Stab Magazine | The Snapper Day That Won't Be Forgotten Any Time Soon

Live Now — Episode 3 Of Surf100 Challenge Series Presented By Pacifico

367 Views

The Snapper Day That Won’t Be Forgotten Any Time Soon

Relive: Gabs swears on air, Freddy P rockslides.

cinema // Mar 13, 2017
Words by Stab
Reading Time: < 1 minute

This was the day of professional surfing competition that just keeps on giving. The video you’ll see above features Freddy Patacchia, one of the tour’s most awesome personalities, expressing his frustration through the magic of interpretive dance. See also: Pumping a knee-high whitewash in to plant his board on a rock (6:45 mins in).

With one minute remaining, Freddy was sitting on a heat total of 0.5. He removed his leg rope after his rock slide. He proceeded to cross the sand, signing no signatures. He passed the VIP picket fence, dropped his (wrecked) board and swore very, very loudly. Instead of hanging in the competitor’s area on the Greenmount side of the $1M complex he sprinted, and I mean S P R I N T E D, through the Quiksilver Pro event site, still in his jersey, across the road and into his room, seven stories up in the Columbia Apartments. And that’s a damn slow lift ride.

Freddy’s boardslide adds to a day of awesomeness, which in hindsight was always gonna happen after so many lay days, that’s so far included:

– Josh Kerr combo’ing his own board… with his fist. “Frustration/anger are emotions I really try to stay away from!” he later wrote on Instagram beneath a video. “Today that didn’t work! #tantrum.” Big love, Mr Kerr.

– Mid-heat, Kelly Slater swapped his Channel Islands for a stumpy little Tomo shape. He paddled out on it and didn’t get another wave. He lost the heat to rookie Italo Ferreira.

– Joel Parkinson was eliminated by Wiggolly Dantas. John John Florence was eliminated by Matt Wilkinson.

– And of course, Gabriel Medina lost to Micro Hall due to an interference, and then held nothing back on the webcast, see below:

Comments

Comments are a Stab Premium feature. Gotta join to talk shop.

Already a member? Sign In

Want to join? Sign Up

Advertisement

Most Recent

10 Shapers To Watch In The Next 10 Years — Part One

“It’s like a drug empire, man. Cut the head off the snakes, and more will…

Jul 7, 2025

Mason Ho Joins Ritual Vision, Releases Remix Of Greatest Hits

Dion Agius riffs on the eyewear brand’s U.S. expansion, Ritualistic Tendencies, and the new stars…

Jul 7, 2025

Is It Time For A New Judging Format?

We have a modest proposal — a WSL head judge disagrees.

Jul 7, 2025

Luke Thompson Turns Last Year’s Priority Disaster Into Ballito Gold

+ earns himself a wildcard into Jbay.

Jul 7, 2025

Fiji Has Its First Professional Surfer, And He’s Unbelievable

16-year-old James Kusitino’s incomprehensible tube lounging leads to a deal with Former.

Jul 6, 2025

Laird Hamilton on The Limitations of Being a Purist, Invention vs. Ownership + Why He Never Had a Sticker Deal 

Untold stories from his How Surfers Get Paid interview.

Jul 4, 2025

Surf100 Challenge Series Presented By Pacifico: Episode 3

"The tribe has spoken," Dane Reynolds pronounced, and a surfer's torch was snuffed.

Jul 3, 2025

When Surfer’s Eye Is Actually Cancer

Erin Campbell's brutal journey from surf camp dreams to chemo drops, cryotherapy, and surgical horror.

Jul 3, 2025

Surfing’s 2025 Q2 Report

An assessment of surfing's vital signs throughout the second quarter of 2025.

Jul 2, 2025

What Actually Happened to Occy’s Mad Max Plunger Pool In Yeppoon?

Surf Lakes’ brass talks: internet hecklers, the unplugging of the plunger, and the Tom Curren…

Jul 2, 2025

Poor Goofy Foots 

Data shows that the world is stacked against goofs — they even make 15% less money than…

Jul 1, 2025

Britain’s First Wavepool Has Closed — What Really Happened?

Bankruptcy, social media hackings, debts unpaid — and yet, reopening looms.

Jul 1, 2025

Watch: Was Matt Meola’s Air Actually Better Than Hughie’s?

Watch the full Swatch Nines highlight reel and decide.

Jun 30, 2025

Houshmand Bludgeons Field To Win Second CT — Molly Picklum Tastes Blood, Snatches World #1 In Brazil

You can't argue with big surfing — that's Saquarema wrapped.

Jun 29, 2025

37 Years Old And World #1 — What’s Changed For Jordy Smith?

On rediscovering decades old surfboard templates, having a personality on the CT, and why this…

Jun 27, 2025

Tom Lowe Stars in ‘Let Me Live’

The wild, improbable ascent of Britain’s best big-wave surfer.

Jun 27, 2025

Saq Wrap: Italo Celebrates Mid-Heat, Griff Drops A Freestyle, Jordy + Yago Continue BBQing 20-YOs

Top seeds sow ruin, Final 5 starts to crystallize.

Jun 27, 2025

Surf100 Challenge Series Presented By Pacifico: Episode 2

Our seven surviving surfers confront an oddly large California beach break.

Jun 26, 2025
Advertisement