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Pro
Surf Ramblings
The Men's Fiji contest is currently in a holding pattern
waiting for a new swell to show up. They are in Round 4 and the
surf was outstanding for the first three rounds. Again, ASP provided
live webcast along with the contest's sponsor Globe.
Kelly Slater is out this contest with a rib injury.
This gives a chance for everyone else in the pack to catch up in
the overall point standings.
When the contest starts back up, it looks like a heated
chase with some very able surfers in the hunt. Surfline is forecasting
larger waves for Monday and/or Tuesday. But, keep in tune as the
swell may pick up over the weekend.
Top Ten Ratings after event #3 on the Foster’s ASP
Men’s World Tour:
1. Kelly Slater (USA) 5276
2. Bobby Martinez (USA) 2676
3. Taylor Knox (USA) 2208
4. Andy Irons (HAW) 2064
5. Taj Burrow (AUS) 2042
5. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 2042
7. Damien Hobgood (USA) 1742
7. Bruce Irons (HAW) 1742
9. Fred Patacchia (HAW) 1667
10. Greg Emslie (ZAF) 1610
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The first day of the Globe WCT Fiji 2006 provided
excellent conditions for both the surfers and spectators.
Some surfers chose to view the action from the channel while
the judges from the tower.
(Editor Joke: While others selected to view
it on-line!)
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All photos are Copyrighted by ASPWorldTour.Com
(http://www.aspworldtour.com/
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Taj Burrow (Yallingup, WA, Aus) (pictured)
struggled to find any high scoring rides and lost out to American
Peter Mendia and fellow Australian Luke Stedman in round one
of the Globe WCT Fiji.
Adriano de Souza (Brz) was on fire in his
opening round heat, posting one of the highest heat scores
of the day, 17.17 out of 20 points. Despite his high heat
score, the rookie was still beaten by CJ Hobgood (USA) who
posted a heat score of 18.73 points to take the win.
Paulo Moura (Brazil) found the waves he needed
in round one of the Globe WCT Fiji scoring enough to win his
heat and send former three times world champ Andy Irons (Haw)
to losers round two.
With wide open tubes asking to be ridden Mark
’Occy" Occhilupo (AUS) uses the advantage of being
a "goofy" footer at the left hand break of Tavarua.
Andy Irons (Haw) picked up one of the more
sizeable waves during his round two heat eliminating local
Fijian wildcard Ratu Aca. Aca (Fij) was the local Fijian wildcard
and son of the Chief of Tavarua Island.
Nathan Hedge (Aus) excelled in round three
of the Globe WCT Fiji getting a perfect Cloudbreak coverup
scoring a near perfect 10 with his highest scoring ride of
9.63. By advancing through to round four Hedge eliminated
Fredrick Patacchia Jnr (Haw).
With day four being offered perfect conditions
once again, Troy Brooks (Aus) found a perfect coverup and
won his heat by 0.94 of a point eliminating fellow Australian
Joel Parkinson. Brooks advances to round four of the Globe
WCT Fiji 2006.
Joel Parkinson’s
(Aus) emotions showed through in his round four heat against
Troy Brooks (Aus). With perfect conditions and both surfers
giving top level performances Parkinson let it all out when
he lost by 0.94 of a point and was eliminated from the Globe
WCT Fiji 2006.
Andy Irons (Haw) put his skills and the perfect
conditions to good use in his round four heat against Peter
Mendia. In the hopes of winning the Glove WCT Fiji and improving
his position on the tour rankings Irons advanced to round
four eliminating Mendia from the event.
Timmy Reyes (USA) wowed the crowds with his
high level performance in the perfect conditions at Cloudbreak
during his round three heat against Bruce Irons (Haw). Reyes
ended the heat leaving Irons with a requirement of 9.96 points.
Irons could not find the near perfect ride required and was
eliminated from the Globe WCT Fiji. Reyes advances to round
four.
Damien Hobgood (Florida, USA) posted the highest
heat score of the day, an 18.00 (out of 20 points) to win
his round 3 heat. Hobgood eliminated Chris Ward (CA, USA)
from the event and will face Darren O’Rafferty (Aus)
in round 4.
Damo.
CJ also made it to round 4. Possible Damo
vs CJ Final? -ed.
When a day starts with a spectacular sunrise
and you’re on the island of Tavarua with the world famous
reef known as Cloudbreak, the worlds top surfers and perfect
surfing conditions predicted you can be guaranteed to have
a pleasent day.
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Round four heat draw:
Heat 1: Troy Brooks (AUS) versus Tom Whitaker (AUS)
Heat 2: Darren O’Rafferty (AUS) versus Damien Hobgood
(USA)
Heat 3: Tim Reyes (USA) versus Nathan Hedge (AUS)
Heat 4: Trent Munro (AUS) versus Andy Irons (HAW)
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) versus Danny Wills (AUS)
Heat 6: Mick Fanning (AUS) versus CJ Hobgood (USA)
Heat 7: Taj Burrow (AUS) versus Luke Stedman (AUS)
Heat 8: Bede Durbidge (AUS) versus Shaun Cansdell (AUS)
Check for updates and live webcast of Fiji contest at this
link: http://www.globefiji.com/
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Pier Talk
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Summer is here in Florida. School is out and we should slide into
the rainy season soon. We are in a state of suspension as we wait
for any sign of surf as we have endured a three week flat spell.
This is typically a flat period for us, so we are use to it…it’s
just that when you are away from something you love so much, the
pain grows each day you are away from it!
Surfing has a certain hypnotic trance it places over its participants.
Similar to fishing, where you throw out some bait and wait…and
wait…and wait…but, when you do finally catch that fish
the excitement of at all erases the previous memory of anxiety.
Next week and Hurricane season starts. June First is the official
start date for the Atlantic basin Hurricane season. Although it
doesn’t guarantee we get surf, it does indicate that our dreaded
extended flat spell may end soon!
If you look at things in the broader spectrum, Florida’s
flat season is a great time to take up other hobbies, or spend time
with the family, or be productive on other accents of life.
Try not to dwell on no swell.
With anything you love to do, the absence makes the heart grow
fonder!
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We Are Water Happenings
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Logjammer’s Total Involvement article got favorable reviews
and a few e-mails sent my way. Thanks for all the feedback!
Total
Involvement by logjammer
I was suppose to put out a couple of other articles this past week.
The Walt Barnes interview is complete and just
waiting for some Edit Time. I plan on making We
Are Water’s Waterview
link a place to conduct interviews with various people involved
in the so-called surf tribe.
Also, BK William has one on the queue along with
another guest writer that sent in an article a couple of weeks ago.
These will get pushed out soon and sorry for the delay.
I’m running a one man circus over here! I have all
these ideas in my head and developing the site has been fun. I’m
working on an E-commerce site as well. So, We
Are Water looks to keep dripping along!
Thanks for checking out Fresh Friday!
Fresh Friday out…
May 26th, 2006
David Reid
Sales@WeAreH2O.Com
JUNE 13th
The Cocoa Beach City Council will be hosting
an
Artificial Surfing Reef workshop on Tuesday,
June
13 at 6:30 PM in the Cocoa Beach City Hall. We
expect representatives from the city and county
commissions, Depart of Natural Resources, local
businesses and the media. Dr. Kerry Black,
designer of the Orlando wave pool and numerous
artificial surfing reefs will be the featured
guest. I hope that the Surfrider Foundation and
all interested local surfers will attend.
More
Info on Artifical Surfing Reef for Cocoa Beach
Sebastian
Inlet Surfrider Foundation Web Site |
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