ZoSea, The World Tour and Brazil - Why the Snapper Contest was BS

Nope. Parko got robbed, Medina and DeSouza were slightly overscored a few times, but the Brazilians on the whole won their heats fair and square. All of them were looking as smooth as ever. Plus they are more respectful and professional than ever.

All around good contest. Interesting to see the different approaches to such a unique wave in relatively sub par conditions.

 

Comparing them only to past Brazilian performance and composure. Didn't hear the god quote. Adriano needs to wear trunks that fit better for sure. That interference was Jeremy Flores' fault.

 

pro brazilian bias

i genuinely believe jjf and gabriel medina are the two best so if gm won cause of talent
maybe there is no bias. be interesting to see how this 'new world order' treats jjf.

 

Anyone but Medina or any of those filthy Acai munchers

JJF!
KS!
PAAAHHKO!

ANYONE but Medina, please

My new Banner to fly at contests? ABM ANYONE. BUT. MEDINA.

I wanna see the little turdish man-boy cry again

 

assuming your entire theory is true (& i'm not disagreeing. i hate the brazzo 'tude & style of surfing), i feel the need to remind everyone that they are not ruining surfing. they are merely destroying competitive surfing. surfing can & will survive just fine w/out pros & the asp. the asp, however, needs surfing. if crap judging & questionable rules persist, the market for professional surfing will dry up & no one will watch.
would that be a bad thing? ah, i dunno. maybe, maybe not.

 

Zosea...etc etc.
It doesn't matter how slick and produced it is.
The average American doesn't give a crap about pro surfing or surfing in general, and never will. I'd be surprised if 1% of Americans know who Kelly Slater even is.
This ain't Australia...
And that's a good thing.

 

Yep, gotta get those three safety turns in, no time for a giant punt!

 

are Brazilians surfers good?
are there naked dix in gay porn?
medinas rookie year,he beat Kelly in every heat they had,literally every heat.he shined at trestles a few yrs back.also his rookie year I think he won 4 events,which is unheard of for a rookie.adriano always finishes among the top 10 at the end of the year.all the young brazzos rip too,mostly aerial stuff tho.theres big wave brazzos,power surfing brazzos,willian cardosa,another powersurfer he beat Kelly multiple times.

next the quikpro is the 1st contest,and almost everytime they run it the waves are crap.i only caught 3 heats during the whole contest.the new format does suck.i didn't see any of the heats or the highlights.snapper seems like a real fickle wave.the takeoff is usually a crappy wave but it grows nice as it travels across the bar.

as far as medina vs jj,medina has a way better tour record,but john john is the one and only john john.they are about even with the airs,i think jj carves better and rides the barrel better.john john was born to win,he was surfing pipe since he was 4.by 6 he was out on 15 ft days with a helmet.john john is todays Jamie o brien.everyone hates on Jamie but that was jj idol and Jamie taught him a lot.those who charge the hardest pay dues.Jamie o broke both legs,jj broke his back out there at pipe.and medina,and all Brazilians,they come from the slums where they don't even have running water or electricity.when they get good at a sport,they dedicate their life to it,way more than American surfers

 

i think stink bug is in their dna or something like that

 

I can't understand why anyone is giving Adriano sh** for dropping in on Flores. It is a surfing COMPETITION. The goal is to win. Disagree with priority rules if you will, I think they need tweaking, but as the rules stand, Adriano not taking that wave when Flores has already laid really nice turn to start would have been terrible competitive surfing. You can't let someone take a potentially high-scoring wave under your priority when they are sitting 150 feet further up the point than you.

Kelly dropped in on Parko at Kirra last year.

I thought the contest was scored pretty well, maybe a couple overscores on Medina, and as usual, a couple overscores for Kelly. I don't always love Gab's surfing but he laid a whole lot of really solid backhand turns in this contest...more than just an air guy for sure.

With the whole progression/futuristic surfing in competition thing, I think they're still finding a balance. That year Medina came on at the ill-fated midyear split and won two comps, the panel was scoring single maneuver waves and crazy airs way higher than they ever had before, and while some cool airs got tossed, I definitely thought they went a little too far toward progression. Variety and the ability to read a wave and link moves throughout the entirety of the wave definitely deserves to be rewarded as well.

Last year, I thought they went too far back toward safety turns. Mick surfed a great year, but a couple of his heats were just so boring to watch in small surf. You can only listen to commentators talk about his Coolangatta carves so many times. Hard to say where they'll lean this year, as not many people were testing how the panel would score airs at Snapper.

 

i don't think anyone is disagreeing w/ the fact that it made competitive sense. i think the issue stems from the fact that he took off so late, which ended up causing a collision, something many see as dangerous & since adriano already has a "win at all costs" reputation, this incident just added to that. i think both flores & de souza are lucky they weren't injured.
fwiw, kelly dropped in on parko quite a bit further ahead, so there was no danger of collision in his action & parko has an opportunity to straighten out/get off the wave, thus avoiding the interference call. the goal of that move is to get your opponent off the wave, not trap them into a heat losing interference. hell, flores did the same thing a wave or 2 earlier in the heat, but again, there was no risk of collision or injury to another competitor.

 

All valid, I suppose we differ in that you stated (maybe in the other thread, where a lot more sh** was given to Adriano about this) you thought Flores never saw Adriano - I disagree, and think he did (he finishes the turn, looks down the line where Adriano is paddling, looks back at the pocket, then looks forward again and crashes into Adriano). I think he kind of assumed that Adriano would get up and get down the line, so he didn't just turn it out straight. Then Adriano got held up in the lip, and well, we all saw what happened. It's on Flores though, when you know you don't have priority, then you need to know where your opponent is in the line-up - he has the right to the wave, whether he gets caught up in the lip or not.

No problem with a "win at all costs" approach when it's done legally within the rules, and I don't think Adriano wanted to collide there, though he probably was looking to bait an interference of some kind. I can see some of the frustration because it was so early in the heat and wasn't blocking a heat-winner, but IMO, Kelly drops in there, too (certainly later in the heat)....he just makes it ha!