Good to see the swell building. The early heats in the round of 16 were diseased.
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Good to see the swell building. The early heats in the round of 16 were diseased.
Definitely firing right now. This Medina/JJF heat is shaping up to be epic.
edit: 10 minutes left in the heat but I think Medina has this one locked up.
Fuck Medina
Well that sucked. Slater never got into that heat.
Congrats to the 47 year old triple crown winner.
Fuck Medina
Eh, I don't know. A Brazilian out-Brazillioned another Brazilian. Surf trip behaviour into the WSL? It's not like it's new to these guys.
Seemed like Medina was trying to take it a bit easy against Griffin (i.e. do just enough to make it through) to conserve some energy since he knew he'd have a shorter rest period than Italo … ??? I hope Italo absolutely, fucking DESTROYS Medina!!!
Ferreira...firing!
Final heat to decide the world champ. The drama....
Yahoo!
Karma for the cheesey move
Never watched a WSL event before today. Pretty cool and engaging if you commit to watching the full heats, less so if you can't focus in on the drama/buildup.
I latched on to team Italo. Cool to see it go down to the Final Heat, and psyched that JJF got the Olympic spot.
Anyone else catch the first Big Wave At Large episode? Absolutely bananas.
https://www.worldsurfleague.com/post...arge-jaws-2020
I had the replay of the Nazare tow-in comp up on my second monitor all morning. I hate to even say this, but it's just not that exciting to watch. The waves are huge and I'm sure for the guys in the water it's an absolute blast, but it's not nearly as fun to watch as the Jaws big wave comp.
There were a few gems. Kai Lenny caught a wave in Heat 6 that was absolutely sick. I'm pretty sure it's the one that won him Best Wave but I haven't been able to find the clip.
I actually get really into the broadcasts and surprise myself how many heats I can watch. As much as I like watching ski & mountain bike edits, I don't really enjoy watching surf edits/videos as much and prefer watching the whole process the comp broadcast brings (wave selection, wave start to completion).
Watched Pipe Masters again. Loved every second of it - fun to watch JJF crush from quarters through finals. I remain surprised at the amount of heat surfing I can watch, but I suspect my interest is limited to barreling waves. So much more suspense when they get covered up and you're waiting for the exit.
I'm also tickled that they send Strider out to bob around in the water for hours on end for what amounts to essentially zero value add for the viewer.
I'm actually surprised by how much I like watching the process. I get the surfing events on one of the fox (I think) channels. I enjoy taping them, then fast forwarding some of the slow sections in the heat. I do enjoy watching the process of seeing great surfers read the ocean and evaluate it. I will sometimes watch a heat live if I happen to be watching TV when it is taping, I have it set up to tape all of the events, but it is nice to fast forward past the slow sections.
I loved seeing JF win. He is (IMHO) pretty clearly the best pipe surfer on the WSL. The Pipe win was the only thing he was missing. I love watching Medina surf, I am goofy, but JF is clearly the better surfer at Pipe even though he had not one the event yet. It is right the he has finally won there, although I would have liked to see it in 2-3 times overheard heaving barrels.
I love watching Italo, and I loved seeing him beat Medina last year.
Come on Filipe!
Interesting, but fun new format. I thought Conner had Fil's number and that Tat was going to pull it off .....
I like the new format also. Surfing, like DH skiing, is so reliant on the weather it's nice to add heats to hopefully even out the set breaks.