{"id":27045,"date":"2011-12-12T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27045"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:30:45","slug":"asp-announces-2012-top-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27045","title":{"rendered":"ASP Announces 2012 Top 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ka.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ka.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ka-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ka\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here they are. The hard charging <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/\">Association of Surfing Professionals<\/a><\/strong> Top 34. The guys who get to travel the world, hang out at beaches for weeks at a time, and contest surf in the big show. And yes,<strong> C.J. Hobgood<\/strong> is back after his tour through the minors. He&#8217;s number 25 right behind <strong>Kolohe Andino<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the jump for the entire list.<!--more-->2012 ASP TOP 34:<br \/>\n1. Kelly Slater (USA)<br \/>\n2. Joel Parkinson (AUS)<br \/>\n3. Taj Burrow (AUS)<br \/>\n4. Gabriel Medina (BRA)<br \/>\n5. Owen Wright (AUS)<br \/>\n6. Adriano de Souza (BRA)<br \/>\n7. Julian Wilson (AUS)<br \/>\n8. Jordy Smith (ZAF)<br \/>\n9. Alejo Muniz (BRA)<br \/>\n10. Michel Bourez (PYF)<br \/>\n11. Josh Kerr (AUS)<br \/>\n12. Damien Hobgood (USA)<br \/>\n13. John John Florence (HAW)<br \/>\n14. Mick Fanning (AUS)<br \/>\n15. Jeremy Flores (FRA)<br \/>\n16. Heitor Alves (BRA)<br \/>\n17. Miguel Pupo (BRA)<br \/>\n18. Adrian Buchan (AUS)<br \/>\n19. Kieren Perrow (AUS)<br \/>\n20. Bede Durbidge (AUS)<br \/>\n21. Raoni Monteiro (BRA)<br \/>\n22. Brett Simpson (USA)<br \/>\n23. Adam Melling (AUS)<br \/>\n24. Kolohe Andino (USA)<br \/>\n25. C.J. Hobgood (USA)<br \/>\n26. Tiago Pires (PRT)<br \/>\n27. Jadson Andre (BRA)<br \/>\n28. Matt Wilkinson (AUS)<br \/>\n29. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)<br \/>\n30. Dusty Payne (HAW)<br \/>\n31. Travis Logie (ZAF)<br \/>\n32. Taylor Knox (USA)<br \/>\n33. Kai Otton (AUS) *surfer wildcard (next on the ASP World Rankings)<br \/>\n34. Yadin Nicol (AUS) *surfer wildcard (injury)<br \/>\n1st Alternate: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)<br \/>\n2nd Alternate: Willian Cardoso (BRA)<br \/>\n3rd Alternate: Chris Davidson (AUS)<br \/>\n4th Alternate: Thiago Camarao (BRA)<\/p>\n<p>The newly-minted ASP Top 34 will compete at the opening event of the season, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast from February 25 to March 7, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here they are. The hard charging Association of Surfing Professionals Top 34. The guys who get to travel the world, hang out at beaches for weeks at a time, and contest surf in the big show. And yes, C.J. Hobgood is back after his tour through the minors. He&#8217;s number 25 right behind Kolohe [&hellip;]<\/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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27048,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045\/revisions\/27048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}