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« on: February 13, 2010, 01:33:07 PM »

 


THIS MORNING AT 8 A.M.  LIVE !!

I know that some people are preparing to celebrate the life of Paulus Vandersloot..


BUT others are 1/2 mile off shore along the west coast of California just south San Francisco, with only 24 hours notice professional surfers from around the world have arrived for the Mavericks surf compition.
It is cold water surfing at its best..
Skies are clear today and waves expected at 40 foot - 60 foot !!

Watch it LIVE..

 http://www.ustream.tv/maverickssurf




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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 04:22:56 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2010, 01:33:43 AM »

PRINCETON-BY-THE-SEA — They crowned a survivor as much as a victor at the Mavericks Surf Contest on Saturday.

Shattered boards, bleeding lungs and heads scuffed over the jagged sea shelf below were all part of a tough day's work for the 24 invited guests.

On a day where agony-of-defeat wipeouts outnumbered thrill-of-victory successes, Chris Bertish of South Africa was the last man standing — and, miraculously, all of them were still breathing.

Bertish, who snagged a $50,000 first-place paycheck, was the contestant with the most difficult path to the Bay Area, hopping a string of flights that totaled some 30-plus hours on Thursday.

He may have regretted the decision during his first heat. After riding a wave successfully, he got caught inside and took three giant waves on the head. Somehow he had scored well enough on his previous two waves to advance to the semis. There he wowed the judges with a hotdog maneuver, attempting to pull into the barrel —a feat rarely attempted, or possible, at Mavericks.

When they made the difficult call to hold the contest on what would be a treacherous swell because of its straight westerly direction and the short distance it traveled, the surfers knew they were getting big waves.

Instead they got gargantuan waves.

Contestants flung themselves down thick, angry 45- to 50-foot beasts like neoprene-clad stuntmen — and often ended up taking the form of skipping  stones as a result. Many suffered the consequences.

Half Moon Bay's Ion Banner set the tone with a dramatic air drop in heat one. He dropped down into the wave's trough while his board flew backwards in the air. As 25 feet of whitewater barreled down on top of him, Banner's trusty big-wave gun snapped in half and he surfaced coughing up blood.

Tim West of Half Moon Bay did his best skipping rock impression in heat two. The wave's energy sucked him to the bottom where his head met the rock reef.

Santa Cruz's Peter Mel, a sentimental favorite among his peers, surfed brilliantly in his first heat, but couldn't seem to find a good wave in his semifinal heat. His fellow Santa Cruzan, Darryl "Flea" Virostko, a three-time Mavericks champion, did manage to get a good one but couldn't find another solid score to pair it with.

One of the most surprising developments of the day came in heat three when reigning champion Greg Long, among the most devoted full-time big-wave surfers in the world, failed to advance. Beyond that, he took one of the day's most violent wipeouts, one that drove him all the to the bottom upon impact.

In another noted upset, 2006 champ Grant "Twiggy" Baker of South Africa fell in the same

semifinal heat despite earning the first perfect score of the contest. The judges felt his second scoring wave didn't stack up to those turned in by another former champ — Santa Cruz's Anthony Tashnick — along with Hawaii's Dave Wassell and Santa Cruzan Shane Desmond.

Ken "Skindog" Collins, yet another Santa Cruzan, advanced through the second semifinal heat to give Surf City three of the six finalists. Along with Wassell, Brazilian Carlos Burle and Bertish were charged with keeping the fifth title in seven years from going to a Santa Cruz surfer.

Instead Bertish took home another win for South Africa.

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