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Breaking: Jordy Smith cements position at tippy-top of most physically, emotionally, awkward claimers in professional surfing history! – BeachGrit
Busy days, these ones, with much running here and there, to and fro, and so I missed much of yesterday’s hot action at The Main Break. Thankfully, we all have Longtom…

And Gabriel Medina stumbles over his own aggression
One Australian male in the quarter-finals after our Olympians failed again.
Possible, probable even, there will be no Australian in contention for a world title. No Australian at the Trestles final.
I mention, not as blunted rah-rah Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-oi-oi-oi jingoism, but merely to ask whether the dismal state of Aussie pro surfing amongst the men puts in jeopardy the CT project downunder. Will the greatest supporter of Pro Surfing yet discovered,…
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