A goofy footer finally wins Sunset after 11 years of regular foot domination. Props to Surfing Magazine’s Evan Slater for actually writing an original story for this event and not simply posting an ASP press release.
And in the dying minutes, we watched in awe as CJ Hobgood, the lone goofyfoot of the final, positioned himself perfectly for the wave of the day, dropped beyond vertical a la Munga Barry in 1994, then bottom turned for a massive arc, an 8.5, a standing O from the crowd, and the win. “You never know what you need or where you are in the heat out there,” said CJ, who became the first goofyfoot to win at Sunset since Mike Rommelse in 1997. “It was, like, ‘Bro, you ripped out there. No, bro you ripped out there.’ We all thought the other guys killed it.”
[Link: Surfing Magazine]
