GAME ON
40 knots and waves... first heat is Jaeger Vs Scotty
Good morning and welcome to day 8 of coverage at the 2008 PWA Gran Canaria Grand Slam. The waves have turned up and the wind is blowing through at a solid 40 knots, it looks like today's going to be a good one. The wave fleet are in their skippers meeting at the moment, tune back in at 9.45am for the next update.
Following the skippers meeting, the wave double elimination is going to swing into action at 10am, starting with heat 41, Mckercher vs. Stone & Ceballo vs. Ezzy. Tune back in shortly for more updates.
Current conditions: Average wind strength: 40 Knots, Highest Gust >50 Knots, Wave height: 4-6 foot.
Heat waiting to start....
Heat 41: Mckercher vs. Stone & Ceballos vs. Ezzy will start in 4 minutes. The guys are armed with 3.3m sails!
Might be Swoosh, but usually works for everything else.
But just tried to go through the Pozo comp site (via the PWA site), and I can't read Spanish but the headline I "translated" says that Campello intends to try a triple forward. Can anyone read Spanish and translate it properly? Is it Spanish?
Ceballos looks the most comfortable in the nuclear conditions, landing a huge stalled forward & a tweaked pushloop. Stone & Mckercher land pushloops, but keen them low. Heat ends. Results Mckercher & Ceballos move through
Easty - Campello's sponsors (JP & Pryde) have offered him 10K if he can nail a triple and get it on film... with 40 knots winds and biggish ramps I reckon he's in with a chance !
The height these guys are getting in their pushies, back loops and massive stalled forwards is INSANE !
Awesome to watch !
I was watching last night and they were getting that high they were jumping right out of the camera shot, it was hilarious. Don't think i've seen higher push loops, EVER.
Sailed with a 4.2 pancaked last week ...... I was smacking waves and blasting around fully lit .......Geraldton young guns..... JAGERers and mates were pushing out 30 ---50 foot back /forward and hugh push loops one handed one footed, with out even getting his hair wet, AND gouging the fk out of it into the latest freestyle moves. (not saying im trying to promote any frestyle at all).
.......... all in one run It...... kept me out there an extra half hour 10/10 doods ..............
Dont think many could have beaten that.
Did some one take one of your 3 fins out before your heat or did you give him a head start ?
OK ,I believe you,......... dont want to give him a fat head ......... one hand, one foot double rotation bail outs at 25 feet.
is that more REAL MAN
