Brazil + San Clemente Crumble, Florence Puts The Mandoline To Work
Ewing, Slater and Medina sliced on day two of the Hurley Pro @ Sunset.
After Pipe we predicted if it swells (XXL) the Woz is riding it.
Today was XXM, and the Woz wasted no time in sending the boys out for some breath holds. As much as Sunset is not everyone’s cuppa tea, it is great to see the CT surf difficult, large conditions. It’s not a wave your average joe can go and rip.
Smooth seas never made a skilled skipper.
Griffin Colapinto was almost the first casualty of the day in the opening heat against fellow San Clementian Kade Matson. Holding onto a measly pair of 4’s, Griffin went on a hollow double up on the inside ledge and dropped a larry over the caddy patch with two minutes remaining. The execution was clutch and the judges awarded him with a 9. “My [6’8”] board felt like a twig,” the WSL finalist relayed on the glass.
Rookie Matson will pack his Hawaii coffins with two 17th’s. His 2% comrades: Crosby, Cole and Eli will join him as low seeds in Portugal after losing in the round/32.
Kanoa Igarashi appeared to be surfing a different wave this morning. While everyone else was stuck out of position taking off on fizzlers, Kanoa was finding vision and slicing open face. Foreboding signs from the multilingual Dior ambassador who found his first head-to-head win over low key action hero Matthew McGillivray.
Jacob Wilcox’s two turn 8.40 spelled ‘ciao bella’ for Leo Fio and Gabs Medina got his second 17th in as many events.
Enthusiasm rose at the sight of 2x World Champ John Florence prepping his 6’4” Pyzel Ghost on the berm but the waves under delivered. Fortunately, he only had to beat Deivid Silva and did so with 10.60 points.
Yago Dora flipped the bird and Kelly went over the handlebars in the following heats. Both lost with mediocre point totals.
The Aussies had a good run through the R/32 with Ewing, LOB, Callinan, Connor O and Robbo all advancing. The Brazilians did not with Gabs, Deivid, Caio, Yago, Sammy all falling out of the draw.
Slater claimed to be “happy not to surf again” after being eliminated, citing Cheyne Horan as the inspo behind his cute carving 360 that yielded no fruit. On the glass AJ addressed not the elephant in the room: retirement, perhaps because of its redundancy.
Kelly’s cried wolf before.
Barron Mamiya will be selling his yellow jersey on depop tonight after the 2022 Sunset winner was undressed by Freddie Morais in one of today’s bigger upsets.
Rd/16
Kanoa continued his dominance, shutting down the lone Colapinto in a low scoring affair.
John Florence went loony in the second heat comboing Miggy Pups with hairpin gouges. He will have the J man next round, who stood his neoprene hoof upon the neck of a hypoxic Rio Wadia to make his second finals day on the trot.
Ewing looked out of sorts against LOB. He waited the better part of 20 minutes to pull the trigger then missed. In the meantime, LOB minced the Sunset moguls, perfectly timing each of his stings with Christ Borst precision.
Burleigh Heads: 3, North Stradbroke: 1.
Composing turns on big wobbly mutants with your back to the wall is about as tough as it gets. Ryan Callinan did it best against fellow goof O’Leary. His 7.67 for a huge snap to micro-pit to finner was sublime. A free lesson from the Novacastrian.
Robbo took a leaf out of John’s book and tried to knock the top half of Sunset rather than play connect-4 with three chips. It worked, and Jake Marshall’s dream run will end before finals day.
Come-ups
- Peak performance: John Florence 16.06 R/16H3
- Monster maneuver: Jake Marshall 9.17 R/32H, John Florence 8.23 R/16H3,
- One-liner: “I think I spent most of my time underwater” – Connor O
Jake Marshall vs Ian Gentil is not a matchup you would typically make a point of watching. In my opinion, it was the heat of the day. Marshall eliminated the stickerless rookie of the year and current World Number 3 with the best score of the round, a 9.17 for four searing carves.
Let-downs
- Caught behind: Griffin Colapinto’s 7.00 heat total in R/16H1
- Blind mice: Italo Ferreira 7.17
- Say what?: “Here at Sunset, a wave you’ve had some sex on” – AJ to Miggy-Mig Pupo
Italo Ferreira scored a 7.17 in the Rd/32 for incredibly mundane safety surfing. Squeezing three turns in was tough today, but three soft wiggles on small insiders doesn’t equal a good score IMO. It wouldn’t have changed the outcome regardless.
AJ’s faux pas was a great low-calorie giggle.
Gamble ramble
After a loss on day one, Mikey C’s back on his bullshit. It’s just a matter of time until one of these bets against Deivid Silva will come back to bite him. Zeke Lau’s patriotic bet on Seth Moniz could have some huge payoffs too!
Place your bets here.
R32
- $300 on Griffin at -300 to win $100 WON
- $25 on Matty Mcgillivray at +105 to win $26 LOST
- $50 on Leo at -155 to win $32 LOST
- $20 on Seth at +225 to win $45 WON
- $1000 on JJF at -1000 to win $100 WON
- $25 on on Imai at -125 to win $20 LOST
- $25 on Jordy at -125 to win $17 WON
- $20 on Rio -at +110 to win $22 WON
- $500 on Ethan Ewing at -200 to win $250 WON
- $50 on LOB at +110 to win $55 WON
- $50 on Connor O’Leary at -115 to win $43 WON
- $25 on R-cal at -140 to win $18 WON
- $50 on Frederico Morais at +215 to win $108 WON
- $25 on Crosby colapinto at +100 to win $25 LOST
- $25 on Jake Marshall at +110 to win $26 WON
- $10 on cole Houshmand at +250 to win $25 LOST
- Day 1 earnings: -$81
- Day 2 earnings: $606
- Event earnings: $525
Women’s R1
$10 on Gabriela Bryan at +250 to win $25
$10 on Sophie McCulloch at +565 to win $57
$10 on Zoe McDougall at +500 to win $50
$10 on Brisa H at +225 to win $23
$10 on Sawyer Lindblad at +250 to win $25
$10 on India Robinson at +550 to win $55
Men’s QF
$50 on Seth Moniz at +120 to win $60
$25 on Jordy Smith at +300 to win $75
$25 on R-Cal at -110 to win $23
$100 on Jack Robbo at -215 to win $47
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