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New venue, who’s this? Apologies for the Dad joke. I hate myself for it. We are at a new venue location for the CT though. I heard Jesse Starling say that she had “confirmed” that Oscar Berry was the only surfer that had prior competitive experience out at Cloud 9. He’s not in the draw […]
Supertubos lived up to its name for Finals Day. It was nearly as good as it gets in Portugal for the Finals. The event was slow going until then. Between Day One and the Finals, there were 3 days of short competition with only a couple of heats running, and at least 3 lay days. […]
It is currently 5:50 in the morning. I just opened up my computer to Men’s Quarter Finals Heat 3 in the water – Yago Dora vs Ethan Ewing. Last year’s World Champion is in the Yellow jersey yet again. Could he go back-to-back? The interesting part about this, if he can do it, would be […]
So yesterday I posted about Kanoa Igarashi and Mirai Ikeda qualifying for the 2028 LA Olympics. I wanted to post this full Revision rather than just to add an editors note on that post. First and foremost I needed to correct myself in saying that these surfers have provisionally qualified for the Olympics. The reason […]
Long a topic of controversy and debate, the Olympic qualification for surfing runs through the ISA (International Surfing Association). It’s been president Fernando Aguerre’s lifelong dream and mission to get surfing into the Olympics, which was first realized in 2020 at the Tokyo (Japan) Olympics. To this point, I personally feel that he should be […]
A couple of storybook results here at the Southern California Skatepark this past week. 34-year-old Miggy Pupo continues his dream run, winning his 2nd event of the season (Bells, Lowers), while 19-year-old Erin Brooks just won her 3rd straight (Teahupoo, Cloudbreak, Lowers). As another side story, this was the last event before the ‘mini cut’. […]
There goes the neighborhood. First we have Natural Selection, then the Wave Pool Surf Tour, and now this; Surfing Super League. If you’d like to try and decipher exactly what’s going on with this new league, the format, and what to expect from the first season – have a look here for yourself. I started […]
So I’ve Surfived another round. I picked Medina. If I did my math correctly, there should be 54 people left after this event. If you’ve never heard of Surfival League, its similar to an NFL football survival league – you pick one team (surfer) to win (make it through Round 2) each week (event). You […]
The story of the day is Erin Brooks. She just surfed one of the best waves in Women’s competitive surfing history out at Cloudbreak for a unanimous 10. There are 4 waves that we can compare this to. Molly Picklum’s 10 at Pipe in 2024. Steph Gilmore’s 10 at Keramas in 2019. Erin Brooks 10 […]
Well, shit. This didn’t age well. But hey, look at me. I’ll own it; I can take a Loss. As soon as I got done writing off Seth Moniz on reddit, he went and did this. In fairness, I will say that Teahupoo is a wave that one would expect Seth to do well at. […]