Fiji 2014

[crabmeat thompson]

Haha ... hardly rattled. it's the internet. god forbid anyone disagree with you on it, huh?

and bringing the taliban into it, you were a douche, but I reckon you knew that, and didn't need me to tell you so.

[steve shearer]

Just while you're there and on the warpath, is there anything else women should be discouraged from doing in the Braithwaite world view?

So they can surf small waves and go shopping but not CB or Restaurants. What about politics or blog writing? We don't want to set the poor darlings up to fail like they did last time.

They can play tennis because of the sexy outfits...any other sports they shouldn't be doing because of their lack of size, strength etc etc?

Just asking for a friend.

[crabmeat thompson]

what's happened, lose a lure today?

you are owning this thread, well done.

[localbogan]

Shearer you are still failing to appreciate the point that to win a world title the women do not need to be proficient in heavy surf.
You are labouring on their so called lack of professionalism and preparation, yet are failing to recognise the remaining 90% of the tour is held in not particularly heavy waves. It's probably a conscious choice as much as anything and will definitely not change until the tour locations change.
Having said all that, I think a lot of them performed credibly.
A few didn't but I also remember a number of surfers in the men's either not catching a wave or maybe 1 or 2 small ones in heavy Tahiti a few years ago.

In my opinion, the men not being prepared to surf 20 ft Cloudbreak because they didn't have the right boards (the official explanation) even though plenty of other guys did, including the boat driver for christs sake, represents a genuine lack of preparation and is a massive embarrassment

[steve shearer]

I agree with you on that LB.

Cloudbreak and Honolua Bay. The title this year is there for the taking for a woman who can figure out reef breaks.

[localbogan]

Or the beach breaks of Brazil, Huntington, France and Portugal.
Or the sand bottom Snapper. Or the softish Bells and Trestles.

[el rancho]

Or the beach breaks of Brazil, Huntington, France and Portugal.
Or the sand bottom Snapper. Or the softish Bells and Trestles.

actually, forget about it

[localbogan]

Amen to that rancho

[daisy]

scared to ask Daisy but what is mansplaining?

yeah not sure if it is actually worse or better than it sounds:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... =Mansplain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining

As to the question, you've got ninety posts in....why don't you join in?

sadly(?), and despite my very attractive nickname, I'm another bloke and not sure I have much more to add.

[buzzy]

Just on the scores being low in the final - I think too much is being read into that. The wind turned on shore just prior to the final and wave quality deteriorated. Apart from Steph falling on one wave I don't recall any waves were bombed and I don't recall any waves being let go which had great scoring potential. Which just came off a Rio mens final with a 13 and a 10 so a couple of 9's is hardly ball park different. If conditions had stayed as they were I'm sure scores of 15 plus would have followed. After all Sal was consistently putting in scores around this mark.

Hopefully the mens gets a start tomorrow. Given tge conditions I've subbed out the Bede and added back Kolohe for my FS team.

[crabmeat thompson]

Can everyone just calm the fcuk down?!

As soon as shearer devises his scale of sexism I'll calm down. There must be a scale.

While I admit, what I'm saying is sexist. I feel that would be at the lower end of sexism, while the taliban who've suppressed, beaten, tortured, humiliated and raped women systematically for hundreds of years are quite possibly at the upper end.

[BA]

Can people please not use the term 'brand'.

[Nick Carroll]

jesus h christ. maybe leave the sexism scale creation to the people affected by it, ie women.

of whom none prowl these halls. and sneakily I wonder how many of us are relieved by that fact.

so onward yet sadly downward into the men's event. I bet Laird wont be around for this one.

I reckon anyone whos laid a wager on this event is gonna lose.

[crabmeat thompson]

jesus h christ. maybe leave the sexism scale creation to the people affected by it, ie women.

get outta here! Here, is no place for common sense or reason.

The men's event is about to go dire, I think. Can cloudbreak even break under 4-foot? They were saying last year on one particular day, this is the smallest you can surf it, and it was 4ft and sectiony as anything. The wave was kinda broken up into about 5 peaks ,each peak at the end of an unmakeable section. It was more like a beachie.

A goofy will win it.

[steve shearer]

Can everyone just calm the fcuk down?!

As soon as shearer devises his scale of sexism I'll calm down. There must be a scale.

While I admit, what I'm saying is sexist. I feel that would be at the lower end of sexism, while the taliban who've suppressed, beaten, tortured, humiliated and raped women systematically for hundreds of years are quite possibly at the upper end.

I don't know whether to hug you or kick you in the nutz Braithy. I'm sorry for comparing your mild flavour of sexism with the Taliban fully fledged version. It was an overreach said in jest.

[crabmeat thompson]

hug me you bastard. My hands won't wander. Promise.


Sorry for calling you frumped up and implying you were a douche, old mate.

It won't happen again.

[pirate_agenda]

wont they just surf it at restaurants if its only 4ft?

[crabmeat thompson]

wont they just surf it at restaurants if its only 4ft?

Depending on swell direction Cloudy would have to be 8ft+ for restaurants to be 4ft. Restaurants will only be good for snorkelling the entire men's waiting period.