… in no particular order and with no skill, logic, or deep knowledge of long term J-Bay or Chopes forecasts, I’m going with Jordy, Yago, Ethan, Griffin , and Jack… (yeah… Italo, with too much going on at the moment, turns in 2 rough ones before Fiji)
I got me going to Fiji.
Note to self. When booking future surf trips, take note of the WSL schedule and avoid.
fanboy intentions*
Taking one for the BG team*
hmmm
Taking one?!? I think you underestimate me.
Being the on site bg insider for comp
To be fair I’m flying out the day it starts, But thank fuck my Partner has surfed Cloudbreak before, organized trip for her 40th and wanted to stay closer to Frigates this time. First draft trip was focused on Cloudbreak, would’ve been a nightmare with Pro’s “training” Finals day didn’t even cross my mind until after we booked.
Score(x2), I think. Hope she likes marathon sessions…
How do you stay near a reef that is miles from land? You charter a boat?
Every surf on this trip involves a boat ride.
Ahh, just like every surf in Fiji with a few exceptions. So the answer would be a no to the charter boat. Too bad, place is dripping with empty waves but gotta have a live aboard.
-16.817122, -179.781111
Looked into charter boats but way too expensive.
40 mins to frigates and 10 minutes to a handful of waves out the front. I’m just happy to have a partner that wants to go surfing, so I was like I’ll go wherever… My last partners 40th was a three day bender.
Waindroka huh ? Fiji pipe fucking awesome
Hell of a travel to be around that circus,
..unless ur our hero
Where? Vela still rolling around the Lau group.
Edit-actually just moved to Taveuni.
Did Africa for my honeymoon and the circus was at jbay. Had no clue. It was a zoo and I didn’t even consider paddling out. I was crushed. Don’t think I am making it back either.
All of San Clemente and certain factions within Dana Point and South Laguna Beach are thrilled by the Houshmand win!
Funny! But he certainly did deserve the win. Amazing how at 6’3 225# Houshmand absolutely ripped smaller waves with both incredible power and stylish variety. Remarkable performance
A Brazilian people on the beach though!
I expected to see Chas chairing his boy Cole up the beach.
Chasbad, Colifornia
Cole would squash Chas flat if Chas tried to shoulder him. Dude is an ox
WSL, They fckd it up. The event couldn’t be mobile to Barrinha, on the other side of the beach. Priority was the Amusement Park, Stores and VIP Tents… Surfing looses…and didn’t help with Brazil’s bad waves reputation, again.
If only a Brazzo would have won, then the location choice would have been perfect.
Was it truly better around the corner?
They needed to mobilize out of Brazil to get good waves.
comp was off when it looked like this https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Son of bitch. Shit.
Stripes-Ha!
yeah, but the fans would have needed to walk a long way to buy their açaí bowls if they moved the contest down the beach.
Some are left to wonder how Colapinto has managed to recover from the relentless cyber bullying he has endured due to “allegedly” dating a youngster…If only he had Filipe’s dad to protect him
Sponsors are happy and crowd factor is not amplified from potential (admittedly low) exposure.
Clear win-win in my book.
There was actually some decent surf for this comp.
It’s not about the surfing its all about the tourisim coverage.
100 push ups before every heat. Change the whole f game. Make the split tails manufacture a sandwich, and sweep up some sand before their heats.
God bless Romania, And fuck you Bob vylan, you and your laptop driven drivel, fucken dj coward