{"id":22532,"date":"2011-04-02T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22532"},"modified":"2011-04-02T18:31:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T01:31:02","slug":"comically-small-waves-at-dna-energy-pro-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22532","title":{"rendered":"Comically Small Waves At DNA Energy Pro Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Evan-Geiselman-Dna-Day-2<\/a><\/p>\n

The photos from the ASP 1-Star DNA Energy Pro Junior<\/strong> event at the shark bite capital of the world<\/a><\/strong><\/span> New Smyrna Beach Inlet, Florida have been cracking us up on a daily basis. But they’re also reminding us of two other things: how hard core Florida surfers are and how lucky we are to have waves most of the year.<\/p>\n

Seriously, look at this photo again. Either Evan Geiselman<\/strong> has grow 7 feet since we saw him last or that wave he’s on is about 10 inch tall. “Challenging conditions” for sure.\"Dylan-Goodale\"<\/a>
\nDylan Goodale<\/strong> bumping an air off a solid one-foot bit up chop.<\/p>\n

NEW SMYRNA BEACH INLET, Florida \/ USA (Saturday, April 2, 2011) \u2013 New Smyrna Beach local Evan Geiselman, 17, led the top seeds at the inaugural Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 1-Star DNA Energy Pro Junior in challenging, but contestable one foot (.5 metre) waves at his home break of New Smyrna Beach Inlet to decide the event\u2019s Quarterfinalists.<\/p>\n

Geiselman capitalized on his familiarity of the New Smyrna Beach Inlet lineup to net the day\u2019s highest single wave score of 7.33 while earning the highest heat total of 14.66 as well despite the tough conditions brought on by the small surf.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis may be the smallest I\u2019ve ever surfed the Inlet,\u201d Geiselman said. \u201cEither way, it\u2019s good to get a heat going and get a couple of scores and I\u2019m looking forward to the final day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geiselman, who spends the majority of his year traveling the world for contests, is still enjoying the opportunity to compete in the local event despite the lack of surf on offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to have a contest here,\u201d Geiselman said. \u201cI\u2019m never home anyway and this is where I feel the most comfortable. Although the surf has been small I\u2019m still happy to have this contest at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The talented goofy-footer is also optimistic about improving conditions for Sunday, April 3, the final day of competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe surf is looking bigger for tomorrow,\u201d Geiselman said. \u201cWe were debating on running the Quarterfinals tonight but decided to hold off because tomorrow is looking better. Hopefully we\u2019ll have some fun waves for the final day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional standouts advancing into the Quarterfinals of the DNA Energy Pro Junior include current ASP North America Pro Junior No. 3 Luke Davis (Capistrano Beach, CA), 18, Evan Thompson (Jacksonville, FL), 19, and Hawaiian Dylan Goodale (Kauai, HI), 19.<\/p>\n

The DNA Energy Pro Junior will crown a champion by tomorrow, April 3, 2011.<\/p>\n

For a DNA Energy Pro Junior recap log back on to www.aspworldtour.com or www.aspnorthamerica.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photos from the ASP 1-Star DNA Energy Pro Junior event at the shark bite capital of the world New Smyrna Beach Inlet, Florida have been cracking us up on a daily basis. But they’re also reminding us of two other things: how hard core Florida surfers are and how lucky we are to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22535,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions\/22535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}