After spending a week in the office listening to sometimes compelling commentary and watching replays of the inconsistent sets that came through at this year’s Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro, I decided to spend my Saturday actually hanging out at the event. With the excess of photos taken during these things, it gets old being a photographer running around taking the same exact same images as about a hundred other people. So I went with the decision of following around my friend and local superstar Brother Andino, for the day as opposed to focusing on the event as a whole.
After all, Kolohe had arguably been the most in form surfer of the comp to that point and had a legitimate shot at winning both the Prime and Pro Junior, similar but on a bigger scale to what he recently accomplished at Huntington. Things didn’t really go as planned though. Brother got knocked out in a wave-starved, raging-south-wind-fest quarter final against Jesse Mendes and did only enough for 3rd place in the Jr final. A decent, but disappointing result for a prodigy at his local break.
That’s when I switched focus to Tanner Gudauskas’ camp which backfired on me again as he narrowly lost to Miguel Pupo in the mens final.
I couldn’t help but laugh at my fortune as I scrolled through my pathetic storyboard of photos that completely neglect the talented field of Brazilians who dominated. It is what it is though. Not an epic event, but a bad event at Lowers beats a good one at most other places.
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oh jon jon you just don’t know what you are talking about. Have you ever even taken photojournalism? I have. Just saying. But I’m sure you know what you’re talking about. I’m sure Aussie mags aren’t biased….riiiiiight. Fact: Mags are a business and people care more about Kolohe than Brazilians. General public still has the taste of Neco Padarataz in their mouths and he totally sucks and was one of the reasons for the new format from top 44.
Yewww, tell me please…. Why “people care more about Kolohe than Brazilians”? (mail me direct by my mail, please: rootsland2001@yahoo.com.br). Thanks!
I’d much rather read about the brazzos then kolohe. why would i read about another spoiled (though talented, OBVIOUSLY) american teen when the brazillians who blew up here, might actually have gone through real scenarios instead of being a robot for the surf industry. maybe im old school but i’d like an interesting story instead of whats popular for some reason…
he lost.
brazzos win, next story.
losers dont win…