ASP stops in Fiji June 3-15. Solid surf early in the holding period and a nuking swell forecast for June 8-10. Watch it live here http://www.volcomfijipro.com/
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ASP stops in Fiji June 3-15. Solid surf early in the holding period and a nuking swell forecast for June 8-10. Watch it live here http://www.volcomfijipro.com/
Draw announced. Bummer that Bruce Irons didn't get a wild card. Looks like Volcom gave it to their goofy-footer (Mitch Coleborn) instead:
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/co...udbreak_71009/
Wildcard takes heat of the day:
http://www.aspworldtour.com/2012/06/...lcom-fiji-pro/
VOLCOM FIJI PRO ROUND 1 RESULTS
Heat 1: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 13.67, Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 7.67, Brett Simpson (USA) 3.67
Heat 2: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 12.33, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 8.86, Josh Kerr (AUS) 6.10
Heat 3: Damien Hobgood (USA) 11.00, Taylor Knox (USA) 10.16, Taj Burrow (AUS) 4.17
Heat 4: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 10.60, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 7.10, Willian Cardoso (BRA) 2.93
Heat 5: Mitch Coleborn (AUS) 17.37, Kelly Slater (USA) 13.50, Kai Otton (AUS) 13.27
Heat 6: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 15.93, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 8.33, Isei Tokovu (FIJ) 2.23
Heat 7: Owen Wright (AUS) 14.87, Tiago Pires (PRT) 11.50, Yadin Nicol (AUS) 10.26
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS) 15.66, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 4.90, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 2.00
Heat 9: John John Florence (HAW) 15.37, Miguel Pupo (BRA) 11.73, Kieren Perrow (AUS) 6.33
Heat 10: Heitor Alves (BRA) 8.70, Julian Wilson (AUS) 6.70, Kolohe Andino (USA) 5.67
Heat 11: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 13.80, Travis Logie (ZAF) 7.50, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 6.00
Heat 12: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 15.27, Adam Melling (AUS) 9.97, Michel Bourez (PYF) 9.70
HIGHLIGHTS
I laughed my ass off when John John went over the falls. I pull back at the last minute way too often, and get punished hard.
The tower-view of Gabriel Medina's 10 was ridiculous.
Be it large Cloudbreak or perfect Restaurants, one thing is clear: I'm not getting shit done this afternoon.
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/ma...iji-pro_71235/
moving from Cloudbreak = pure ASP dickwaddery
This may not embed, unlisted Cloudbreak video at YouTube - Mega Swell of July 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=LatRjSHLLLg#!
9:30 @CBQuote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
40 minutes at maching cloudbreak. So stoked to be watching this.
Game time!
Props to the ASP for running this at Cloudbreak. Hope everyone gets barreled and no one gets hurt.
laptop hooked to flatscreen. Check
cold beers. Check
popcorn. Check
Awesome match-ups, this is gonna be sick:
VOLCOM FIJI PRO ROUND 3
Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Bede Durbidge (AUS)
Heat 2: John John Florence (HAW) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
Heat 3: Josh Kerr (AUS) vs. Damien Hobgood (USA)
Heat 4: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)
Heat 5: Alejo Muniz (BRA) vs. Gabriel Medina (BRA)
Heat 6: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Mitch Coleborn (AUS)
Heat 7: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
Heat 8: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs. Heitor Alves (BRA)
Heat 9: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 10: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. C.J. Hobgood (USA)
Heat 11: Julian Wilson (AUS) vs. Miguel Pupo (BRA)
Heat 12: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Kai Otton (AUS)
10 am start, or am I just having trouble w/ the feed?
Postponed start.
Feed also here: http://live.redbull.tv/events/94/volcomproday3/
Tanks brah
Quite a tease, eh?
That last set was all time. Start the damn thing!
Question: How do you score these waves?
Wow. Large. Those first two waves by Bede and Melling were straight balls. Melling on a short board it looks like. Today is going to be crazy!
No idea how you score this.
fuck yeah. nice they didn't pussy out.
edit: and it's nice to see blasphemy and co fucking with the twitter feed:
FrankiePells RT @Rottmouth: Kala and Sunny stood toe to toe. Eyes locked. No smiles. Intensity in the air. As their nude cocks formed a perfect pretzel #VolcomFijiPro
^^^ Classic.
Stoked for John John.
On hold = weak sauce.
The free surf session is firing.
Free Surf is firing. ASP screwed the pooch.... again.
Rottmouth: Calling it off? For the wind? For little guys? What, is Westerly in charge again?
Tennis players have bigger balls
I think I'm actually happy the contest got called off so that there are more guys in the lineup. The free surf has been absolutely insane.
Massive deep barrels being had
indeed. ramon navarro killed that.
this free surf = what surfing is. The ASP = bullshit, as usual
XXL barrel of the year was just won. Navaro was engulfed.
WTF? Call off the comp when these kind of rides are going down?
I only saw the first two heats today so I could understand why they would cancel, but I just tuned in to the free surf now, and conditions are incredible. How could they possibly call off the comp??
This^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Clownshoe
All-time best session live via webcast. No doubt.
Pretty funny to watch the live feed and also the twitter comments from #volcomfijipro. Seems to be a lot of people who hate the pro tour.
I don't follow surfing enough to understand the politics, but lots of haters out there.
Personally I think that was the most incredible 3 hours of any live anything I've ever seen
Why is it difficult to understand people flipping shit at "the Dream tour" that doesn't have the balls to run an event at a dream location in dream conditions and is again upstaged by a free surf session (aka that most incredible three hours of anything live you've ever seen)? It's not politics - politics (and $) is why the "dream tour" runs shitty events in shitty conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clownshoe
So some of the best choose to compete, some don't. Some choose to film, some don't.
A lot like the ski scene it seems.
Obviously some of the best choose not to compete, for whatever reason. That was shown pretty clearly today by the calibre of guys not competing.
I guess I just don't watch enough surfing to get too excited about the fact that not all the best surfers are on the tour.
The tour is cool to watch (for me) because the live stream is pretty good, and the camera angles are pretty good, and the level of surfing is pretty damn good.
Is it really that suprising to anyone that there are amazing surfers out there who just don't compete but are as good as those that do?
Maybe they called it off so the free surf could happen.
It's a massive conspiracy to support the sport and get people stoked so more people surf and more people spend money on surfing. Bastards.
ya, just like the whole fat ski movement. fuck, now look at the bc. loaded with clueless fucks that couldn't link 2 turns in foofy pow if it weren't for all the barrel staves they have to choose from. skinny skis were the separators fer sure. i'd love to see all the longboarders here in nh if all of a sudden their nose riders mysteriously turned into 26 liter 6'0" chips. oh it would be a sight! LOL!!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by jayfrizzo
rog
Calling off the contest may reflect badly for the ASP World Tour, but it's the single best thing to happen for surfing since the Code Red day at Chopes (which few in the mainstream know about), and maybe ever in the internet age.
I understand some of the critical comments made at the the site of the Red Bull TV stream, but disagree with the hate on Slater's work in the booth - his was the only informative commentary all day. I hope he gets the call for the gig when he finally retires.
The 2012 Volcom Fiji Pro Thread at SurferMag:
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/sho...ge=0&fpart=all
From Stab Magazine, "KOBY CALLS OUT THE TOUR":
http://stabmag.com/koby-calls-out-the-tour/
Now, what you really want to see:
Volcom Fiji Pro 2012 - Expression Session #1:
Volcom Fiji Pro 2012 - Expression Session #2:
starts again in a couple minutes at.... restaurants.
I liked the mobile livefeed from wherever there's a swell going off in the world idea for surf promotion.
Heat 3, round 2, 3:32 left on the clock, JJ does a floater, slaps his back on the landing, somehow right back to his feet. 9.80. Needs to be seen to believe.
Prophetic article:Quote:
Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226367335798
THE Billabong Pro in Tahiti last year had what has since become known as the greatest lay day in surfing history.
On the eighth day of the 12-day waiting period, a massive "code-red" swell hit the contest site, forcing the event organisers to postpone competition until the furious ocean calmed down.
But that didn't stop the action. While the world's most famous surfers watched from the safety of the channel, a handful of mad and relatively unknown big-wave specialists took over, putting on a compelling show.
Billabong kept the webcast cameras running that day, broadcasting the session live. Footage from the webcast was later shown on evening news bulletins from Margaret River to Moscow.
The broadcast has also allowed, for the first time, a comparison of the popularity of formal contest surfing with that of random nutcases risking their lives in monstrous waves.
The most influential people in Sport
The figures are telling. Internet analyst Experian Hitwise says there were 106,961 visits to Billabong's webcast from Australia and the US on the code-red day. Two days later, when Kelly Slater beat Australian Owen Wright in the final in waves that were barely a quarter the size, the visits dropped to 79,258.
Videos of the code-red day have since clocked up more than three million views on YouTube.
This confirms what Fuel TV manager Adam Howarth says is the only reliable predictor of surf broadcasting: "The bigger the waves, the bigger the audience."