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Pretty sick, pretty darn sick. There are no adjectives left to describe cooking Supers. When the waves are going off, the sand has built up, the offshore is pumping and the best surfers in the world are completely pumped, the usage of words is irrelevant.
Holmsie was on fire, Slater was ripping, Parki found his mojo, and Dane Reynolds beat Jordy pretty easily. The waves were absolute gems, gifst from heaven. When Curren and Occy went out for their clash of the icons heat, the waves were lame. Such a pity. A few heats later and things started really turning on. It would have been way better to have the two elder statesmen surfing when the waves were going nutso. Still, Curren took the heat, and they are set to clash again tomorrow, just before the event final.
While Joel was smoking and scored the barrel of the day, his determination and fitness for this his world title run has been much-documented and it is obvious and self-explanatory to everyone. He is in his prime, fighting-fit and wants a title more than anything else. Slater, on the other hand, has been fairly enigmatic so far this year. Pissing about on rubbish surfboards, feigning interest, winning an event, surfing borrowed boards and generally behaving a bit like someone with cotton wool in the head. Yet his performance today puts him straight back in the superhuman league, completely unbeatable, completely on track, and bee-lining for his 10th world title. There is very little doubt that something has clicked over, again. I would be very surprised if he isn’t in the final tomorrow.
Then you get Sean Holmes. Another enigma, Homsie seems to read the wave better than anyone else in existence. I know, massive call, but watch him take off on a wave with a kink or a bend or something. From the beach you start shouting ‘naah don’t go, it’s not going to open up,’ or whatever, and he takes off on the crap wave and it transforms underfoot. He just seems to have such an affinity with the liquid treadmill that is Supers that, to be frank, is actually a bit eerie. If there is any doubt in the eyes of the judges, it must be the fact that Holmsie makes it look too easy, more so than Parko. Maybe the answer is for Holmsie to start wiggling or something, but I somehow don’t think it’s going to happen.
One other thing: the event is a green event, and Billabong have invested a lot of coin into making it green, and eco friendly, small environmental footprint etc. Maybe one of the larneys should go and have a look at the cars parked alongside the main road. I had 8 flyers stuck on the windscreen. I took them off and put them in the rubbish bin, but most other people just pushed them off their windscreens to fall on the ground and blow away. That’s a serious amount of paper pollution, it looks disgusting, and is a real bummer after all the effort that has been put in. Shame on you idiots who stick flyers under your windscreen wipers. Dooses – you know who you are.
Pretty sick, pretty darn sick. There are no adjectives left to describe cooking Supers. When the waves are going off, the sand has built up, the offshore is pumping and the best surfers in the world are completely pumped, the usage of words is irrelevant.
Holmsie was on fire, Slater was ripping, Parki found his mojo, and Dane Reynolds beat Jordy pretty easily. The waves were absolute gems, gifst from heaven. When Curren and Occy went out for their clash of the icons heat, the waves were lame. Such a pity. A few heats later and things started really turning on. It would have been way better to have the two elder statesmen surfing when the waves were going nutso. Still, Curren took the heat, and they are set to clash again tomorrow, just before the event final.
While Joel was smoking and scored the barrel of the day, his determination and fitness for this his world title run has been much-documented and it is obvious and self-explanatory to everyone. He is in his prime, fighting-fit and wants a title more than anything else. Slater, on the other hand, has been fairly enigmatic so far this year. Pissing about on rubbish surfboards, feigning interest, winning an event, surfing borrowed boards and generally behaving a bit like someone with cotton wool in the head. Yet his performance today puts him straight back in the superhuman league, completely unbeatable, completely on track, and bee-lining for his 10th world title. There is very little doubt that something has clicked over, again. I would be very surprised if he isn’t in the final tomorrow.
Then you get Sean Holmes. Another enigma, Homsie seems to read the wave better than anyone else in existence. I know, massive call, but watch him take off on a wave with a kink or a bend or something. From the beach you start shouting ‘naah don’t go, it’s not going to open up,’ or whatever, and he takes off on the crap wave and it transforms underfoot. He just seems to have such an affinity with the liquid treadmill that is Supers that, to be frank, is actually a bit eerie. If there is any doubt in the eyes of the judges, it must be the fact that Holmsie makes it look too easy, more so than Parko. Maybe the answer is for Holmsie to start wiggling or something, but I somehow don’t think it’s going to happen.
One other thing: the event is a green event, and Billabong have invested a lot of coin into making it green, and eco friendly, small environmental footprint etc. Maybe one of the larneys should go and have a look at the cars parked alongside the main road. I had 8 flyers stuck on the windscreen. I took them off and put them in the rubbish bin, but most other people just pushed them off their windscreens to fall on the ground and blow away. That’s a serious amount of paper pollution, it looks disgusting, and is a real bummer after all the effort that has been put in. Shame on you idiots who stick flyers under your windscreen wipers. Dooses – you know who you are.
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