“Most dudes I know would love to be dropped in on
by her”
A short clip of the Hawaiian-raised surfer Brittany
Hokulani Penaroza dropping in and then wiping out atop a surfer at
Desert Point has split the internet, a few celebrating the
manoeuvre as female empowerment at work, the majority calling it
dumb and dangerous.
Posted by the master filmer Riordan Pringle, the talented
boy who shoots and cuts all of those Mason Ho clips,
we see Britt Penaroza joining a fellow surfer on a wave before
taking too high a line and being flipped off her surfboard, which
almost decapitates the man already on the wave.
Pringle named it”The Britt Flip” and called it “the most
controversial manoeuvre of the summer.”
Comments were split, roughly, ten-to-one against Penaroza.
For:
Since when did surfers become so fragile. Hahaha. Brit is
fucking amazing for charging deserts, can take a joke and a
backflip. People need to party wave more, take themselves less
seriously and be less critical.
Most dude I know would love to be dropped in on by
her
Most of the male friends around me are chivalrous and
confident enough to not be threatened by a chick testing herself on
a challenging wave. I think they are also just men who don’t take
themselves too seriously and enjoy surfing for surfings sake
without the need to fight out in the water or the comment section…
especially with women.
Brit is a courteous surfer. I heard this swell was packed
and agro. She ended up with stitches and a funny clip. No need to
get their knickers in a twist
Against:
Seen her drop in like that on the shoulder at bowls and
rocky too many times. Hopefully now she’ll be more mindful. Also,
funny to see the blatant double standard from some in the
comments.
I don’t give a fuck if I dropped in on that guy and wasn’t
supposed to if he did that to me I’d be waiting for them on the
beach or the parking lot and he pay a fucking price
And from Penaroza?
“My best move yet.”
Her response to the “haters”, as they’re called in the online
community, was simple:
To all the grumpy people saying ID deserved it, I got
5 stitches in my foot because of this and couldn’t walk for a
week
Which garnered a frenzy of replies:
play stupid games you win stupid prizes
Maybe you shouldn’t be dropping in on people…
you did deserve it. Glad you finally got some consequences
for your actions. Don’t drop in on people. You aren’t special, and
the rules *do* apply to you.
the consequences dont make your actions correct. I hope
those stiches help you remember not to do it again. Its easy, just
look for other people and pull back if someone is already on the
wave. It was YOU who fabricated a dangerous situation, it could
have been the other surfer who got injured. And theres no need for
that, there are more waves to catch. Even if the guy was snaking
and being a dickhead, its better not to create these dangerous
situations. It was your foot, but couldve been someones
neck
imagine trying to defend a blatant no look drop in and then
btching about the outcome
Thoughts?
I come on the side of female empowerment, pro-Britt if you like,
and if the surfer being dropped in on was a white male, well, all
the better.
