{"id":30590,"date":"2012-05-09T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30590"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T15:44:58","slug":"billabong-pro-rio-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30590","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Pro Rio Is Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kai\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Billabong Rio Pro<\/a><\/strong> is on and live from Arpoador (the secondary site) in what has been described as “two-to-four foot waves.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWith unfavorable waves at the primary venue of Barra Da Tijuca, we\u2019ve opted to utilize our back-up location of Arpoador today,\u201d Rich Porta<\/strong>, ASP International Head Judge said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got contestable conditions here and are planning on getting into both men\u2019s and women\u2019s competition today.\u201d . . Kicking off today\u2019s action will be the women\u2019s trials and immediately following will be men\u2019s Round 1 action, which will see Josh Kerr <\/strong>(AUS), 26, Bede Durbidge<\/strong> (AUS), 29, and Jadson Andre<\/strong> (BRA), 22, do battle in the Billabong Rio Pro\u2019s opening heat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to watch it live<\/a><\/strong> or follow the jump for the official word from the ASP and complete Round 1 heat match-ups.ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro \/ Brazil (Wednesday, May 9, 2012) \u2013 The opening day of the Billabong Rio Pro is ON in clean two-to-four foot (1 metro) waves at the backup venue of Arpoador and today\u2019s action is expected to see the completion of both men\u2019s and women\u2019s Round 1.<\/p>\n

Stop No. 3 on the men\u2019s ASP World Championship Tour and No. 5 of the women\u2019s respectively, the Billabong Rio Pro will play a vital role in the 2012 ASP World Title Race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith unfavorable waves at the primary venue of Barra Da Tijuca, we\u2019ve opted to utilize our back-up location of Arpoador today,\u201d Rich Porta, ASP International Head Judge said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got contestable conditions here and are planning on getting into both men\u2019s and women\u2019s competition today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kicking off today\u2019s action will be the women\u2019s trials and immediately following will be men\u2019s Round 1 action, which will see Josh Kerr (AUS), 26, Bede Durbidge (AUS), 29, and Jadson Andre (BRA), 22, do battle in the Billabong Rio Pro\u2019s opening heat.<\/p>\n

Due to technical difficulties, the Billabong Rio Pro webcast is temporarily unavailable. The event apologizes for the inconvenience and ASP technicians are working with the staff to repair the issue.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s Billabong Rio Pro holds a waiting period from May 9th through 20th while the women\u2019s event holds a shorter waiting period from the 9th through 13th. To watch the world\u2019s best surfers LIVE log on to www.billabongpro.com<\/p>\n

For additional ASP information log on to www.aspworldtour.com or www.aspnorthamerica.org<\/p>\n

BILLABONG RIO PRO ROUND 1 MATCH-UPS:
\nHeat 1: Josh Kerr (AUS), Bede Durbidge (AUS), Jadson Andre (BRA)
\nHeat 2: Jordy Smith (ZAF), C.J. Hobgood (USA), Patrick Gudauskas (USA)
\nHeat 3: Owen Wright (AUS), Raoni Monteiro (BRA), Taylor Knox (USA)
\nHeat 4: Adriano de Souza (BRA), Kai Otton (AUS), Willian Cardoso (BRA)
\nHeat 5: Taj Burrow (AUS), Kieren Perrow (AUS), Tomas Hermes (BRA)
\nHeat 6: Joel Parkinson (AUS), Matt Wilkinson (AUS), Peterson Crisanto (BRA)
\nHeat 7: Julian Wilson (AUS), Brett Simpson (USA), Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
\nHeat 8: Gabriel Medina (BRA), Adrian Buchan (AUS), Yadin Nicol (AUS)
\nHeat 9: Mick Fanning (AUS), Damien Hobgood (USA), Travis Logie (ZAF)
\nHeat 10: Michel Bourez (PYF), Miguel Pupo (BRA), Tiago Pires (PRT)
\nHeat 11: Jeremy Flores (FRA), Heitor Alves (BRA), Kolohe Andino (USA)
\nHeat 12: John John Florence (HAW), Alejo Muniz (BRA), Adam Melling (AUS)<\/p>\n

BILLABONG WOMEN\u2019S RIO PRO ROUND 1 MATCH-UPS:
\nHeat 1: Courtney Conlogue (USA), Lakey Peterson (USA), Sage Erickson (USA)
\nHeat 2: Tyler Wright (AUS), Paige Hareb (NZL), Justine Dupont (FRA)
\nHeat 3: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), Sarah Mason (NZL), TBA
\nHeat 4: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), Rebecca Woods (AUS), Melanie Bartels (HAW)
\nHeat 5: Carissa Moore (HAW), Coco Ho (HAW), Jacqueline Silva (BRA)
\nHeat 6: Laura Enever (AUS), Malia Manuel (HAW), Pauline Ado (FRA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Billabong Rio Pro is on and live from Arpoador (the secondary site) in what has been described as “two-to-four foot waves.” \u201cWith unfavorable waves at the primary venue of Barra Da Tijuca, we\u2019ve opted to utilize our back-up location of Arpoador today,\u201d Rich Porta, ASP International Head Judge said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got contestable conditions here […]<\/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\/30590"}],"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=30590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30599,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions\/30599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}