Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00
Day Four Video Blog
Ace Buchan representing for the right foot forwards. Pic Jones/Stryker
Rookies fall as experience puts the top guys on the best waves.
Will H-S
Another day, another downpour, and still the lines push into and around Snapper Rocks.
Heat one saw Brazilian fans divided, Adriano De Souza came up against rookie Jadson Andre in a case of Brazil's now taking on Brazil’s future. Jadson caught more than 10 waves but couldn't get the score he needed to sneak past last year's runner-up, who now comes up against Ace Buchan in round four.
Damo Hobgood wacking a water wall. Pic Jones/Stryker
The commentators and crowd were like kids on red cordial leading up to the Taj Burrow and Owen Wright duel, but the waves didn't deliver. "I wish we could have gone wave for wave and battled it out, but I’m still stoked to come away with the win,” said TB after capitalising on the only decent wave to progress.
Taj Burrow showing the rookies a thing or two. Pic Jones/Stryker
Smack bang in middle of the day the three Coolie kids went back-to-back-to-back. Dean Morrison couldn't match Kai Otton's backhand attack, Mick Fanning easily dispatched of Brett Simpson and Joel Parkinson dusted Dusty Payne. "Local knowledge helps, but I reckon only two thirds of the time,” said Parko with amazing hindsight. “Anyone can luck into wave of the day and have you on the ropes."
Owen Wright won't be happy with a 17th place finish, look out for him at Bells. Pic Jones/Stryker
One of the talking points of this event is the judging, there's a new head judge in town and so far it’s been damn near impossible to guess what scores will be delivered post-wave. The difference between a seven and a nine is night and day whereas there's not much difference between a five and a seven. (Got an opinion? Drop it in the comments below, we’d love to hear it.)
Mick Fanning getting vert. Pic Jones/Stryker
"Did I get juiced?" Dane Reynolds asked Jake Patterson pre-post-heat interview. "It was gonna be close,” replied Snake, “but nah mate, you tore the bag out of it, the judges didn’t need to bump you up. He looks pissed though,” said Snake as J-Flo stormed up the stairs. "It's not my fault, I didn't give myself the score!” groaned Dane wryly.
Bede Durbidge won the battle for Currumbin bragging rights, smoking good mate Luke Munro with the highest heat score of the event so far. How Durbo didn’t get a ten for a deep, darkhorse cave ridden from way behind the rock is anyone’s guess, but come siren time the fractions didn’t matter anyway.
Parko making a beautiful mess of a fun wave. Pic Jones/Stryker
Kelly Slater was quick to talk down the local favourites after smashing Pat Gudauskas. "I didn't see Parko,” said Slats. “Mick was surfing good, but wasn’t in synch with the waves. The goofy footers, Bobby (Martinez) and Damo (Hobgood), have been the standouts today."
There's talk that the event could finish tomorrow, but you’d have to surf four times if you made the final and as Slater said "it'd be tough to surf more than two heats out there with the current that strong."
We’ll keep you posted, here on www.surfinglife.com.au
RAS Surfing Stats Event One Gold Coast two10… Day 4
Cheers everybody, round 3 is now complete and we are down to the final 16…
There are now just 15 heats left in the event till they Crown a Champion for two10…
With round 3 behind us, the final 16 surfers are all from within the top 28 surfers.
15 are re-qualifiers from 2009 and the WQS Champion from 2009 and Muscle Man Dan Ross.
Bede Durbidge who is the most underrated surfer on tour stood up and shut down all knockers today by posting the second plus 19 score of his career.
Today with wave scores of 9.93 and 9.37 and a total of 19.30 he blitzed Luke Munro who posted just 7.37.
It wasn’t the highest score of his career; his best was his 19.40 he posted on the Gold Coast in 2007.
9 of today’s 16 heats were won by less than 2 points with the 4 closest being…
H 13; Dane Reynolds def Jeremy Flores by 0.34 pts
H 2; Adrian Buchan def Taylor Knox by 0.40 pts
H 14; Kieren Perrow def Mick Campbell by 0.63 pts
H 16; Jordy Smith def Tiago Pirez by 0.64 pts
ROOKIE FILE
This year 11 young surfers have started their Dream Tour careers at Snapper Rocks in event 1.
5 went into round 3 but none went through into round 4…
5 rookies have started the season with 17ths and the other 6 have taken 33rds home.
MILESTONE FILE
TAJ (300 wins)
In round 3, Taj Burrows won his 300th heat on the Dream Tour in his 13th year.
Career to date; 134 events .. 492 heats .. 300 wins .. 61% win ratio
116 final heats; 59 quarters .. 38 semis .. 19 finals for 7 wins.
Taj wins an event 1 in every 19 he surfs in…
The day 4 winners and the final 16 left in the event are…
Aussies 9 … USA 4 … Hawaii, ZAF & Brazil 1 each.
9 of the final 16 have won a Dream Tour event before.
So with 7 surfers having not won before, there is a chance that event 1 might see a first time winner…
16 Surfers left in the event - what have they done here before
1 has never been past round 2 (he has now)
(Ross)
6 have never been past round 4
(Davidson .. Otton (2) .. Patacchia (2) .. Reynolds .. Perrow (2) .. Smith (2)
2 have made the quarters but never won a final
(Buchan (2) .. D Hobgood (2))
1 have made the semis but never been to the final
(Martinez)
3 have been runner up in the event
(Burrows .. Durbidge .. de Sousa)
3 have won the event before
(Slater (2) .. Parkinson (2) .. Fanning (2)
Round 4 & the finals could be on tomorrow.
Aloha,
Mike Newman
RAS Sports surfing stats
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 3 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 16.00 def. Jadson Andre (BRA) 14.46
Heat 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.10 def. Taylor Knox (USA) 13.70
Heat 3: Chris Davidson (AUS) 11.00 def. Tom Whitaker (AUS) 9.27
Heat 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) 12.84 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 6.67
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) 14.16 def. Andy Irons (HAW) 11.26
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) 14.73 def. Luke Stedman (AUS) 13.40
Heat 7: Kai Otton (AUS) 13.97 def. Dean Morrison (AUS) 12.60
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) 15.74 def. Brett Simpson (USA) 10.43
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.63 def. Dusty Payne (HAW) 12.20
Heat 10: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 14.17 def. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 12.64
Heat 11: Daniel Ross (AUS) 13.54 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 11.00
Heat 12: Dane Reynolds (USA) 13.57 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 13.23
Heat 13: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 19.30 def. Luke Munro (AUS) 7.37
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 13.06 def. Mick Campbell (AUS) 12.43
Heat 15: Kelly Slater (USA) 15.37 def. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 7.56
Heat 16: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 15.23 def. Tiago Pires (PRT) 14.77
QUIKSILVER PRO GOLD COAST ROUND 4 MATCH-UPS:
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
Heat 2: Chris Davidson (AUS) vs. Taj Burrow (AUS)
Heat 3: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Damien Hobgood (USA)
Heat 4: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Mick Fanning (AUS)
Heat 5: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
Heat 6: Daniel Ross (AUS) vs. Dane Reynolds (USA)
Heat 7: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Kieren Perrow (AUS)
Heat 8: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)
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On Tiago's 8.17, he did a half snap, got a good pit, came out, bogged a bit, did two appalling half turns and finished with an ok reo and a little cover up.
On his 6.77, he got a cover-up, a reo off the foam, got caught in the foam, did a little cutty and finished with a good close-out reo (his best turn of the heat).
Note, on both waves he caught a rail, and did not surf either wave to it's full potential.
On Jordy's 8, He started with a big snap (a much better turn than any Tiago did), a carve in the pocket, two full cutbacks and a close-out reo. His wave was not as good as TP's, but he did more with it, did not bog and did not miss any sections.
On Jordy's 7.23, he started with a big carving snap in the pocket, into another snap where he threw buckets, a cover up, another carve on a fatter section, a reo where he got his fins out, a little tap and finished with a little close-out reo.
Tiago caught better waves, but he bogged and did crap turns. Jordy surfed much better on his waves. I'm not one of the judges, but they got it right.
check the report at
http://asl-insidethegoldmine.blogspot.com/
Last year, everyone was whinging that the judges weren't rewarding progressive surfing. So they tweak the judging formula, and now, when surfers do half-turns and get beaten (Tiago Pires, Jeremy Flores), everyone has a whinge again. So far, the guys surfing the best have consistently gotten the highest scores.
Don't remember if it was last year or two years ago they ripped off Jeremy at Snapper, he caught that big barrel on the peak, the judges had the video replays, and rip him off anyway, and now, again. And as Fisher said " how jordy took down tiago is another judging mistery..."
We aren't judges, but we aren't blind...
I guess top seeds do it better anyhow, even if they don't!
Tiago was clearly ripped off!!!! WTF???? See the heat and explain it to me...along with dane's....
The dude is killing it…. those waves were 9’s.
Mick’s was a high 7 / low 8
Tiago deserved that heat.
Impressive day at Snapper but is it enough to silence the world tour critics?
If not then you guys need to grip a get and stop being such neggy Nancys. Today was the best day of pro surfing in 8 months and, in case you haven’t noticed, no lay days at all besides tsunami Monday.
When you consider that even a 3 foot drop in swell would still be smoking then it could wrap up tomorrow as long as the wind doesn’t go too northeast in the arvo.
Serious, committed ripping today and round 4 arguably contains the best of the best of the pro tour.
I can’t wait for tomorrow mate!
Dane Reynolds will never be a champ. There is no competitive fire and the nerves are evident at the most critical moments. He may win a comp or two before bowing out to follow the path of The Brucie, but he will not win a title unless the Bubonic Plague takes out the rest of the ensconced Top-10.
Surfer that should be the most pissed: Tiago
Constant amazement: Slater. At age 76, it’s amazing that he can still keep his dentures in his mouth when giving soft-ball interview after nut-slopping interview at the conclusion of yet another heat in which he embarrasses kids that are the same age as his grandchildren.
Lastly, I would like to congratulate his fans on Mick’s 2010 championship victory. Hack, cough, hack, cough… 9.0.
A formula that any diaper wearing immature mind can love. Then again, maybe that ‘highlight’ of his 9 point ride was a result of bad editing, and I’m just blowing flatus into the proverbial wind.
Wouldn’t be the 2,443,6665,825th time Quiksilver has fucked things up royally.
And I mean that with all due respect.
Watch the so-called ‘highlight’ clips of Adriano’s heat, the Coolie Kid’s, and then Slater’s heat. Does anything called ‘wave score’ jump out at you?? Like 7’s and 8’s in some heats and high 8’s and 9’s in others? Home beach advantage? Check. Judges lulled to sleepy over-exaggerated scores by the exact same thing they’ve seen from these Coolie kids for the last five years? Check. Hack, cough, hack, cough… these kids had colds today. And then I was struck by the blinding white light, when it occurred to me that the editors merely made a mistake and were either running the wrong scores with the right waves, or the wrong waves with the right scores. In either case, it fit right in with the webcast I watched in the first two rounds: clustefuckeration.
Very close heats that I think rewarded the wrong surfer for advancement.
Especially in Tiago's case.
That shit was highway robbery and back alley rape. The Yeti’s cock lives on luck, but was far from impressive. If you could combine his cocky will to win with Dane’s raw talent, then you’d have something that could win a title or two.
But there are way too many surfers and boggy heats for this to remain a successful endeavor. This Round 3 had a number of excellent matchups only because the round one competition was so off-kilter. The judging was even further off-base. Though they didn’t all pan out the way we thought or hoped, we were INTERESTED. Contrast that with rounds 1 and 2. Not one fucking person besides the mother’s of Blake Thornton and Marco Polo cared that they were offered as sacrificial lambs to the gods of round 2.
There are only 5 or six surfers who have a realistic shot under the current system. So, if you want to leave this archaic system, then at least cull the pool down to those half-dozen and throw in a half-dozen more who can tickle our dark horse fantasies.
No disrespect but how hard is this??? At least then we would have clear view of the judging.
Mick’s ‘9′ was a joke. That was barely an ‘8′.
Camera work is a ‘1′.
Commentary is a ‘1′, thanks to the constant explanations of what a ‘goofy’ is along with that roving homosexual doing interviews – not that there is anything wrong with being homosexual. Speaking of gay, GT is actually more amusing than that guy whose name I could not be bothered remembering.
I think dane got the money, power and more attacking of the lip, JF drew more awesome lines and carves..If there's was a point of difference then it was there!
Otton was impressive, and dingo is one wild dog, but can he stop event favourite fanning, yep there slater parko bede, but mick is the man to beat, early tip for this years title.
Nice work mike and RAS team!
Also why couldnt they get stuck into round four this arvo? It cleaned up, was the best it was all day and was pumping low tide snapper yet the call it off at 3:45! Could have easily run 4 heats of round four or should have had a two hour break through the high tide so we could see them surfing the best waves.