According to Urban Dictionary, Shithousery is defined as:
A Chiefly British term for underhanded conduct or gamesmanship in a sport, with the intention of gaining an advantage. Typically refers to association football.
Well guess what? It’s not just association football, folks. So long as we’ve got the Medinas, the Dingos and the Hardmans, so long as there are the Slaters and the Beschens, there’s shithousery in the shredosphere alright.
To kick of 2020, your favourite surf podcast It’s Not The Length took a look back through great moments in surf shithousery and came up with an all time Top 5 for the latest instalment, Episode 12.
And no, it’s not Medina in all 5, before you ask (although he may feature in more than one).
With its epic leash pulls at Pipe, paddling up the inside and out of competition area, sneaky heat start snakings, intentional priority interference moves both for and against, without shithousery, where would we be?
We’d be bored.
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And just in case you’re one of those folk who like to read the last page of a novel first, here they are:
5. Damien Hardman on Tom Carroll at The ’89 Coke Classic
4. Medina x Brother at Chopes, 2018 / Medina x Wilson at Chopes 2017
3. Dingo Morrison on Damien Hobgood at 2009 Pipeline Masters
2. Kelly Slater on Shane Beschen, ’96 US open
1. Medina on Ibelli, 2019 Pipeline Masters
