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Medina spits the dummy... further, the judges go underground and the greener surfers blow up. |
| 28/10/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
The Greener Surfer Bloggers, Matt, Gina and Tony. If you haven’t already checked out www.thegreenersurfer.com then do yourself a favour and go and check out what these guys along with a host of awesome guest bloggers have been up to this month. These are people who through their passion for the environment have shared best practice and inspired others to change their lifestyles to be more environmentally conscious. So if you’ve always though you should be doing more to preserve the environment and wanted to know where you can start go and check this out because it is full of useful and practical information that you can start to apply immediately.
Western Province. Juan de Jongh’s “Gangnam style” try tipped the scales in what from then on became an all Province affair. The Durban press had been building up the home side all week, but the visitors were having none of it. Better on defence, better on attack they were the better team on the day and the deserved winners of this year’s Currie Cup.
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The contributors to theBOMBsurf magazine, currently in production. So many different people from so many different countries contribute to making theBOMBsurf what it is. Without all these amazing passionate people this magazine would not be possible. This week sees us putting the finishing touches on the 16th Issue and believe us when we tell you it is going to be a banger!
Who Blew it?
Gabriel Medina. Medina’s un-sportsman like behaviour last weekend has rippled around cyberspace all week giving us all something to talk, think and write about. He isn’t the first surfer to get ripped off in a heat and he sure as hell won’t be the last. That aside he could take a leaf out of Kelly’s book and confront the judges in a polite and dignified way but which equally lets them know that he has their number.
The Sharks. The newspaper headline in DBN on Sunday morning boldly announced that the Sharks ‘let it slip in the rain...’. Slip they did from pre event favourites right into the runner up position! Aside from Lambie’s phenomenal kicking the team lacked the 5th gear necessary to win a Currie Cup final.
The ASP Judges. Aside from Lance Armstrong the only other guys you don’t want to be last week were the judging panel in that Medina/Wilson Final. Wilson’s theatrical claim for what should have been no more than a 6 point ride doesn’t reflect well on the talented Aussie but that panel throwing him an 8 something.... Um, ja, well they all fell for it hook line and sinker. Ha ha lots of dark glasses and baseball caps as the judges try and remain incognito from the Brazilian press. |
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Wilson steps up the heat, Slater stumbles and a surf mag editor crosses over to the Dark Side. |
| 21/10/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
Julian Wilson. Julian finally snagged one in the big leagues with his victory over Gabriel Medina at The Rip Curl Pro in Penich Portugal. This will do wonders for Julian as it will make him feel as if he really belongs in the big league. He also jumps 6 places up the rankings to number 6 and is now knocking on the door of the magic top 5 rating. With his confidence up we wouldn’t be surprised to see him take some more major scalps at Steamer Lane.
Joel Parkinson. With his 3rd place finish, Joel maintains his lead in the world rankings, but he is going to have to win at least one of the next 2 events to win the title and do really well in the other one to seal the deal. This is Joel’s defining moment, no question. It will never be this ‘easy’ to get himself in striking distance again.
John-John Florence. Forget the cliched responses from Jordy and Kelly about having fun, John-John just embodies all that is fun about surfing and certainly seems to be the guy on tour having the most of it. His contract with O’Neill expires next year and it is expected that he will rake in a cool US$4M/year by the time the ink dries on his new contract. How’s that, you are 19 years old, you live at Pipeline, surf your brains out everyday and you are earning US$4M/year....
Who Blew it?
Kelly Slater. Kelly’s round 3 loss was one one of those rare moments when the elements actually conspired against him. To be fair to Slater there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. He got skunked good and proper and couldn’t buy a wave out there if he tried. In his post heat interview he was frustrated but also philosophical. “It’s not the end of the world,” Slater said. “Nobody died, I just lost a heat. It’s a bummer for me, but it’s just the way it is.” All this does for us is make the year end that much more exciting.
Mick Fanning. Mick needed to win this event to get his mojo and his world title aspirations back on track and because of Kelly’s early exit it was an opportunity to jump up the ratings. His 9th place finish doesn’t really put the screws on Slater because even though his sits a ball hair behind Slater (200 points) Steamer Lane is an unknown for all of them and then no one has a win ratio at Pipe like Kelly and then there is also a rampant John-John to deal with... We thinks Mick has left it too late!
John McCarthy. Suffering from a neck injury that has kept him out of the water for the better part of a month, John finally cracked and was seen drifting about the Durban beachfront backline on an SUP as he finally crossed over to the dark side in his desperation to ride a wave again. Apart from being subjected to a torrent of a abuse as he wobbled past the North Beach, New Pier and Wedge lineups en route to join the kooks at Ushaka his ultimate humiliation came on his way back in when trying to catch a wave. He missed it, was caught inside, snapped the (borrowed) SUP in half and was relegated to doing the walk of shame past Durban Surf Lifesaving Club with 2 X 5’2’s and a paddle. |
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Huge Balls, some skill and a couple of inches. |
| 14/10/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
Shane Dorian. If you haven’t yet watched the clip of Shane Dorian getting shacked at Jaws do yourself a favour and watch the balls, commitment and skill of this man as he rides through a heaving, spitting cathedral of a barrel. Shane Dorian just did what every big wave surfer dreams of doing and in the process upped the ante considerably. Bravo man, what an unbelievable ride!
Keala Kennelly. This chick has been through some heavy shit. Her pounding and subsequent lacerations at Teahupoo last year you would have thought might have tamed her approach somewhat, but it hasn’t. Her performance paddling in to Jaws the other day was astonishing to say the least. She doesn’t just paddle in, she pulls in... All we can say is RESPECT!
Bianca Buitendag. She didn’t win, but she finished runner up in Bali at the ASP World JNR event sponsored by Oakley to Niki Van Dijk. What a year for Bianca and despite not wining the event it rounds off an incredible year for the teenager from Vic Bay.
Who blew it?
Jordy. His round 2 exit from the Rip Curl Pro is a disaster for Jordy as it accelerates the un-ravelling of an already shaky year. Jordy is one of 6 guys in the world currently that have the talent to be World Champions and one of them is not even on tour. The others are Slater obviously, Mick, Joel and John-John, yet Jordy is not even near striking distance at the moment. To make matters worse he is not surfing badly, he is actually surfing well. He’s had close calls go the other way, he’s been robbed a couple of times, he has been unlucky. He is losing in micro- measurements, a fraction here a fraction there... He’s losing by inches a little bit at a time. Jordy has two options at this point in the year. Option 1. To fold as he cruises into Hawaii. It is clear the judges don’t want to see him succeed. Despite the WAGs and kids in the competitors area don’t be fooled by the friendly demeanour of Kelly Slater and his cronies. There is a lot on the line and sure as hell they don’t want to see him succeed either. With him out of the picture he’s just one less worry in an already stressed out game. The media don’t want to see him succeed, it’s not his turn... Huh? Ja, John-John is the golden child (for now) and Slater is on a roll... If Jordy allows self pity in the door now he is toast, not just this year but moving forward as a world title contender. So much for option 1. This brings us to option 2. He gets spitting, hissing mad. He has to make a stand before the year end and the only way he can do this is to up his game immediately, grab the tour by the scruff of the neck and start destroying heats one crazy wave at a time. He needs to get himself back in the game one inch at a time and as Al Pacino says in ‘Any Given Sunday’, he has to be prepared to “tear himself and everyone else around him to pieces for that inch.”
Pat Gudauskas. To get knocked out of the event with the second highest heat score of the day sure has to be a bummer, especially as it is only in R2. This is exactly what happened to Pat Gudang as he scored a breath-taking 17.73 in his R2 heat. The only problem was that Ace Buchan clocked an amazing 18.50 to take out the win. When the next highest heat score in the event on that day was as 16.17 (posted by Mick Fanning in his victory over Pierre-Valentin Labo) that has to hurt!
The City of Durban (again). The recent rains that have brought the KZN farmers much spring joy have also resulted in the storm drains and rivers around Durban pouring out onto the golden miles beaches. The result? In a word – plastic, and lots of it! Saturday morning saw a literal tide (like a Bluebottle or Jelly Fish invasion) of plastic being washed up along Durban’s beachfront... Durban beach goers and surfers tried to avoid it but is was sickening.
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King Kelly, the hijacking of the ASP and a lot of other nonsense. |
| 07/10/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
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Kelly Slater. How much has been said about this guy and how much more is still to be said? Kelly grabbed the Quik Pro by the scruff of the neck and he didn’t let go. For a guy who was quoted recently in an online video saying “he didn’t care about the future of pro surfing” he sure looked like he cared last week. In the hard, close heats Slater dug deep. When the waves opened up, so did he. Potter said it best when he said “he demands the best of himself” in reference to a hands free backside tube attempt which he didn’t make but was spectacular in it’s ballsyness. The rest of the title contenders must be shitting themselves because he is dangerous at the worst of times, but when he’s on a roll he is almost unstoppable.
John Florence. This guys surfing is getting better with each event. What a pleasure it is to watch him ride tubes! He was unlucky against Dane, but his time will come. There is no question that he is the new darling of pro surfing.
Martin Potter. Pott’s commentary in the Quik Pro was exceptional. His insight and understanding of the competitive mind and his explanation of it to us everyday viewers made the webcast so much more dramatic and interesting. Without him and Barton Lynch (both former world champions) the recent webcasts would be sooo vanilla.
Who Blew it?
1. The tech gremlins in the Quik Pro webcast. There is not much more frustrating than watching John-John paddling for a BOMB, needing a score when suddenly the feed is dropped and you are left staring at a frozen screen wondering what the hell has just transpired.
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2. The ASP. It seems that this pretty much toothless entity is about to be taken over by what in surfing sports management terms you’d refer to as a Great White Shark, ZoeSea Media. Slater’s brazen and somewhat contradictory snubbing of the ASP system in his recent online interview with Sal Masekela now makes so much more sense. Terry Hardy is Kelly’s manager and he is also John-John Florence’s. He was a prime instigator in the rebel tour mumblings of 2009. Terry has teamed up with Paul Speaker. Paul has held high level posts in the NFL, the entertainment industry and has sat on the board of Quiksilver. To cut a long story short these guys, with ‘King Kelly’ in the background pulling the strings, are going to determine what the future of professional surfing will look like. What will it look like? TheBOMBsurf’s prediction is that it will be bald and hail from Coco Beach Florida for a while yet.
3. The goons who stole Dane Reynold’s boards. Seriously, karmically you are going to hell for this act. You will stub your toe every time you paddle out, you will grow weird and uncomfortable things in your crotch, you will get skunked, you will get caught inside - often, you will get dropped in on and you will start to hate life as a surfer. How could you steal boards from someone as mellow and chilled as Dane? Still he ripped on his own hand shaped creation which was about his 11th choice of equipment. It says a lot about his level of talent and it will be interesting to see how Dane progresses as a shaper. |
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