was a total snooze fest. why did they decide to run it? don't they get why the eddie is the best contest ever is because they only run it when it SHOULD be run not so these toolish bra boy homos cant beat their chest and act cool in front of the cameras. also how terrible is the aussie education system? these guys sound functionally retarded.
yo broseph,what did u think of the Tahiti contest?fukin sucked right?it did if u logged on during one of the 20 minute lulls that happen every 25 minutes.when u surf over reef,its rarely consistent,but when the sets come in,my my my.I thought Tahiti sucked until I saw the first set come in,then afterwards it was flat for the rest of most heats.it was the same way for the cape fear event.i caught a few heats live,and there were some amazing rides,nothing epic but it was worth a watch.what I liked about it,and what more contests should do is the way they paired up the heats,like brucey irons vs koby abberton,job vs hippo.if the conditions were epic it would've been a great contest.but on a side note,did u ever watch footage of "ours."?it looks like a shytty wave but when u make it its awesome.its a slab.thats why a 2 ft swell turns into an 8footer with a 10ft lip
I didn't watch the Red Bull OBX yet, but this thread is already off the hook. Being from Florida, I will not cast aspersions on anyone else's education system, but I do agree the blokes from Oz sound beer addled. The Teahoopu contest did illustrate that it does suck, from a viewers perspective, during the 20 minute wait between sets, but like a pitcher's duel, the tension did ratchet up before another set reared it's ugly head. Each wave looked alot alike, and it was hard to tell who got the better waves, but I was not sitting in the channel. cepriano makes a good point, and I suspect the people who program the wave cams here have some kind of voodoo softwear cooked up that only shows the waves in between sets. It looks like a bunch of pelicans sitting next to each other waiting for bait to swim by. And I totally agree that contests should not be run, unless there are waves. At least surf contests. Maybe other contests could be run without waves, or during lulls, but a surf contest needs to have waves. I've been to Hatteras during TOH clean conditions, but that is not Red Bull worthy, IMO. You need at least 30 foot faces for a full day to have a Red Bull contest.
"If" Hatteras is 3x overhead (and clean) then 1.You will need binoculars to actually see a wave that big a mile out to sea 2.The road wont be open so you wont be there 3.The bridge will be closed, so you wont even be able to get to the road that your not on and please tell me they are not trying to do a red bull obx?
True story: In 1979 took a road trip to Cape Hatteras in early September. I had a few bucks from getting a check from workmans comp due to a hairline fracture of my kneecap from working on a golf course, so I had a cane, but could still surf. On the way up we took a side trip to HHI and common sense told us to get out before we ran into the law. It looked too clean. When we got to the Cape, we set camp that night and our tent got blow to pieces while we were in it and we slept in the car. The next morning, the inside break just north of The Lighthouse was breaking well overhead and spitting,and way way outside were a few guys on 7'6" clear white boards carving the most beautiful lines on a wave (TOH) I have ever seen. Disappearing into the pit, coming out and up the face, and doing big round house cutbacks and racing heaving sections. I was too scared and too smart to paddle out there, so I sat in the inside, and was scared, but my buds had a camera, and so I went on my 6'2" Florida gun, and it chattered down the wave, and I got spit out the barrel. I never saw a wave spit until then. My first real "dry" barrel! That night, we were driving around aimlessly, and this car with a couple of girls pulls up to us and the driver, she says, "Hey, ya'll wanna race?" So we raced them, and then we met up with them, and they were ugly, but we were on a road trip so we were game. One introduced herself as Ethel, the other Erma. I can't make this shi! up. So we lit off a few fireworks and split, before we got raped by those two dune apes. The car blew a timing belt the next day, and we were stranded in wave paradise for a week. Seagulls ate our hotdogs while on the grill, my buddy busted his ribs in the shorebreak at Avon pier ( landed on the rail on his side on the beach- ouch!). Then he left his wallet on top of the car and we drve away and lost it and he was the one with the money, we had nothing left but our good humour. We limped back home,and stopped in Gainesville to hit frat rush and get free food and booze and dance with sorority girls, and my buddy with the busted ribs got into a fight dancing with some girl ( he admitted he grabbed her butt), and we ran into him at Crystal Burgers and he couldn't breathe. Great trip!
no surf doesn't stop the contest in so jersey; nor the 'bottom wigglers in one foot surf' from claiming victory and proficiency.
