The biggest surprise of these Teahupo’o Olympics, aside from Filipe Toledo’s masterful 9.67, is China’s Siqi Yang. The pint-sized former wrestler, who hails from China, had never surfed Teahupo’o before her Olympic debut and the prudent thing would have been to doubt, Yang fearlessly sent it, cementing her place as the hero of her nation and possible the entire Games.
JP Currie wrote Yang attacked Teahupo’o’s “critical four-foot walls with a backhand that belongs at the highest level of women’s surfing, and certainly leagues ahead of two-time world champion, Tyler Wright.”
High praise from one of our world’s most important critics.
It would come as zero surprise if Yang’s epic show ignited a surfing passion amongst China’s billion-plus population. The biggest boom ever and one man, “the world’s most beautiful surfboard shaper,” will be there for the moment.
Cox, of course, burst onto the scene with his Hypto-Krypto model described by Derek Rielly as “a spruced-up seventies style design that was more fun that the vigorous operation of your sex glands,” and likely the biggest-selling surfboard model in the world.
Small ‘taters, though, with his new soft tops being offered on Alibaba, China’s Amazon, for $70 each or, $35 each when 100 are dropped into the basket.
Discount-minded surfers shrieking.
The accompanying video features a factory buzzing with workers glassing, finishing, etc. while an overseer in a mask makes sure they keep on task.
Dimensions are not given. There is one type of product listed as “surfboard” but 100 “surfboards” at $35 each should not be looked at in the mouth.
A second cultural revolution over China’s horizon?
Hayden Cox the new Chairman Mao?
Exciting days.
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