Are We At The Start Of Griffin Colapinto’s 2025 Comeback?

It would take one person over 274,000 years to watch everything on YouTube right now — and that’s assuming no new videos were uploaded in that time.

Keeping up with the vlog upload rates of “professional” surfers is becoming a task in and of itself. Confirming just that, the Colapinto brothers have released a 42-minute-and-45-second episode documenting their trip to the Victorian coastline to compete at the longest-running surfing contest on the ASP/WSL Championship Tour — the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.

As a two-time WSL Finals Day participant, it’s been strange to see Griffin Colapinto’s name accompanied by a double-digit rank on the WSL leaderboard this season. Aside from a 9th-place finish in Abu Dhabi, Griff has carried three 17ths like clunky bad luck charms through Australian immigration.

Aptly titled, his new vlog episode “Back on Track!” shows Griffin finding a stride and flow on the Victorian rights, making them look far more appealing than what some CTers have said about the old lady on tour.

He was only stopped by event winner Jack Robinson in a semifinal heat many thought could’ve gone the other way.

Though its length requires a fair amount of commitment to the screen, the episode makes up for it with free surf footage you wouldn’t have seen by following the webcast alone.

In another era, some of it would’ve surely ended up in a Griff part, etched onto a now-defunct Digital Versatile Disc.

Now, after slipping through the Elimination Round on the Gold Coast, Griff faces local hero Liam O’Brien in the R32. We’ll be on site keeping you in the loop.