Switch stance surfing is something that has been talked about for a long time as an important part of what surfing can be in the future.

In both skateboarding and snowboarding, sports that are children of surfing, this was adopted a long time ago: turns are in one direction or another and there is no one way to go, with one foot in front or the other.

For some reason, this is rarely practiced in surfing. There are regulars and goofies, and let's say that switching feet is chosen very often. There are very few maneuvers that require a marked ability when switching, and surfing like this has not been awarded with high scores either; it is just not practiced very much.

The Freshwater Classic, an event that has been criticized for being boring, got what it needed in its penultimate wave after three days of event, Toledo's last real attempt: The Brazilian performed a good combination of maneuvers and at the end he did a decent pop shove it, he looked goofy and he tubed with his feet changed, he rode quite a bit but he couldn't get out.

It was surely one of the most cheered waves of the tournament. It opened surfing fans' eyes to what the future can be, and also to what is possible thanks to a wave pool that sends out the same shape over and over again.

Toledo redeemed an entire tournament, a revolution that surfing was supposed to be experiencing but that found no parallel when faced with it.

In the end, the most memorable wave was the one that lost the final.