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Sickest day of competitive booging that I've witnessed today...
Swell was 4-5ft out of the SW, lots of good left pits, not many rights. Both Jeff and Dave were dominant over Rene and Magno in their quarters. Stewart had a harder battle putting away Amaury, and Winny just pipped Tamega in an epic duel.
The Hubbard brother semi final was nothing less than amazing. Jeff starting with a good barrel and big ARS. He had priority but gave a set wave to his bro, thinking it wasn't going to be that great. Dubb busted two massive ARS's out of the bowl for a perfect 10, coupling it with a couple of good barrels too. The rest of the heat saw heaps of good pits, but in the end Jeff came up just short of a super stoked dubb.
The second semi, saw the last aussie hope, Dave Winny, go down to a hungry 46 year old from Hawaii. Throughout the rounds Stewart has showed his skill in picking the best waves and weaving through long barrels. Winny busted a good vert on a right and a big air revvy (unlanded), but needed a 9 point something, which was always going to be tough.
The final between the two Hawaiians, Dubb and Stewart, took place in deteriorating waves... less sets and a light onshore. Nevertheless, both managed to pick up good barrels early on. Stewart continued to rack up high scores with long left pits and rolls off the end. In the dying minutes, Dubb needed a 6.5ish for the victory, and lucked into a good pit. He busted an ARS out of it but didn't stick it, coming in short with a 5 something. If he had simply rolled instead, he would have easily secured the win! In the end though, Stewart was a deserved winner, claiming it the highlight of his career.
) the effort was still made to express their rides. Photos were included, but a minimum so the report wasn't dependent upon them in any way. We also had personal discussions about the lack of even reasonable text reporting on the world tour.Quote:
".... South African Mark McCarthy goin1,2"
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Heat 4 round 6 was a difficult one with Ryan Hardy losing out to Mark McCarthy and Brad Huhges who both surfed consistent.
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[Personally, I think the riders themselves need to wake up and demand better coverage otherwise they travel to events and are not guaranteed any coverage - last year there was an event in Europe which did not have a final release.
/quote] its this quote i was responding to.
yeah Arica is how every comp should be!
I just don’t think money and media attention is always going into the right things here in Africa. For instance just say a bodyboarding company would spend 1000 moola on a budget for a beachie comp (like margate or wedge) where the waves are not even good. But the riders who are doing the comps get nothing from the companies because all is spent on trying to get media coverage instead.
I don’t bye any means think comps are bad but I think the companies put to much money into sponsoring the actual compos instead of the top riders (talking about SA). Trying to create hype around the compos when the waves are bad is like flogging a dead horse, if the surfing was exiting and the waves were good hype would naturally come.
Yeah I missing the point of the topic a bit.
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"...cause something needs to be done about it! It's so bad!"
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Yea I cant believe how bad the coverage of the world tour events is! Coverage is usually a day or two late, a couple of photos, a poorly put together video and one paragraph with results. No heart and soul. Capturing the vibe of an event is so important. You want to make people feel like they are actually there and what it is really like when Jeff Hubbard busts an air at 10ft backdoor. Seriously, it’s not that hard to do and the IBA and/or the people that run those events need a serious kick up the arse cause they are doing such a poor job of keeping the public informed about who won and making it interesting. I would love to teach them a thing or two! Haha. Anyway, rant over back to the IC - It was so important to have the media coverage. Since it was so isolated (hence the name) we wouldn’t have spectators and this was our only way to keep the sponsors happy. Each night Garden would edit the best pics from the day and I would tally the scores, edit some video to put up and do the daily write ups. It was a mission and I had to miss out on some of the fun times the guys had but it was really important to me to get pics, video and a detailed description of what has been happening – even if it wasn’t surf-related. Most nights I was so drained that I couldn’t put two sentences together but it came out all right it in the end. Internet access was always a massive problem down there. One year we had no option but to sneak into a well-known anti-booger standup’s property and steal his phoneline! Haha, that was sweet payback for years of being a cock to the Isolated Challenge. It would usually be midnight before I’d get back to the accommodation cause I’d be sitting there for hours waiting for pics to load! It was hard work but worth it and it’s what made the Isolated Challenge so unique and damn interesting to watch.