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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 […]
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’. […]
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. […]
“Oh, I can win this thing. I just gotta get past Jack Robinson first.” – Kelly Slater, 54 years old. In case you slept under a rock today, Teahupoo was absolutely insane. One of the most entertaining days of professional surfing in recent memory. 11 Heats ran, 15 excellent waves were ridden, Griffin nearly went […]
I tried to warn you. All of you. Look what we have now. 2 events down on the ‘Challenger Series’, 2 wins for CT surfers. Headline correction – “Championship Tour surfers step down, Dominate Challenger Series Stop # 2 in Huntington Beach at the Lexus US Open of Surfing” 6 CT Surfers were in the […]
The Cry is Free. And the Cry was Loud. From all over the globe, really. Australia, Hawaii, USA, and surprisingly, Brazil. Everyone had some kind of complaint about the judging/scoring during the Ballito Pro. Here are a few of my favorite comments: “This is surfing, not ice skating, scores are not determined by how many […]