Griffin Colapinto vs Ethan Ewing | Rip Curl WSL Finals 2023 - Match 3 Heat Replay

Boy does John John equal turns - soo mental!!

griff looked off

There are 10s of thousands of people that can surf this good these days. In real life without a contest there is no such thing as the best surfer in the world. Plus sometimes the style some of these guys have are smelly. Not these guys though.

man the first turn on the first ethan ewing wave give me goosebumps, that is the surfing i like!

Griff could've got him at the end if he would've gone on Ethan's wave and did a big rotation on the closeout. He had priority, but chose to let Ethan go on that one. Oh well, Ethan's surfing was amazing, totally won that heat. Ethan might need a bit more variety to take out Felipe in the future at similar waves. Everyone ripping, great finals!

Yewing was ripping, especially after the injury, it’s fairly clear he’s the best on rail.

Griff claim every wave was cringe as, judges really tried their best to get jim the win bit ethans surfing was way to dominant

Finals day was an interesting study in tail shapes. Toledo wins the day on his typical round tail - seems to suit his approach. Whereas I thought Ewing turns looked slightly better here (squash) vs Griffin (round). Not by much, but the judges seemed to reward Ewing a bit more and eye test goes to the squash in these waves. Also Ewing riding a poly core with epoxy. In a previous heat Chianca looked good on his swallow tail against JR. a few years back (2016?) Jordy won lowers on a swallow.

EE’s turns look different, like we’ve seen John at certain venues

Griffin was robbed

The 8,93 for EE was overscore…only a 8

Griffin totally underscore

Griff was underscored

Mick fannings brother from another mother won with power

BRASIL HEGEMONIA NO SURF 🇧🇷

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Good job Ewing❤🤙🏾🫡

Ethan is the new love affair of Wsl. Being overscored even though is repeating the same maneuver over and over again.

GC kinda bogging a fair bit on top turns....looks a bit forced sometimes EE flawless.

Cola claiming more than a Brazilian still didn’t take it

Colapinto underscored... it was close but Grif was more dynamic. Ethan's waves were just rinse and repeat.

Ethan had better style and probably deserved to win that one. That said I feel like they overscored his waves and underscored Griffin a few times.

Best heat of the comp. Griff really needed to go to the air....then to air to beat Filipito where Ethan couldn't in 3 to 4' mush.
Ps. Ethan crushed it.

Is it my impression or Colapinto was CLEARLY UNDERSCORED in at least two waves? And when it comes to Ewing, seems like he's always gotta be OVERSCORED...shame on WSL judges.

Why would you show the wave scores before the wave is completed? Really takes all the suspense out of the viewing experience

Two great Surfers, didn't care who won, just love seeing the great surfing.

Old format! WSL, you tried…..it sucks

A WSL ESTRAGOU O SURF!!!!! TÁ NA HORA DOS SURFISTAS SE DESVINCULAREM !!!!

People bashing EE for competing “injured” and saying Medina should replace him…