by The Editors on May 7, 2011
Tanner Gudauskas had a great run at Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles this week, however, it all ended by six hundredths of a point in his final match up with Brazilian Miguel Pupo on Saturday, May 7, 2011.
“Miguel ripped and it makes it exciting when it’s a close Final,” Gudauskas said. “Congratulations to him, it’s been a fun week. . . This week has just been classic,” Gudauskas said. “It has been a blur. I am just coming off of an ankle injury and wasn’t expecting anything and I just started making heats and then I was in the final.”
Hawaiian Keanu Asing , 17, who won the ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior. For all the official details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 6, 2011
It’s hardly news to say that Kolohe Andino, 17, is doing well at the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro at Trestles. He was built for this wave, especially when the sets are rolling through in their rglassy, rampy two-to-four foot range. And that’s exactly what rolled through when he edged Dusty Payne 17.50 to 17.03 in Heat 4 of the Round of 24 on Thursday, May 5, 2011.
“Before the heat my nerves were running wild,” Andino said. “I had to step aside and focus because I was pretty nervous. Once the heat starts I start to get a little more comfortable, but actually after I got that 7, I was still nervous because I knew Dusty (Payne) could get a bomb and rip it. I just want to give credit to Dusty (Payne) he’s one of my favorite surfers and it’s a bummer we came up against each other and I probably had the best heat of my life.”
Andino was not alone. Brazil’s Gabriel Medina, 17, rolled on with his big-name wrecking by snubbing Patrick Gudauskas with a 9.5 and the highest score of the day. For more details and all the results from Trestles follow the jump or click here to watch the Oakley Jr Pro which is live now. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 5, 2011
Sally Fitzgibbons‘ short winning streak ended in the semi-finlas of the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic at Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia today (Friday, May 6, 2011) when she fell to Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich. She also got bumped back down to number two on the ASP World Rankings list after Carissa Moore was able to defeat Mulanovich in the finals. Sally says she’s trying not to ignore all that.
“I’m trying to not think about the World Title too much, I know that there are a lot of girls within range, so I’m just going to keep my head down and have fun.”
Moore on the other hand was pretty fired up about her performance.
“I’m really, really happy, I’ve been fired up ever since the last two events with Sally (Fitzgibbons) and I’m just super excited I was able to come out on top this time,” Moore said. . . “I was really excited to make another final and it was refreshing to have a Sofia as an opponent,” Moore said. “She was leading for most of the heat and I was kind of nervous out there.”
For the rest of the story and full results, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 4, 2011
Organizers of the Nike 6.0 Lower Pro announced today that for the first time ever, the event will be carried live on Time Warner Cable in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Hawaii.
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) PRIME Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro and ASP 5-Star Oakley Pro Junior will be shown in their in entirety from May 3rd through 7th through a live feed to Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s SURF Channel 250 and 1250HD in Hawaii from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm PST each day. From May 3rd to May 6th Oceanic Time Warner Cable will replay each day’s action after the live portion ends, and it will loop until competition resumes the following day. After the contest finishes on May 7th, Oceanic will replay the entire five-day event on a loop until May 13th. . . Additionally, the Oceanic Time Warner Cable live feed will be transported to Time Warner Cable’s Los Angeles, San Diego and Desert Cities markets.
And that’s great news for people who still have cable, because the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro webcast has been almost unwatchable thanks to incessant stalling and/or dropped connections every 10 seconds.
For all the details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 3, 2011
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Bobby Martinez kicked down his ASP elite power and garnered the day’s highest score, Kelly Slater was a no-show, and Dane Reynolds got back into the competition mood by surfing in his first heat since having knee surgery. And it all went down in surprisingly fun looking one-three foot surf on day one of the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro.
“Nothing’s easy these days, there are all kinds of good surfers,” Martinez said. “That one 9 was just a good wave. I think I did four turns or something. I really just lined up nice.”
Reynolds, freshly into a new six-year contract with Quiksilver allegedly worth $23 million, squeezed by a hard-charging Conner Coffin with less than a point to secure an advance into the next round behind Kekoa Bacalso. Reynolds’ knee didn’t appear to hold him back, but he did mention that he would like take some precautions. “I think I’m going to have to go ice it up,” he said as he exited the water following his heat.
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by The Editors on May 2, 2011
by The Editors on April 30, 2011
How quickly things change. After four years of Stephanie Gilmore taking pretty much everything on the ASP Women’s World tour it seems the next generation has moved in to take over. Australian Sally Fitzgibbons defeated Hawaiian Coco Ho 16 to 8.86 in the finals of the TSB Bank Women’s Surf Festival at Taranaki, New Zealand on Saturday April 30, 2011 making it two in a row, after three years on tour without a win.
“This means the world to me, I’m so stoked to get a win here in New Zealand,” Fitzgibbons said. “Last year I got runner-up so to take the win today is extra special. . . The waves today were pretty challenging,” Fitzgibbons said. “Entering the water I saw a little peak down the beach, it was a risky move but it paid off this time. I just went out there and thought I’m in the final and I just wanted to go for it and that’s where I was going to surf. “
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by The Editors on April 23, 2011
It was an Easter Day full of shutdowns, April 24, 2011. Adriano de Souza slammed the door on Kelly Slater in the quarter finals, Mick Fanning decimated Jordy Smith in the semis, and then in the dream 50th Anniversary Rip Curl Pro Bell Beach Finals Joel Parkinson delivered the same treatment to mate Mick Fanning.
Parko grabbed the first wave of the heat and landed an 8.53 and then just didn’t let up. By the middle of the heat Parko had Fanning combo’d but, Fanning got back in with a 7.9. By then there wasn’t much time left. With less than a minute to go Parko used his priority to block Fanning off the last wave and on the way in scored a perfect 10 at the hooter.
“Bullshit! I had no idea,” Parko said, surprised when he heard about the 10. ” Did they? I didn’t know you know. The 50th year thing it’s like a gold plated bell this year. It’s a special one.”
When he say that last set coming, Park was worried but he knew that Fanning had been our of sync with the waves for most of the head. “I was like oh no,” he said. “I’ve definitely had things taken off me that way before. I thought Mick was the form surfer of the event and I was never going to take him lightly. I was thinking he was the hardest surfer to beat.”
Fanning was obviously spent. “I’m stuffed,” he said on the podium. “I thought I was mr. fitness then tried to chair Parko up the beach and I folded right away. It was an awesome day. I had some great heats. Most of the time when you go out and surf three times you’d be buggered but this with the crowd it was great.”
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by The Editors on April 23, 2011
While the ASP Elite surfers were battling away at Bells for the Rip Curl Pro, the juniors were in Cardiff, California for the Rob Machado Seaside Pro Junior. When the contest was done on Saturday, April 23, 2011 it was Evan Geiselman and Lakey Peterson who took the top spots a the 4-Star event.
“It was kind of a sluggish final for me and I think for the rest of the competitors and I was pretty tired out there, but I’m so happy to get a win and get some momentum going,” Geiselman said. “I’m not having the best year like last year so I’m so excited. I just want to thank my Mom for helping me out lately. She flew out here before the event and has been doing everything for me.”
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by The Editors on April 23, 2011
Photographer Jake Stangel’s latest project is titled, The Pacific and it documents surfing on the Oregon Coast, according to a story on the Good Magazine website.
“It’s cold,” says Stangel, an East-Coast transplant who started photographing surfers in the area after a hike through the nearby forest lead him to Indian Head beach, “and thick westuits are mandatory. . . The surfers are used to the cold,” he adds, “but I feel like I’m still getting used to the rugged lushness of the ocean and mountains of Oregon. I’m constantly surprised by its beauty.”
Stangel’s images provide a balance for all the ASP action we’ve been soaking in this week. Click here to see the project, or click the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: Good Magazine]
