Mitch Crews, waiting game at Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast

And still we wait, for the swell to come back to the Gold Coast and reignite the Quiksilver and Roxy Pros. Mitch Crews here, after losing in round one to an absolute steamtrain in Josh Kerr and always scary Filipe Toledo, before then taking down Filipe in round two and shooting himself into round three. He’ll now face Julian Wilson. Talk around the scaffolding is that the swell could really be on, but who’s to say whether that’s true or not – errbody loves predicting swell at contests. Either way, this photo is very indicative of what the Gold Coast looks like right now.