There is a reason shift work is worth doing sometimes.
quiet night in the office and the ISA live cast for the Tech finals is on yeww..

Hopefully our prone peeps Jordy and Rhys take gold first up and then our SUP nuts Terrene, Toby, Beau go just as good.
Jamie Mitchell on live comentry - It doesn't get much better.
www.supracer.com/live-webcast-isa-sup-world-championship/

The Racing was HOT!!!

Area10 said...
The US beat Australia in, I think, 10 out of the 15 possible scoring opportunities. If the US continues to field a full team at this event, do you think Australia will ever regain the gold overall, or is this the way it is going to be from now on? In terms of how close the points were, your blushes seemed to be largely spared by one person (Jordan Mercer).

Nah we will smash them like guitars.

husq2100 said...
As an Australian id only be worried if the Uk started to beat us. Some 300 million people in the USA and about 1/10th that here. Plus it seems these events will always be furthest from Aus/NZ so that always thins the field for competitors going.

Unless most of the Australian team gets stuck in a foreign country on the way over in an air travel SNAFU, the UK are never gonna be a threat to you. We don't have a tradition of ocean sports so there has been no pre-existing local club infrastructure to build upon, plus it is very cold, windy and wet here for half the year which makes training very hard, and we just do not have a "sports culture" in this country like you do, so we have very few full-time athletes -and none in SUP. Basically, our team are a bunch of amateurs with day jobs who receive little or no financial support, and mostly train alone in largely miserable conditions. Plus, we couldn't field a full team. It's amazing that they came mid-table really.

But in the UK we love to root for the underdog, and since it looks like you've just become that, we will now be cheering for you almost as much as our own paddlers.

It's a shame that Annabel Anderson wasn't there to give Candice something to think about. Although the NZ team did amazingly well considering the size of the population. And would Travis Grant now paddle for you or Hawaii?

You weren't much in front of Hawaii. So maybe next year you will be third? Hawaii have a lot of youngsters up-and-coming, and for their first appearance at this event it was a great effort.

In reality Hawaii should win. Connor, kai etc should be the team to beat. The Travis argument is moot since he didnt compete. And that would also be like saying what about this or that person that could have gone for Aus . But simply look at the best pro racers and surfers winning comps and you cant really go past kai, Connor and Candice.

They have to either remove prone paddle boarding from this event or severely limit the damage by reducing the points that the prone competitors contribute to the overall score. It's nice that the Australians did so well on the teams table, but let's be honest, it was all thanks to Jordan Mercer on a prone board. I've said it before and I'll say it again - may as well add beach frisbee.

Anyone know where 2016 ISA TITLES is being held? South America again??? Send it to Hawaii or Australia I say but I'm sure the ISA PRESIDENT Wouldn't get the government funding like he does in those South American governments else where.

Andy we won't see it neither will the USA , it will always be held in developing countries to promote the sport.

The placement og the next worldchampionships is crucial.
The ISA needs to take it to the big Stage. A lot of european countries are stille in the SUP-developing stage.
I really like the current setup with both prone and SUP and I think that the event should be able to draw attention from some of the bigger sponsors if it was held at at at well know location

Piros said..


Andy we won't see it neither will the USA , it will always be held in developing countries to promote the sport.

RIGHT!

Just like holding the FIFA World Cup in Qatar is to promote the sport.

Thats nonsense .
Our danish viking Casper Steinfath competed in tech, Long distance and surfing.
Thats for the teams to decide

Kai kicked Connors but at last years BOP they get one up on each other all the time

I'm not sure that we will see Kai do much racing in the future...
Very excited for the Mexican squad
Any news on when they will release here the next world championships are held?

Jacko. I sure do agree with you. Your innovating ideas are what the sport needs to make it interesting for the racers and hopefully better for the views.
I reckon one day one of these ideas you are coming up with will take off be picked up by an event and could easily become the next main standard in racing courses..
if only you could tell this rediclous Qld/aus surfing and if they actually did listen to you (as they don't listen to anyone else) that going to easy simple boring option at state and Nationals isn't working and they need to adopt a better idea for races.. Whoops that's for another thread in Coming weeks when they release what they are going to do