VIC
580 posts
Call me a wanker if you will, but I was a bit surprised at the standard if surfing on these waves. Looks like it's pumping, a little fat, but pumping, and the turns are a bit soft I reckon. Even the 9.9 of zane's, if that was a surfing contest on the tour it would have been a 6.5, maybe a 7.5 tops. I might be expecting too much, but in those kind of waves they should be belting it. Compared to that footage of Justin holland at the stormy righthander in qld (I think) they were hardly having a go at all.
Again, I might be being a wanker, but I thought they were better surfers than that.
WA
495 posts
I think you being a bit tough on them,
that vid shows larger waves and they where working them top to bottom.
and none of the crew have surfed that wave much.
and let's face it supping is never going to be as radical as the pro short boarders,
not with the volume difference on the sups that we need to stand up all the time.
it always going to be a bit more mellow with most turns being wider arced
- suits me
VIC
580 posts
I'm kinda with you, Loz, but to compare these clips is not apples and apples IMO. The moroccan waves are about 6-8ft with a couple of possibly bigger ones, crystal clean and a bit fat, while the waves at menakoz are a good 8ft with 10ft sets and a few bigger ones (taken from elevation too), and it's a lot windier, meaner, rounder and bumpier. I had a hunt for comparable footage but that would be the day gone, so I settled on Curren at jbay in 92 as a comparison. Yes, it's free surfing, and it's curren, but most of the good pros surf that good now anyway (Tom just gets better). watching it again reckon they are taking it easy and not pushing much. Zanes's 9.9 at least pushes a couple of top turns a bit. I reckon kai Lenny woulda surfed it much better. I guess when the circle comes around and the young blokes appreciate power rail surfing more than popping airs and slide tricks we might see a different approach.
