“Gabriel Medina is a boss like pro surfing hasn’t seen in a long time.”
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SEAN DOHERTY: Pipe Day 2 – A Brutal Pantomime
The stretch was bombing, the biggest day they’ve run here for a decade at least. Whatever it was doing, it was compelling. Whatever you were seeing through a screen did no justice.
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SEAN DOHERTY: Pipe Day 1 – War Pigs
While there’s plenty of swell coming, it doesn’t look like we’ll get a classic Masters.
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” I just want to surf for the complete and utter enjoyment of it.”
Why Joel Parkinson is walking away from the World Tour.
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An epic day of surfing
Here was Honolua, pulsing. There was Peahi, confrontingly real. On a rainy Monday morning today, women’s surfing got its day in the sun.
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Chapter Two: The Next Chapter
What Mick Fanning Did… Before Whatever He Did Next
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The Quiet Messiah
John Florence and a world that won’t stop talking about him.
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In the Blood
The last realistic chance of anyone beating Medina was Italo – and he did it.
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Is a world title just a day away?
Has Joycey given Medina too much of a head start?
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Joel Parkinson On Andy Irons, After The Tell-All Documentary
“A lot of the reasons why he’s not with us today are pretty dark and real and quite hard to hear.”
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Lemoore Will Be Allentown: Surf Ranch Pro Finals Day – Sean Doherty Reports
What Did We Learn?
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Salad Days: Surf Ranch Pro Day 2 – Sean Doherty Reports
“No one – man, woman, animal, mineral – has that middle tube section better dialled.”
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The Tour In a Tub: Surf Ranch Pro Day 1 – Sean Doherty Reports
So yeah, about the pool…
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Gabriel Medina Wins Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o – Sean Doherty Reports
“Owen – in a classic case of life imitating promotional clip – took the first one, and turned around to see Gabby getting drained on the second.”
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Almost Tahitian: Sean Doherty On The Beginning of the Tahiti Pro
It crumbled like onshore Trestles on a dying, long period swell.
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LYNDIE IRONS ON THE ANDY MOVIE
“I wish he was here to see it, to finally see that everybody loved him.”
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