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Former ASP World Tour campaigner Daniel Ross (Aus) has assumed the current ASP WQS ratings lead, after advancing into the quarterfinals of the ASP WQS 6-Star Mr Price Pro Ballito today.
Ross, the highest rated surfer in this year’s event, defeated local standout and South African Open Men’s Champion Gavin Roberts (Scottburgh) during the Men’s Round of 16 in the small 0.5 meter waves on offer Surfers in Ballito.
“I’ve been doing the ‘QS for a while and to be only half way through the year and already sitting on over 12,000 points is a good feeling,” said Ross. “I’ve been putting in a lot of work and just kept doing what I know and it works well. I’m surfing without a sponsor at the moment but still, it’s all come together this year.”
As priority and wave selection became critical in the first of the man-on-man heats, the powerful Australian unleashed some fast and loose surfing to edge out Roberts with a 13.20 heat total to the South African’s 12.50 (both out of 20.00).
Kevin ‘KO’ Olsen is quite a versatile guy. Between pulling into pits at Hossegor and running a surf-school B&B in France, the East London stalwart recently found the time to ply his hands at chiseling out a surfboard or two.
So on a recent road-trip back to the good ‘ol Republic, Kevin proudly exhibited his self-shaped ‘Conker’: a squat, yellow round tailed surfboard resembling a retro-fish, but without the fish tail…probably one of the dodgiest looking boards we’d seen in a while. That is, until Kev let loose on his creation.
Lampeez pulls out his fisheye watercam to bring you the goods.
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