Caity Simmers, Stud or Dud?

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StuAzole

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love seeing her on a local shape. hope it stays that way. He aint no small fry
It’s all about whether he can afford to keep up with her demand. She’s going to need lots of boards and Chris isn’t known for his speedy turnaround time lol.
 

casa_mugrienta

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Buran = Carlsbad
Lambresi - maybe peaked at top 20 in the world at one point. Caity currently sitting at #2.

If you didn’t care why’d you go out of your way to say there have been better?
I went out of my way (months ago) to respond to this claim:

Might be the best surfer to ever come out of Oside.
To which I responded one word: "Hyperbole."

I never said anything about competitive results until today...when you went out of your way and topped my post made months ago and started asking about competitive results (which I could care less about).

She absolutely rips, but she is not on the level of "best surfer ever" from Oceanside.

Admittedly, I have only surfed with her once, small Backdoor some years ago so I can't say what she looks like in person today. Going by her Instagram clips she is well on her way to becoming the best on the women's tour, and possibly the most successful competitive surfer from Oceanside.

I hope your attempts at arguing in court are better than your attempts at arguing on de erBBs

:roflmao::toilet::roflmao::toilet:
 
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GromsDad

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Caity has a more interesting approach than Caroline, but Caroline had the hype going into her rookie year, but she clearly had areas she needed to improve and refine.

She's 5 years in, but Covid time is funny. She's all of 20.

Again, I'm not trying to downplay Caity's talent. I'm trying to point out that there is a lot of room for improvement before she's World Champ material. The great news is she's not going to have to unlearn too much like some of the women. Conologue, Lakey, Sage, Caroline even. They all had quirks in their style that developed because they were successful amateurs and young professionals despite them. They were just that much better than their peers. But they impacted their ability that they had to sand off. Some did it better than others. Caity just has to keep growing to stay coiled and extend on bigger canvases.
Sooooooo much hype and expectations on Caroline especially at the East Coast events when she was a teen. Way too much in my humble opinion. I think the coaching/over-coaching Caroline got to try to meet the expectations messed up her surfing.
 
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I went out of my way (months ago) to respond to this claim:



To which I responded one word: "Hyperbole."

I never said anything about competitive results until today...when you went out of your way and topped my post made months ago and started asking about competitive results (which I could care less about).

She absolutely rips, but she is not on the level of "best surfer ever" from Oceanside.

Admittedly, I have only surfed with her once, small Backdoor some years ago so I can't say what she looks like in person today. Going by her Instagram clips she is well on her way to becoming the best on the women's tour, and possibly the most successful competitive surfer from Oceanside.

I hope your attempts at arguing in court are better than your attempts at arguing on de erBBs

:roflmao::toilet::roflmao::toilet:
I’m not sure you know what hyperbole means.

There is nothing hyperbolic about suggesting she’s the best surfer from Oside ever. The fact that the best you could come up with was a guy not from Oside and a boogie border-turned PSAA champ sorta proves the point.
 
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Bob Dobbalina

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Obviously there are better surfers from Oceanside at an objective, gender inclusive level of ability. And she is obviously the best and most successful female surfer from there.

But she's getting there. She's certainly the "highest ranked competitive surfer from Oceanside" now, and one of the only (Or THE only If you don't count Joey Buran. I think he might have lived in Oceanside at some point, but not his competitive hey day) one to win a CT event.


Lambresi related: I've probably mentioned this, but my first surfboard came out of his trashcan.
 

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I’m not sure you know what hyperbole means.

There is nothing hyperbolic about suggesting she’s the best surfer from Oside ever. The fact that the best you could come up with was a guy not from Oside and a boogie border-turned PSAA champ sorta proves the point.
Off the very top of my head Duran Barr surfs better than her, and there is no way he is
the best surfer from Oceanside.

And yes it should be considered hyperbolic when Defrost enthusiastically claims she’s the best surfer to come out of Oceanside ever.
 

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Off the very top of my head Duran Barr surfs better than her, and there is no way he is
the best surfer from Oceanside.

And yes it should be considered hyperbolic when Defrost enthusiastically claims she’s the best surfer to come out of Oceanside ever.
I've had conversations with people from Oside and that is the call that was made. She is, and will be, the best competative surfer to come out of Oside.

Duran Barr surfs for Carlsbad boardriders, so there is that. Lucas Owens surfs for Carlsbad boardriders too, which is sad because I see them in Oceanside all the time (especially Lucas). They are playing on the wrong team! :LOL: :LOL:
 

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Let's all just be happy that she won an event. Super stoked for her! As for Borst, He's had his hands designing some of the best models from the Big Guys for the last 15 years. I'm sure Caity knows this. He hasn't ever really pushed his own brand. There is a reason they call him the "Mad Scientist". He can design a board with the best of them. He's also super humble and truly a nice person. They fit. No reason for Caity to leave unless it ends up being a money thing. And then there is the loyalty part.
 

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Lucas Owens surfs for Carlsbad boardriders too, which is sad because I see them in Oceanside all the time (especially Lucas). They are playing on the wrong team! :LOL: :LOL:
Lucas is 100% from Oceanside. He went to school with my daughter for many years when they were young. I think he said on the Late Night with Poody Podcast that he surfed for Carlsbad because the owner of his Sponsor, Sundiego Boardshops, asked him to surf for them. But, if you listen to the Pod, he feels kind of wierd about it.
 
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Lucas is 100% from Oceanside. He went to school with my daughter for many years when they were young. I think he said on the Late Night with Poody Podcast that he surfed for Carlsbad because the owner of his Sponsor, Sundiego Boardshops, asked him to surf for them. But, if you listen to the Pod, he feels kind of wierd about it.

There's a word for that