It ain't easy being a daddy, and it sure as
hell ain't easy being a daddy with a child prodigy whom you must
guide through a sporting career etc.
Dino Andino on world #2 Kolohe: “I taught
him to worry!”
By Derek Rielly
And a tear-jerker back-story for Jadson Andre in
this 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary, which includes the
Quiksilver Pro…
Let me admit this, and without rancour from the
parties involved.
I opened this video a couple of days ago, inhaled (a
thirty-minute long documentary of Jadson Andre and Kolohe
Andino…oowee) and buried it like a treasure map.
It was only this afternoon, sugary chocolate on my breath, that
I sat through the documentary in its entirety.
It ain’t bad.
Jadson’s back-story of poverty and responsibility jerks tears
and Kolohe and Daddy Dino’s relationship, discussed here there and
everywhere, still manages to reveal and to
surprise.
“I taught him to worry,” says Dino, whose own daddy was absent
in his life. The various uncles who were around chased the dragon
and so on. Dino made a promise to himself to helicopter his own
kid.
The goo is still oozing out of my eyes.
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The scurry of critter feet on the surfboard.
@baronisfilms
Watch Filipe Toledo in “Like Joan of Arc I
will go up in a blaze of flames!”
By Derek Rielly
Let fingers graze little circles around your
nipples…
Any sort of clip dump by Filipe Toledo is going to have
you hanging your head in impressed jealousy. I inhale his
intoxicants and drink his moonshine with the tenacity of a cornered
rat.
I am a fan, yes.
This sub-three minute short from Toledo’s live-in filmer Bruno
Baroni, clips gathered from their recent three week stay on
Australia’s Gold Coast, shows Toledo’s switchblade raining down in
fast vicious swoops.
Like a bird piercing a water’s surface to snatch up its prey,
Toledo’s blade cuts loose and, just as bird-like, his fluid motions
are effortless.
Essential.
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Watch Griffin Colapinto strip off his workman
gloves! Brutal!
Watch Griffin Colapinto in: “I feel
awakened to every minute nuance of the earth!”
By Derek Rielly
Bury your face inside the precious silk folds of
Griffin Colapinto's kimono!
Griffin Colapinto’s surfing is slicker than cum on gold
teeth, as the street slang goes.
What is it, do you think, that gives his surfing its
potency?
The boy himself, with that irresistible wide-eyed virginal look,
ain’t…dangerous…or nothing.
Griff, who will turn twenty-one in July, looks like a crazy
bouncing ball on a wave. There are the precarious, hysterical
movements, tail-throws lofted towards the beach and so on, wrapped
in gorgeous curves, or wraps as they say on the WSL broadcast.
He ain’t Italo Ferreira or Filipe Toledo, whose servings are
intoxicating and breathtaking.
But, there’s a decidedly delicate quality to Griffin that I
can’t quite put my finger on.
Watch etc.
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Kolohe Andino glides his fingers along this
wave's curvaceous spine.
Watch: Kolohe Andino in “I’m gonna blow you
out!”
By Derek Rielly
Muscle flexing from the world number two in Santa
Cruz…
Only in style and variety of grabs does Kolohe have an edge,
but will judges be capable of discerning? Kolohe is, after all, the
most torched surfer on Tour.
History, of course, tells us that Kolohe finished second in the
first event of the season. He lost to the Brazilian Italo Ferreira,
whose ability to add an extra 180 degrees to his spins sealed his
win.
This short film, a reel of outs from Home-ish, shows the
Yankee in Santa Cruz sending spray into the air like little
jellyfish tentacles.
It’s pretty good.
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Getting more heat than a goat's butt in a
pepper patch! Oowee.
Watch: Raw footage of brave Jetski pilot
drowning his little boat after failed Nazaré rescue attempt!
By Derek Rielly
Beautiful, scary, sad and funny!
Don’t it feel good to see the holy fire unleash just a
little?
In these four minutes of raw footage, from a February swell at
Nazaré in Portugal, we see a jetski pilot try to rescue his
tow-buddy only for the Lord to come at him in an epileptic-like fit
of rage.
From the filmer Pedro Miranda:
Here we see Portuguese big wave surfer and airline pilot,
Salvador Villas Boas (51 ys old) charging one of the biggest waves
of the day on the first peak at Nazaré during a monster swell in
February 2019.
Salvador rides the wave until a bump makes him fall of his
board on the most dangerous zone of Praia do Norte near the rocks
and impact zone. The wipeout was gruesome, with Salvador hitting
the water at nearly 50mph, the whole scene resembled a car accident
and in a few seconds after first impact, Salvador is pulled back
over the falls and hits the water a second time, suffering an
extensive hold down period before finally resurfacing.
The moments that followed the wipeout were a matter of life
and dead, this wave was not the last wave of the Set, there was
more to come and Salvador’s position on impact zone and near the
rocks demanded immediate rescue. This is when Ramon Laureano, a
Portuguese-Brazilian professional Jetski Rescuer comes into play,
he had been following Salvador from behind the wave, and knew the
situation demanded a rescue on first attempt. In normal
circumstances, this rescue would’ve been made after a second wave,
but Ramon knew the potential implications of Salvador getting
caught in the impact zone, and attempted the rescue anyway in the
short window of opportunity he got.
He successfully picks up Salvador at the very last second,
and speeds up away from the area, while avoiding being swallowed by
the giant wall of white water. This ended up happening a few
moments later with his Jetski being capsized by white water, but on
a very different area of Praia do Norte, away from the rocks and
much closer to the beach.