That's okay. Plenty of people here willing to step up.
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Filipe to retire?
- Thread starter StuAzole
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Did he say anything about the Olympics? My guess is this Pipe contest was a dose of reality he needed. Assume he’s gonna try to spend the next 6 months training for Chopes so he does’nt embarrass himself on the world stage.
If he does this, then hats off to him - that's the way to shut everyone up. If I was a betting man, I'd bet against that though.
It's been what? Nine years since that heat where he got a 0.00 at chopes? Doubt he turns the ship around now.
Kelly and Nathan Hedge surfing circles around him last year. What was the excuse, or was it silence from his camp that time around?
I hope he also works on getting some big barrels on his time off, that would be refreshing.
he shud just retire. the new guard of females charge harder than he ever will at pipe.
2nd paragraph references his mental health. He’s spoken about depression for several years:
Filipe Toledo opens up about mental health issues
The talented 24-year-old Brazilian surfer revealed he struggled with some really bad downs at the beginning of the year.
www.surfertoday.com
If he's going to be on tour it's his job to surf waves like Pipe.
That's what he and everyone else signed up to do.
If the conditions were unreasonable it's one thing - but this was not, and has not been the case over the years when he has faked injury and avoided catching waves in heats.
The gig is now up since the women put on a performance at Pipe and he knows it.
Also - I think guy who is worried about injury woulda worn a helmet out there, Pip didn't, probably because he never planned to catch a wave in the first place.
Bailing on the tour will also allow him to bail on the Olympics, where he would have again faced embarrassment at Chopes.
I'm not surprised if he's done with the tour. This was a problem he should have solved almost a decade ago. By not facing it he allowed it to grow bigger, to the point where he's cowering at a wave he's previously had some handle on. TBH from reports over the years it doesn't seem like he put in the time, plain and simple.
I've been one if his biggest fans since very early and defended him plenty here over the years, but this really isn't defensible.
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Doesn't mention depression.2nd paragraph references his mental health. He’s spoken about depression for several years:
Filipe Toledo opens up about mental health issues
The talented 24-year-old Brazilian surfer revealed he struggled with some really bad downs at the beginning of the year.
Also, nothing he's talking about there sounds like what clinical depression is like.
Says he called his coach, went surfing, and felt better.
That's not depression. That's feeling a little bit down.
He played the depression/mental health card to opt out of this season after his embarrassment at Pipe.
He's done forever.
He's done forever.
the current crop of 20/30's are quik to the clinical depression card everytime their ego gets a little weepy
"Mental health issues" seems to be an easy ambiguous catchall these days.
Dare I say it's used much to elicit sympathy.
Just come out and say what you're dealing with. If you can't come up with specifics - anxiety, depression, etc - then you need to reevaluate or reword your claim.
One thing a lot of people don't know is BeachGrit had a well done video series started some years back where Pip took on his demons at Chopes...
"The burden to set the narrative fell upon him and his team. Derek Rielly, in fact, saw his Teahupoo terror early, recognized it and we attempted to solve, here, with a beautiful vid series about him learning from the best, there, and paddling into a bomb. He was completely on board at the start. His team deep-sixed near the finish line. All fingers pointing back to the puppies eating scraps from Filipe Toledo's table including his father."
Dare I say it's used much to elicit sympathy.
Just come out and say what you're dealing with. If you can't come up with specifics - anxiety, depression, etc - then you need to reevaluate or reword your claim.
One thing a lot of people don't know is BeachGrit had a well done video series started some years back where Pip took on his demons at Chopes...
"The burden to set the narrative fell upon him and his team. Derek Rielly, in fact, saw his Teahupoo terror early, recognized it and we attempted to solve, here, with a beautiful vid series about him learning from the best, there, and paddling into a bomb. He was completely on board at the start. His team deep-sixed near the finish line. All fingers pointing back to the puppies eating scraps from Filipe Toledo's table including his father."