The change is subtle, but it has happened. Toledo seems a victim of this right now, having fallen out of favour for whatever reason. Just as I alluded to in my final Bells wrap, judging is subjective, and scores are swayed by the vagaries of temperament and emotion. Surfers fall in and out of vogue, even when they perform consistently. To my eye, Filipe Toledo did, too, but once again seemed slightly low-balled by the judges. ![]() Only Yago Dora, Italo Ferreira and John Florence achieved excellence today. Maybe I’d been hoping for too much in light of the forecast, but I was left with the sense that both waves and surfers had more to give. Ten heats were won with totals between fourteen and sixteen, and that seemed about right. Waves and opportunities were plentiful, but in surf scoring parlance, the day was a mid-seven, and that’s mostly what was awarded. And it was not the performances, which were highly competent without being jaw-droppingly spectacular. It was not the drama of the Cut, which promised fireworks and fizzled out before the Round of 16. Perhaps, if that was the last heat we see of Kelly Slater as a full-time Tour professional, it was something colossal shifting in the landscape of pro surfing. Perhaps it was a nod to John Florence, and the tectonic power of his turns I referenced yesterday. Monumental forces were at work, acts of God. The whole house shuddered and shook, as if shunted by a giant mechanical hand. Her bravery and voice is a gift to the sport.”Īfter laying the boot into the old boy, Tyler later bemoans the “white, male” surf industry etc.Īt two-thirty AM this morning there was a loud bang. “It’s a joy to watch her find her grand and express her truth inside and outside the surfing arena. Loved the honesty on two very difficult subjects. He is the father of three professional surfers. “Shame she publicly threw her Dad under the bus during this interview, disappointing and I wonder what Kirby (her sister) thinks of her comments.” The living embodiment of the World Surf League’s pivot away from surfing’s roots and to its generously inclusive, diverse, LGBTQ+ friendly model.)Īnyway, the WSL’s followers were divided by Wright’s candour re: her Daddy. (It’s easy to be enchanted by Dave, his big eyes, delicate hands, never dirty, and silky hair that he smooths vigorously each morning in the hope of flattening a cow-lick which rears from the top of his skull. ![]() I’m not the first child star this has happened to.” If this is not uncommon, why don’t we have better solutions, better parenting programs, better informed industry? I’m not the first child this has happened to. “I’m rebuilding a relationship with surfing because of the drastic and extreme circumstances that I was raised in…Look, this is not uncommon. “I experienced that and I worked with a psychologist for years to understand my relationship with surfing and understand how that was born, how it was really unhealthy for me,” Wright told Dave Prodan on his usually milquetoast podcast The Lineup. Now, in her latest confessional Wright says she suffered “different emotional and psychological abuse” from the Wright’s patriarch Rob, the old boy now on the ropes, suffering from dementia and being cared for by her big brother Owen. I love everyone around me but she makes such a difference in a way only she really can.” ![]() Wright, who won her first big event at fourteen and two consecutive world titles at twenty-two and twenty-three, told the Sydney Morning Herald, “I’m the only queer person on tour, so my wife is the only other queer person I know most of the time. “Different emotional and psychological abuse…I experienced that.”Īfter a shocker in Portugal a few weeks back, the two-time world champ Tyler Wright revealed she was “no longer leaving home without her psychologist or her wife again.”
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