hilly said...

Very selective editing with just the choke hold shown for 99%.

Choke hold/submit , Man rape in his world.
send him back to what ever rock he crawled from under.

AA said...

Sunny needs to spend more time on his standup board

Good to see commercial assassination is alive and well

Adelaide is Heaps Good!

Stupidstupid said...

Doggie wasn't involved was he

Hmmmm - funny you say that cos doggie is actually on the Goldy

What were Suplove thinking signing Sunny Garcia up in the first place given his history of violence and Suplove's Zen lifestyle position? "Suplove. It's about being connected. It's about respecting and taking care of each other, the environment and ourselves."

At least Suplove now have the opportunity to lead by example and publicly terminate their business relationship. Who they gonna send round to collect the boards from Sunny's place though?

I'm a fan of Suplove but won't be buying the Sunny Garcia board if it comes out: www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=supbusiness&e=com

hilly said...

Sorry PC boys but if a 20 something was having a go at my 16 yr old son I would step in as Sunny did

TV edited it media hype blew it up.

MMMM

Look my son is in a fight...what do I do?

A.
Drag my son away and break the fight up, basically defuse the situation

B.
Run in and pound the guy my son's fighting into submission and then assault an innocent person on the beach because they filmed my brain snap.

Sunny had this choice but chose violence as a solution and look at the result, and it could have been so much worse. I am sure in hindsight Sunny regrets his choice.
Imagine if every sporting father chose the same solution as Sunny, you would have dad's running onto the footy field to knuckle someone who dare fight with their son. You cant pick up a local paper without reading about some young persons life being tragically effected from actions of aggression. As they say 'One Punch can Kill'.
I am definitely not PC, I just abhor violence

Dazza65 said...
A.
Drag my son away and break the fight up, basically defuse the situation

B.
Run in and pound the guy my son's fighting into submission and then assault an innocent person on the beach because they filmed my brain snap.

Sitting at my desk calmly sipping my coffee I would chose A, but in the heat of the moment and with adrenalin pumping and my young son being punched would most likley be B, IMO natural human reaction. (although no one would be filming me )

SUP8383 said...

The guy was probably being an aggressive "local" F*wit and finally someone has hit back. I am with hilly on this one, if it was my son = same reaction.

from Flores's account the local was being a tool and I would tend to take his word for it, and probably deserved it.

Sunny should have just one of Will Farrell's classic's on the nob "I would like to climb over your anger wall, because i am sure the view of the other side would be glorious"

All you guys who think what Garcia did was reasonable in that situation need to a long hard look in the mirror.I wonder how many of you have been involved in acts of violence , my guess not many.Its usually the pseudo tough guys that like to talk up this kind off stuff.

easy tea tree, I am sure that no-one on this forum condones any type of violence - me included. People need to lighten up a little and not take what is written literally in every instance. The fact is that no-one here has the full story - Garcia may have been justified to get pissed off and defend his son however his actions were excessive.

I am going to start using it as a verb. For example: Someone cut me off driving the other day - I felt like getting out of the car and Sunny Garcia-ing him.

Statement from Flores:

“Hey, for now, all I can say is that everything that has been said on the news and all the stories people hear are told in a different way which makes it look very bad. I just stood up for 16 year-old Stone Garcia while a local surfer was getting aggressive with him. Next thing everybody knows, he got aggressive with me, I defended myself and we went at each other fighting face to face all the way to the beach. Somebody told Stone's dad, Sunny Garcia, that his son was in trouble so he ran down. Any parent would of done the same thing if their son were in trouble.

Anyway, the ASP decided to take me out of the event because a new rule says that no violence should be tolerated in a professional event. I agree with that rule 100% but it wasn't the case for me, I just defended myself while I was training in the contest area before my heat. People have to understand that family and friends are everything for me and I will never walk away from it (especially when it's a under 18 boy ). I hate violence and I never get into any troubles like that. I love Australia and I have most of my best friends here. All the Burleigh boys have always been so nice to me so I won't let this story change that. I'm so sad this story happened but I don't regret anything. These things happen in life unfortunately and I will never let anyone walk thru me.” – Jeremy Flores

I cant disagree with Flores and would hope my mates react the same way in a similar situation. As for Sunny, it looks a bit OTT but how do you know how you would react if it was your blood involved?