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That was so Great,Perfect pipe to end the year!so what are we looking at rd of 16 tomorrow and finish on thursday?
I'm not really a Medina fan but he is a beast and if there's an asterisk for JJF then there would be an asterisk if he (Medina) didn't compete as well. Also Medina did that whole thing in the semis where he beat Florence, making Italo an asterisk beater-beater. Props to Italo, a badass and hard-earned victory.Medina got what he deserved lol. So glad he lost. Title is an asterisk anyways with JJF out most the year.
so happy to see italian ferrari guy fieri win, especially against mediner
his surfing doesn't give tu phucs
Before the event started the water patrol cleared the lineup and Petersen and Italo were sitting waiting for the horn to blow. I was kinda far away so I didn’t hear the beach commentators say 10 minutes to start. Italo whips on a BD wave and eats sh*t. I thought oh no, pressure got to him. I checked my phone clock, it wasn’t 8am yet. He was just warming up. Next Italo whipped on a left and got shacked. Then he got a runner did a couple top turns and boosted a huge straight air at the end. The beach erupted. All this before the heat even started. Petersen kinda hassled him for the first warm up wave, must be in a contest surfers dna to do that, but just sat there after he figured the heat didn’t start. Italo looked loose and was having fun.
WSL showing it has moved on from what surfing really means to most of us. They continue to distance themselves from the average joe and crap all over what the traditional ethos of surfing is.http://instagr.am/p/B6RHZgWB9ky/
Other CT surfers saying it was a brilliant move burning Caio. Owen, Ricardo, Sage Erickson.
So stoked for Italo, what a warrior! Congrats to the WORLD CHAMP!
You could tell he had this thing buttoned up all day.Before the event started the water patrol cleared the lineup and Petersen and Italo were sitting waiting for the horn to blow. I was kinda far away so I didn’t hear the beach commentators say 10 minutes to start. Italo whips on a BD wave and eats sh*t. I thought oh no, pressure got to him. I checked my phone clock, it wasn’t 8am yet. He was just warming up. Next Italo whipped on a left and got shacked. Then he got a runner did a couple top turns and boosted a huge straight air at the end. The beach erupted. All this before the heat even started. Petersen kinda hassled him for the first warm up wave, must be in a contest surfers dna to do that, but just sat there after he figured the heat didn’t start. Italo looked loose and was having fun.
You have Volcom contest and Backdorr Shootout for that.I'd like to see them make Pipe an invitational contest with the focus on the best Pipe specialists. The first round should be made up of an equal number of WSL CT surfers and Pipe specialists. Let the cards fall where they may from there. There should be a lot more Hawaiian locals in the main event as well as guys who are out there all winter charging. If 3/4 of the WSL CT surfers lose in the first round I'm fine with that.