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ETHAN EWING AND STEPHANIE GILMORE WIN BONSOY GOLD COAST PRO

What an incredible event. When the waves do show up, the CT is hard not to watch. I get bent if I miss an event when it’s firing. This explains why the couch in front of the TV was my bed for the weekend. Snapper must be in a different time zone than Bells and […]

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SNAPPER ROCKS DAY THREE

2006 Barra. 2010 Lowers. 2017 J-Bay. 2019 Keramas. Could this year’s Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro join the upper echelon of most high performance surf events ever? I think after today, the argument is there. I just got home from judging a contest of my own and pulled up the webcast to see Ethan Ewing throw […]

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SNAPPER ROCKS DAY TWO

Today, rather than a full recap like we have had in the past few event days, we’re just going to have some notes from the field – if you will. I’m not at Snapper or anything, I’ve just got a contest to judge in the morning. I need to get some rest. These are my […]

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SNAPPER ROCKS DAY ONE

The Oscar Berry Round – this is what Round 1 will be referred to from now on. Can’t help but to feel for the guy at this point. Tya Zebrowski, the unanimous ROY pick on the Women’s side, is another surfer yet to get through a R1 Heat. The difference being that Tya is well […]

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DETHRONED

George Pittar just fucking cleaned house. Apologies for the cursing so early. I typically save that for later in the post, but GP did it live on broadcast, and everyone loved it. Enthusiasm. As the Aussies would say, “get that up ya”. I didn’t touch on Finals Day from Margie’s yet, so I just wanted […]

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ROLL OF THE DICE

6 events. 80 surfers. 10 spots up for grabs. If surfing was big enough, someone could film a reality show about the Challenger Series. Almost had it with Make Or Break. Nice try, WSL. Or better yet, maybe we could program an algorithm into one of these new AI bots to take all of the […]