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For for e for for for for s every for e for for for is what is for all right round morning for minutes for for [Applause] [Applause] It’s it’s a beautiful Easter Saturday welcome to the morning update for the rift CR Pro Bells Beach presented by Bon soy Liam O’Brien Griff and COA Pinto Tully Wy everyone checking out the early morning conditions hman putting the fins in the Mayhem Alie Harrison’s profile still building in the women’s
Quarterfinals Gabriel Medina has hman early in the morning and Caroline marks is getting a lap on the racetrack she’ll have the day off today the reigning world champ has a good chance to absolutely blow up just like Sammy poopo did with a big alleyoop this morning welcome to a nice clean
Beautiful offshore morning update here at winky pop in the state of Victoria in the great country of Australia looks like a beautiful day for pro surfing here on Saturday to set up some big Heats in the round of 16 for the men thanks for being with us Joe Tel
Longtime CT standout Richie love it uh Richie it’s a great morning we’ve had a couple of days off and it’s looking really really rippable here at Wiki pump today yeah super rippable conditions glassy as just a perfect little 5 knot offshore we got a little bit of swell in
The water too so it’s going to be a fun day of competition some of these Heats these matchups are incredible so we’re in the best seat in the house everyone tune in it’s going to be a great day let’s make it more official as we say
Good morning to La an with ronado hickel yes good morning everybody we are back and refreshed after a couple of great days off ralo you got some waves yesterday how good but uh today we’re on and it’s gorgeous happy Easter weekend happy Easter everyone we’re so excited
What’s happening oh it’s we woke up to a beautiful morning really clean glassy conditions light offshore winds and it’s well better than we expected so we’re going to restart the competition with that hit six of the main round of 32 we have a big task ahead of us today we’re
Going to try to do 19 hits only men’s today women are off for the day 30 minutes heat the normal Heats and we have this tide running out till 9:30 and we’re expecting a push after 9:30 with the incoming time and conditions getting a bit better a bit bigger we’re going to
Have to deal with on shoulder winds in the afternoon but we’re going to have some incredible hits today no doubt amazing so no laughing heat the rest of the round and then setting up for possibly a great finals day tomorrow it a possibility if we pull it off to day
19 hits then with both men and women to the quarterfinal round so it’s a possibility to to have a big finish on a uh Sunday Easter Sunday it is a big task too cuz it’s a fading swell tomorrow but we have backup days on a remainder of
The wedding period if we can do it tomorrow amazing well you heard everyone buckle up it’s going to be an amazing Easter Saturday here down at bills Beach oh winky pop today see you guys soon thanks so much Laura and ronado hickle telling us a lot of great information
Trying to max out today here on Saturday as the heat’s on it already started 30 minute heat kicking off with round of 32 Heat number six Ramsey buayam from Morocco and Liam O’Brien from Burley heads in Australia we finished the first five Heats of the round a couple of days
Ago and we set up some key Heats already in the round of 16 Morgan siick and Ryan Kal already meeting in that first match up for an all Newcastle battle there and the fans already upstairs on the bluff checking out the opening paddle battle but an exciting day rich as we
Break it down a bit so Tide’s dropping for about another hour and then the on shores come up do you mind an onshore wind add winky popper do we kind of have to monitor how strong it’ll be this afterno uh I I actually don’t mind it
You know it winky pop does handle an onshore and it does present this little feathery lip where you can just go okay it’s time to take to the air uh so uh you know natural or goofy then they’re really going to be able to lean into that uh it’s it’s a high performance
Wave down here you know there’s no doubt about it uh we lose a little bit of that open face carve um but it’s a tighter radius turn down here at winky pop but uh this morning beautiful groom conditions so I I expect to see a lot of
Face work uh some nice clean rail uh snaps and carbs and uh well this is a great match up between the the goofy footer and then the big uh natural uh sorry the goofy footer Ramsey and then the the nice clean natural footer Liam O’Brien from up there at Bly heads on
The go Coast Ramsey number 52 officially on tour this here after some injuries in the past the dramatic one on the opening day pipeline when he was officially going to make his start Moroccan fans and just fans of Ramsey his peers were heartbroken for him after a decade of
Trying to qualify so still celebrating this uh official arrival for Ramsey on the top 34 yeah it seems fitting doesn’t it and only fair that Ramsey gets a good crack at the tour this year uh you know it was Misfortune out of finest and uh well luckily he gets to go around in
2024 and thank goodness because he’s a real asset to the tour big strong goofy footer and uh he has a lethal backhand attack so uh given the right wall this morning we’re going to see him open up but Liam O’Brien he can bring something special here too Liam O’Brien kind of
Showed the world that he could battle with the world’s best fairly easily his first Wild Card call up to the big stage was over at rot Nest island or wajima and he turned that into a semifinal result which was massive taking down big names from Felipe too in the early
Rounds Jeremy Flores in a crazy competitive three-man battle that will’ll never forget uh got past Miguel poopo and made it all the way to the semifinals it almost looked like he was just born for the tour yeah it he he was ready definitely he was ready um but
Being a wild card versus being an actual member of the championship tour I think it’s a little different mindset you know as a wild card you’re coming in with really no restrictions no pressure you can open up and then once you actually made the tour and you’re an official
Part of it then there is this pressure that goes along with it because you don’t want to give up your you don’t want to relinquish your your spot on the tour so um you know there’s that extra little pressure but he seems to be dealing with it okay he does need some
Good results though coming into these next few events so cool to see the fans down here Saturday morning it’s a tradition for Australians to to spend their Easter uh here at Bell’s Beach go on their Easter egg hunts watch their favorites compete if they have any work responsibilities that’s all out the
Window they’re here to watch this amazing event in its 61st Edition the 50th that rip girl’s been a part of it yeah the town filled up pretty quickly yesterday didn’t it it went from like you know manageable to heaving overnight which is really special and uh even
Coming down here early plenty of people on hand to check out the action and uh you can see uh well Spectators lining the cliffs here at winky pop been a lot of big Heats that have gone down at this venue you know that we always talk about
The bells Bowl but winky Pop’s been used for a very long time including big finals in the past remember of Mick Taj final here uh John schuka Sunny Garcia in the past uh so many special memories at this high performance venue and we notice on that really solid day
That we ran a lot of heat here it actually turned into a solid canvas for the the backhanders to really take all the winds that they were a part of on that day are you expecting the same kind of flow today uh we’ve broken the sort
Of goofy versus natural down and I think just to highlight the key Advantage is the the goofy Footers can square up a little bit and by that I mean a a deeper bottom turn and then a really acute angle off the bottom and get up vertical
Where the natural Footers tend to get a a little bit of a longer Arc they a bit more horizontal in the way they ser Earth um so it’ll be interesting to see how they tackle it today that man there put down a couple of lethal airs this morning on that incredible JS
Board Sammy poopo looks inspired he said he wants to go all the way in this event he’s really focusing on the cup but first thing in the morning found a nice ramp and look how casually he looks on that alley of rotation yeah so good so clean the landing was absolutely perfect
Straight into the next turn so uh as a competitive Surfer Joe it’s always good to have that warm up and to actually have a good surf because if you come in you haven’t really got a wave you maybe had a couple of Falls then you’re not really going into your heat with a
Positive mindset so Sammy looks uh really uh well established this morning and and he’ll be uh looking forward to some Heats this afternoon Sammy poopo got past Leo fante as we will now see the opening ride of the morning Liam O’Brien with some speed and a throwaway punt incomplete priority with Ramsey
Now Liam just wanted to get things started saw that he might be able to throw down in a full rotation but loses connection with that surfboard and now Ramsey will move in and yeah kind of win that start of the competitive battle just to kick off with the best Wave It’s
Always a little chess match at the start of these Heats and no one really wanting to relinquish that position in the lineup so these guys were deep up on the the upper section here at Winky and now you can see Ramsey coming down into the real takeoff Zone these where the waves
This is where the waves just cleanly run down the point at a at a beautiful pace so you’d have to say advantage to Ramsey without really even having a score on the board yet he now has priority and uh conversion Joe I feel like is going to be a really critical
Part of today just because it is a little bit inconsistent w look like Lobby yeah Ramsey letting this one go through and Lobby will get started nice redirect in the pocket snapping right off the lip in the critical Zone again cool flow and Rhythm into a raping cutback great variety for Liam O’Brien
As he digs in on the open face and now shuts it down with a clean off the top such an easy Rhythm to follow down the line a style that you’d want to model yourself but good change Ups Too from carves to really drilling the lip section and Ramsay just Dro an acre
Hoping for something better interesting decision from Ramsey not taking that wave and a little gift there for Liam O’Brien and Jeezy surfed that well great Pace to that wave really good flow executed some uh super clean Maneuvers here so let’s see what happened Ramsey not interested perhaps thought there was
A bigger one outside Lobby goes yep I’ll take it starts off with his clean slide more down the line more of a critical snap gets some toil release hits it again those little drifting slices big wrapping cut back really nice Rhythm to this wave and another one bit more variety there and
Then gets the closeout finish so multiple Maneuvers down the line this will set the judge’s scale for the day so it’s an important score beautiful view here from above you can really see the path that that these Surfers take on the wave and when I look at this wave Joe uh
I feel like Liam did the Maneuvers the exact maneuver that the wave called for at that time that beautiful star where he just locks that back knee in brings it down check that tail release there gets the control back down now he hammers it off the bottom turn through the lip again
Drifting perfect composure looking super sharp on this board had a little chat with DH earlier this morning we’ll break down the board uh through this heat and the variety there the layback snap and gets to the Finish had to make this last turn just to book end it great
Ride just clean perfectly matched surfing for Liam O’Brien to get a seven-point ride so interesting to note Ramsey with priority not interested in that one and O’Brien kind of making him pay for being so selective to start so Liam went for the air kind of threw away the battle for priority and recovered
Magically to that seven-point ride now it’s time for a bon University athlete health check Ramsey Bim told our AJ McCord that he dislocated his shoulder the day after the Lexus Pipe Pro at Sunset he didn’t make it out of the elimination round took a 33rd on his
Way to Puerto Rico at the isas Ramsey surfed his way to a silver medal and Olympic qualification where he will represent Morocco for the second time in the Olympic Games as we now look at Liam O’Brien stepping into another fun looking running right super glassy already threw a couple of turns off the
Top and a snap to drift to shut it down three is gone as total could put Ramsay in a combination with 19 to go he’s he’s executing a perfect heat under priority here he’s going to make Ramsey pay for it by putting a little pressure
On him this is not going to be a huge score Joe but it’s going to be enough to really start to make Ramsey think about his choices right now Ramsey loves the first heat of a contest not every Surfer wants to be out there on the opening Hooter sounding on
A day but Ramsey said he’s so motivated and focused I’m not sure what he’s waiting for as we look for the second replay of this wave yeah it was kind of textbook stuff here from Liam O’Brien just a shorter wave he sort of built throughout the wave there you
Can see Ramsey starting to question going hang on a minute what’s going on is he laying down scores and I’m sitting out here so I wonder if in the free surf we know Lobby was out there early so he got a gauge on the lineup I’m not too
Sure whether Ramsey actually got out there he might even be waiting for something that perhaps won’t come through this morning interesting when you drop anchor this long to see what if if he can recover a brilliant start from Liam O’Brien seven and now a 383 so Ramsey
Does need two new waves to take the lead in this first heat of the morning Medina coming up next taking on Cole hman our plan is to finish the round of 32 and hopefully finish the round of 16 for a potential finals day tomorrow but we do have options even April third Wednesday
Has some promise as we’re getting through the waiting period here for stop number four of the season a lot on the line for the midseason cut as that cut happens at Margaret River stop number five going from 34 men to 22 for the rest of the season and there’s obviously a ton of
Incentive staying on the top stage fighting for a world title but also cloudbreak is back on tour oh and that’s a special one I did have the the fortune of uh being able to compete at cloudbreak during my time on the tour and it is a special event you know that
That wave in particular uh it it’s it can be tricky but it’s magical um it’s one of those places as a surfer that you have to go and visit you see here Gabrielle Medina getting ready for his match up with Cole hman gosh huge heat
And Medina just put on one of the best combined total of his career at Bells in the opening round of competition so he’s had some time off since then 933 eight-point ride oy was on hand for the call for that one and there was some ay Magic from the booth straight to
Medina’s performance but thinking about the waves today and the forecast that we have courtesy of Surfline we have Surfline Australia’s forecast manager joining us Hugh McDow Hugh thank you so much for being with us first thing of the morning hey my pleasure Jo happy to be here this morning and we can see
There’s some waves out there yeah thanks for uh letting us know what to expect as far as just forecasting for this part of Australia there’s some challeng there what’s it been like working with this waiting period well there’s been some challenges in the waiting period it was
Good for the first day we saw some really solid swell for them but then since then we’ve been waiting we’ve been waiting on this little pulse out here for this weekend it’s come in reasonable size today we’re seeing sort of chest to head high sets and the odd bigger one as
Well the challenges with it are there’s not many wave boys out there right there’s not much between us and the Southern Ocean here in Victoria right so we can’t see those swes coming from a long way away in in reality we’re having to rely on models quite a lot of the
Time until they hit the capes surel boy and some of the boys around Victoria and then we’ve only got 3 to 5 hours notice until they’re here at Bell page well Hugh I love talking over the Surfline Maps but since we’ve got you here in the
Chair do you mind running us through all the great graphics that you guys send through courtesy of surf line yeah of course no problem Jay so we can see there’s modest Southwest well in for this Easter weekend we’re mixed of mid and long periods well and that’s starting to peek
Out there at the moment eases through tomorrow morning and then we’re looking at another swell Wednesday through to Friday peaking Wednesday afternoon much more solid than this one but winds might be a bit tricky and then looking at today at winky pop we’re seeing maybe just a little increase in size this
Afternoon with that onshore you’re expecting that to get a lot more serious uh later on today that’s right a bit more Breezy with the onshore this afternoon so we’re going to start seeing a little bit more bump and lump on the wave faces and then looking at the next
Four days Rado this morning was saying to tomorrow is a possibility but would you be looking at then Wednesday at a finals day if we can’t wrap things up on Easter Sunday I would say so yeah tomorrow looks like fun in the morning maybe deteriorating in the afternoon as
That swell starts easing and then Wednesday a peaking larger swell there we go thank you very much for the insight and Surfline and Hugh for being with us here firsthand uh the call was quickly made for for winky pop today uh were you kind of expecting that and to
Kind of move off the ball well with a smaller well yeah winky pop sort of holds it better and then as we go through the High Tides you’re not seeing as many Heats over at Bells like it struggles with those high tides on the bow so yeah winky pop we can probably
Run through the ties through the day today awesome well thank you so much for for joining us we’ll be catching up with you throughout the next couple of days surf line our official forecaster and Hugh doing a great job throughout this event here at the Rip Curl pro Bells
Beach presented by bun soy Liam O’Brien still the only one surfing so far as Ramsey is comboed we’ll be right back Car wi the car for 12 minutes on the clock here in the round of 32 Heat number six O’Brien out front seven and a 383 as Ramsey sits with priority he will roll in the Moroccan Now setting up that big vertical nice first turn nice blast again looking smooth and Powerful
Controlled vertical surfing for Ramsey to get started didn’t have the link up and the length of Riot of opport opportunities that Liam had on his seven but you can tell he’s been Wide Awake focused on the lineup doesn’t need a warm up and he’s already surfing at a
High level Rich what’ you see here he sure is looks like he’s uh surfing pressure free at the moment he two backhand hits and a third to finish things off and this is what I was mentioning before Joe on the backand they can take a deeper bottom turn get a
Little bit more vertical there watch the nose of the board up at 12:00 Ramsey pivots nice and tight it gets straight back on that Hillside rail leans in gets that pendulum flow that upper body movement the lower body follows nice tight pivoting turns off the top sets up this last close out and
Again goes vertical so um a good three turn com combination for Ramsey to start things off there’s so much in those backside turns aren’t there just the power the rail engagement the Flawless transitions small wave that you know might have been a three-point ride for most he could get
A bit more out from the panel because how Dynamic those turns are not being on a set wave a 55 for Ramsey needing a 5-34 for the lead change as we talk about backhanders we always start with o but more recently it’s been EO ferer winning this event
That was an emotional victory for EO because it was his first major win of his career yeah it um was a big one in the final there with Mick Fanning and that was uh Mick’s final event his goodbye to Bell’s Beach and uh well it
Was a pretty special one for Ito to get the win good surf too it was fun good waves and uh he was so stuck it and what what a story it was just with the Australian crowd seeing Mick swans song going oh he’s going to win it this whole
Thing and EO was in his head space and everyone felt like the story was getting changed from this movie ending yeah fairy tile but then Mick reminds us on stage with his class how we still got the fairy tale ending it was uh kind of
A good way for Mick to step away going wow that meant so much to EO seeing him celebrate and he’s like yeah I think it is time to move on Mick with four Bells trophies tied with Kelly tied with Mark Richards Kelly the one man that could
Have the record for himself and he did mention how that would be the absolute dream he does have Baron mamia in this round later on today wow that would be something special wouldn’t it uh uh now we’re uh we’re looking forward to seeing uh well the goat the greatest of all
Time Kelly slate up he’ll be surfing a little bit later on today 8:55 on the clock here Ramsay representing Morocco said it was interesting growing up in his his community it wasn’t a a popular custom to will your kids into the ocean he said there’s this element of fear you
Know around being in the water a lot where him and his brother would get out there surfing and there wasn’t bunch of hot and up and cominging juniors around to compare you’re surfing with and there wasn’t big surf shops that you’re growing up in and this big surf culture
With big events to to follow said things have changed dramatically there’s people that actually make a living in Morocco as surf guides surf instructions and things like that but he always remembers how hard it was to get great equipment so he makes sure that he’s passing on boards to the Next
Generation he’s got his uh face on some buildings there that honor Ramsey and the connection to Morocco as they cheer him on on tour and they also cheer him on in the Olympic Games yeah well he’s you know basically the face of Moroccan surfing and and there are good waves in
Morocco don’t tell anyone but um yeah it’s uh long right hand Point waves and then you can see why Ramsay’s backhand is so strong he is comfortable in these type of conditions it’s inconsistent Joe and it really is going to be a matter of when you get these waves you need to
Convert on them a fall today is going to be uh a real critical moment looks like Liam’s going to have a look at this one Liam does have priority and he’s got some room to move on the scale trying to better a 383 first turn a nice searing carve off
The top quickly hacking it in the pocket down the line and then leans into it for the finish on the open face sharp surfing from the Australian George patar loving it and what a performance that he threw down as one of the most exciting wild cards we’ve had this season on tour yeah
Yeah George is uh a fresh face on the scene um had a little crack at the challenges last year and was lucky enough to re-qualify so he’ll go around again but getting his first taste of Championship tour competition down here at Bells Beach he’s one of the rip
Riders see jvo in the background there interesting to note uh I I actually don’t think that Liam O’Brien is with a with a coach down here at Bells he’s there’s a crew of these guys that are all kind of feeding off each other and helping each other rather than just have
One individual um sort of helping you steer the ship let’s watch the replay here so streaking down the line This wave standing up well beautiful carve to start things off kind of hops out of it gets that second tap and then this third hack somewhat restrained in my mind um
But appropriate for where this heat is at right now beautiful open face carve on the opener that is where most of the points are going to come from Little check re-entry here and here’s where he lines up this last turn so right now he’s thinking okay I got this section the layback hack
Is the perfect maneuver for this section throws it down doesn’t overcook it great timing and uh well we’ve seen so many Surfers go to that maneuver super reliable uh I reckon Sunny Garcia really put that turn on the map and he used to do it with so much
Power just used to destroy the wave gosh and he used it everywhere didn’t he y he could use it at one foot Huntington Beach he could use it at 6 to8 foot ball it was just well I saw him wind Bells against John Shuka right here in conditions not too
Dissimilar so much in that power hack as he’ll always be known as the gosh when Maybe the most powerful Athlete on tour world champion in 2000 the most successful in the Triple Crown as you see Cole hman there’s a couple of powerful goofy Footers in this
Next one hey he’s got to be careful it’s taking a long time because there’s little holes you don’t want to fall into one of those little traps on the way out to your heat a lot of these guys that grow up surfing lowers they often waxs the top of their
Feet and then rub them together so you’re not all slippery on your opening ride with all the the algae and the moss on top of these limestone rocks but Cole with a lot on the line here there’s been this clip floating around on Instagram that one Cole
Actually reposted as well he’s about 11 years of age asking who his favorite Surfer was in the world this young little Cole was uh saying yep Gabriel Medina he’s got it all wow breaking down all the Medina’s strengths and how much he looked up to the guy so talk about a
Dream true Cole’s got a chance to battle with his hero coming up next in heat seven wow that is a special moment and it’s uh it’s going to be a good match up that one two powerful goofy Footers Gabriel Medina he’s coming back he’s in fine form looks like we’re going to have
A rider here Jo right now Ramsay’s looking for a 75 getting some speed nice control backside snap hitting it harder on the second effort now third is a big blast in the pocket really moving down the line attack the lip again and shutting it down brilliant surfing from the
Moroccan Leo fante one of his closest friends he likes it he’s saying y he got it 7.5 it would be the best wave of the heat so they’ll be comparing it directly against Liam O’Brien seven pointer and I I instantly think about variety here so whereas Liam had a lot
Of different turns Ramsey strong on the back hand winds up second turn really vertical and Powerful does it again and a third a fourth and then gets the inside section and blasts it super strong positioning was perfect you know for a big guy he’s got so much
Power and leverage in the lower part of his body here we just watch the leg movement extension compression gets even a little tail release there Joe gets the fins drifting ever so slightly JS is looking amazing under his feet cracks it again interesting to watch uh the
Eyesight as well so he’s uh every time coming off this bottom turn that’s where he eyes off his lip he’s attack Point bang you see the head motion the upper body comes around and then the lower body follows really tight radius turns powerful mate that W had it all so
Ramsay’s looking for a 7.5 and the comparison would go quickly to Liam O’Brien’s seven that he had to kick off the heat that was on Liam’s second wave he fell on the Rotator Ramsey didn’t go with priority crunch time now as we pass the gwm two-minute warning but this was the
Seven for comparison okay so quick snap to start things off opening carve second one tail release a bit more radical you can see the different sort of turns more open face more slicing more carving versus Ramsay’s vertical blast attack so there’s more variety in what uh what Liam did on the front
Side then here we go Ramsey on the backhand stronger perhaps more powerful there’s more intent there’s more water displacement in those turns oh that third turn was super vertical and again so for me the only thing that they could perhaps criticize on that wave Joe was just the
Repetition I mean they were super strong every single one of the turns here goes Liam last for Ramsey 6.8 not enough Liam still in the lead as he’s riding this wave attacking sections now looking for something to ramp up with there’s that tail High reverse he gets Tangled Up on the
Landing but Ramsey got his best number so far just two waves ridden in this entire Heat but short of the requirement needing a 75 all judges off five feeling that it was not enough the closest was a 73 on the decision I wonder I wonder if it was
That repetition that they just wanted to see maybe something a little bit different which is you know granted hard to do on your backhand out here especially in these type of conditions where it is so smooth and the air is kind of a more of a highrisk option for the goofy Footers
Ramsey he may get no this wave’s not going to offer him anything and now it’s just coming down to that wave that he let Liam go on with priority that Liam turned into a seven it’s always hard in the moment to break down wave selection
It’s pretty easy to do it in hindsight a tough one for Ramsay cuz he was fired up you can tell on that last 6.8 and a big result though still in the making for the Australian Liam O’Brien is into the round of 16 he will be competing late lat on
Today against Ethan y a bit of a rematch from their battle they had at Sunset earlier this year okay well that’s got to be a fun one there’s lots to break down in that heat that’s a harsh one for uh for Ramsey tough commiserations Medina taken on hman coming up next here
At the rip Crow Pro Bells Beach presented by Bonso for for [Applause] Always a favorite to come out down down here to the state of Victoria to enjoy the city of Melbourne to drive about an hour hour and a half to the surf coast and check out winky pop and bells for the Big Rip Curl pro Bells Beach presented by bons so the longest running
Event on the calendar as we’ve got Cole hman the rookie on tour from s CL with his hands full against the three-time world champion his Hero on tour finishing off his wave there his best so far he had two looks during the break he even started off with
The opening wave in the one range took another look at a wave so already tried to get a quick start against this man who is absolutely flying nice stretched out wall with a close out section for the backhand air reverse and that one Medina can’t right out
Of his second wave ridden in the matchup he did get a start during the break as now we see the paddle battle and the rookie 6’3 225 looks like got a bit of a jump on Medina so far well Cole’s put the outboard motor on you can see the
Legs kicking going it’s almost creating a wake uh for Gabrielle behind him but uh M these guys are two of the biggest two of the strongest on the tour Cole putting this one in he knows the importance of getting priority in this exchange here look at Cole break away I
Mean Medina out paddles people all day long yeah I think stat was a statement he’s like no man I yeah I’m not giving I’m not I’m not backing down to you at all wow he might be one of the fastest paddlers on tour this man Co hman now
He’s going to have to suck in some oxygen just take a little breather get ready so Gabrielle will hunt the lineup now you watch this is what he does he cruises back and forth like a shark just looking for waves and opportunities and this is the type of
Thing he does in unraveling these uh these rookies who are maybe a little inexperienced had to Surf with Gabrielle down here at winky the day actually when they called it off and I saw him make 10 of those backhand rotations in the space of about 20 minutes and uh man he he has
Been putting a lot of time in over the last two days down here kind of figured that we were going to be back down at the winky pop section interesting how he lands all those in the free Surf and the one he needs in a heat he goes down he was very
Close to it 483 and a one to start Medina out in front Cole needing a 2011 a fun all goofy foot B we’ve got a goofy foot for the water reporting Kyo Guerrero kypo beautiful morning at winky pop yes it’s a beautiful morning blessed jarck and uh out here water Run Country
It’s uh I and you know what for goofy foot fan what a way to start the morning in the water with these two a must win for the rookie kohman I feel Joe that like he really needs a result uh you know especially here looking at that mid-season cut and then Gabe Medina
Gabes up to his old tricks again go into the air hasn’t put one down yet uh but we’ll see I extremely entertaining heat for me to start off my morning out here in the water totally kpo and hey you had a front row seat to Cole hman last year
On the Challenger Series going back to back for his wins you felt that energy from s Clement looking at the waves that we have today at winky pop are you expecting him to to Really find his rhythm out there today I you know what the the sneaky thing about the big guy
63 you know 210 pounds is he is really Nimble for such a big frame so I expect uh I expect him to come through here he’s always had been a surfer of talent that I feel that belongs on the championship tour but he needs to earn
His place right now he needs a result he needs to make it happen right now as far as the the face of the wave right now kpo things are looking clean from the top of the hill what’s it like in the ocean yeah it’s it’s really nice it’s
It’s smooth out here uh maybe a little bit of a ruffle coming through every once in a while a kind of a variable Vibe uh but for the most part smooth glassy rippable what a way to start the day hey kpo we’ve got Medina up we’ll
Check in with you in a moment as we have him going through another top turn wrap Gabriel throwing a vertical and gets the completion the 1.0 gone and this was what you predicted rich without priority he’s one of the most dangerous guys to watch on tour yeah he’ll just put
Pressure on on the youngster here and Gabrielle’s so strong he’s one of those unique Surfers that has the ability to take a four-point wave and turn it into a six-point ride and that’s you know that that’s one of the magical things about Medina he’s just so explosive so
Creative on the backand uh we’ll see all sorts of Maneuvers pulled out in this one you know he won’t just he won’t just stick to a a pretty straightforward backhand vertical he’ll mix things up he’ll get to the air and uh really he is um he’s back in fine form gabri Medina
Working with Johnny kabanka for a very long time I think those early years you’d see some puka stickers on his board and then it just became a full-time relationship with Johnny and it’s not one of those Shapers that’s making equipment for half the tour it’s a a pretty personal relationship for the
Championship tour as we look at this wave yeah gab’s just down the line streaking getting to this uh little moment down here quick snap and then gets to the final finish just really slams the door shut and here we go Cole nice extension on the opening turn there gets the second
And a third little disjointed here lost a little bit of speed and flow before that final hit great way to finish off and this is Gabrielle under priority here clean snap small wave but just get some beautiful work done and that that closeout re-entry was the money turn so strong on
The back hand live action now watch and Medina just throw a nice little float to start bashing it off the lip nice little speed carve to cover some ground hammering it again now looking for a big wind up and a solid powerful finish for the three-time world
Champion hman Now tracking down the line float to cover some ground punches out the lip right back to that pocket again to hammer it nice flow and just so many different types of turns and he will finish so strong he’s hooked on his Fitness his training he’s obsessing with the game and loves
Every part of it learning a lot in his rookie debut this year catching up on some numbers wave number three for Medina 55 so he built on his score line hman 383 and two more to lock in as we can see the separation there yeah good exchanges and the youngster who staying
With him here that was a great wave little bit more variation and multiple Maneuvers down the line talking to Luke Eagan this morning Joe they did a ton of work down here yesterday uh tried a bunch of different boards and um Cole found a a nice one from Matt Bolis it’s
A a 6-2 driver three but slightly modified uh for the conditions down here and when we’re talking about modifications from a model we’re talking maybe a 16th of an inch intail rocker and perhaps only in that last 12 in of the board so these uh these incremental
Uh adjustments that the Shapers make for their Riders we’ll get back to uh little replay here Medina starts off with a little rock and roll float up quick snap down the line third turn Mor spray now he gets a bit more acute with the angles streaking down the line setting this last turn
Up jeez that pivoting action off those final hits Medina in this heat been something special so this was uh Cole’s last wave streaking down the line little floater projection to get to these uh well just rapid fire backand turns five six probably seven turns on that
Wave when you look at the actual wave though Jo I feel like Medina’s actually stood up a little bit more uh offered a little bit more there and if you look at the board path between Medina and Cole hashman I’d say there’s maybe 20 30°
Difference uh in it I feel like Cole was maybe cutting his backhand hooks just a little bit shorter Gabrielle was wrapped his around more liking the breakdown 19 on the clock priority with Medina to roll into this glassy right hander already through his first turn backand float with some
Spice on it out in front crushes the lip back to a rooftop float again looking super smooth pacing his way down the line with a lot of Majors as he steps off their exchange before was probably both of their best performances so far still yet to lock into the screen and
Medina already throwing up another great effort on the back end haan’s wave before 623 y Gabriel’s wave previous a 667 and so Gabriel out front waiting to see if he improved on a 55 on that last one yeah he’s building look at Gabrielle’s score had the four got the
Five now got the six so uh what’s coming next but uh yeah Cole stays with him that 6.23 critical score at this moment of the Heat and he needs to make this next wave count Big Score coming if he can find the right wave big win first thing of the morning for Liam
O’Brien as he’s hanging out with Laura yes guys number 12 in the world at the moment Liam first heat of the day talk us through the nerves and how you’ve approached it after a couple of days off yeah it was really slow so it was pretty nerve-wracking um yeah I just tried to
Hold my nerve and and catch some sets uh BR was almost a bit of a curse out there at the start cuz we both thought that was going to a few more sets come and then there kind of wasn’t so I got I got lucky when that Ramsey left the first
Wave of the set and there was just nothing behind which was a bummer but yeah it worked for me um and then yeah it was just super slow through the middle of the heat I think I only caught like two more waves so just one of those
Ones you had to just hold your nerve and then try not to get too Giddy and pull the trigger on the wrong wave well you looked really good out there talk us through the board that you’re riding at the moment and what what changes you’ve had to make coming from the bowl over
Here uh yeah just one of Darren’s DNA boards um kind of got a square I usually Rite a square tail but it’s got a square tail on it rounded Square tail um bit thicker in the rails as well so kind of better for these sort of smaller flat waves um
But yeah I haven’t really ridden it much this trip so I was a bit worried bringing it out this morning but um no it seemed to work nice kind of how I expected it to so yeah that was that was good and I did hear you say before that
Board is sort of made off one of Ethan’s boards that he rides you actually are coming up against Ethan in the next round uh what’s it going to take to the jump on him um yeah he’s been ripping um so I don’t know I’ll just have to get
The bombs and try and rip them myself but uh yeah that board’s kind of based off some of the stuff he rides um I don’t know for me it it didn’t didn’t really work as well in like good waves but um in stuff like this it’s like
Really good so yeah probably ride it in the next hit it’s there we go all right and what’s the plan between now and the next hit go home you going to sit down the beach and watch yeah I’ll probably get out here for a bit and and try and
Reset and then uh yeah I’ll just come back down and and check it out before the next Heat and try and do it all again amazing rest up we’ll see you this afternoon in the round of 16 congratulations Liam thanks Laura good on you Liam great surf in
There in the first seat of the morning looking sharp can’t wait for the all Australian battle Liam O’Brien versus Ethan Ying in the round is 16 still scheduled for today conditions permitting as Medina’s just building and building started with a four then a five then a six now a seven Rich yeah he’s
Got the seven you can see he’s winding up here again another Little Rock and Roll floater projecting down the line and again this is what I was talking about this variety even on the backand he’s not just doing the one turn the whole time and geez those finish
Maneuvers have just been so strong for Gabrielle and uh well I’ve uh in the last 12 months Gabrielle’s really committed to riding an extra- large fin now to Joe and he’s one of the only if not the only Surfer on tour most of our competitors riding a large size fin
Gabriel’s uh he actually switches it up he’s got extra large fins on the side and a and a large in the back so he gets all that drive and acceleration uh off those side fins and then with the large in the back he gets that sort of pivot
And release off the tail exactly there doesn’t get stuck he can control it and uh you can see here just Little Rock and Roll floater here little shimmy down the line then watch him get on that Hillside rail gets that deep bottom turn so strong man this guy trains the house
Down and just manipulates that board with ease 7.10 for Gabriel Medina and it seems fairly common to hear a lot of the top Surfers in the world actually going for a larger fin in smaller waves is that for everybody or is it just your personal take uh look it all depends on
The board too if you’re going shorter with your board you often kind of up the fin side had to really fight for the Finish there Rich yeah he did uh but that’s all the strength all the training it comes into play right at these moments that core strength that lower leg strength he’s
Able to just bring his body back over his board here good rotation pretty much goes the full 360° lands with the tail firmly planted in the nose pointing towards the shore Gabrielle slight adjustment Stands Tall shows the judges little finger click he liked it so are they going to
Pay the progression here it was a smaller wave inside it’s funny even to note that Gabrielle’s going up and sitting on on Cole’s inside normally you know you’d sit towards the outside of of the man with priority but uh right he’s toying with him right now and I think we’re seeing
The showman Gabriel Medina starting to uh show up here oh and that angle from the water was massive this is what Cole just did as we saw that replay okay so this needed to be a comeback wave Cole hasman BL pass in down the line that’s a better one more tail release and
Again more power and flow in this wave just dying out a little bit on the inside but Jeezy got some good work done through the midsection he’ll get this last finishing turn and then he gives us the finger click as well so great snap to start off reads
The way perfectly to this point and I really like these two turn combinations in the middle here Joe get some variety starts to show us uh a little bit more the unfortunate thing is is that the wave didn’t quite stand up enough on the inside so the judges will show a
Little bit of restraint in their score given that that there wasn’t that big final exclamation point but check that out the tail release controls it perfectly goes straight onto the bottom turn again beautiful fan of spray and that’s what these guys do these bigger guys they’re just able to get so much water
Displacement that adds to the effect of the maneuver the intensity of maneuver it looks bigger just love watching his rail work so smooth and finessed with his size and power such a weapon on the top 34 had a lot of hype coming in the off season after winning the Challenger
Series for his work ethic for all the winds he produced has his hands full with the Medina family very happy Sophia his younger sister there was in the trials to kick things off before the event started had a chat with in the water and she was just so cool and
Saying how she had the heat wind till about 50 seconds and then another girl got it and she’s like a that the other competitor deserved it uh I just was so happy to be a part of the event I was just so blown away by her just response
And moving on from you know having a close call not go her way and uh she was just so excited to back her brother in the main event yeah it’s really cool um she was actually out there when I was surfing uh the other day along with
Gabrielle and you know she’s just so happy and friendly obviously you know looking at what her brother’s done and and has aspirations to be a very successful Pro Surfer herself uh the jeans are strong in this family for sure she was so happy it just she gave me a little Charissa or light
You know how positive riss is all the time happy and gives you a glow Andy King what in the background there Medina’s coach and those guys have formed a a pretty special relationship haven’t they the last several years what’s it like hanging out with kingy ah
Kingy is such a legend man he’s so down to earth he’s one of those real Aussie BLS that just kind of calls it pretty straight um you know he won’t beit around the bush with his feedback he’ll just deliver it how he sees it but uh
Really insightful I think he said hi to you Rick yeah he did feeling the wind hey KY ah man an absolute charger as well uh an amazing Surfer who’s got a lot of stories to share with you and I think he was really honored when he’s getting a
Call from Gabriel Medina who notably didn’t really have anyone else in his Corner besides his family when he grew up on tour he’d get little bits and pieces from people but he was kind of just on his own uh track to winning world titles and then to call up a
Legend like Andy King it was a huge moment for the coach oh as we see the first fall from Medina after the fall from the sky on the air attempt but just a slip on what looked kind of like a routine start for the mat hman now will have
Priority and Cole’s last wave was a 6.8 so this one’s far from over Cole with proud needs a 698 to try to upset the three-time world champion round of 32 Heat number seven is looking Incredibly Close we’ll take a bonsoy brute break in just a moment and be right Back 6 for round of 30 to has two goofy foots going for it a rookie and a three-time road champ hman up now throwing some water perfect transition as he hammers it again belting the lip line right in the pocket as hard as he can with finesse to
Right away his final turn solid and the rookie is stepping up Medina’s behind him though first snap there little drift off the roof belts it vertically well placed turn from Gabriel now whips it and goes down right in front of Cole was almost looking like he was trying to get
The completion and then get a jump start on priority very quickly they’re rich that’s exactly what he was doing you could tell Gabrielle in his mind was making the calculations going am I going to better my 6.67 and he went no I don’t think I am so he opted out of that last
Maneuver because he wanted to hold priority here believing that perhaps Cole didn’t get that 6.98 on this last wave but jzy surfed it well here’s the replay so Cole takes off hits that first section the Rhythm starts to get uh starts to wind up here almost lost it on
The second turn but cleans it up on the third and fourth coming down the line here and you can just see there’s a slight difference in the speed between Cole and Gabrielle and the flow between the turns I’ve just got to give it to Gabriel Medina on the
Back hand here just seems to be accelerating of those turns with a little bit more speed and watch here Gabrielle sort of puts that last turn up sees Cole and goes no I’m out of here I’m going to get uh priority again and just hold him off
I think Cole did a great job trying to really surf that wave up those sections were fairly flat he needed to be very critical with the Whitewater connection there to go as powerful as he did but he couldn’t really get the score he was hoping for he’s hearing it now 593 for
Last of Cole and not factoring in Medina’s a throwaway as well in the smart surfing and head space from Gabriel getting out of there quickly was actually able to get first priority when it’s close like that and you have the first Surfer go and the second one just keep the priority
Rotation going but Medina earned it by getting a jump start yeah yeah he broke the priority flow there here’s a good shot of Medina’s board there you can see he’s got that nice thumb tail or real squash Tail as it’s called it’s in between a round and a square tail and
That fin setup that’s the FCS 2 performer template very neutral probably well it is it’s the most popular FCS template globally just because it is so uh usable user friendly goes in a bunch of different conditions and he has the extra large in the side that large in
The back Gabriel Medina score line you can see the highlighted numbers his keeper 710 and a 667 where with the top level of the sport competing at winky pop sometimes you can see the ch of scoring regular versus Goofy and different ways to get a score kind of
Like what we saw in theek before with Ramsey and Liam when you got two goofy Footers go you know blow for blow you’re going okay fair enough comparison easy comparisons back and forth yeah Co look Cole’s putting together a really good heat he’s surfing so well um you know
And again as a coach You’ probably just say hey look you need to be on the best waves to beat Medina and you’re going to have to just tag it don’t go outside your comfort zone if you try and like do stuff that you haven’t done before
Against Medina and feel that pressure of having to try and like surf out of your skin uh you know you you could open yourself up to make mistakes he’s just got to stick to his game here if he can somehow wrestle priority back off Medina in this last three minutes and get a
Really good siiz set and then just tag it he’s got every chance of getting that 6.98 you see a lot of world Champs who pay a lot of attention to detail you know especially focusing on fin design when you think of Mick Fanning you think of you know Felipe too and many others
How’s Medina is he is he very thoughtful of as far as what he’s trying to figure out as far as fin templates are concerned yeah absolutely you know he he’s really ridden this uh performer template religiously through his whole career uh we have worked with him and given him all sorts of different
Templates to try keeps coming back to it he just finds it so reliable and and once you have that Baseline of what you know in a fin you can kind of work your board around it so little incremental changes you make to the board that one consistent element being the Finn you
Can rely on so all the all the work that Medina’s doing with kabanka it’s all around board design and and making adjustments there because he knows what his FS are doing love getting the inside sometimes you feel like his program still fairly undercover considering is the one of the highest profile athletes
On tour Cole hman important wave big fan of spray Bel it again with a slide putting a lot into every maneuver needs a Sixpoint 98 under priority as he shuts it down oh wow he’s asked the question Crosby loving it he’s already standing by for the replay on the Ws lap as we’ve
Got 90 seconds to go W interesting moment Medina looked at that wave and went no there’s not a 6.98 in that and Cole hman just went well you just watch me and he just tagged that thing so uh some really strong Maneuvers on that wave so impressed with Cole hman on how
He handled this situation so he’s just done a Medina on him he’s taken the inside found this wave that second turn there where he blasts it gets the little drift has that little slide and fin release there those little intricacies that the judges pick up on surfing in
Earnest on this one look at the spray there right just basically showers Medina and said you’ve not only gifted me this way but I’m going to do my darest to take you down spr your competive in the face that’s a big one there 35 seconds you know want to wake
Him up though waiting for Medina to potentially take this wave he holds off it’s going to be close we could tell too when he’s unloading especially on that second turn he he’s hitting it so hard he’s borderlining disaster he’s almost catching a rail but he’s moving out of
That turn with so much flow well that was the most radical turn he’s done of the high heat and he’s given the judges something new to think about at the perfect moment so it’s all going to come down to this score I don’t think Gabrielle is
Going to get this right in time looks like it’s just a little bit too late Gabriel Medina still not sure what just happen in the heat as he rides in scores come through for Cole hman the rookie has done it a 7.47 to create his biggest Heat win of
His career eliminating his hero he doesn’t even know what priority now he gets the word that was unbelievable what a performance from the big man from s clti and the reaction from his crew Crosby Gabe Garcia on their feet celebrating a huge Heat win for Cole hasan’s career oh Medina is just got
What just happened a critical error just not that wave wow I’m in disbelief big one there for Cole hman he needs it behind the cut to survive his rookie season and maybe the hardest task at hand taken on a giant of the tour big backside hammers from Cole and never got rattled
Throughout that heat you could easily lose your head space Rich right there outsmarting Medina this never happens this what Gabrielle was doing to Cole the whole Heat going up inside finding these Little Gems that second turn there that was the one the judges got excited about it it was crisper this wave the
The rail stayed cleaner there was no loss of speed the flow was better in between turns he’d been going hard every single wave and kind of wondering why AR I getting the scores here but that was the that was the wave he needed there’s a key line that the
Judges were talking about this morning when they send the those emails out to the competitors they’re they’re looking at that complete flow from start to finish on the entire wave and they’ve been sticking to that consistency with the scoring for Cole finding a nice link up Medina is still trying to wonder what
Happened there looks like he was uh talking about the size of the wave that Cole had yeah you can see he’s just going why well there was a smaller one but um incredible surfing there from Co house this a massive heat for him he like you were saying Jo he needs this
He needs this to climb up the ratings Gabrielle kind of needs it to to uh you know get up into that top five and keep himself solidified in that area huge upset luky you couldn’t be more proud a big performance for the rookie moving on into the round of 16
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Sunscreen partner of the world’s surf League that outside combo was here in the round of 32 overcoming Gabriel Medina I was going to kick out after the first turn you put so many combos together and then you finally got one on the outside they they you know was I was like it could be it because of the outside and they loved it so awesome I
Was like I was going to like kick out for the first TR kep oh thank God you did no cuz you got cuz you did those combos mid wave before and the wave was small and the outside stood up for you mate that was amazing well done so stoked for you so
Stoked for you we knew it was going to be a good battle kl’s got a lot of power and matched up nicely with Medina Medina leaving the rip Pro Bells Beach again without the trophy and we’ll see how he bounces back over in Margaret’s speaking of Margaret’s we’ve got a local out
There in this heat Jacob Wilcox getting things started here up against kowa igarashi and really linking together some beautiful turns here to kick this one off heat eight the round of 32 the rip Co Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy Canó eashi on the outside now looking to answer
This wave just not giving him the same momentum down the line but he does get a clean finish and we’ll see what kind of work he did on the outside ronning Blakey here in the birth joined by Felicity paler and Vaughn Blakey morning run can you believe it wow no can’t
Believe it actually uh it was so wild that heat it just like looked like Gabe was just hustling and doing all that Gabe Medina stuff in the early stages and then just a couple of falls out of nowhere and just door swings open unbelievable huge Felicity massive
Massive result for Cole uh I was actually really surprised that yeah Cole went that way it looked a little bit smaller but those first couple of turns he just linked them together so beautifully and yeah got the big hate win well we’ll hear from kle shortly but
Right now let’s hear from Gabriel Medina he’s with Laura yeah tough end to the heat there Gabby for you I’m sure you’re very disappointed a big mistake there letting that wave go under priority talk us through it I did the mistake uh this is funny uh this is the
Worst judg me I ever seen but uh it’s bad for the sport you know uh I know we Trav I’ve been through a lot of judging things but maybe I feel like this is the worst one uh but it’s something that we got to talk about we pretend that it’s
Not happening it’s it’s happening you know it’s it’s bad for the sport and uh I just hopefully it can improve and get better uh hopefully they listen more to us you know uh but yeah it is is what it is it’s it’s happening and your take on
That is that the wave was far too small oh yeah those they gave it their best wave of the heat uh yeah and the the last wave was pretty small I didn’t even paddle uh but yeah uh I’m going to try to focus on my
Surfing but this is sad uh yeah you know like so much traveling so much in the line we travel we go far uh our families at back home we train a lot and yeah I just feel bad you know it’s it sucks but it is what it is right
We’ll see you over in Mar River show you comeback stronger wow Gabriel Med clearly frustrated and uh yeah it’s a it’s a funny one difficult I mean from Gabby’s perspective obviously feels pretty strongly there but but also you got remember his eyes on the horizon he he doesn’t even really know what Cole
Did on that wave yet so he’s got to go back and digest that um but yeah obviously a disappointing result it was a huge backside rotation that he threw down there’s always going to be those comparisons made how of the the combinations of multiple Maneuvers and clean flow stack up against one big
Individual turn and and he felt like he had the edge uh but it was you know you don’t have to guess what he was was thinking yep lots of emotion there it’s uh far out like I mean I was down on the beach before early this morning I we’ll
Come back to that run yeah we’ve got some numbers rolling through for our competitors Cano igarashi up now nice hit on the pocket there he’s got a decent score on the way from that opening exchange as does Jacob Wilcox so we’ll get that updated there as canel makes his way out 21
Minutes to go and we have seen one of the real favorites in the event this year just showing great form fall out of the mix here but a strong performance from Cole and an important result that he’s after two to save himself on this Championship tour here goes Jacob Wilcox
Second rod for him first wave was a 7.33 as he loads up he’s got an an amazing backand approach great veriety and the ability to whip that board up vertically in a heartbeat plenty of drive down the line here from chipo Willcox he looks really fast and
Uh you know the differen between the two waves that we’ve seen in this heat so far is that chipo is really fanging it he’s got plenty of speed bit of power Canal sort of working a little bit harder at this stage still got a good score on the board though yeah for sure
Having a hard time moving on from that last we got so much to excavate and unpacked there but right now let’s have a look at this repay filicity uh this must make you proud goof yeah proud West doy no this is a really really big haat
For Joba he’s sitting at number 22 on the rankings and to open up you know with a wave like this 7.33 is beautifully done against Canoa and here we have a breakdown this one of Canoa little Jam in the pocket there layback hack straight into that nice combo wow
Insane yeah we kind of join this wave on the back half and uh those opening salvos were just insane big finish judges are giv that one a 7.17 and this was the one where he was just working a little bit harder but still getting so much spray out of the
Top love the way that Canal can hit the lip and then disengage and board slide it just adds this little element to his turns that not a lot of surfers have but Chapo’s just fanging here and uh big power moves we’ve seen that this morning you
Know it’s been a battle of some big bodies really powerful surfing and uh yeah it’s made for some pretty exciting close finishes check the torque there just really driving through the turn so much water coming off it and you wouldn’t even say it was one of his major major
Maneuvers almost like a bit of a check yeah that was just a transition turn but just beautifully done it’s what it’s nonstop here goes Mr meticulous again mhm just always has that pinpoint timing amazing variation on the forehand as he just slips across the coping a couple of
Times on this one and loads up for the big finish three Dynamic moves pushing the tail free a number of times and right behind him Jacob Wilcox does the same thing so Jacob has jumped up into the lead last R ride came through to 4.5 and he tries to safety that last
Turn lack of commitment there has cost him and he didn’t get any release in that tail so might have cost himself a really good score but we’ve heard from Gabriel Medina and uh let’s get to the uh the high side of the Seesaw now and check in with Laura en
Yes guys down here with Cole that was such an important heat for Cole crazy end to the heat there you know you chipped away at Gabby that whole heat you went that wave under priority at the end and you absolutely shredded it to get the score talk us through it and
What that wave looked like coming to you and and how surprised you were that he didn’t go um yeah I was he was sitting inside me so I knew he was going to either try to burn me on a good one or just take whatever away from me but um I
Saw it coming it kind of broke pretty far out in the sense it wasn’t like the biggest way but it broke far out and I was like okay I might as well go and do a turn before he can go and then see if
He goes or not and I went and I did the I did the first turn he didn’t go so I second turn hit it and it was my best turn of the wave and then at that point there I knew there was only like two
Minutes left so I was like I might as well surf the rest of the wave and it had a good inside to it so um right off the bat the wave didn’t look good and then it kind of just stood up and I surfed it I mean I was under priority so
I kind of had no choice but to go and he was kind of doing that to you all heat catching waves under priority and turning them into something uh what was your approach going out there against Gabby knowing he’s just so deadly um yeah he’s probably one of the smartest
Competitors on the planet and um yeah it was interesting cuz out there you you don’t know sometimes the first wave of the set’s best sometimes the second one is and he kept going under me and he’d go on the first one then he’d get a
Better score and then next set I’d go on the first one and then he the second one would be better so I I just I had no idea and he was just staying really busy and um yeah I just try to stick to my game plan and um try to kind of just
Pick the eyes out of the way but it’s so tricky out there and uh yeah it was a fun heat honestly I was just going to go out there and try to do my best surfing and um have fun with it and you know this has been a tough start to the year
For you you’re down in the rankings you really needed this result how how was your approach coming into this event were you just focusing on trying to do your best surfing or you just want to be up the top um yeah it’s a weird mindset
Cuz you don’t want to stress on the cut cuz then it just makes your life harder and then you also you just want to enjoy it and kind of like love love you this guys helped a lot too so get ready all right good luck um yeah I mean he just
Helped me have a good mindset just on like hey you’re on tour enjoy it you know this is what people dream of and um I kind of was telling myself like each heat is a heat to to make the cut you know and that was a big heat for me to
Make the cut um leading on to bigger results and yeah I’m just trying to enjoy it for me that heat was like that heat was more of a dream than even winning a comp or a title or something right now cuz I mean you guys saw the
Interview I was like 10 11 years old talking about how Gabby is my favorite Surfer so um just to have a heat with someone like that at the highest level is um is a dream for me and to come out on top is another check on the box so
Yeah just taking it heat by heat and trying not to stress oh I got to put the mic down cuz my arm hurts but thank you Cole good luck into the next round thank you guys appreciate it they’re the same arms that moment Laura yeah oh they the same arms that paddle into
Like 45t w as well I did love the yeah they are the same arms that that tackle Jaws but uh I did love the the clip that that Cole um shared on his Instagram as an 11-year-old talking about Gabriel Medina being his first SE you got to
Remember how big these moments are for these rookies coming up against one of your Heroes to get a victory it’s something he’ll never forget uh probably a forgettable one for for Gabrielle really put us in the hot seat here too I just dropped a long black on my chair so
Uh yeah looks a bit suspect yeah it does look suspect feeling it though wonder if he knew that he had rain buckets on Medina with that first turn as well cuz you know when you you know where someone is in the lineup and you want to spray them in the face like WR
Yeah well out there at the moment we’ve got another big heat on our hands and it’s Canoa igarashi who holds the lead he last wave at 6.6 we’ll see if Jacob Wilcox can track him Down for for the rip Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by surf Coast sh head to Surf Coast events.com Au to find out what’s on by bonsoy the official milk of the world surf League by Bon University not for profit and not to conform Bon University exists for you
By weather guard official portable storage of WSL Australia and by hydrite official oral rehydration partner of WSL Australia welcome back to the show runny here with Felicity and Bourne and we are into heat eight the round of 32 and it’s a good one good scores on the board for
Both these competitors great opening exchanges as Jacob Wilcox goes on the HT for a 6.44 here couple of big hits already squares up on the final section and gives it a bit but Cano igarashi out in front at the moment he’s just uh picking this line up apart with his just
Scrupulous approach this is an epic heat it’s you know we had a little bit of a slow heat to start things off for Ramy book not really getting any waves and some pretty high drama in the Cole hasman Medina heat but this one has just been blow for blow uh Canoa and Jacob
Really matching each other in this one and I’m just loving it like every single time one of them looks like they’ve got a good wave and and seems to be getting ahead the other one will pull it back so this is a good start on this one too I
Absolutely love the speed out of this turn whack tail up and over the back and he’s just looking really loose and fast chipo uh the last turn again you know he didn’t want to make that mistake from the last wave where he kind of missed the opportunity to really hit
It with Authority and he he got a 5.17 so there was points left but this one he closes out beautifully Ron and uh I just I think he’s looking really sharp here Jacob Wilcox his best result in a CT event is a quarterfinal finish and it
Happened here at Bells Beach he’s got an incredible amount of experience for a CT rookie just in that he had so many call UPS as a a wild card and a a replacement Surfer can know rashi’s never made a final series at Bell’s Beach and he’s also got some pretty interesting
Memories from surfing here at winky pop he uh he did what most Surfers don’t do on a right-and Point Break he went left tried a full rotation air this is before he graduated the CT ranks and broke his leg so that was way back in 2013 so uh yeah he’s lovely
Memories he’s got some tough ones old chalky he’s out there again chalky bones we’ll see if uh see if he can take a positive from this heat he started off beautifully yeah he has but Cana is an interesting sort of study if you look at his CT career he’s had some amazing
Finishes got himself to the WSL finals in 2022 dipped down to 14th last season and that’s where he finds himself in this event at the moment only one CT win had that big breakthrough victory in 2019 with an unbelievable finals performance in a great battle with Jeremy Flores but at that point I
Thought thought okay the the floodgates are open going to open now Canoa is going to go on a just a a mad tear and it just it hasn’t happened he hasn’t been able to convert again since yeah he hasn’t this year you know he started off
He got a 17th at pipe then got the second at Sunset I was pretty uh excited to see that he was just surfing so well and then ninth over at Portugal I think he’s sitting at sixth on the rankings now so he’s kind of in a pretty good
Position and I got to Echo what I was saying before this is a massive heat for Jacob and with that last score he just went up into first so 6.57 for Jacob and as we see Jake on screen obviously helping coach Cano during this event but’s another massive heat and I just
Love that these boys are going blow blow for blow and it’s real contrast in approaches obviously got one goofy foot one regular and feels like this heat just going to keep seesing yeah well one of the the reasons that that Jake’s back on tour is because of Canoa watching
From the sidelines last year he ended up just ringing him and say what what’s going on with you where are you and um yeah I think Canoa sort of just went you know what like I need to hang around a complete competitive lunatic like you
And uh yeah pulled Jake out of his day job and got him back on tour and uh obviously with with Jake answering that call a few other people win hang on the scaly one’s back on tour I’m going to lean into him as well and so Lim blad getting an amazing uh
Heat wi to keep her place alive in the draw she’s working with Jake Patterson uh as well so Ethan Ying surviving so far in the contest so he’s got a nice little stable again but uh I think those other competitors can kind of thank Canoa really for for
Getting Jake back yeah and I was uh talking about Jake the other day to someone going you know his winds are so massive uh won J Bay twice won Sunset twice as a CT event and won the pipe Masters this is when Andy and Kelly are
In their Prime at the top of their game the cooie kids are on tour like he was he was doing stuff that really he had no right to do but that just shows you the n and the absolute mongr in him he is so competitive and I don’t think anyone
Loves it more like he loves the competition as much as he loves surfing and he loves surfing a lot so yeah it says a lot about you know just what made this guy what crafted him yeah look at him leaning into this SE 6 and A2
Minutes to go kyo’s out there in the lineup K what a show this hits been yeah it’s been a great I don’t know if it’s been a show it’s been pretty strategic actually between the two and you know right now we can see Jacob Willcox under priority paddling up there he did take
The lead uh we got into play I just wanted to highlight the Apple watch so I’m I have all the information that Jacob is getting so Jacob on his watch knows that he has a 7.33 and a 6.57 he knows he’s ahead and he knows he is in
Second priority he also knows that he’s under 6 minutes remaining so I feel a really good by the positioning out there Ron that Jacob Willcox playing the game well really playing it well at this point in time 6.57 kind of recovered after a fall on a previous ride to get
Himself the lead back here Cano is after a 6.74 out there with priority and just waiting for that opportunity but but both guys look really switched on Felicity yeah they do and I you know what you can sort of see the TT on the face of the ocean right
Now ever so slightly that wind sort of coming around and what I’ve liked about Jacob’s approach on his back hand is sort of given this tiny little TFT of foam for him to be able to go up and drift the fins on as we have a look here Canoa yeah Cano lining
Up and has a lot of speed to lay into this full rail carve getting right back to the source through that first turn tidy work in the pocket again as he hammers down the line speed float to set up this finish move swings the reverse and rides out with ease throws the fist
Up and that will uh will get the old snake pretty excited and he puts his hands together for a good reason and uh K Matson there throwing his hands together but that was that was solid you know we talked about this guy’s Precision vaugh just how well
He times his move when he’s on you know he keeps those rails so tidy yeah yeah he’s just got so much variety too and as he sort of loaded up into that endsection air rev you can just tell he was like I’m I’m throwing this thing it’s going to go
Uh just into full backing himself mode which you know it’s always the way where these Surfers really start to hit good form like those sorts of moves can be the one that really kick in that momentum into the rest of the event but this is such a strong ride throws the
Tail and uh yeah really nice technique there so much variety yeah I was going to mention that he I think he knew that from the start of this wave like these were great time turns but I think coming through to this inside section he obviously gets this little float here to
Go down the line he knew he needed to go to the air and just to have the confidence to be able to do it and throw it all on the line for that last maneuver I think it’s it’s with a shoe and it’s pretty close that he’s going to
Get this score like that was that was super critical last turn of the wave and just did it with ease didn’t he loved it yeah I think earlier on he he had a really nice wave and um just with those steep sections he couldn’t help himself
But just go to that kind of trademark Canoa finro turn and he did it three times it was like a little repetition repetitious and on that occasion started things with the roundhouse you don’t see too many of those out Winky and then you know no two turns were the same on that
Ride 7.47 he’s back in front and Willcox is after a 7.32 you you mentioned fory the importance of this event for Jacob you know wants to relieve some pressure heading into stop number five but I I know for you you want to see him at cloudbreak this year it would be awesome
For him for that opportunity a long running left it to really show us what he can do oh I it’ be amazing you know I just think back to seeing so much footage and and I’m personally just seeing jakeob about it you know waves like nalo and all the big long
Left-handers that we have in Western Australia and waves of consequence I mean he would just be going to town out there but right now with 2 and a half minutes on the clock he’s chasing a 7.32 which you know is basically he’s just got to do like what he did on that first
Wave good thing for him right now he’s got priority yeah he’s not thinking about his forehand at the moment is he no thinking about that backhand attack yeah he’s uh an exceptional Talent just his edits uh in the leadup to graduating to the CT ranks were were
Just amazing inter into dust uh default uh mate some some of the best and and you know had had a lot of people saying this is the best guy out there you know with competitive aspirations not on the tour at the moment and here he is and
This is a good test VN well we all know he packs it he packs it deep he packs it hard but yeah these are the challenging conditions man like you get out here it’s just all about putting you your contest hat on and uh he’s done a really
Good job here he’s built a beautiful heat but um yeah these guys have been lifting each other throughout this thing uh they both didn’t really want to let the other guy get away with it and it has been a bit of a slugfest so can Jacob land a knockout blow with you know
A minute 20 on the clock that’s what we’re sitting here chomping at the P to see just needs to repeat the performance on that opening ride and he’ll be all good but you’ve got two Surfers out there 26 years of age and uh really looking like they’re switched on and
Ready to have a good run at the event Title Here only one of them of course he’s going to make it through this heat though Canoa you mentioned his return to the top end of the ranks with that second place finish doesn’t want to drop the ball here and pretty remarkable to
Me to to think about Cano and the fact that he hasn’t broken into the final series here before yeah it is a bit remarkable I I think I mean maybe this could be his year right now it’s looking pretty good for him but I just feel that yeah I think he’s
Surfing does suit here I mean I think back to just what I was seeing at at Sunset that big right-hander and just how well he performed on finals day and if he can sort of bring that momentum and uh how he was performing there to
The Bowl if we get an opportunity to get back there it’s looking pretty good for him looks like he might have got the job done here Jacob Wilcox splashing the water in disgust and uh Canoa making his way in but uh you got to give props to
The uh The Olympian canary will be surfing for Japan again in Tahiti later this year Jacob shakes his head I mean if you reflect on it there there was a in that heat where Jacob potentially was on his way to a better number than the 657 just with a fall at the
End so there was sort of opportunities for them in that one yeah there was and I think you know it’s just it’s like you said Ron it’s really going to make that job a bit harder going into marget River now a bit more pressure as obviously
That is the cut event so good thing for Jacob is he’s home so it’s going to be feeling at least that’s going to be comforting Canoa 2 and0 against Jacob Wilcox head-to-head as he moves moves on through to the round of 16 we’ll take a quick break more with action more action
After the Break e have a look at the paddle battle here between these two competitors to get the inside position in the opening stages big tul Wy the winner of the trials not backing down to the current world number one and the reward a straight close out Dy Wy up against Griffin col Pinto here
In heat n the round of 32 and let’s have a look at the replay oh it’s all elbows holy doly just no respect it’s that’s that’s the cool thing you know like he he might not have got the result he wanted but he’s letting Griffin know right here hey
Mate I’m I’m get ready it takes a lot of guts to be that’s a lot of guts let’s see if it EPS the rhythm of the current world number one he leans into that first turn slashing away at this one just waiting for some steeper wall to
Work with there it is Banks into it a couple of times now and now starts to free that tail up as he M through to the inside and eyes off a finish here and it’s a clean hit from Griffin colapinto T’s going to get an opportunity to
Reply but uh this one is a close out so an easy call to kick off that one Ronnie sitting alongside Felicity and vaugh and you’d love to see it Felicity in the opening stages you know someone surfing in just their second Championship Tour event and just going all right I’m not
Here to mck around this is uh just it’s a bit of Argy Bary in the early am hours as we see T bang nice vert there T’s going to be campaigning on the Challenger Series this year after a really strong run through the regional Qs in the Australia Oceana region
Second time in the event was bumped out in the elimination round a couple of years back and he’s still looking for that first big number Griffin on the outside trying to get back to the takeoff Zone looks like he’s going to put up a a mid-range six with that first ride it
Comes short a 6.5 V yeah really just cruising it looked like um some good little stingy moments there from Griffin cipo last turn had a nice still uh you know something to it but uh yeah just you’d say a cruisy one a bit of a starter but uh T yeah he’s uh
I think you know from what I’ve seen in the past 12 months he would be one of Australia’s most improved Surfers like 12 months ago when he surfed in this event um he was just at the start of this Real Performance uplift you know and uh throughout that uh Regional qualifying
Series he just got better and better and better and when we saw him at the recent board rers battle he was just uh you know he lost a bit of weight he looked lean he looked powerful and he was the standout Surfer of that event replay here Felicity of
Griffs yeah I think got to Echo what voro was saying that it looked like he was only in gear one or two here but everything was super smooth super super silky obviously got the fin throw there at the end but just a really good well put together wave first wave of the he
Banks to 65 yeah and tally just still looking for that reply but uh you know that that scale’s been set at a 6.5 the comparisons are been made to that I think if you been critical you’d say the first couple of turns weren’t were nothing from Griffin the numbers came
Kind of on the work that he did further down the line so you know if tally can let go of a couple of those big backhand nunas to kick off these rides he could be looking good and I do lie I don’t know if I i’ put it the way Richie
Lit did last time we saw tally surf he said he looked like a swollen version of Matt Wilkinson but uh maybe just a a slightly taller and more built out version of Matt Wilkinson he’s a big boy though he’s a big boy he’s huge he’s actually um uh
You know in a really strong peer group uh from down this way and uh one thing that he is going to have to his advantage in this heat is crowd support like you get down there the Ellie Harrison and the T Wy Heats it is loud it is full atmosphere and they’re going
To be cheering on T really really loudly here with plenty of vigor so that’s going to factor into him if he can find a bit of momentum Griffin now looking for a backup or maybe even a stronger number to go with the 6.5 whips it on
The first turn has a lot of speed here finally gets the opportunity to commit to a turn and again swings the reverse pretty reliable move for him and uh that’ll give him a a pretty healthy Heat score total here in the opening 10 minutes and put some pressure on the the
Young Gun this just hasn’t made a mistake that was beautifully surfed just the connectivity throughout that whole wave the flow there wasn’t any little skat bobly moments just straight from one turn into the next really flowy I feel like in my eyes that wave was
Better than his first so that’s a lot of a pressure already to put on tly and vaugh now just with that big paddle battle at the start you know griffs kept a real cap on his emotions and and just surfed a very smart heat so far nobody
Keeps a better cap on their emotions than Griff and coin we we know what his mental preparation is leading into not just you know day today life into events uh he’s it’s kind of like a big picture thing too he really focuses throughout the year T now just looking to get
Things going he’s at a number of rides this is wave number five and he’s starting put it together now this wave is really giving him some great opportunities to attack as he gets through to the inside and finishes one off finally it’s all getting back in the
Heat you hear the whistles from that local crowd vaugh mentioned the the peer group that he’s part of even the surface that he overcame It crack the main event is impressive Xavier hble Todd Rosell Willis drumer all great Surfers but from the t board Riders club for a club
That’s been around for 45 years and there’s no shortage of huge names in that Grassroots organization as we see the replay here at Griff yep so smooth uh a little bit busier here I think he uh just has a bit more intent on this wave and sort of pushes out that uh air
Reverse on the end section just to add the variety perfectly placed in the pocket there freeze the fins and T this will be interesting to watch from this angle cuz we were kind of looking across at it before down the line speed up and over so connects these ones
Really smoothly and a nice big backside vert cracks it with power on the inside gets the combination of finish and that’s the wave he’s been waiting for I think this one you know the start here was a little bit slower he almost had a little bit of a bble there but these two
Turns I was really impressed with he just had this really beautiful projection as he like popped the fins out and just he was kind of behind it and and just ended up with that technique that he has he’s just able to project out over that section and got
The Finish he definitely needed a wave at this point because Griff is sort of running away with it this one’s going to get him back into it but uh I’m just interested to see where they’re going to go on it because the beginning of the
Wave for me just look a little bit not it wasn’t that as strong it had good strong points towards the end in the Finish not so much on that beginning opening combo yeah you’re picking up on the speed and and that’s something that you know I kind of recognize in
Championship tour Surfers vau it seems like at this level things just move a little bit quicker and as a a wild card you’ve got to step up and get to that that kind of fast fast twitch approach yeah I remember when uh Mark ocupo was on the comeback to the Qs after some
Time away uh when he was building into that world title year 25 years actually Ron since so he won the world title so do of the cap to the great man but yeah I think he went to Barton Lynch It’s a famous story and he he said you know
What what do you think I have to do to to get back into the game and Barton was just like faster mate everything is faster it’s so fast and I mean I was down on the Rocks before with the crowd and when you’re there and you can
Actually see the speed of which the waves run down the line and the speed that these guys generate out of those waves it is mindblowing like you’re down there just thinking wow I mean medino is a good example in the opening stage of his heat he was just fanging it and uh
It’s is so cool to see and um yeah sometimes you don’t really pick that up in the broadcast just cuz you’re sort of moving at the speed of the surfer with the camera angle but when you’re down there you’re just like wow this is something special most definitely well
Tricky conditions today it’s a little smaller and the coaches are helping their Surfers get the Ultimate Game Plan oh it is fine you’re a weapon can I can hear you in my head I can hear was I can hear saying p p come on P I was so rattled with the
Scores I were giving you you’re 6’4 I thought you should have had like better than his first we yeah I kind of missed time like the first like five turns no I said the first turn you missed I feel I missed every turn except my last one
Yeah well maybe but it was it was nice it was like water but you miss the first turn totally missed a no nothing and then you kind of like went through water I thought be like I thought it’ be like a l s yeah thought it was better than
The first one yeah I thought at first I thought it was and I started criticizing it hard maybe the 2 or 73 yeah but jeez you took put it all on the line I loved it so strong I didn’t know where the on that first section we did the float I
Loved it or the second one I loved it I knew that was be my last wave you weren’t waving so I was like oh no there was nothing behind which means yeah that’s the one I was going you couldn’t let that one go yeah yeah can gashi big smile on his
Face which is H nice to see M how good is cop and criticism with that much enthusiasm you blew that first turn you missed it it was sick yeah but also I I like the fact Jake said I thought this score was good and can like his honest
Appraisal was yeah I missed a couple of turns there I missed the first five turns uh so you know he was not feeling like he he switched on just yet but he he certainly did towards the end of the heat like Jake said you put it all on
The line and I think for any of these competitors Felicity that’s got to be the ultimate feeling when you risk it and pull it off oh risk it for the biscuit but yeah he absolutely did and it’s a good feeling and he did go to the
Air those couple of times on that last section and it’s it’s really risky I mean if he fell there he proba potentially might not have gotten the score and it would have been a different outcome so for Canoa that’s a good Heat win and yeah I you know I always love
Listening to Jake uh from a coach’s perspective when he comes in he’s never afraid of uh dishing out a few hard truths is he yeah well Jake’s had the opportunity uh of ringing the bell with some Surfers he’s coached and uh never got one himself but the the dream’s
Still alive this year vno to make his big coaching return here at Bell’s Beach Cano’s uh pretty Prime weapon in his artillery if he wants to get that experience again it’s uh he’s looking so good I I really agree with Felicity what you was saying before this wave whether
It’s big bells or or really fast down the line small winky he’s got the style to to Really match it get some big scores and he’ll be yeah he’s just got to overcome all that sort of sad history that he’s got with this event he’s got to turn that around
But he’s certainly capable he’s got the skills as we see Griffin up here wave number three been scoring pretty nicely let’s see if he now starts to put the foot down with a couple of decent numbers on the board he looks a bit more aggressive on this one 16 minutes to go
As he whips the reverse again that’s a go to I mean it’s a great little uh card to have up your sleeve I don’t think think it’s one of those versions of that turn that’s going to take him say up into the excellent range but it’s just a tidy
Little finisher I just love the way he really waited for that first section and was able to open up into that big carving maneuver which actually set him up for that next turn cuz it gave him a little bit of coping to hit for that
Foam climb so just such a good read from Griff at the beginning of that wave and just had good Tempo the whole way through so and then finishing with a bit of progression there at the end but this is what I’m talking about he really waits for this first section drops down
Goes to this carving maneuver and that actually creates this bit of foam for him to actually go up and release the fins on for that second turn so yeah good read on this wave from Griff I really liked the beginning of that and then knew we needed some variety so I
Thought why not let’s just Chuck the fins here on the last turn this is crazy like I’m thinking about that paddle battle now you know just the adrenaline Spike that t would have felt you know being shoulder toh shoulder really physical battle to try and just get one
Up over the other competitor Griffin has responded with a really cool measured world number one performance here and T maybe that adrenaline’s just into him cuz he’s wave selections a little bit off he’s at a few Falls and uh he just needs to sort of reather maybe just sit
In the moment a little more and and just be really careful not to let Griff run away with this that was great this is going to be a good score yeah yeah it is 6.47 and uh T just trying to reach gather himself here he’s going to have a
Pretty big number to Chase down now as he whips up into that first turn that’ll help his cuse drives up into the pocket again still plenty of time on the clock for the local boy as he starts to find his rhythm on this one oh just gets
A little bog down on the end of that ride was after an 8.14 you can tell there that he’s a little frustrated with himself that that wave had a weird little Ridge in it that just wouldn’t let him get out in front and just you know find the tempo that was going to
Match the wave he was just kind of having to manufacture everything there just frustrate you could see it as soon as he pulled off he was like man what is going on yeah that temp the tempo just wasn’t quite there and you could definitely see it with that rivet in the
Face of the wave looks like Griff’s maybe having a look maybe going to paddle in something here but yeah that Tempo was just slightly off for t on that last one you could see his frustration look at this thing one of the bigger waves that we’ve seen through but this one just doesn’t
Line up that well but T may be in a better position here he looks down the line doesn’t see much he’s going to kick out of this one so scores coming in for t on that previous Wave It’s a 4.6 doesn’t change the situation for him as Griffin
Now is on a bigger wave beautiful first turn to get started little float there had a couple of mid-range Sixers would love to to push P harder and get himself up into that excellent range now but at the moment in control kypo yeah I mean so everything started I
Feel at the beginning of this heat with a yeah just losing CES on the the audio there 12 and a half minutes ago tally looking at his watch he’s aware that he needs an excellent score and you know when you think about the surfing that we’ve seen from from
Griffin yeah it’s going to have to be a pretty exceptional ride it’s been mistake free clean staff to get a couple of mid-range Sixers definitely Griff has another gear he can go to as you pointed out earlier Felicity but you know that’s going to you know he’s going to turn
This heat with a single ride it’s going to have to be I’d say one of the waves of the day well I think it will have to be the wave of the day so far if if he want if he wants to turn it right now I
Think it’s I actually thought that maybe this that set wave that Griff took off on I thought it was going to allowed it like run a bit more and he was actually maybe going to potentially get to get go excellent uh that one just kind of
Closed out in front of him but yeah Griff’s got a lot more gears that he can click into we haven’t seen the full potential right now and to see that he’s sitting out there with a couple of you know six FS that’s dangerous for T you
Know because I just see Griff having a lot more gears to click into feeling good after a big Heat win just moments ago Cano igarashi with Laura Ana yes Cano what an exciting heat we were just saying saying you know slow slow waves this morning but we know it’s building
Throughout the day but that hit was fireworks both of you with 14 points talk us through the end of that it must have felt good yeah I mean when the waves are are like this it’s uh there’s not really like one wave that’s a lot better than the other one it’s really
It’s really tight and the the waves are R running really nice through the reef so it’s just about who surfs better I feel like and and um you know it was such a tight heat um you know I had a lot of fun just going blow blow for blow
With Jacob um we’ve had a lot of good Heats in the past and uh we had a a rip Cur grum switch final uh at ringcon a few years ago I mean maybe 10 years ago um and uh we were laughing about that in the water but it’s it’s nice to have a
Heat with waves amazing and you’re in sixth position on the rankings at the moment after that win into the round of 16 you have officially made the cut must feel good talk us through your year so far and what you’re most proud of and what you’re looking for uh yeah I mean
Uh it’s nice to be uh in a good position going into the back end of the year um you know I I I had a tough he a tough loss here last year that I felt like you kind of sort of um you know set a bad
Pace for the rest of my year so I feel like this event at Bells is really important it’s uh right near that kind of mid uh midyear area where you sort of have to start you know gaining ground and and people start you know the top five start kind of like you know
Separating and then the mid pack everyone start sort of starts separating a little bit so I feel like this is a really important event to to make sure you get as many points as you can to to go into the back end of the year um in a
Good position amazing well we’ll see you later on today hopefully in the round of 16 I just want to say something in Japanese Thank you igarashi has made the car and also look to to Really hold his position at the top end of the ranks he wants to be in that final five but he had a disappointing finish when he cracked the the WSL finals last time
He’d love to get back there and give it a proper dig as we see wow T putting it on the line of that first turn it does kind of put him a little behind for a moment though back in front starting to to really just loosen up here and that
Is the wave that he needed and still got a lot of time but on the outside colapinto so much speed as he just goes full F1 into that big front side carve and finishes the wave off and a little appeal there to the panel or his crew at
The bottom of the steps here at winky after finishing that one off so great exchange it’ll be T’s best and Griffin might just improve his Heat score total there was a little hint wasn’t there on that last wave that that one big front side hack that got that uh that big set
Going and um you know we made mention of it it looks like he’s building he’s building but that was easily the most aggressive he’s been in this heat so far but T Wy the back half of this wave is fireworks some big big power moves and
Uh even though he did lose a little bit of Rhythm after this turn so a big hanger to get things going just gets a little caught behind but then he uh he starts really getting to work here off the bottom jams that that was a massive
Turn and the big unit just cracks it on the inside and he gets the crowd involved so that’s going to be important for tul too cuz he’ll be feeling it as Griffin comes down the line and just unleashes that was pure Fury and Power on the inside
Even throws the tail into the layback and he doesn’t lay down too long either cuz the judges you know they don’t want to see Pat the dog and just being lazy in there a little rest clicking it up a few gears that that he definitely had a
Different speed to that wave that we’ve seen compared to those earlier 65s uh from Griff so yeah I mean he liked it too you could tell by his body language as soon as he finished that layback jam in the pocket he was like come on like
I’m feeling it I’m feeling it yeah he got to be a little bit like it does kind of feel like he’s being cruising hey like it doesn’t really look like he has been going really hard at it uh in the same way that the canar and Willcox heat
Really was like a bit of a slugfest we’re going to take a quick break here just under 7 minutes to go Griffin call currently hanging onto the Lead 84 8 Welcome back to the show this is the R Pro Bells Beach of beautiful Saturday morning we’re at winky pop and this is live action the current world number one ratings leader Griffin kapino throwing everything at the end section well just before the break we
Saw him tap into a nice set let go of a big front side carve back it up with a few hits on the lip and he did turn in an 817 this wave isn’t going to factor in but Felicity he gave it everything yeah
He did you just tell he just wants to go bigger and bigger now I probably heard that 8.17 he’s like right let’s take it up another notch this air even bigger than kind of one of the bigger airs we’ve seen this morning but just didn’t quite come out in front of that foam
Enough and yeah went down but I’m I’m liking what I’m seen from Griff I feel like he’s feeling more and more confident with every wave he’s kind of taking off on and for sure it’s been good to watch ran himself over then uh so he’s out in front T Wy the the local
Boy T board Riders Surfer is out there looking for an .4 but uh it’s just a a really cool mindset that that Griffin’s tapped into today he’s out there having a look at insiders under priority now looking to really put it to to bed here swings the reverse on that first
Section whipping that tail a smaller wave so he’s having a really push it if he wants to get himself a better number than a 653 Tommy Whitaker throws his hands together that was his Seventh Wave he likes it yeah he seems to just to have clicked
Into a bit of a I’m having a surf now mode he uh he’s getting busy on the inside he’s picking off smaller waves and he’s just uh getting himself into a state of high energy I think he gets himself uh really just focused and in the moment but can click into that
Competitive animal as we saw at the start of this heat but you know big on his meditation V now and probably a good time to bring up that it’s been 40 years since two of the original Yogi meditation gurus uh surf the final against one another here Shane heran and
And Tom Carol yeah well I’ve uh I’ve done some meditation work with TVC the two-time World Champ and it’s m it’s Cosmic all right get to some pretty special places when you meditate with Tom Carol yeah Into The Cone Zone a pipeline you you get to see all these
Places man yeah that was uh 1986 that they serve the final against one another yeah Shane heran Victorious and always riding interesting equipment but he won $6,800 that year look at this this little inside wave 7.4 Griffin turned it around with that that it was actually the 6.53 so it’s
Not even in his top two anymore but that first turn was the first time we saw him really engage with a little bit of intent felt like he was just sort of almost just like I don’t know finding his way around the lineup a little bit
To start off with and now he’s just fully on the flare and we’re going to see if T can uh turn this into a near perfect number here he needs a 9.27 now nice hit couple of times now he’s been in this main event and he always has a couple of solid
Scores but he needed something huge there he needed more than what he he gave on that r as Griffin right behind him and as you said he’s just surfing out there now swings the board around again won’t go into the top two but Felicity he just
Sort of maintained this he was sort of in the slow lane had his foot halfway down and T wasn’t really H keeping up with him and then once once T dropped a 6.3 Griff put his foot to the floor and he’s just sped off oh yeah he definitely
Has he’s clicked it up a few gears he’s in gear three or four now maybe even possibly five but he might even be doing he in the car par really put the foot on the accelerator uh but yeah like the 817 was beautiful that 7.4 was a smaller wave
He’s like may as well swing let’s go he’s what you said vaugh he’s clicked into that um free surf mode and he just looks like he’s not falling he he’s got his feet really heavily in that wax and yeah he’s just taking this little one in
Just a bit of a joy ride he strikes me as the kind of guy if he was going to do a day out in a car park he’d actually have his arm out the window throwing a Sher yeah oh man after that performance that was Unreal the 8.17 was just it was it
Was so good it was like that first turn was just a full SE Fest and yeah a couple of big hits on the inside as well but jeez that was just world number one all over the shop wasn’t it it was it was always going to be a difficult task
For Griffin uh for T Wy up against Griffin Kinto Griffin so well-rounded and T you know showing his strengths with some some good backhand hits and he’ll definitely fun to watch in that first Challenger Series event up there at snappa rocks there are the results though and it’s a a confidence building
Round of 32 performance for Griffin colapinto we are going to take a quick break and we’ll be back with more on a beautiful Saturday here at the rib Cur Pro Bells Beach presented by Bon soy Kelly SL coming up Shortly e the rip girl Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by Cooper’s Brewery the official beer of WSL Australia by Boost Mobile official telecommunication partner of WSL Australia by biog gland official vitamin partner of WSL Australia by gwm official Automotive partner of WSL Australia and by Mofi the
Official portable power bank partner of the Rick Pro BS Beach presented by bonsoy Mofi stay powerful what a big morning it’s been in the round of 32 he 10 just getting started Miguel poopo taking on Crosby kapino Crosby’s Big Brother Griff number one in the world just got the win over
Local boy Tully Wy but started off aggressive but it was Griff just flowing down the line got the job done thanks for joining us in the set here Joe Trel with Richie love it who put on the Jersey several times at B and also winky pop here for the call now we’ve got
Miguel vers cros Crosby the rookie on tour that’s actually leading the rankings against the veteran goofy footer yeah this is going to be an exciting matchup and again we’ve got goofy vers natural we’ve got the young San clementy uh fell just watched his big brother get through and put in an
Amazing performance so uh let’s see if he can follow superp at Miguel poo he’s had some amazing performances down here at Bells um you know the winky pop section has sort of been a bit inconsistent for him so let’s see if he can put it together yeah he’s one of
Those Surfers that can turn in brilliant combined totals over the years and then sometimes would just get stuck maybe in round two round three had that one performance where he made a finals day out here but a lot of up and down results in his history at Bells Beach
But it didn’t really speak to his form at times that kind of reminds me of his reputation at Tahiti his single Championship tour win of his career when if you’re just pulling up notes and looking at results previously you’d be like oh maybe struggles with this event
But he would be getting eights 8 fs and sometimes just being in those super Heats where he was just losing it at the end so when Miguel won Tahiti I remember talking to him about that he’s like this has always been my favorite it just was
A matter of time before I went on the roll and won the whole thing yeah and you know that’s one thing you cannot take away once you had that win and especially a win at one of those uh Primo Prime locations like a pipeline or a Tahiti you know that trophy sits on
Your man piece forever and that forever more and it’s an amazing achievement so you know he’s been touted as one of the one of the most stylish Surfers on T especially on the backand at the ball we’ve seen him put in some fantastic carving uh turns on the back hand it’s a
Little bit faster down the line today so I think we’ll see uh migy uh you know speed up that approach a little bit more maybe get a little bit more vertical remember that year at Snapper rocks where he went all the way to finals day surfing about 2 to three foot Snapper
Was really running and rippable here Toledo won his first event how do he like inverted under the lip backend floats we we saw him do a version of that of the bell’s Bowl the other day yeah yeah we did and uh well again we’ve talked about being adaptive uh being
Able to adapt to these different conditions these Surfers and bells normally throws everything at you through the entirety of the event we have had big conditions early on we’ve got these fun rippable walls down here at winky pop and what a day packed I just went for a little walk up on the
Cliff there Joe and there are people everywhere is the Saturday it’s getting super crowded the car park full and lot of people being able to interact being able to get up and close our Surfers come right into the car park and they have to walk through the crowds to get
Down to the stairs so pretty special moments can know I W his heat earlier and I was just walked past his car parked in the parking lot and they’re almost inside of his car with him there a big line they’re just waiting their turn to say hi to one of their Heroes
And some of made the track down on the rocks and then upstairs here on Easter Saturday it’s still 10:40 in the morning local time it’s really comfortable here in the state of Victoria weatherwise the the slogan goes if you don’t like the weather wait a minute you can get about
Four seasons in a day here pretty easily hi everybody yo here on hand watching the jumbo yeah really cool space there to uh to watch the event we got the big screen down there lots of different different activations get yourself a feed pull up
A little uh bit of Ash and settle in for the day it’s it’s super low tide still Joe down here you can see all that Reef exposed down here at Winky and uh that means the waves they’re going to be a little steeper as the tide fills in through the afternoons
It may get a little sloper on the wave face we see that water texture has come up already and we’ve seen our surface start to take to the air and take advantage of those little copings the other day I was looking at Crosby sitting in the water and his
Opening around heat I’m like what’s different about his jersey I kept like scratching my head going hang on a second I mean it says colapinto right now that that’s his jersey 66 but then in the other day the opening ground it was flipped I mean I guess you
Think about it same last name as his big brother yeah his brother is in yellow but I think he had the wrong Jersey on yeah really he did too look at that that’s 99 that’s Griff’s Jersey oh wow I asked I actually texted Crosby I’m like did you just get your brother’s
Jersey and he’s like no I didn’t I just got don’t even think you realized it as we watch Miguel nice snap through the first section throwing some water off the tail nice vertical and transition there’s that style and Pace that’s so brilliant looking smooth belting it vertically
Again nice tag on the finish and Miguel starts off in a fantastic way yeah that’s a really good opener uh gez as you said Pace on that wave was was perfect the first two turns as we watch the replay just take note as he doesn’t overcook them keeps that board pointing
Down the line once the wave slows up then he really starts to dig into those more powerful more more uh you know with purpose type Maneuvers Crosby just having a little look at that one not quite uh not quite big enough didn’t see enough opportunity on that one down the
Line free surf session You’ be all over that thing but uh in a heat situation there’s a certain type of wave that these competitors are looking for they’re always looking at these swells as they approach you have to make that Split Second decision is there enough
Points on this wave you know and they’re basically reading the wave as it’s coming closer to them and they’ll know they’ll go okay I feel like I can get a seven or an eight out of this thing or maybe even more so they’ll pull the trigger and they’ll
Go one more look at the start here you see poopo on the positioning like a veteran here yeah it looked like gri uh sorry cros was going to have a look if migy didn’t go but these first two turns see how he kept them down the line now
The wave slows up the radius of the Turn full up jams this off the back hand again and finishes strong more vertical on the final hit Stands Tall shows the judges it was complete control for that final maneuver here’s where it starts to uh get a little sck deeper on the wave face
And Miguel starts to build up his rhythm here through the lip on that one nice and radical and then watch the board pow Just Hits that final section great slowmo action there you can see the board watch the nose pointing down the line love watching this sort of upper uh and lower body
Marriage on these backhanders that one’s vertical you can see that upper body twisting around the lower body photos and the transition from Hillside rail to toide rail so bang on the hillside rail here watch him transition onto the toide rail now through the turn that back arm almost acting like a
A pendulum weight to help him maintain speed and balance throughout these turns incredible flexibility with all our Surfers on the tour across the men and women’s field strength and flexibility two of the key ingredients to being a good Surfer yeah it’s a different type of build isn’t it from other sports uh
Watching the footy with you last night just brick walls running down the field is a solid ass man where these guys have to maintain their Mobility their flexibility and be able to have Incredible strength throughout their lower body Griffin colapinto number one in the world coming off a huge win what
An opportunity for Griff second time he’s worned yellow in his career but the earliest in the season that he’s had it you start thinking about great California performances here it always starts with Tom Curran at Bells You’ put Richie Collins in there as well he’s got a bell that was one of
The most dramatic ways to ring that Bell yeah he was lying on a stretcher and he won the event landed on a rock had to get pulled out of the final and our good friend Potts was in there just scratching his head going okay I’ll
Wait for a wave and it just never came and they had to do the ceremony by the ambulance uh Richie Collins taken that Bell’s title back in the day as we see Crosby Still waiting opening ride for Miguel poopo 6.83 to start yeah great start there it uh
Instantly uh puts a bit of pressure on your opponent and Crosby sitting there just going don’t think about that score just worry about what’s going to happen on my next wave my first shot at this heat and chatting to Kade Matson earlier this morning just in the car park Joe
And he was just saying had a warm- up Surf and he goes do you know what this this feels so familiar these right handers down at winky pop so similar to the lowers ride or the uppers right in California there at trestles and uh it’s
A really it is the slope of this wave face is incredibly similar to both those waves in Cali at Trestle so um you know Griff looked incredibly at home and and I think Crosby will just tap into this wave as well it’s a great balance of
Both of those waves as we look at a nice backside snap quickly moving into a big hack to slide for poopo hits it off the Whitewater out in front nice arcing carve now more vertical with some speed hacks the float more Maneuvers for Mel as he absolutely ripped that thing to
Shreds big start for cross nice huge open face hook throws the fins and control it nice beautiful attacking vertical to shut it down yes variety on the forand it’s it’s a thing of beauty to watch you know you can on your forehand get a little uh stuck in
That repetition of going horizontal out under the face getting the cut back uh but Crosby showing uh a whole bag of tricks in this one and that’s going to be a good opening score for him as well but Miguel that backup score this is going to be a a great
Exchange let’s check the replay here so Miguel he took the first one in the set clicks with that first turn comes around vertical slide and again bit more projection down the line here on these turns now it starts to slow up and Miguel gets that Rhythm on the backand looking fast looking
Sharp really crisp turns there and then here goes cros on the outside clicks that first turn gets a little tail release and slams it on that second one nice and radical down the line here gets the tail throw finishes off with a nice slam on the closeout
Section so from the water angle you can see the fins just controlling that so at that one point he’s actually riding backwards you know there’s no fins controlling the board at that point it’s all just uh you know a transfer of weight from that front side leg from the
Front leg onto the back leg what a great difference from Poo’s waves into the big man Crosby just really showing his Advantage with the size of his turns his ability to show off that range and power and flexibility nose pick is such a radical Progressive maneuver especially
Down the stretch of of your opening ride that was really risky super high high risk maneuver there and the judges are going to take note of that you know they always look at that critical element the degree of difficulty is is a huge part of the judging criteria and cros just uh almost
Skimboarding for a little second there before the board gets uh turned back around shoves it back under his feet gets that final turn what a great difference we have here the Speedy backhand of Miguel poopo who gave us a lot big verticals floaters carves manage speed so incredibly well
And then Crosby having the pace big carves lot of variety tagging a bit more progression on the scale waiting for that first score to come through last of Poo’s in 6.7 so his start was just a touch better at a 683 Miguel poopo on the JS Industries growing up riding surfboard shaped by
His father Wagner poopo longtime competitor building the his kids boards from day one and even throughout their career sometimes they just have a trusty board shaped by Wagner in their quiver to use it on the CT and both brothers Miguel and Sammy focusing on JS fulltime
This season yeah good call seems to be working Samy’s board looked incredible the other day and this morning in the warmup so they’ve obviously tapped into all of uh js’s knowledge he’s obviously been making boards for uh for Surfers down here for years good looking approaching Miguel has priority and he
Will pull the trigger Miguel poopo looking to better one of his sixes here as he sets up with some speed tracking down the line first turn a carve through the lip now stepping on the gas backand float and he’s just left searching interesting how sometimes a wave with more size is it necessarily
The one that you’re looking for yeah it’s all about the swell line and that one actually pushed a a little further down into the bay had a more horizontal wall on it down the line and as a result closed out through the lower section so uh this is great for Crosby because now
He he gets the priority situation he can take the pick of the next set that comes through and hopefully answer back so starting with a 7.5 great score to kick things off this is Miguel Poo’s last wave you can see little bit of downtime Joe as he started to wind up gets that
First turn but a little weak off the top and again he’s just stretching looking for a section down the line which never eventuates so uh healthy score line though 13.53 heat total pocket Sixers but Crosby Advantage with that 7.5 even had an eight one judge uh throwing an eight for
His opening ride so they’re really tapping into the variety and appreciating uh maybe a little bit more displacement of water Miguel poopo up to 24 in the world on the live rankings Crosby Kinto number 11 in the world just outside the top 10 in his rookie debut can go to worldsurfleague.com and
Open up the rankings and you’ll see at the top it’ll say live rankings so that’s updated after every single heat in real time for Miguel it’s going to be the focus on the cut since he’s two spots in the wrong direction to Surf a complete season the
Wild card for this year after an injury from last season the veteran who qualified with Medina and John John Florence had his debut at Bells back in 2012 had a tough early round knockout in round two back then to get an equal 25th and then built his relationship on this
Wave and has that one quarterfinal in the past 1120 on the clock Cola Pinto with a big 7.5 will finish out Heat number 10 right after this SL I’m round of 32 continues on a beautiful day for competition Crosby kapino attacking that Whitewater section nice flow up to the top of the wave drawing off the bottom there’s The Arc in the pocket nice section to attack with the tail blow beautiful surfing from Crosby to back up the
7.5 an incredibly strong start for the rookie on tour as he’s trying to get the lead off Miguel poopo Crosby felt good on that one but one man that was watching over the balcony was his big bro in the bright yellow Jersey Griff is with Laura yes
Griff watching a fun heit with your brother out there at the moment but let’s get to your heat first dropped some absolute bangers there it just felt like w started pulsing and it all came together for you talk us through it yeah that was insane it’s um it’s kind of
Seems rare these days to get a heat that has that many waves so I was just slapping it up amazing and coming into this event in the yellow Jersey you’re feeling good you’re vibing today your brother’s out there now how good is this is what dreams are made of being here
With your brother oh totally it’s insane uh Crow just got a pretty good one I think he needs maybe like a mid six so yeah if he makes this heat we’re going to be up against each other in the next round so um be pretty rad my parents are
Here so to have our first heat on tour together this would be a good time for it well what a dream I wish you all the best of luck I hope it happens oh thank you thanks Laura how cool is that everyone was trying to will that to happen especially the colapinto family
In his corner back in Portugal it would have been a match up in the final but Crosby went down to Ethan Ying in the semis but you can tell Griff how invested he is in his younger brother yeah very similar to Miguel and Sammy uh when Samy’s in the water Miguel is
Almost in pain watching you know he’s just so invested in Sammy success and the same would go for Griff as the big brother for the CR I have a feeling though Joe that they don’t want it to happen in the round of 16 though they
Want it to happen in the final uh so you know if if cros does get out of this heat it’s going to be a crazy good matchup and they’re both going to need to stay focused on the job at hand and not get caught up in the in the Family
Feud that could maybe Bubble Up guess when you focus on the mainland you you think about the Lopez brothers Shay and Cory got to experience the tour together for many years you look at the hob Goods as well yep uh twin brothers that for a
Long time it was hard to know which one was which especially in photos they talk about how many times that that you know the wrong brother got photo incentive or credit for for a turn they would know right away who it was that their style was so similar and their stickers were
Typically all the same for majority of their career yeah when they were both riding for Rusty and then globe and then yeah the boys big shout out to CJ and Daman those guys were amazing to watch my favorite Surfers and then you go back to S Clen Pat gdus and Tanner gkas had
Some time on tour together as we look at the history of the sport the great Derek and Michael hoe Flavio Neco Pats for Brazil Bruce and Andy had some intense moments together on tour there CJ and Damen CJ the 2001 World Champion Cory and Shay it’s been fun talking to those
Guys recently and also Tanner and Pat Uh that was a a fun one Owen and Mikey right you could just add Tyler in there as a just siblings on tour and then this year with Miguel Sammy Crosby Griff Sammy poopo Advanced yesterday wow there’s a lot huh pardon there’s a lot
Of brothers lot Tru the is yeah for sure it’s pretty cool when you look at those powerful surfing families and how rare that is to both make the tour together and actually have like longevity on tour a lot of those have it’s incredible more than a handful of
Years together on tour yeah I was actually just kind of the memory started getting joged then cuz I was actually on tour with a lot of you know those uh pairings the brother pairings there so it was uh some good times for sure and uh pretty special to watch the color PR
Brothers going at it now CR out front 75 and then the 697 did get the lead change so Miguel poopo down to Second needing a 764 and there’s the younger bro Samy feeling the stress trying to channel Miguel a lot of love in this seat Sammy poopo has Matthew
Mcgil later on today at Heat number two two of the round of 16 and sami’s been breaking a lot of surfboards in the last week or so so JS had a special delivery for actually both brothers to make sure that they’ve got what they need for this entire event at
Bells looking like next couple of days we’ll be busy and we’ll see when we finish this contest back to this one though Crosby’s wave yeah so this was the front- on replay of Crosby’s last one big phone climb kind of radical comes around this section gets the
Little tail slide and then this big blow tail to finish off so really strong finish there and a very unique kind of interesting floater to uh tail release watch this climbs up and then goes popop just gets a little release up the top there clicks
It into gear there for the uh second to last turn and then pounds that final section super strong really balanced uh stance on his board here Crosby watch this Tower release little slide it’s only for a millisecond but it’s uh it’s these little intricacies that the judges they pay particular
Attention to and in that one there completely blows the tail out all three fins free on the board out the back of the wave and uh really difficult maneuver to master there lots of turbulent water as the wave closes out Crosby ahead Miguel poo 3 minutes on the
Clock with priority waiting for that next opportunity 7.64 John John Florence looking calm he has Cade Matson coming up in heat 13 of the round we’re in heat 10 at the moment you always stand this really big property up at Bells and they can like have a little chip with the golf clubs
Out in the yard watch all the kangaroos hopping around hanging out with his good friends his coach Ross Williams is uh one of his best friends a great filmmaker Eric kudon creating some incredible movies and just even short video Parts with their life on the
Road John a guy who’s won the bell in the past looking to get the yellow Jersey back here in stop number four he’s done things that are crazy above the lip a 10-point ride for a full rotation and smaller rencon conditions when he was still called a grommet of
The tour it’s also crazy when the bell’s bowl is absolutely lit up so we’ll see how he goes with you know three-foot running winky pop he’s been working hard on small wave equipment and really excellent in all conditions making him a two-time ro champ but down to a minute 45 now as we
Pass the gwm 2-minute warning Miguel the one with priority and he has been ripping super surfing really quickly putting together a lot of major turns but what is he looking for at the moment uh it’s a wave it’s a special kind of wave he needs Joe he can’t just take off
On anything here this wave needs to be able to offer him you know multiple scoring opportunities a couple of decent sections where he can get super vertical on that backand he’s going to need to blow the tail out get that release show the judges something radical they
Haven’t seen from him already on those opening two rides minute to go on the clock so it comes down to if that wave actually comes through been really impressed with kento’s uh just composure as a rookie this year even reading uh writeups on the rookie class you know where he wasn’t
Favored to succeed and handling that and moving forward and now leading the Rookie of the a charge here at stop number four under the coaching of Tommy wits but I felt the belief in his surfing back in Europe enjoys his time incredibly goofy likes to joke around and have fun
Doesn’t ever feel like he’s under pressure well cros has got to push him into this if he uh well he’s going to have to go it’s a last effort 22 seconds poopo needs a 7.64 to move into the round of 16 look for a big ramp and disconnects oh an awkward landing and
Poo will end up in complete that’ll cost him the matchup and Crosby kapino will have the matchup with his big brother Griffin in the round of 16 wow well that sets up an incredible heat in the next round so some good surfing there Crosby only stood up on two waves but he
Definitely made them count this is just a Victory lap as he comes through to the inside board’s looking good he’ll be gaining confidence now could even tell when he’s just at half half speed he’s just going through the motions and he’s blowing his tail out everything’s working for the cross
14.47% challenge doesn’t it for Tomy he’s got to um somehow be fair in the delivering uh you know the advice and the coaching tips for for both his Surfers here and this will be as fun to watch the coach as it is the Surfers lot to look forward to including seeing the
Goat paddle out next a four time bells champ 11 time World Champ Kelly Slater taking on Baron mamia coming up Next down for today going to be a b different fun waves fun restaurants fun things to do it is amazing to be back in Australia right the coffee wins worldwide one of the coolest things about the state of Victoria is that you have the city of
Melbourne which is such a cool City the coastal part of things and The Great Ocean Road what a day hey so good beautiful day big heat on the line here Kelly Slater versus Baron mamia as we see Baron mamia roll in the man from the NorthShore of Wahu throws down a first turn a little bit sticky but he’ll slide off the coping quickly and recover into
A snap to slide and now Baron fits it in the white water and puts another climb up there just seeing the lump and bump on that one didn’t look easy to perform on but his opener is out of the way as he takes on the goat once again Kelly
Sliding into position and Slater up this board looked magic the other day looks clean through the first turn carves through a lump as well so a couple of speed bumps the boys are dealing with at the moment yeah I think that wind has just picked up ever so
Slightly we’re we’re we’re uh predicted to have uh come up to about sort of 10 to 15 knots by this afternoon it’s probably still around 7 at the moment it’s it’s not too too strong but it is creating these little ridges on the on the SWR line on the face of these waves
And both our Surfers in the opening exchang is just getting a little caught up there as we see the rankings uh Baron Mia number five and well that’s an interesting one to see next to Kelly sl’s name number 33 yeah missed out on Portugal he had the the hip surgery last
September and it took him a long time to recover he said he still deals with a lot of soreness and stiffness I even saw uh one of our friends at chiropractor Jason walking down the hill and he said he was really baffled on the movement the limited movement that Kelly had in
His foot when they first started working together here in Australia but he’s putting everything into this event you could tell there’s uh this sentimental value for Kelly you know coming into what is now his 95th heat here at Bells but he’s telling a lot of great stories he just feels like he he’s
Really trying to enjoy every bit of this moment here at Bell’s Beach yeah I feel like we’ve been saying it the last several years we don’t know if we’re going to see Kelly here again but you know you kind of get the feeling that that that statement is starting to ring
Through a little bit and uh well it’s special times here and I’m sure the fans are just lapping it up we saw the the reef at at uh down at winky pop there is actually crowded on the on the reef right next to the water’s edge so this
This is how things started Kelly opened up the heat during the break with this 1.83 got that little speed Jam but really A throwaway and then Baron rolled into this one and turned in a four-point ride yeah so you can see here just getting a little stuck Baron on that
Opening maneuver clean second turn though clicks with it gets a little stuck again but almost turns it into a a funky radical style tail slide and then again timing was a little off the flow just really wasn’t there too much as we’ve seen time and time again Kelly
Gets that little water splash going on just keeps him in the moment it’s almost like a little meditate meditative thing for him yeah that one looked like he had a little frustration with the Splash and then he flowed into this what was a 2.67 yeah and again gets a little caught just
Like Baron did so Kelly opting to get out and take priority and just wait for a better wave Kelly with four Bell’s titles and it wasn’t always easy it wasn’t one of those events that he was just always taking over when you think of basically every other event on tour
Bells kind of kept him honest at times he was back in 1994 for his first Bell but his second Bell wasn’t until 2006 yeah a little bit of time between drinks there for Kelly certainly uh worked it out though and became one of the greatest to ever put on a show here
At bills Beach uh in particular that one big carving cut down that he did on that uh on that huge sort of 8 to 10 foot face the end of the Bells Bowl just sticks in my memory and then uh on the other end of the scale that big fly
Rotation that massive air 10-pointer was incredible and he ended up losing that final to Mick Fanning on the big full rotation but yeah his first win he was just 22 that was over Martin Potter Potts always told us it was a funny one CU they kept falling they both were just
Trying to win that thing so bad nothing was working and Kelly ended up taking it on there’s a a photo of pots shaking K’s hand on a ride into the beach and pots always joked about he’s like yeah that wasn’t really me back then you know
Shaking their hands he he came up with the the product of rabbit Bartholomew and Mr and you know really giving it to your competitors but he said he just had to shake his hand it was the passing of the torch type moment as Kelly hits that section hard
Through the White Water looking good so far Quick Tag in transition punt into reverse nice clean Great Wave that’ll be the best score of the Heat so far KY gets to the completion shows that Little Radical element at the end a lot better on that W yeah smooth a
Lot of zip out of that surfboard always dedicated to improving surfboard design he’s been like that since day one and created his own surf company where he could work with a lot of different Shapers around the world not just one main shaper and you know balancing with
His mind on what’s possible who knows what he’s going to come up with in the future uh just throughout the whole entirety of Kelly’s career he’s been the one who’s who’s pushed board design and evolution probably more than or modern day surfboard uh pushing the design on modern day surfboards more than anyone
You know he came on to the scene and was writing those little meric slippers they were skinnier they were narrower they had more rocker than all the other boards on tour uh and then you know couple of decades into his career and then everything went the other way shorter wider he started experimenting
With the quads and even the five fin setup up the replay here of Kelly up and over that foam section great speed projection down the line quick snap then gets to this final rotation here uh you know it wasn’t too high and the rotation not 100 uh not 360° but still radical
Nonetheless just holding speed and you can see here this uh chatter this little bump on the face of the wave has just turned up a little bit so making things difficult second wave of the set will now probably be the more favored one as that first wave of the set
Generally cleans out the uh the runway and then that second wave of the set the face is a lot smoother Kelly might look at a little pick up here down the line NOP Kelly’s form at Bells and with all of his wins went along with World titles
It was always a good look at his world title type form when he was taken out this event at 22 his second win at 35 four so a big stretch in his career and it’s really cool for for Glenn micro Hall Kelly and micro went golfing together in Hawaii and they started
Talking about working together at some point this season they golfed together again the other day and Kelly was in the golf cart with micro’s Dad and it was uh you know for both parties they’re both really happy to to join forces for an event this year yeah
Really cool and and um you know micro has been on the scene for so long uh he’s been uh on the tour at this high level so he understands the the sort of stress the commitment the focus that’s needed uh obviously Kelly you’d be thinking hang on what more could this
Guy need in terms of knowledge and and uh and coaching but really at this level it’s almost like having a sounding board uh for Kelly perhaps just going hey you know I’m thinking about writing this board or this is my heat strategy what do you think and and just having someone
With experience to bounce that off I think is really cool micro’s so level-headed too you know you don’t really ever see him uh as a motive as a as a coach such as Jake Patterson who you really know what’s going on in his mind he’s very expressive um and
Obviously Kelly liking that calm nature that Glenn Marco Hall has and yeah well the partnership we could see it go all the way here may see Kelly go all the way to the finals that’ll be something special yeah you it’s a good reminder too that Kelly’s not just showing up you
Know he’s serious about he he wants to win every event that he’s a part of even though he knows it hasn’t come easy he did win an event in 2022 which will go down as one of the most significant sporting moments as he won pipeline over Seth monice when is absolutely firing
About a couple of days before turning 50 yeah but since then the winds have haven’t come easy they’ve been scattered few and far between Kelly obviously surfing through uh through injury uh for the remainder of well for most of 20 23 and uh then opting to have that hip
Surgery it was a major one too that was not just a little cleanup surgery there was a lot going on there in the hip but also just talks about his career again of just longevity it was like the first time he ever needed a wild card
You know and and then he goes right into a surgery in September so I think it was about time got a bit of a tuneup after all those years of just putting on crazy performances for over three decades and 11 World titles going through so many different Rivals like from 92 his first
World title runner up that year was Damen Hardman wow how cool is that and then 94 Shane Powell runner up in the world the famous high five moment of at pipe with his good friend Rob Machado was running around in Kelly’s third world tighter performance waves on the
Way here priority with Baron mamia Baron had the four so needs a 3.58 to take the lead off Kelly setting up his first turn nice little fin ditch to start nice healthy looking top turn Arc driving through the Whitewater with some speed cleans it up with a wrap small
Inside track for Baron he winds up and carves it his way through so a solid wave for mamia good enough for a lead change yeah I think that was uh a better wave for Baron mamir you could see he had more flow he was connected live action with
Kelly now Kelly off the bottom nice connection there bigger wall lot of speed big fin throw aggressive layback but he can’t hang on yeah it was only the two- turn combination so Kelly knew he had to throw everything at that final section and just pushing a little bit too hard
Gosh he’s got a lot of spring and how responsive Kelly’s board looks it’s impressive yeah yeah super responsive and um I don’t know whether Kelly’s riding a fresh one for this heat he was uh he sort of put the call out anyone coming down from the goal Coast I think
He had a couple of fresh Shooters up there that he wanted to get down here and try but um whatever’s under his feet at the moment’s looking really spicy he’s looking good enthusiastic connected clean in his approach this is a difficult wave to serve here so Baron
Just puts a little bit more weight on the tail clicks for that first turn keeps it all moving down the line here now he gets that big wrapping turn the nose of the board directed straight back at the whitewash so that show you shows you the turn path that he was going
Through streaks down the line here and gets a big tail slide to finish off really front footed uh in his style Kelly clean snap you can see staying lower it’s more of a balanced approach uh from his front leg and back leg real Central kind of stance whereas
Baria a lot more weight on the front foot and his back leg almost like a steering uh element to way to the way he serves so Kelly looking back waiting for scores from Baron to come through and it looks like we will see the lead change in bar ‘s
Favor nice clean arcing in the pocket bit of variety there Baron riding a CI 2. Pro 61 by 19 by 2 and 716 it’s kind of the model most CI team Riders have been riding M gil on that same model both Ellie Harrison and George patar were
Riding that CI twoo Pro as well here from bells and winky as we look at Baron under priority 487 got the lead and it’s going to rip into this wave little fin blast there driving off the lip again and he’ll get caught incomplete and the situation will stay the
Same now looking at Baron leading over Kelly Slater with 1345 on the clock we’re going to take a quick break the round of 32 Heat number 11 bonsoy Brew break time we’ll be right back Got morning for time to crack open the vault and flash back to 2006 what a year this was so many big Heats Kelly Slater versus Joel Parkinson Parker already one of the best at Bells as his career was just getting started really and Kelly was on a 6-1
Simon Anderson shape he had won the first now two stops of the season when you add this one his Bells was stop number two at the time look how his form was look at the length of that 61 from Simon remember Simon the guy that introduced the Thruster and that was
That aggressive down carve and gosh a triple overhead section with so much power from the Southern Ocean so many major highlights from this year there was that famous oie Andy iron heat where aie just launched off the ski and went right into a 9.9 as we will go go right back back
Into live action with Baron mamia coming off a float throw tail and incomplete as he’s trying to force the score under the priority of Kelly but he still has his lead a 487 and a 4.0 but that 2006 win was significant in a lot of ways he ended up winning
Another world title that year runner up was Andy Irons and Andy was runner up from 2005 as well so that was on the back end of Andy smoking k for three straight World titles and then Kelly was answering back the two following Seasons yeah that was and that was just an
Incredible rivalry between uh Kelly Slater and Andy Irons that lasted uh you know so many events they were up against each other and you know just battling for the world title right down to those final moments but yeah just seeing that one big turn that was the turn I
Referenced earlier that big giant cut down huge wave and that Simon Anderson boor looking so good under Kelly’s feet wow Simon’s done a lot of great things at Bells Oh yes his win here in 81 introducing the Thruster but also making that incredible craft I can’t even count
How many times I’ve been around an event where guys like snake or people are just going get him aimon again get him aimon again because those are those moments that you feel connected to you know seeing a turn like that in ‘ 06 you know as a surf fan which sometimes the surf
Biggest surf fans are on tour watching Kelly compete and they just want to relive that magic again like as his fellow competitors when we were on tour with him we did not miss a Kelly heat we always wanted to be down there to see what would happen he just
You know he was that good couldn’t miss a moment with him Kelly now looking using priority on this wave needs a 3.97 floats the first section another float to cover some ground and just attacking with floaters to extend his ride snap through the white water that
Time and a big layback he can’t hang on ah he knew it too right there that was the lead change if he’ made that turn did all that work down the line those final two sections just caught an edge ah he’d be reling that now just
Going no give me another chance at it so advantage to Baron M here so a pretty low scoring heat so far between these two guys a little bit of trouble with this bump on the wave let’s see what happen happened final moments looks like he hits it absolutely perfectly gets the
To released kicks the fins out you can see the nose of the board just pearling there just caught that front side edge and then went over the handlebars just needed a little bit more pressure on that tail pad you would have rode out of that we’ve seen Kelly make
That turn what thousands and thousands of times just not used to seeing him fall on a turn like that ever 3.43 so that was it the fall keeping him in second and baron will hang on to priority in the lead down to 8 minutes on the clock Baron has that memory of being
With Kelly at pipe was heartbroken as the wild card that year where Kelly had 20 something seconds on the clock counting down a bombs coming it looked like Baron’s day to go all the way in the event as a wild card and Kelly got a crazy one to pipe that was the turning
Point where Kelly went all the way to pick up his 56th Championship tour win oh just that number is incredible the amount of Victories that man has had colani enjoying the action such a fun time for colani and Kelly expecting their son in a few months to be
Born they’ve just been filled with a congratulations up and down the staircase around Australia and Kelly knowing that he really wants to put on a performance in front of all these great fans that have been by his side since day one Jake Marshall’s right there walking slowly on the Shelf make sure he
Doesn’t slip off or fall into a hole he’s got Fredrico maras in he 12 I’ve been really impressed with Jake in the free surfs this this week also just how confident and calm he feels I think in his head he’s doing quiet math even if he hasn’t gotten any official reports
From WSL on the cut I think he’s just feeling good on his positioning on tour and it’s a a venue for him that feels like Southern California so he’s uh in a really great place I feel like he’s uh got into a winning Rhythm uh you can get into a
Losing Rhythm Jake’s into a a winning Rhythm at the moment and he’s running with it he’s been uh trying to find it the last couple of seasons on tour looks like we might to have a uh some live action here Joe Kelly gliding in looking for for a 397 snap to start Whitewater
He’ll just carve through it punches out the next section just responding off the Whitewater and now we’ll go into a nice cool Power hook not laying back as Extreme as he did on the one he fell on you can see he’s just trying to make
Sure he got enough to turn the heat but Baron’s on a bit of a bigger wave here out the back carves in the pocket nice punch out in the Whitewater there’s that cool ribbon rhythm in the pocket for Baron as he throws some water driving into the lip again Attack
Mode on the inside wall and baron takes it all the way through yeah uh that was a great wave for Baron M Kelly picking that one first wave of the set was a little bit bumpier and that was that second wave of the set that I was
Telling you about and baron got one there he got some clean open sections to work with started to open up a bit more Baron’s going to Kelly will momentarily I think get the lead back perhaps and then well Baron will take it back off him so Kelly you can see here just quick
Snap to start things off and then there’s a few sections here where Kelly’s just working down the line doing these projection floaters trying to get to some open face here so these those turns there not really gaining a whole lot of points and then you can see shows
A little bit more restraint on that final turn and then Baron instantly out the back bigger stronger turn to open up then the second one bit more Electric gets vertical gets the wrap for the third nice slashing turn there so he’s just up the speed on this wave here multiple turns good variety
And he knew right at that moment there I have to finish this wave and I’ll Bank a good decent number great surfing from bar mamia traveling to Australia with one of his best friends M Pang first trip for MCC to this part of the world excited to be by Baron side for bells
And for Margaret River as well the goofy foot famous for posting crazy clips of Pipeline and all over the NorthShore of aahu as scores are coming through for Kelly like you predicted Richie a 5.2 enough to get the lead and so Baron is chasing a 523 on his last and we’ll see
If Baron gets the lead right back he got that for sure and then some in my opinion um I was actually a touch surprised with the 5-2 I thought it was maybe just a little under that but um the Jud is obviously appreciating that final turn it was kind of
Radical Kelly ditched the fins out a little bit that’s what you love about a judging scale with Five Guys on they dropped the high and the low there was a 48 thrown yeah that might have been where Richie was leaning as we see the score coming through for Baron mamia a
6.5 so there’s the separation from the 5-2 to a 65 Baron in the lead Kelly does have priority and now needs a 6.18 wow well he’s been in this position so many times throughout his career and uh well I’ve been on the receiving end of
It as well you know have had the lead against Kelly stole it uh in those final moments so let’s see if he can do another buzzer beater you see those splashes happening there and it just always makes me think of uh what his relationship might feel like with the
Ocean every ocean that we surf in around the world it’s it’s mystical it’s magical it it’s brought him into tears you know even going to that last wi at pipe he’s like there’s something that’s going on out there it’s sometimes hard to describe and Kelly is so articulate
When it comes to describing everything in the sport there’s like some magic that he relies on that that’s brought him to victories more often than n yeah well the people who have this special you know relationship it’s a it’s an intuition thing it’s a rhythm thing that
You can kind of tap into you know some days even when you’re free serving you’ll paddle out and you’ll just be in the right spot every time and the crowded lineup people are going how is this guy getting all the waves you know that you just kind of tap into that
Sometimes and the Dolphins join him at J Bay and he just follows them up the point gets gets the wave he needed yeah crazy stuff happens the the Kelly Factor we’ve seen it um you know winds just turn offshore somehow and it’s uh it’s something to behold let’s see if he can
Pull it out here under two minutes to go yeah crunch time passing the gwm two-minute warning Kelly 95 Heats at Bells in his career getting close to 100 a chance again to break the record that he shares with Mark Richards and MC Fanning with four Bells titles his last Bells trophy back in
2010 went along with the world title as well that was his 10th World title year he clinched in Puerto Rico his 11th World title clinched in San Francisco two times but that’s another story down to the final minute Kelly watching the uh the clock here checking his Apple watch knows there’s a minute
To go I think both these guys would would be the first to say it hasn’t been their best performance they’ve showed a little restraint on some of the Waves perhaps just uh you know a little hesitant just wanting to uh make put some good scores on the board definitely trying to figure out
These uh conditions that are slightly changing in the last half an hour Kelly paddling towards Baron Kelly has been undefeated over Baron in their two previous meetings as Cali looks at the time he has a quick chat might be seeing an opportunity starts flowing the other way
Looking like he’s a little interested in something coming so right when I thought he was getting ready for the handshake K’s moving up the point quickly 15 seconds to go well he’s trying to go up and meet this swell and cut some time out so that if uh the the
Clock does can’t count down Kelly may have an opportunity to get to his feet it’s counting down here I don’t think it’s going to come in time and just a little bit Out Of Reach for Kelly but this is what he saw as he runs out of
Time and the greatest of all time eliminated by Baron mamia world number five with 1137 combined total Kelly’s board looked great had the fall though on the wave that he could have got a decent number number still looked sharp though had some great turns and can kind of feel
Some great decisions that he was making throughout that heat just a little bit out of sink with the sets that were coming through and Kelly will be eliminated in the round of 32 Baron moving on to Surf again today in the round of 16 he looked good though didn’t
Joe he’s looked connected the the Maneuvers were there uh and unfortunately for Kelly Baron just wave well he found the best wave of that and and surfed it very very well to get the top score he certainly did Kelly will get this wave in just a
Little bit too late but he’s such a competitor he’s going to probably try to feel it out just like he needed to score up looking casual he’ll be calling it a day just always great to be around K’s company at these events he lifts the energy every time he paddles out his car
Was just swarmed with fans this morning the top of Winky pop as he was getting everything together to compete yeah it’s going to take him a few hours to uh to leave the beach if he does in fact choose to leave I wouldn’t be surprised if he sticks around all day
He’s just uh such a student still at 52 years old loves it big win for Baron mam as he moves on Jake Marshall coming up next to take on Fredo maras we bring in Ronnie Blakey and Felicity paler for the Call w for have the rip Cur Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by rip Cur the ultimate surfing Company by Eventbrite proud sponsor of women’s surfing on the WSL Championship Tour by Yeti built for the Wild and by Bailey ladds official ladder partner of WSL
Australia welcome back to the show Easter Saturday Kelly slate of the 11 time world champ the greatest of all time has just been knocked out of the contest by Baron M an incredible record that he has at this event four victories that was his 27th run at the title here
Believe it or not and hopefully we get a chat with the the great man in the not too distant future but Baron Mia surviving that heat moving through to the round of 16 as we get set for another big Clash here and it’s going to
Be a lot of fun we’ Got Jake Marshall and Fredo maras out there here in the birth Ronnie Blakey joined by Felicity paler always uh hoping the the best for Kelly as he you know we obviously reached these last few years of uh him competing you just never know when he’s
Going to call it I know it’s it’s we’re just kind of hanging on the edge of our seat right now you just never know but I’ve got to be just go back to that he I think there was a couple of moments in there Kelly kind of went for that my
Eyes looked like a bit of a throwaway air there and I’m sometimes think oh if he could have just nailed that last turn would have been a bit closer but yeah I guess we’re we’re all just waiting uh bited breath to see what Kelly does yeah
It’s going to be huge uh but Baron and mayor uh wanting to keep that role alive had the incredible starts of the year with the victory at pipe here’s Kelly breaking things down with Glen Hall just a little heavier than when I ride it’s like it got away from me a little bit
But if I made that I probably got score 100% yeah it came off huge yeah no but I you know it wasn’t a great wave in my mind I was thinking that well better you know that’ll be my better score now yeah but later I’m gonna have to better something
Else but I thought I might as well push this thing as hard as I can in here even though I knew it was going to move me in the lead but if I didn’t do something big I was going to really kind of have to replace two waves maybe for sure I
Think it was the right thing toal yeah section I just I just was a little disc disconnected from my board yeah the board was good though oh looks sick awesome it was just that it’s just who who got the better one you know end up
One that play one at the end he was smart to let that first one pass 100 I couldn’t believe it when he didn’t paddle I was like w because it was over there I thought the whole set was going to move down yeah you know like we
Talked about I thought it would close out and be a runner yeah but his just held back and good luck Baron M gets one back on Kelly Slater as we get set now for hit 12 Jake Marshall will take on freder rice and Jake Marshall having a great year
Looking really sharp uh maybe reached you know uh his best level performance-wise on his Road through to this uh current position that he finds himself on the rankings for sure I mean he’s had a great start to the year two NS and a fifth I mean and he s coming
Into this event sitting at number eight on the rankings uh I’m I’m kind of I’m really looking forward to this heat though I think both these guys their strengths are their forehands and on waves that are longer running sort of more Point Break waves last year I got
To see Fred uh at uh in iriser and he just looked so put together out there and then obviously Sunset Beach he always does really well rightand Point Break It is small today though so these guys both bigger guys as well and we’ve obviously moved to winky so different
Venue from the bowl but yeah I’m looking forward to this I feel like it’s even though Jake’s sitting out there uh on Eighth in the rankings I feel like this is in terms of their Sur in and and the way they approach is is sort of similar
Yeah Frederico maras he’s got that big forehand rip that he can go to his best result as a CT campaign I came back in 2017 at J Bay he had a second place finish there had some amazing numbers and overcame you know some of the greats
On his Road through to that that result but the the big finishes in Championship tour events it’s been a while he’s had uh big weights between uh between his best finishes this year has been a struggle 17th through the first three events of the year and came into
This one rated 22nd on the live ladder with the success of some other competitors he’s already dropped down a couple more spots so he needs to keep rolling this is a a crucial heat for him for sure and I I think you know I just
Think back to when we just got to listen in on that audio with Kelly and um Glenn micro hall and then Kelly just saying oh you know he was on the better waves and I feel like today that’s crucial you know when it getss smaller and even I
Think back to even Heats earlier this morning but it sort of makes it the playing field more even I feel like when it’s small like this it’s even more crucial to be on the best waves today whoever gets those best waves as long as you’re not falling and you’ve got that
Connectivity I feel like you’re going to win it’s wave selection today is big one for me it sure is it’s going to be crucial for Fred Rico and trying to find the edge over the inform Jake Marshall but vaugh competitors you know they relish the opportunity to
To Surfer against the big names and there’s no bigger name than Kelly SL a big win for Baron there yeah huge start to the year for Baron mamia and it continues getting into the round of 16 after a win over the goats mate the goat it’s uh nothing better than coming up
Against the greatest of all time and getting a win yeah um even at 52 I was uh really nervous um I’ve never really beat Kelly in a man of M heat um so yeah it was nice to you know finally get him one one before you know he retires or whatever
He does totally man um it was a it was a funny one wasn’t it we’ve seen some Heats this morning where there’s been pulses and plenty of opportunity that one really did come down to wave selection and we hav’t heard Kelly speaking with micro then saying you know
Baron was on the two best wives yeah I uh my first with of heat I actually completely just blew um I kind of like I don’t know what happened I was like a little nervous or something but like I was just got way too on my front foot
And I started just digging ra and then I was like oh like I got clean that up I got to get some ways and then like I couldn’t get over a f like a four the whole heat and I was like oh what and
Then I let him go on that one and he only needed a three so I was like okay I looked at the wave and all the K is for sure he’s going to get the score and I was watching and I always was like oh
The second wave is always the best and I kind of just sat there and was just so freaked out and I let him go I was just like oh please please be a wave behind this and luckily yeah there was a 65 and yeah that was basically the difference
In the heat that’s the way it works mate sometimes you just got to nail it down and hope for the best but um no epic performance there Baron and um you know how you going to prepare for your next day yeah I’ll probably just go home um
Just Cruise hang out with uh I got my buddy mccon here my girlfriend and my filmer and then Brent powers from CI is helping me out so I’ll probably just go back cruise and that’s about it awesome manate congratulations right on thank you thanks so much than thank you vno he
Baron Mia he’s uh it’s so cool to hear that you know feeling the nerves coming up against Kelly I think everyone does you know I think you realize suddenly that there’s more eyes on you in that Clash than than just about any other and you know with Baron sitting so
Beautifully a top at the top end of the ratings there’s a obviously a lot of heat on him to maintain that position and Kelly’s just so crafty he just never can count Kelly out I mean he’s been around for so long he’s surfed so many Heats he’s been on the ropes like that
Before and just pulled a rabbit out of a hat so it’s never over and I mean even on my break just then I walked down and uh there was just people everywhere to watch Kelly and I think we’re all just we’re all we don’t know what what the
Call is we don’t know what he’s what where his mindsets at and yeah there was just people everywhere was packed out there it sure was everyone wants to get eyes on him well we’ve had a heat restart so not a lot of scoring opportunity in the opening 10 minutes of
Heat 12 so we’ve given them a fresh clock and we’ll see what rolls our way now but uh the first head-to-head Heat for these two competitors and we’ll see It’ll come out on top but I’ve been super impressed with Jake’s um you know resilience he sort of had a a pretty
Rough go at it last year didn’t survive that cart fought his way back on the The Challenger Series and he’s just looked like a different man this year he had a couple of NS the big result for him over there in Portugal with a win over John
John Florence in that event too and I know he’s had a couple of Victories over John now but but he is one of those guys that I just think he he has all the moves whether confidence has been an issue for him I’m not sure but this year
And and he said it after his uh his first heat he just feels like he he’s in a really good place I think it’s just momentum right I mean we can have a look at his results right there you you can see the two NS pipe in Sunset and then
The fifth place Fifth Fifth Place finish over at Portugal and I think it it’s really hard to get on like on a roll here and it’s really hard to get momentum sometimes and when you have it you’ve just got to make the most of it because it can quite easily go and then
All of a sudden you you feel like you’re training you’re doing all the things you’re dotting all the eyes you’re Crossing all the teas your boards are feeling really good and sometimes the cookie just doesn’t crumble your way and he can just be S left sitting there
Scratching your head being I just what am I what am I doing wrong and at the moment it seems like things are just falling Jake’s way and sometimes even you get in those Heats in those moments where you know calls won’t quite go your way and you think they should have and
Right now things are flying for Jake so see if that momentum continues great shot from the Melbourne flight cam just having a look at the uh the cliff scape here at winky pop and the crowd at the top of the hill also a big crew down
There on Easter weekend in the car park watching on the big screen as Jake Marshall gets this going here in he 12 the surfer from anonas California ripping into this one setting the fins free he’s just had this amazing flow through these last two contests and he puts it to work again on
His opening right here yeah I think we uh we see bigger scores drop but that’s a real positive way to start oh super positive I think he probably would have liked that end section just to be a little bit more of an exclamation mark But Nice flow nice connectivity there
And uh good to catch a wave I mean we did have that restart so they the guys have been sitting there for a long time and this one was a smaller one and you can see Jake was further on that inside there starts off with that little foam
Climb nice wrap there gets a bit more vertical here as he’s able to punch it through the lip a couple of times bit of fin release but I think here would have probably liked a little bit more of a stronger finish but you know what got a
Wave under the belt he’s in Good Touch he’s got great feel at the moment moment just the placement of his boards it’s like he’s getting a lot of speed off those little projection floats and it just gives him a bit of momentum to even
On a a really a dud wave you’d have to say he’s able to kind of release some tail throw some uh some water around Jake heading out you know uh really was one of those guys who who was knocking on the door of qualifying for a couple
Of years I think one year in Hawaii even um it looked like he was inside the the qualification mark on the old Qs system and uh ended up getting bumped out in like the last event and uh yeah I think he had a qualification party and everything so he had to rebound from
That and uh you know to his credit he was able to do it fredero Moray he’s another resilient competitor who’s had a tough go of it at of late on the championship tour but has gone back to that Challenger Series and just grinded his way back onto this CT
You got to give a lot of credit when Surfers do that it’s it it’s a it can be really hard work mindset physically mentally emotionally as well trying to regain and I just to go back to what you’re talking about with uh Jake and you know thinking that you’re a Shore
Bet and you’re a shoe in and yep okay like that’s where my mindset is I’m going to be on tour next year and then to be kind of relegated out of those top 10 position I mean that that’s hard to bounce back from and these are guys that
Haven’t been into that top end of the ratings and you know they they are sponsored but like they’re not on these big money contracts so they’ve got the stress of that as well to to deal with ficity we know how difficult it is if you are one of those kind of competitors
Just grinding for your results and your position on this CT it’s crucial to stay on this tour if you’re going to make a living out of the sport completely it’s a lot of expectation too and I think it’s a it’s a fine line how much expectation you put on yourself because
A lot of these guys contract will be results based and results driven and performance you know based and you know if you’re going event to event and you’re just not in that Rhythm or you you’re only just making that cut you know it it’s really difficult to sort of
And you know you try and say oh you know you go out there and you surf and you try not to think about that you try not to think about the cut or results but at the end of the day that’s dictating so much of your life and your career and
You know if if you can even afford to get it go around and do all this so yeah it’s it’s a tricky position to be in so this is a head-to-head matchup between two of the real Battlers on the the CT who is going to stand up and and
Get the job done here 517 I mean with the way the conditions have been and a restart that 517 is looking like a an absolute Gem of a number right now for sure I even just had a look over at the back of my shoulder now and kind of
Looks like that onore might be kicking up a few notches too you can even see it here at this shot was look at Jake just the texture on the face of the way of the ocean right now now looks like that onshore breeze might be kicking in a
Little bit and yeah look things are very slow right now so this is Jake’s 517 and got to Echo what you said Ron I think he just surfed this wave so well for the size of the size of what it was had great connectivity there he’s sort of manufacturing the score really so
Made something out of nothing and pretty impressive and with you know 22 minutes on the clock a 517 as a backup it’s not looking too bad beautiful all those little flowing moves in between that’s a a crisp hit there on a a kind of a nothing section for sure
No you can just really analyze his technique here and just the beautiful flow that he has they were three turns different variation really pleasing to look at I mean this last section here you can kind of see he went up for that little floam foam climb he probably
Would have liked to have had a little bit more of an exclamation mark there but you know at this stage in the heat with you know basically 20 21 minutes on that clock this looking like it’s going to be a good backup couple of lines
Coming into the bay now so to see who’s potentially going to get a wave here yeah deep it’s Jake Marshall fredero moras from Portugal is going to get his first ride let’s see what he can do with it this guy is all about perfect timing in the pocket moves a lot of
Water a couple of good hits on the outside and just cranking out a couple more turns to finish this one off yeah that a Fred needed to go and obviously Jake took off he didn’t have priority up the point and having to uh surrender that wave to Fred but yeah that wave
There was small but Fred knows he’s got to get moving because time’s taken down on this clock so this is Jake he takes off deep decides to kick out because Fred is using that priority goes up into the lip there for that little fin throw and another nice fin jab there for me
Straight away I just feel like this wave didn’t quite have that flow and connectivity that Jakes did I just saw a different sort of pace here nice finner here releases them really well but I think you know even when I look at the face of this wave and I
Compare it to Jake Jake just was that little bit smoother so maybe that’s why it was providing that sort of yeah smoother face bit more connectivity i’ say them being pretty similar scores it just depends doesn’t it because if you lack the flow and between maneuvers you
Can make up for it if you do bigger turns and it did feel like Fred had at the start of that ride a couple of bigger turns than maybe what we saw from Jake so I think it’s going to be a pretty close exchange to kick things off
Here seen some greater events play out here at winky over the years one of my favorites was way back in 95 when uh Sunny Garcia got the victory over a good M of M the late great John Shuka here at winky as we see Jake on his third ride here this one’s
Giving him a bit more speed as he Glides down the line he’s going to get a big finish there but unsuccessful in riding out he left some points at the end of that ride that’ll drive him mad but he did good work before that you were spot
On with your uh your guess on fredero mori’s number 4.5 so fell under Jake Marshall’s 517 so the judges probably picking up on that just a speed and flow difference but Jake was on a jam here oh he was on his way to a very very good score I
Think it’s still going to be a great score that lots of variety straight away up until live carving turn releases those fins gets around this section all the hard work was done he just needed to tap that but he put a bit too much Mayo
On it and didn’t quite get that finish I I honestly think that was this could be a moment in the heat right here you know especially with it being a little bit slow right now but those two First turns were really well timed beautiful variation as
Well and this had wave had a very good speed to it as well straight away it’s a bigger wave than those first couple of scores that have been dropped just got to be thinking right here when he comes around this section I have was thinking
Okay wow Hard work’s done go up hit this section and releases the fins and just put a little the the round of 16 for the men hopefully and establish some quarterfinal matchups there but we’ve got a lot to look forward to already in the round of 16 the colapinto brothers are going to
Be surfing against one another how exciting they’ve dreamt about that moment for a long time we’ve heard them talk about it then in the first lead of the round of 16 to you’ve got Morgan sibli and Ryan Kalan now those guys both from uh Newcastle the merry weather
Region they have had a head-to-head Clash before so that’ll be a lot of fun Ethan Ewing Liam right right it’s on it’s looking fantastic that uh that round of 16 but we still do have some some big Heats to get to through in the
Round of 32 as well which is uh going to be fantastic it’s going to be a good afternoon here at winky pop 16 and a half minutes to go Jake Marshall setting the pace at the moment looking like it’s a little bit slow going right now seems like to me
That the conditions as we see look at all the people out there today hello everyone it always pulls a big crowd the rip girl Pro here at Bells Beach presented by bons soy and we’ve got exceptional fans down here watching on the big screen hope you guys are enjoying the show hope
Everyone’s loving it back home as well yeah it’s absolutely packed out there today on the last break I just went for a little wcky went down to the steps at winky went down and got another coffee and wow people are really enjoying themselves out there in that Sunshine aren’t they on this Easter
Weekend always always does like I said pull a big crowd down here on Easter weekend but also I think there’s just a lot happening at the moment Kelly Slater obviously surfed earlier a lot of um speculation about what Kelly’s plans are going to be moving forward and uh I I
Don’t think people wanted to miss the opportunity to to get eyes on the greatest of all time um unfortunately for Kelly wasn’t able to survive that last Heat but yeah there is a lot of people down there to see him obviously and so many other stars in the draw
Here I mean even just looking looking forward I mean there’s so many good Heats this this next Heat we’ve got John John Florence coming up against Kade Matson that’s going to be another cracker feel like John at the moment obviously coming into this before this event at number two seed and he’s
Looking like he’s on fire this year he is in very good nick he’s injuryf free he seems fired up all his postate interviews that I’ve watched this year just seems like yeah he’s got a different sort of mindset coming into this year and I’m liking it I’m really
Really liking it but he’s coming up against Cade and I also think Cade’s in good form at the moment too and I wouldn’t be surprised if John might be a little bit nervous what what we’ve got out in the water at the moment is an incredibly even matchup when you look at
Two Surfers who have great four-hand approaches and the ability to combo up a number of different turns on their forehand but Jake has the advantage of incredible form and it’s on show at the moment he he just looks sharper he looks faster and everything is just being
Executed a little bit cleaner than his rival at this point in this heat but um yeah there is a couple of matchups that I think have been tightened up with the conditions being you know on the marginal side uh and we saw the I think the benefactor of that earlier on was
Cole I think his chances against Gabrielle at winky pop on a smaller day where it’s a bit more inconsistent and Gabrielle’s not able to go searching under priority and find mediumsized waves you know gave Cole a much better shot at the Heat in and uh I think it’s
Going to give Kade Matson a chance a really good Fighting Chance against John John Florence in that next Clash as well oh uh 100% I agree with that I think we’ll get back to that point in a second yeah we’ve got some movement on the outside here good looking way for
Fred Rico let’s see if he can fight back here and he does hit that first section hard knowing though that he’s got to push on those first two hits to really make it the ride count he overcooks it and Jake Marshall gets the opportunity now to dump the 517 just loses contact
For a moment on that second move and it puts him behind for the final hit so neither Surfer really making the most of the opportunities there 13 minutes to go fedrico will get priority back and the opportunity to save himself here he’s kind of kind of lucky there that Jake
Didn’t convert and improve on his situation that Jake fell on that last turn I think I mean Fred’s wave was looking like it was going to be over right as well his wave was that first one of the set so it kind of did have
That a little bit of lump and bump you could see it when he took off uh but 12 and 1/2 minutes left on this clock and it’s it’s looking tricky out there at the moment it’s looking very slow talk to me about uh just how challenging challenging it is as a championship tour
Surfer when you you get to this point in the year and you’re coming up against someone who’s in sort of career best form and you’ve been struggling to break out of this round I just think it comes down to a mindset thing and how you’re approaching it or if you’re even paying
Attention to any of that I mean of course you are I mean you just look at the rankings and you see where you are compared to the person that you’re coming up against but I think nerves are obviously coming to mind I think there’s been a couple of Falls already in this
Heat but for me right now it is clear that Jake is in good form he just looks like he’s got a lot of flow well hopefully Fred pick things up a little bit clean up a few of those errors but at the moment it’s looking hard and
We’ll see if Fred chooses to use priority here he does he does so this is his chance to to get himself back in this heat improve on the 4.5 chip away at the requirement or maybe even with an excellent score he can jump up into the lead here 11 and
1/2 minutes to go pushing it you know what on that final turn he had to do something exceptional to to get himself a decent number but on the previous ride I think you can see the nerves and just the the lack of confidence in Fred like second turn stock move you know
Something he’s going to pull yeah you know 10 times out of 10 uh in a a standard free serve he’s struggling to do with the Jersey on and Jake you know with all that speed just cuts a beautiful line through this wave and finishes this wave off with a great
Release complete rotation and this is going to be better than the 517 and the the requirements going to grow here for the the surfer in blue Fredrico Mor silky smooth surfing that was that was beautiful to watch from the eye I I love that and I think every wave now that
Jake gets one thing that I’ve noticed he will just break this one down he just had so much speed the face of this wave is very smooth this is the second wave of that set so that first one’s come through it’s cleaned up the lineup and he just looked like he wasn’t never
Going to fall on that last turn the confidence is in the Casual approach too you know he’s not taking off dropping to the bottom and thinking I I have to bash this first section I have to get this Big Al opening move in now it’s a beautiful beautifully timed lipine float
To GA as much momentum as possible yeah in my eyes it almost looks like fred is forcing the forcing the forcing it a little bit whereas when I look at Jake he’s just got a beautiful Tempo to it and it kind of looks like he’s really waiting for these sections to present
Themselves and not yeah forcing that issue whereas I think Fred takes off and there is that little bit of desperation there and he knows needs a big score I mean we even saw him he needed to do it cuz he needed to on Fred’s last wave the
One where he fell he went for that air and you know he needed to do it to give a bit of variation a bit more spice but you can you can sort of see that desperation there whereas Jake’s taking off there’s a beautiful Pace Tempo and yeah that momentum is just very clear
There’s still plenty of time on the clock for fredero maras to turn this one around 9 and 1/2 minutes remaining we’re going to take a quick break you’re watching the round of 32 at the rip C Crow Bells Beach presented by Bonsoy 8ad for I’ve been going to the surf Coast since my teen years and get to go back every year now on the CT it’s really special I love the Tranquility of the surf coast and just the beauty of that whole Drive is just spectacular it feels very peaceful the
Waves are really fun everyone’s very welcoming when Bells is on it so I onic feels like a good reset so I love it down there I’m with you Ryan Callin this is a special part of the world the surf Coast Ito loves it this is where he broke
Through for his first CT win and he wants a second and he is coming up do not miss that heat he’s going to be surfing against riaa the Indonesian in heat 15 round to 32 out there in the lineup at the moment we can see John John Florence making his way into the
Line line up his Heat’s going to get underway in about 6 and A2 minutes time but he is getting a nice deep position there here at winky pop so numbers in for Jake Marshall’s Last Ride 6.4 he’s really uh built a a nice healthy little lead here on the their
Scoring exchanges he he’s managed to add two points on each of Fred Rico’s waves and that’s left the Portuguese Surfer chasing at 8.23 with just over 6 minutes to go here and I think an eight right now is a bit of a hard task oh man it we obviously
Had that restart at the beginning it is quite slow out there and that wind is kicking up a little bit and in my books that 6.4 was a very good 6.4 so you know you can see where the scales at and you know Jake 6.4 that was great that was
Three big turns that was variety so Fred’s got to be doing something bigger and better than that another two points more on that so it’s a hard task right now for Fred and I think I’ve just got to go back to what I was saying before I
Feel like you can see the nerves in his surfing and looks like there’s a couple of bigger lines coming through though so a couple of opportunities in my opinion right now that second wave of the set is providing that cleaner face so we’ll see what way Fred decides to pull the
Trigger on man I I get twisted stomach surfing in the opening round of the senior men’s at North North Avalon board Riders uh so I can’t imagine what these competitors go through Fred Rico has had a lot of opportunities to save himself in this heat let’s see if he can make
This one count nice first turn up into the pocket again a good siiz wall for one of the bigger Surfers on the CT and this wave is a lot nicer it’s a put together beautifully plenty of punch in each of those moves and he’s going to
Triip away that requirement in a big way oh that was beautifully done that was great he needed a wave exactly like that right now you know I’d say that’s his best wave so far in my books which means he’s going to make that requirement a bit less and look super strong look
Powerful that’s the most confident I’ve seen him look this whole he definitely here he goes so this wave here three big belts straight up into the lip second one here timed really well gets a third one three similar turns and then finishes off here gives it a little
Bit more Mayo on that fin release love it yeah the the last turns definitely the strongest but you know like you said he he’s really swung into this wave yeah uh there was no nerves on show he was in attack mode it’s going to be his best ride for sure and the
Requirements going to be a lot smaller as we head into the final four minutes last ter was fire absolutely flaring on that last turn those fins were so high that was beautiful there was a lot more confidence there I couldn’t see the nerves it’s exactly what he needed to do
Yeah I’m sure he’ll go into these final minutes going okay that’s it that’s that’s what I expected myself and let’s see if he can deliver a a thrilling finish to this one which has been dominated by Jake Marshall so far but you know domination looks a little different today a couple of mid-range
Sixers looks pretty solid on your scorecard I think right now obviously time is the enemy 3 and 1/ half minutes on that clock and Fred’s going to have to put a bit of distance between himself or Jake or if another set comes through he’s going to have to force him to use
That priority because because he needs another opportunity obviously we know that and I mean it’s just it’s n it’s nervous times right now for him he and he needs he needs a result two Surfers chasing their best finish in this event Fredrico maras he has had a couple of quarterfinals here
In the past and Jake Marshall he’s kind of struggled to break into uh a final series with his two previous performances here but this could be his year with the form that he’s showing at the moment good number here for Fredrico moras the biggest wave of the Heat and it gave him
The opportunity to to let go of a number of turns 6.67 and the requirement now just a 6.06 he’s right back in it for sure and I my mind goes back to that one wave where he went for that kind of more radical finish I believe and then he
Fell and I’m just thinking he got is that am I remembering correctly on one of those four-point rides one of his last turns he fell on and I’m just thinking W you know I wonder if that would have been the extra point and a half that he would need to be in the
Lead right now but yeah 6.67 that’s the highest wave of the heat so far and he’s made that requirement a lot less so he’s chipping away at it and I loved what I saw it looked so confident it was the biggest biggest wave we’ve seen and just four big
Maneuvers that last one especially I think a lot of the points coming from that one and that big fin release at the end there the gwm 2-minute warning pops up on the screen there and it’s a warning for both competitors fredero moras has flipped the Rhythm back in in
His favor almost with that last ride and Jake Marshall now would be feeling the nerves he’s got to defend the lead that he’s held for throughout the uh the majority of this heat he’s been working with Chris Gallagher for a number of years got to be thinking now you know a
Minute 20 on the clock there’s been quite long LS today I’m wondering if we will even see another roll of the dice well that’s the you know the the thing that Fred R will be uh really uh knocking himself for you know is the poor start like you just
Don’t know if you’re going to get the opportunities in the final stages at the moment these guys have already had an extra 10 minutes in this lineup because there was no waves at the start of their heat so we uh we gave them a fresh clock
And now Fred R is just praying for for a two-wave set really because he’s got to get rid of Jak Marshall and then obviously perform really well on his last wave to turn this one oh and and Jake’s not silly you know if any wave comes through now with 40 seconds on the
Clock you’re going so yeah especially after what we saw happen to Medina earlier on so yeah he he’ll be definitely sticking close to Fredo here and making sure that no opportunity is passed by I I just go back to the start well but even the restart you know were there a couple
Of opportunities where maybe Fred could have converted even those couple of fours there was a fall from Fred as well earlier on so maybe a few mistakes made there and in my eyes I think the the win has been just the quality of waves that Jake’s had they’ve just had that really
Nice clean face and yeah able to put together a couple of uh six Sixers the Run continues for Jake Marshall he overcomes Fredrico moras here in heat 12 and makes his way into the round of 16 but Fred banking a 6.67 and maybe is reconnected with some form before
Heading over to to Margaret River to try and save his place on this Championship tour we’re going to take a quick break when we return we’ve got a former winner out in the lineup John John Florence taking on cab Matson Happ e surfing You’ say my religion and I got me culture it’s just Community Day and Day my name is Anthony Hume AKA humi everyone knows me humi I work for the WSL on the the site team for the rip kill Pro down at bswi the event actually starts with an opening ceremony and I’ve been a part of that from pretty much the
Day they started doing it and I play the yiki which you all know as a digo with the Surfers and the opening ceremony and the cleansing part of it they reflect we feel proud to give that to them to help them prepare for their competitive ride you know it’s laugh and and it’s
Connections B just glows it’s just that presence it’s a beautiful place good on you humi always great to catch up with him and awesome to get those behind the stories from the championship tour events thanks to Yeti and WSL out there in the lineup now we’ve got a former winner John John
Florence is taking on Kade Matson here and heat 13 the round of 32 looking for a spot obviously in the round of 16 but looking to maintain his position at the top end of the ranks Kate Matson looking to get himself above that cut line
Before we uh wrap up stop five over in Western Australia you can feel the pressure building John John Florence has a look at one here on the inside and we were chatting just during that last Heat you know these conditions do kind of I think bring the an upset into uh the
Conversation because it it even things up there there’s a lack of consistency in the set waves which gives Cade the opportunity with good wave selection to maybe find an edge over John here 100% I think today wave selection is everything this heat right here on paper you say of
Course John John’s going to have the upper hand but today it’s just been a w it’s been the wave catching game it’s been wave selection it’s who’s on the better waves and if you’re not falling and you’re being consistent and you’ve got that flow I feel like you’re getting
The win and it definitely has the recipe uh for an upset today for sure I mean we’ve already seen it in earlier rounds Cole taking down Gabby and you know Cade right now this is his rookie year on tour and he he’s chasing a result here
You know he’s had a string of 17ths in the first few events of the year and right now this is a big moment for him this is a big heat for him if he was to get the win here it sort of alleviates a bit of that pressure going into Margot
River it doesn’t make it the task so hard you know if if he doesn’t get this win here he’s looking down the barrel of a potential he needs to win the event basically to save himself so it’s yeah so super crucial right now and when you think about these two Surfers and their
Head-to-head history you don’t have to think back far same round Portugal John John Florence smoke cave over there put up a really healthy Heat score total so the Grom has some work to do let’s see how he opens things up here such a a powerful Surfer great variety on that forehand
Plenty of Sparky in these first few hits he looks up for it as he finishes off strong on the opening wave here johnjo Florence he’ll be looking to to match a pretty decent ride here CAD had a an amazing run the last few years we’ll talk about that in a
Moment but let’s see what J J can do beautiful opening round heat that he had in pumping conditions at Bells now we get the opportunity to see him here at Winky and just working this one over flowing being patient with where he chooses to place that major turn and he
Sticks it on the end of the wave what do you think Felicity where do you see these two uh two scores falling oh oh I’m going to need to watch both replays before before I make my mind up yeah straight away when I saw Kate take off I was like okay he’s in
Good momentum here he’s in good flow looking spicy looking really sharp but then and I said okay I was going to my thoughts were well that’s one way to take it to John John Florence I mean you got to put him on the ropes but then straight out back behind him JN takes
Off and also drops an absolute Banger of a wave so before I make a decision and uh yeah to I’m judging I’m going to have to watch those replays let’s have a look at it yeah this is Kade and I just love the beautiful flow that he had here nice
Variety too was a smaller wave compared to John’s this one and he gets the Finish looking really good you know watching this back this and now we can compare it to John here biger set wave for John already in my eyes I’m thinking John’s probably
Going to get the J just with the size of this wave also the variety too going from that carving maneuver into the lip a couple of times and just toying with it here and then getting that uh progression there at the end it when I
Watch it back it’s a John it’s a John call for me for sure he’s so on this year he’s been looking brilliant through the opening events of the Season second place finish at pipe quarterfinal at sunset wow Ninth Place finish at Portugal he wants to to get himself in
That final five so bad well look how far forward his front foot was there it was basically on the nose of the board oh look at that though basically on one foot so good onelegged squats coming in handy yeah he’s a he’s a lamp of a human
John he’s you know he’s not a a lanky sort of slight guy there’s a a lot of him but he just is incredibly agile and really does absorb any kind of pressure when he lands those rotations or any kind on of air just beautifully uh it’s just Rock Solid
Stuff slightly bigger wave as you said and just I don’t know a bit more clout Y and purpose and intent in each of those Maneuvers bit more manly if you will but uh Kate doesn’t give much away to John uh in in height and stature Kate’s a big
Grom always has been a bit of a Manchild big boy big boy 6.83 for Kate Matson the surfer from s CL and John job Florence bags a 7.67 on that uh that first decent scoring ride so a nice close exchange here you got to love it John Florence won the event in
2019 and uh yeah just has had some unbelievable performances here he’s got the highest heat average this year so even though he hasn’t had the victory you know that suggests that he’s got incredible form running through the opening stage of the season this year looking really fit looking at 100%
Health which is I think what all surf fans want to see we’ve missed him from you know that that full campaign a lot over the years oh as he tries to whip the reverse out of the pocket there you got to be thinking if he made that he
Was on his way already like Leaps and Bounds in front of Kade you know you get that back up really in quick succession from that 6.67 really smart obviously fell but you know Kate’s 6.83 was great surfing as well I think just the only thing that
Let him down was the wave height and because that wave height was smaller his just the Maneuvers just didn’t look as big you know John just got the jump obviously he had that progression there at the end with that big fin throw but yeah Kate’s wave height just slightly
Let him down and I’ve got to be thinking you know if Kate gets the opportunity on one of these bigger sort of set waves I’m I’m really liking what I’m seeing from you I think if these two are meeting over on the bowl and at 6 foot
Um you know Kate’s going to really struggle uh but here at winky you know I had a chat to him after his a really solid elimination round performance where he’s one of the top scorers uh getting the jumper on Cole hashman and Callum Robson uh he said he he felt
Those similarities between Winky and trestles he felt right at home that’s going to really give him some confidence a bit of fuel in this this massive heat so uh yeah we’ll see how he fares 6.83 great opener John didn’t back up the 7.67 with that last ride so Cade has the
Opportunity now to to get himself in front and maybe put some some pressure on the two-time world champion sure it looks like he’s going to go this one too yeah easy decision here needs to really dig in on these opening sections if he wants to get an excellent score nice hit there loading
Up a measured approach isn’t going to get it done against against John John Florence out here at the moment Cade knows that but he’s just waiting for a good opportunity he never really finds the section on that wave no it almost seemed like he would timing was good if
I’m going to be hyper hypercritical maybe slightly that’s what we’re here to do right yeah slightly late on those couple of First turns maybe just ever so slightly but he’s obviously going to get out in front here he only needs that 1.65 let’s just have a look here
And straight up into the lip you know you know what actually timing was perfect who am I kid I’m kidding myself I just well he just he just needed the big major turn like it’s he’s pieced it together pretty nicely but I think even CAD like on that wave just saying just
Give me something stand up give me something I can really rip into it was sort of dot to dot surfing not really getting the opportunity to to rip the paper in half for sure I think needs a set too you know I think a set today and
A like the second wave of the set where it’s got that clean face on there I even saw it um in Griff’s heat as well against Tully just Griff being on those set waves the second one it was just really clean smooth fast surfing uh Cade needs a set because there’s just that
Clear difference right now between John’s high score and Cade’s yeah Kade still gets that lead though 517 and that’s you know what what he wants to a achieve out of that ride it wasn’t the one that’s going to help him seal the deal and win the Heat but at
This point in time he does force a a rotation with that priority he gives J John something to think about John after a 4.33 here so C making his way back out just over 17 minutes to go and uh Vaughn what about that board for Jake Marshall it just looks incredible flowing
Beautifully out there Ronnie uh winky Jake the board it’s all come together beautifully a big wind there in a heat that was pretty wave starve mate less than 10 waves ridden in that heat total between you and Freddy but when you were on them you made them can’t M for sure
Yeah the beginning was uh pretty brutal with the whole restart I mean out stok at least we got a restart but um yeah I don’t know sometimes it just seems like it goes through LOLs and weird phases out here and we actually had a good run
Of set through the middle portion of the Heat and um yeah I was stok to get a couple I honestly like didn’t really get the best waves I had my best wave I I probably fell on the last turn so um was a little bit of a funky heat for me but
I was stoked to uh just get through and get another chance to Surf later Richie love it mentioned in the broadcast that you know at different times in your career you get to momentum and it’s really important to just lean into that um do you feel like you’re in that head
Space at the moment for sure I mean I feel like I’m uh I’m surfing really well at the moment I’ve got great boards um competing well and you know my first couple years on tour were like just a little bit of a struggle I would say for
Me and I don’t know I was kind of dealing with some injuries and like maybe my mental confidence wasn’t really there but now I feel better than ever and I feel like I’m right up here with the best guys and yeah I don’t know I’m
Here I’m here to win so um I’m feeling really confident and I’m ready to go for the rest of the event and just give us a little bit of insight into your board M cuz as I said it is absolutely just crispy at they yeah I switched um the
Board I wrode in the first round was a different one than the one I rode today was like a little bit smaller so I actually jumped on the board that I rode in air sah for my second place finish on the Challenger last year and um The Wave
Here is really really similar so after that event last year I kind of put the board away and figured I might need it at some point and yeah I’ve got some other new ones that work good but sometimes it’s nice to go back to something that you feel really confident
On and that you know is going to work and yeah it feels great in these kind of sloper like little bit crumbler waves so I’m really amped on my equipment it feels amazing that’s really good man cuz I now you will bumed to us crease that
Magic board the other day in your first round mate Baron Mia next Heat how are you going to for that one that’s going to be really fun me and baron have been friends for a super long time and uh Baron used to ride for Hurley so we had
A lot of like trips growing up and we used to like just like have so much uh funny like I don’t know like we’ talk so much to each other just like yeah I’m going to get you whatever like you know um so it’ll be really fun to Surf a heat
With him on tour I don’t think we’ve had a man- on- man heat so I’m sure it’ll be uh cool and it’s it’s just rad that we’re both um able to be up here surfing at the at the highest level and um yeah it’s going to be really fun I’m excited
Another round of 16 mate you could go even further than that congratulations thank you thank you cheers vno thanks man Jake Marshall end the rout of 16 and uh just really looking to solidify his place up at that top end of the ratings came into this one in
Eighth and maybe a chance to to climb a lot higher with some big names falling out of the mix at the pointy end 14 minutes remaining here Kate Matson does hold the lead at the moment John Florence after a 4.33 it’s just uh we we heard vau
Mention it you know not a whole lot of waves ridden in that last Heat and uh that’s something that that John I’m sure would have addressed with Ross Williams his coach you know you don’t want to be Reckless and take every wave that that rolls in but you you can’t pass up
Opportunities especially if you’re you’re in that second spot for sure and I also believe that we we saw it that last he had that restart you kind of need to have something in that first block of the heat because you don’t really want to be chasing two waves when
It comes down to less than half of that time remaining because we’ve seen some really big lows today we even heard Jake talk about it you know it was obviously quieter in the beginning of his heat but then in the middle they had that flurry
Of waves and you just I mean these guys are watching it though and that they’d be probably timing the sets and knowing sort of how regular not regular it is but you don’t really want to be leaving it to that last minute at all uh John’s out there with priority now 30 minutes
On the clock he’s only chasing a 4.33 it’s a small score for him and you got to be thinking that he’s going to be on that next set when it rolls through such a an amazing talent John Florence his numbers here are ridiculous when I was mentioning before this year
His Heat score averages uh his Heat score average is the highest but at Bells Beach Han and Jordi Smith have a Heat score average that’s 15 points plus uh the only Surfers here in the mix that that can boast that um it’s pretty impressive you know to to be able to
Come here as many times as they have and sustain numbers that high oh I just think John surfing suits this way I think his strength is his forehand and his carves on his forehand and the variation that he’s able to get in those carving Maneuvers I mean he’s got a lot
Of strengths on T it we all know it but I mean I personally love watching him at marget River just Beautiful Romance that is over there big hand is bit consequential and I think the same thing happens here at the bowl you know you get him in waves where it’s a bit bigger
Bit more power he just feels so at home he’s just able to put the board on rail he feels so comfortable and it’s just his bread and butter yeah it’s kind of dangerous to invest too much into the the history of numbers and averages but surely you know Cade Matson is sort of
Saying himself well his average is around 15 points plus plus that that’s kind of my goal I need to get a couple of high range sevens and and to really give myself a chance here because the the truth of the matter is John’s had a lot of slow Heats at Bells and winky
Over the years too low scoring Heats so that average is brought up by not just 15 point plus Heats it’s brought up by 18 point plus Heats he has done huge airs at siy conditions over at Bells he’s also lit up winky so it’s you know
It’s going to take a lot for for Cade to hang on to this position at the moment but right now he’s right where he needs to be 11 minutes to go John John Florence after a 4.33 we’re going to take a bonsoy brew Break e for winding back the clock to 2014 John John Florence in a round four heat came up against Kelly Slater and Gabriel Medina and dropped a 10-point rod and what did he get for it place in the quarterfinals little different these days ye he’s showing a 110 Tundra coola
At the competitors who can drop a 10-point rid in competition filed with Yeti goodies but Florence back then just so corked out I think he’s added quite a bit of muscle to that frame these days he definitely looks a lot bigger these days that’s for sure lot of power in he surfing big
Carving approach but uh yeah that uh that’s a sord after prize we we love our Yeti goodies yeah so to the competitors Yeti 110 filled with a bunch of Yeti goodies yeah Glenn Hall can have a nice bath in that thing eight and a half minutes to go
Here and John Florence is patiently waiting for his opportunity it’s got to be nerve-wracking even when you’re uh as experienced as John and you’ve you’ve been in this position so many times you know you just when the conditions get slow like this there’s a infrequency in
The the set waves the door is open for underdogs to to get the jump on you so we’ll see if JN can hold his nerve here I I think he will I think he’s definitely going to hold his nerve I he’s been in this position a lot and I
Just think back to this year in the last few events and the form we’ve seen from him and just the confidence that he’s bringing to each event I think if he’s given the opportunity you know I I think he will convert I think he’s 4.33 that’s
A low score right now he’s already got that 6 s the highest single wave of the Heat and from what we saw on that wave it things are looking good for John I think it’s getting to that position now where John has to have faith in his 7672
And you’ve just got to remember that you know there there’s a points difference already in the 6.83 almost a point in the 683 and 767 so if a mediumsized wave comes in it’s such a gamble but I I feel like you have to take it just to get the
Lead back and ensure that he’s in front like can you is it one of those those days where with priority you bank on a a big set wave coming no not today I mean we’ve had long long levels today you can’t he John’s going if a if a mediumsized set’s coming through John
Will pull the trigger I think so you have to because you just don’t know if another opportunity is going to come through I mean that could be all she wrote and then what you let a mediumsized wave go through and kind of when we saw that mistake earlier on from
Gabby with Cole and he had priority just let that sort of mediumsized wave go through and Cole converted and I just don’t think you could you can leave that to chance today he only needs a 4.33 John can do that in one turn yeah and if
You can get him a 533 just pushes that requirement up for Kate and then you know then he’s got that that same dilemma like am I going to get an opportunity so yeah I just oh it’s hard it’s so hard you know if you took a mediumsized one and then
Kate gets a bomb on the outside like I don’t think a coach at that point would scrutinize you too heavily well you we don’t have a crystal ball you know we we we can’t see or predict what these sets are going to be like when they come in
You I think he’d be mad not to go uh he could totally prove me wrong and wait right down to the last minute and looks like we will have some motion in the ocean it feels like there’s some energy rolling our way fingers crossed just under 6 minutes to go
Here and yeah you just you know like if if you’re in this situation and John John Florence you your feet start to feel a bit slippery at this point no way creeping in probably wax is the top I’d say probably just a quick little r of the feets on
The top of the feet that old trick yeah they’re waxing the feet something that the the Surfers like to do isn’t it yeah Shane Bashan was one of the first people that I ever saw do that waxing the top of his feet before he paddled out for a
Heat and then he rubbed the bottom of his other foot on top of his waxed foot especially at waves like winky where you’re running out over that slippery sort of weedy bble Reef there I mean Margaret River comes to mind when you’re walking out through the keyhole in
Winter all that sound get gets washed away and that those rocks there become super slippery so I’ve seen Kelly wax his feet a lot seen Jack Robo wax his feet a lot it’s a thing John John just standing on his board just saying come on I’ve been it’s been like
Probably 10 minutes now he’s been waiting for this opportunity at this 4.33 it has gone a bit quiet from that pullback shot it kind of looked like we were going to have a few sets start rolling through but kind of just dissipated into not much and if I turn
Around and sometimes you know Bells can be the indicator of what’s going to push down the point further to Winky and uh looking at the bowl right now and she’s looking a bit quiet yeah not a whole lot at the moment so uh it might just be a a
Crack at a mediumsized wave here that that John is banking on to turn this heat around and get himself into that round of 16 4 minutes to go I’m even thinking it might be coming down to a crack at a small size wave at this point just quickly K matson’s story
Is pretty uh remarkable he had a a back injury a couple of years back um I think 2022 he was really struggling um opted for surgery at one point he was wondering if he ever be able to get back to his best and realize his dream uh really committed in intensely
To his Rehabilitation and got himself a great run of results on The Challenger Series to make the grade and uh it’s fantastic to see you know like for someone so young to overcome that or just to get here it’s a a massive achievement oh surgery and for a back
Injury I mean that’s major and especially for someone like Kade who’s you know in the earlier stages of his career you’d think uh one good thing about injuries I mean if you look at or maybe a silver lining to come from that is it does give you a good perspective
Bit of a reality check maybe and I sometimes when you pair everything right back the expectations are lower I mean we’ve seen it a lot beware of that Wounded Warrior and people just come back even stronger than what they were before and I mean I’m stoked to see Kate
On tour I feel like he belongs here I feel that his surfing is very smooth very connected I mean he had a serious dig at that first event of the year if we cast our minds back to back door that day and who he just had the craziest
Wipe out and you could just see how committed he was I mean he was always going to go that wave and yeah just looked so deifying though but he came up and he was fine uh but he’s chasing a result right now he’s obviously sitting out there in that lead but scary place
For him right now yeah probably even scarier for for John John Florence who’s just desperate for this 4.33 but yeah K part of that that big S Clemy push uh There Was You Know cast of them that graduated to the championship tour last year and of them are riding Matt bois’s
Boards and so LML Crosby then there’s Eli hanaman Cole obviously joining that uh that long list but yeah Kade has has done incredibly well and you know I think you’re right perspective is is sums him up beautifully because even though he’s had this run of 17s he has
Really enjoyed his time on the championship toour this year he’s buzzing he’s got a big smile on his face every time you you bump into him super warm character very popular amongst his peers and and right where he needs to be at the moment leading John John Florence
With an opportunity to break into the round of 16 for the first time this season got to be thinking now I mean back to that point8 that John has in his scor line did he fall on that one my memory is not serving me well right now but
Wow it’s pretty nuts we we’ve really only seen that one flurry of a set in this heat yeah John had a look at one at the start of the heat it kind of closed out um he’s making a move on the inside here this is his opportunity Kate in his
Face just making sure he commits that wave John head down paddling pushing to get into this one and he does needs a 4.33 loading up has some speed nice little hit there under pressure J joh catches a bit of a rail but looks to clean it up here on the inside pushes it
Can’t ride out 40 seconds to go doesn’t feel feel like a 4.33 definitely doesn’t feel like a 4.33 to me that that was a very very small wave so you could see how hard John had to scratch to get into that one I don’t think he know he probably knows it too
Just he’s going to need more heavy situation for John Florence that wave just didn’t really give him enough push he suffed it he was on his way but even that last turn I I just don’t know if there was enough pop and release I even know if he made that if
He would have got the score to be honest no you compare it to K matson’s 517 wow and the gro has survived K Matson 21 years of age has just got the jump on a former winner a two-time world champion here at the rip prob Bells Beach presented by bonsoy an important result
For him and John John Florence you know he’s trending backwards with his results at the moment but the good news for him is he’s heading to an event that someone’s going to have to wrestle the trophy away from him over there but uh disappointing really let down by the conditions here
John John Florence but Kate Matson getting the job done and he is moving on that was Major that that was Major Heat win for Kate and and super important for Kate Kate needs to alleviate some of that pressure before the cut this is he’s on his way
But disappointing for John I mean really there was only that there was one set that came through in that in that heat one set at the beginning and other than that they were just sitting around and we thought John might have the swing at at least the mediumsized wave but it
Just didn’t come to fruition well that was the only wave that he got the opportunity on and uh it didn’t happen for him John John out of the event Kade Marches On we’ll take a quick break and bring in Jord Rich for the Call for for [Applause] The round of 32 continues here at winky pop yodora taking on Ian Gentile Ian Gentile representing Maui and Hawaii and yodora big part of the Brazilian storm turned in his best season to date last year in 2023 and came Incredibly Close to making the WSL finals last season
Just came off a tough result in Portugal getting an equal ninth where the year before he turned into a semifinal finish that was kind of the result that really pushed his fire and really heated up strong through the mid-season cut and Beyond a dangerous goofy foot who’s
Being coached by his father Leandro Dora but he and Gentile also working with Leandro Dora this season so some Friendly Fire here Joe Trel Richie loved for the call a man who’s won lowers and Hol Eva and many many more brilliant performances quarterfinals here at Bells
In the past Richie this is a cool one to break down regular vers Goofy and and two good friends with a lot on the line yeah yeah there’s plenty on the line here and we’ve seen yo over the years put in some just amazing performances I
Feel like uh you know he can really take to the air one of the goofies who’s uh super comfortable in going above the lip and but anel he’s been on some sort of a special role over the last uh season really improving his performances here he goes up and riding looking to control
The start as Ian genal kept paddling deeper than his good friend Yago and we’ll see if it pays off nothing yet for the Maui boy then connects with a nice off the top still working hard sneaks in a climb and steps off didn’t go home in between events so
From Portugal just came straight to Australia to continue to enjoy his his job as one of the best Surfers in the world a moment that he uh had as a junior where he actually thought maybe this wouldn’t happen it all came true as we look at this last replay yeah
Streaking down the line gets a ton of speed starts to open up with this section here quick snap keeps that momentum going and a little shimmy on that uh on that final moment there up and over the roof as it came down nothing uh the score is going to uh
Be below a mid-range score I feel like this is live action here with yo Dora now hitting the lip nice tight compact backhand surf in to start but trying to get some more out of this wave there’s a vertical hack and trying to put a little bit more into the end
Section yodora number nine has such a cool style on tour and like you said crazy above the lip especially backend I remember in at kramas Red Bull was putting on that Airborne series it was just so cool to talk to all the best air guys in the world they
Just look up to Yago so much above the lip as we look at his opener again yeah so I feel like yo gets the opening exchange here and uh these moments right here gets up and over the foam bang hits that one vertical to finish things
Off so we’ve seen a 3.83 drop in for Ian gentil I feel like yagos we’ll go a little bit further north of that not too much um scale just uh set for this heat as yo paddles back out just finished a big heat where we lost a huge name John Florence out
Because of a great performance from the rookie Kade Madson is with v thanks yoy yeah Kade wow so good man you were saying on the way up the stairs that you hadn’t done a post interview since you’ve been in the CT got two under your belt and uh really good results as well
Yeah it feels good it was a bummer that he didn’t have too many waves but uh yeah I can’t complain with the outcome I was super stoked what’s Chang for you do you think mate um you know bit of a tricky start to the year obviously a
Rookie season there’s so much to learn but something cck here bills yeah I think the first couple events I might have been just like a little more like second guessing like everything I was doing and now I feel like I’ve kind of like warmed up into it and kind of like
Know exactly what I want to do and I kind of just want to like enjoy it more and I feel like this event I’m like kind of just enjoying every like little thing like walking on like the Bell stairs and just like enjoying it all so yeah I’m
Really happy M doesn’t matter how much you enjoy it when you see your name against John John Florence in a heat cheat you know that you’ve got to bring something really special to the table yeah I had him in Portugal too in my round of 32 so I was uh little uh kind
Of wanted to get him back so I was really I definitely happy to get him back and uh yeah get a couple fun waves while I was at it that’s awesome mate and um who are you getting ready to uh sorry how are you going to get ready for
You next day um yeah I think we’re surfing again later today so I’ll just go home reset and come back down and watch that Co Pinto heat and then get fired up for my heat unreal man so good to see you doing so well congratulations on taking down absolute Giant former
Winner and two-time world champion John John appreciate it thank you well done Kade Matson an absolute Legend of a human hardworking athlete backing himself and he’s going to be dangerous no matter who he draws a tough start to the season especially when you’re reminded that you haven’t been having
Too much time on the glass talking about post heat interviews but I I just feel like he doesn’t wear his losses like some other you know rookies that it could be a lot of weight on your shoulders a lot of question marks on if you belong I think cage is going to
Continue to to move forward and just continue to just go on to the next one for him he’s he’s got the round of 16 to ajoy at Bell’s Beach yeah and uh as a rookie you know you you can either take two uh Avenues here you get totally
Bummed out and just be you know freaking out that you’re not making Heats or you can learn from it you can actually go okay what happened why did I learn what do I lose what do I need to learn here why do I what do I need to pick up but I
I kind of like really enjoy this whole thing with without thinking about pressure and numbers and results and his surfing I felt completely changed totally hardest thing to do in these first five events especially for the rookies is like just not think about that cut off after the
Fifth event let’s have a look what happened yodora here’s the replay on his second wave little bit of foam and turbulence on the face but he cracks that first turn gets the drift but only the one maneuver Joe so quick in and out and in contrast ien te streaking down
The line almost weightless with these two flowing floaters here now he grinds the lip saw a little moment of fins just flashing out of the lip there and he gets a bit of a cut down straight into a snap and then goes for this strong finish close out re-entry bust the tail
Out that’s a better ride for iin the best ride of the heat so far in gen’s parents are from Brazil a place called fora in the far north great professionals have come out of that region like Pablo PA Paulino who won multiple World Junior Championships uh sylan Lima just a right
Around the corner from Fort ala she won the bell’s title former runner up in the world one of the best ever Fabio Silva hator Alves from that part of the world his family was able to have moved to Maui and raised the in on that beautiful island but he speaks perfect Portuguese
Which definitely helps with life on tour you can see good friends like with Yago Dora last score coming through for inal a 6.0 now Yago needs a 50-1 to take the lead yeah it was a crazy story when Ian Gentile actually had to stop surfing for
A bit being on the Qs and Challengers and even there was a time when there wasn’t priority in in fourman heats where his kind of personality was just going oh my goodness I kind of want to do something else and then I think the priority update where you can take turns
And not just get hassled out of situations really helped a guy like Ian who has that Purity in his surfing and just wants to ride good waves and all of a sudden everything turned around and I feel like he’s just getting better and better it’s been fun seeing Ian Gentile
Get really comfortable on the championship tour Kyo I know you have a lot of great memories of him growing up in Hawaii yeah I mean just the youngster coming through and uh and Ian’s going to be really comfortable here uh again I mean it’s cliche Maui glass right he
Comes from the windiest of the Hawaiian Islands this is just another day at H keepa for Ian gen with the Splash and the S and the side onshore win and with that I’m going to give you Oak Bar’s conditions update got 3 to 5 foot right now talked about the side onshore wind
Right about 17 mph or so so definitely some texture definitely some sections to negotiate but Ian gen this should be in the Maui boys wheelhouse such a great call there kpo with the Maui glass when you’re over there on Maui and and out at hookipa
It’s just a it’s a thing like you just never get glassy conditions you know and when it’s just looking like this there’s a little lump on the wave they’re like wow it’s glassy smooth day there we go let’s go rip and uh Ian Gentile got used
To surfing with a lot of crazy wind directions I think that’s why there’s so many great Aus from that Island like the mat Miola the AL ler crew if you know where to go at the right time you could definitely use that wind to your advantage above the lip yeah cool it’s
Uh it definitely helps you know and if that wind’s going away from you as it’s kind of coming down the point now so it does make it a little tricky to land those airs and and have that board sticks to stick to your feet so when
These Surfers do go take to the air today you know you know that when they’re making that air that’s pure skill man Andy Irons a three time world champ once said that Ian genal was the best gr on the planet really there was a a clip
That was released and he was fresh off I think a Perfect final in the NSSA open boys division had bid sponsored backing was going on surf trips with his Heroes and it was just such a time for and Gentile he had to regroup from that and
Put himself in a position to qualify and he’s doing great right now on tour leading the heat over yodora with 1530 still remaining we’ll continue with the ripc pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy right after this for e time to watch the Paul’s big day at
Winky pop for the round of 32 and what a morning a rookie Cole Housman dealing with the cut has his hero in the lineup Gabriel Medina the three-time World Champ he was fresh off that gigantic heat total on the bell’s Bowl he looked quick he looked inspired 710
667 then with priority Medina let the rookie go and hman went to town crushing a couple of big sections went all the way into the end section and finished on his feet to get the score and upset Medina Louie was proud of that performance said you just beat your hero
Then it was all Cola Pento class in the yellow Jersey an aggressive start against Tully Wy as far as a paddle battle is concerned Tully then paddled into a close out and it was all about Griff now Crosby took control maybe more incentive to draw his brother in the
Round of 16 he looked very selective very patient radical 75 was his start then backed it up with a 697 not surfing like a rookie looking like a season vet using a lot of that rail on that Mayhem he’s got a griffin Crosby cool combinations even built to a 65 at
The end of this seat eliminates the greatest of all time his first win over Kelly in his career thanks for watching the pulse the big story from the morning Rich was going back to that huge upset from the rookie on tour cole hman really making a smart decision just to paddle
Into that last wave actually moved up a bit deep deeper and then without priority was happy that Medina didn’t take that wave off him at the end yeah well it’s the kind of scrip got flipped you know and that’s what Medina was actually doing to Cole hman through the
Entirety of that uh of that heat he kept on sneaking up the inside and getting these ones that were breaking a little bit deeper and this was that last wave yeah so it’s that that start opening combination is where the judges uh really found all the points and then the
Strong finish as well but you know that second turn of of coals is arguably the biggest face turn of the heat a lot of water displacement and as you can see here this second turn he just gets all that Tire Release really blows the fins out critical moment right here and we
Know that degree of difficulty and that critical nature of the turn is something that the judges really PID we love close seats and I just had a quick chat with the head judge louly you know L’s watching the panel and not sitting down writing the scores down but he just said
I believe the judges really loved that first combination of Maneuvers in comparison with other similar rides and they took their time to review all judges reacted that that was the score to turn it and seeing that strongest committed combination to kick off the wave that ended up being the real
Difference with not a whole lot separating the backup waves upon review for Cole it’s a huge Heat win with uh momentum that he needs to feel if he wants to Surf a complete season in his rookie year on tour yeah critical moment no doubt and a frustrating one for
Gabrielle obviously you know he’s looking to solidify his place in in that final five he wants to get right up there and Cole well he’s surfing for his career and and his spot on the tour so you know every single one of these hits um you know they are crucial in the
Entirety of the Surfers career and that’s why there’s so much passion involved with them yod Dora back and Float to start this one off holding the bottom turn and a nice rapid cut back easy Pace to follow as he’s tracking down the line and now hits it up off the lip to shut
It down it’s interesting when you compare big performances from a previous season where I was curious to see Yago for because last year he was a bit higher in the rankings before heading into Bell’s Beach and the only difference with his start was the third in Portugal instead
Of the ninth but he actually had the same results at pipe and sunset really and then just caught fire obviously making finals day in Europe so his surfing still there there he’s still finding his rhythm on tour it’s interesting how like when someone finishes six in the world you’re ready
For them to to show up and blow up at the first absolutely but it’s not that case mate it’s etchy sketch you just shake that thing and it’s a clean slate every season good wave here from yod Dora in particular this final turn here just slams it so hard and that’s a great
Comeback wave so uh this is the uh the 56 from Ian gen really silky smooth style and a risp turn off the top there very committed you can see just bust through the lip there see how that tail goes free and then he re-engages all that turbulent water trying to knock him off
But Ian just using all that leg strength see how he gets nice and low just gets that um you know that shooted uh sturdy stance gets nice and low and then uh gets The Stand Tall after that to show the judge is that he has completed the maneuver you ridden a
Mayhem before I have actually y I’ve ridden them uh throughout my career uh occasionally would you get them when you were competing in California or would you kind of pack one on the road uh just every now and then I’d tap in and more so late I’ve just jumped on boards that
My friends have had and and uh you know really admire what Matt bis does he’s in incredible shaper Ian’s actually riding the the driver 2.0 a little rounded pin tail um and Matt was saying that it’s it’s got a slightly lower volume to it a slightly lower rail for the tall kind of
Lanky frame of of Ian Gil so we can kind of uh knife into it uh it was something he wanted that sensitive feeling under his feet some some Surfers like to have it you know a bit more of a boxy rail blocky rail with with a bit more volume
In it and that kind of sits you up on the water a little more Ian liking to have that sensitivity in the rail where he can really knife into it so uh all these little um you know special features that go into the individual board for the individual Rider gen on
The Mayhem sweep to start chunky section drifts through it to create some space and punches it out again with the layback slide silky wrap again and now sets up a beautiful hook using all of that rail yeah you can celebrate that felt good it looked good Gentile went to second with the
Previous of Dora coming in at a 6.4 all Mayhem matchup as far as surfboards are concerned and gen looking for that 634 to get the lead over his good buddy both coached by Yo’s father Leandro famous for World title coaching moments for adri SOA and on the junior level Lucas
Silvera yeah it’s looking spicy under his feet isn’t it that board of in gentials actually both these Surfers the boards are looking fantastic watch this clean slice off the top sort of navigating through these bumps and smoothing them out through each one of these turns that one there that big layback
Attack and gets a swooping cut back and down to the finishing turn bang big wrap again so uh great variety on that ride this will be a great angle here already popping the fins on that first turn and again on the second then he wraps it up quick cut backs down the
Line beautiful fan of spray so and gen you can see more of a an upright stance fairly narrow stance too compared to some but just always hunting down the line that turn there in particular frame that freeze that that’s a poster right there oh man I’m putting that on my wall
For sure but Yago is looking to answer quick tag there in the white waterer throws the tail high and doesn’t reverse shows even more control as he’s fir himself up the guy can get radical on demand spontaneity creativity that’s what yod door is made of needs a
7.11 cool to see those fins flying free kpo oh it’s I get to see them in the coming down the line and then out the back every single time like you said Joe fins free for both Yago and Ian uh the Maui boy doing a good job like I said FOC
Focus think it’s funing that his inner hole keep out here but Yago on the back hand so quick so precise in his board placement I love these back and forth battles so true kpo pretty rad to see two good friends going blow for blow changing the lead and then this is what
Kpo saw fins in his face and especially backand so difficult to accomplish oh it is just on the backand look at this just so inverted come on drone get out of the way let’s watch this and this is actually harder to do what what what yo does here so instead of
Going with the full rotation he goes now hang on a minute I’m just going to ride prone for a second and then bring it back around takes an incredible amount of control to be able to do that you can see the reaction from yo he was pumped
On it cuz the idea there rich is you can keep your motion forward and just keep that spin going or you can show the judges you have control with your fins out and actually pulled around forward impressive ability to pull that off for Yago and judges have to make their
Comparisons that’s what it’s all about remembering what’s happened so far seeing if Yago if he did enough to get at least a 7.11 gentile 75 is the direct comparison and it should be right there scores coming through 763 door gets the lead back Gentile now needs a
654 as he holds priority with 330 to go what an amazing Heat this one’s been such a great battle the lead being exchanged almost with every single wave some great surfing there the judg is obviously getting really excited about that maneuver showing a lot of progression degree of
Difficulty both these guys in a crazy spot on the rankings would take the top 22 for the whole year after Margaret River Ian on the live rankings 20th in the world so he’s right near that cut line Yago 18th in the world so very important to move up the rankings and
Get a spot in the round to 16 Yago happy with that crazy fin throw he can mix it up as well with that section if he wants to go above the lip and now with second priority he’s taking a higher spot on the point kind of
Similar to to what Cole was doing at the tail end of his seat yeah it’s an interesting strategy because uh what can happen here if yo looks at a wave and you know takes off then Ian can actually just steal it off him as that wave moves
Down the line so Ian’s obviously happy with his takeoff spot he he’ll have his line up and he’ll be uh just thinking this is where I think the best wave is and this uh place to take off on the wave is but yo may maybe just trying to
Get into his head space a little bit here just thinking okay hang on a minute am I reading this wrong so tactics coming into play with under 2 minutes to go now such a close battle as as we pass the gwm 2minute warning yodora representing Brazil so well as
First CT win of his career last season and it was a incredible location to get it done at home with his friends and family and sakurama he he’s from florionopolis but his whole family was there up in the northern region of Rio De Janeiro and soccer emo was the
Playground where he got the Wild Card beat multiple World Champs on the way to a semi-final finish and everyone started taking note oh wait this guy’s not a free Surfer anymore he belongs on the tour and you see that competitive energy coming out of him his dad talking to Matty
Benrose and mat looking pretty serious there cuz every time I talk to him he’s pulling off a prank or joking around I know man you got to be careful with that guy he will get you he will dead set get you no we love Matty bamr he he can
Switch the series his face on when it’s when it’s game time but every other minute of the day it is a practical juger watching Yaga going down the line there’s a first snap looking solid nice carve on this inside corner under priority of Gentile probably felt might as well
Just give something for the judges to look at keep the Reps up put some energy behind Gentile both these guys have been surfing so well in this heat and now Gentile looking to maybe turn this one around right here he will catch this wave needing a
6.54 Taps the float he’s got some work to do to cover some ground still working on a big section and misses it on the rotation and yodora will get the win and head into the round of 16 and it all came down to keeping his head in the game through several lead
Changes and how about that just rock and roll backand float one of the coolest Styles in the game a pro surfing and really needed to move up in the rankings get closer to the top 10 picture what a great battle congrats coach both athletes did great there yeah
Doing well everyone in the camp is uh performing that man on the screen yod Dora he’s moving through to the round of 16 and just look at the tides come back in off on the reef now 2 hours ago there were people standing another 10 20 yards
To the left in front of the Waves tods coming in Fast and a great job Diago moving on to the round of 16 to Surf again today great job to the officials who allowed a lot of fans to get down low on the beach it was more than I’ve ever seen a winky
Pop and then had to gather him up the stair case once that tide started filling in little bit tougher than the bells bowl for spec Spectators here locally so they’re taking advantage of the Jumbotron in the car park and getting a good spot on the bluff to watch some
Incredible surfing like we just saw from Yago coming up next a World Champ of Bell’s champ pelo Ferrera headlines the heat with RI Rio we’ll be right Back the for the rip Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by Rip Curl the ultimate surfing company by visit Victoria Melbourne every bit different by Eventbrite proud sponsor of women’s surfing on the WSL Championship Tour by oakberry Fuel yourself with the official sa of WSL Australia and by shaso
Official sunscreen partner of the world surf League yodora fresh off the win there’s a congratulations from his dad the pot bank and then from matd benrose the good on your mate well done what a great crew to have backing you in an event like this in just year around in
The world title race heelo just getting started against Rio wa thanks for being with us on the host said how good is this joeel Richie love it George pitar the wild card into the event George is so cool I found an old interview with you it was like what’s your dream Heat
This is years back and you’re like Bells bows pumping in the final with Kelly and I’m like it might happen man it was just so cool seen you in the event and and do some incredible surfing man yeah thank you thanks for having me it was um it was definitely a pretty special
Experience like I don’t know I just always thought growing up Bells hearing the Hell’s Bells in the morning and then walking down and um I don’t know being there on the first day was just so surreal and when I actually heard you talking about that in one of the Heats
And I was like oh actually imagine that that’d be pretty crazy but didn’t end up happening but wow just such such a crazy experience for me and I’m just yeah just so thankful for the opportunity thanks for joining us for the call we’ve got George with us this entire heat
Racetrack section for Rio wa taking off deep on the point and this guy is so quick he gets there snap to slide hitting the Whitewater quickly aggressive through his points as he will wind up with some open face cool carve off the top for the Indonesian and
Lights up the finish I want to go surf look at that fin throw into incomplete those turns from Rio though so enjoyable how hard he had to work just to get down the stretch r that was fun he was Miles up the point on that
One Jo for the start of this heat so obviously fighting for the inside position that was something that he obviously wanted against Ito and I feel this is exactly what he needs to do put Ito Under Pressure start to maybe push him to to go outside of his comfort zone
Because you know that Ito is going to just hammer it on his back hand he’s going to probably take to the air as well at some point uh I feel if uh Ria can just stick to his game plan like he did on that first wave with some really solid
Surfing a chance he one more look from the top here George take us through this wave yeah well obviously I was actually watching them before they were so far up the point for that inside but I know Rio so quick so he just managed to get
Around from up as the lowers which is pretty impressive and I don’t know he’s got such a nice click snap there that just like has the explosion on a pretty soft section and I don’t know just linked it together so well not much movement in between and then just found
The clean water and finished it really nicely gosh and then that exploding Rich yeah solid turn to finish off Great Wave there for Rio let’s see what Ito did so that foamy face that he has to deal with clean snap to start off and again then
Comes down as we know pushed a little too hard on that final turn doesn’t get the rotation as we think about how things started in the rip CR trials uh let’s go back then cuz that wasn’t broadcast to the world uh what happened who’s in the final with you what were
The waves like yeah it was pretty sick actually we got winky a little bit similar to this maybe a little bit more consistent and cleaner but I don’t know we had it was me rinardo Dylan Mofford and Mike madon in the yeah it was sick
It was two actually two man semi so was me and Reggie and then Dylan and Mike and then in the final I had dill and it was just so back and forth oh I think here goes Ito still enjoying our time with George patar rip Cur trials winner
Ripped in the main event as we have ealo former Bell’s champ going for a little snap on that big section winding up off the lip there’s a big Power move on the back and ealo first wave was a 2.5 and starting to build that’s his second effort against Rio Rio’s opener
Locking in at a 617 so ferar playing a little bit of catch up there Rich yeah uh it was a great opener for Rio and obviously Ido is trying to match it here good looking wave from the takeoff just a little down time to start
Things off now he starts to get to work just got a little off balance good projection floer and and then comes through to this final section gets some Tire Release there so a little bit disjointed between the Maneuvers so the judges will take note of that and keep that score relatively
Low might be mid-range George do you study the CT athletes and really look what they’re doing and as far as even heat prep goes since you’ve been kind of shadowing them in the Red Bull athlete Zone during this event yeah for sure it’s pretty it’s definitely a different
Feel like I almost I don’t know my heat prep normally is pretty average like I’m sort of just floating around but being on this stage and having that Red Bull athlete area zone I was like I got to go in there like an hour before and get all
Ready but I don’t know just watching everyone and it’s just it’s it’s really serious and it’s just they just take so much pride in what they do and I don’t know it’s cool it’s a cool energy I he Rio Rio Wier 617 on the opener starting
To jam down the line crispy little float there off the bottom continues with that forward progression down the line hits that section little two for one in a short space from Rio finding a little link up on that combination on the tail end of the wave Rich yeah he’s looking good isn’t he
Nice and light on his feet just making those little subtle adjustments in between all the bump doesn’t seem to be worrying him at all at the moment great backup wave yeah so fast so quick his Instagram video parts are like movie Andy segments in high performance conditions like there
Take us through George yeah it was just flying down the line I feel like just trying to time it so well at winkids you got to just match the pace of the wave and he’s doing it so well there just waiting for the section to present itself and that click snap he’s going
Through so well and jez he fitted in well was a pretty quick W so definitely a nice little backup score to that first one there’s that view from the water there seeing how quick he gets to the Finish look at that not a lot of surfers
Could have got that far Rich no no absolutely and again you know I just see shades of Danny Wills in this guy the way he surfs and the style and just how fast he executes these Maneuvers especially these quick turns like that off the top you can see kept the board
Directing down the line here he knew this final section had uh some good points had to make the decision there whether to do multiple turns or just go for the one oh almost pearls almost caught an edge and somehow managed to get two turns in the space of uh well
Any other human may have only got one done as we see him finished there and turning in a 4.67 for that hardworking effort EO 45 so Rio still out in front as we hit the 20 minute Mark uh George so much to discuss you were in that heat with Ethan
Ying to kind of close out the day so that was like the last thing we had to talk about all the rest of the afternoon into the evening and man your phone was blowing up yeah it definitely was it was um it was pretty classic actually like I
Don’t know it was it was a trick heat was there was tough waves at the start but we ended up getting a few towards the end and I don’t know it was it was I was just honestly just happy with with the heat it was just so fun to go back
And forth like that with Ethan even though it wasn’t any crazy scores but just to have that and to be able to put a few turns together was fun and then everyone was sort of blowing up my phone for a while there and I didn’t I didn’t
Really like I didn’t think it was that crazy like that big a deal but um I went home actually and I watched it and yeah I was I thought he beat me but I guess everyone sort of has opinion but that’s all right it was um it was just fun I
Was just happy to have that experience and to even show up against the the number two in the world was pretty crazy for me it was definitely surreal uh the best part about pro surfing is especially in an event like this I’ll get in the car park and someone’s still
Talking about a discrepancy from the 80s just different opinions like that’s going to be in pro surfing forever and fun for you to be a part of it like especially as a wild card and I just thought you’re post an interview in the moment like you’re just fresh out of the
Water and then your interview that I read on stab Magazine Man total class and just uh really cool just to to hear where your heads at as a young competitor that was really refreshing to hear from oh thank you yeah I don’t know I just I guess I’m I’m never really
Looking at it in a negative space like this is something I’ve dreamed of being here and like I got this opportunity from WSL and Rip Curl through the trials and I don’t know they gave me that and I there was no way I was going to look at
It in a negative way and for me to I don’t know like I was saying to even have that heat with Ethan was so special and yeah I was just I just wanted to really show my thanks and I was just happy to be here and I’m just learning
From The Experience like I’m I’m pretty early on in my career I think and just to have that sort of moment and to have those things go on you learn so much from those those types of situations that was going to be my next question any major takeaways uh for you in terms
Of well the the way you performed on your surfing or perhaps how you go about competition from now on definitely a lot with the preparation like I’ve never really when I was growing up on I never really had a a coach there with me and I was actually this event I was working
With Timmy McDonald yeah cool and um I don’t know we just we just got along really well and we just had like a good Bond sort of thing we were just yelling really well and able to talk to someone and talk to someone through that I was
Actually we chatted a lot at the start of the Challenger Series rich and um just having that there that definitely for me worked well because my mind can race a fair bit before these Heats especially like in that first one like the first I had out bells on my mind was
Just going everywhere I was just like I couldn’t even stand up on my first wave but um I don’t know he just just sort of brought it back and we just figured out that it’s just another heat like even though it’s on this crazy stage and you’ve thought about this moment for so
Long like I’ve been surfing Heats for so long now and it’s just you’re just trying to beat the competitor and you just I don’t know surf to that but a lot to do with that stuff just kind of keeping everything in perspective and knowing what you can control and going
From there cool love it we’re going to continue our conversation with George and let’s hear from the winner of the last te quickly yod Dora is with Laura yes yo what a fun hate surfing against good friend and aspiring partner a and Gentile going back and forth talk us
Through it and uh you know just help how excited you guys made it for us yeah that was really fun it felt like we were doing a mockit we usually do and that was fun it’s really good when you can go like get scores every exchange and like
We were he was he would get a score and then I’ll would get it back back and that was that was a really fun heat and talk to us you know in the leadup to the heat obviously your d uh your dad working with you both how how do you
Guys approach that did you just take it out in the water and leave it there or yeah for sure um we we didn’t talk too much today actually uh at breakfast we were still like super friendly and having fun but like two hours before a heat we kind of went our separate ways
Just to focus and like be in our own game and that’s what we did but after the heat we hugged and back to being friends now amazing back to making dinner together tonight uh you you’ll be coming up against Cade Madson in the next Heat you know hopefully the wayes stay stay well
But what how are you going to approach this next he yeah yeah I just want to keep doing the same keep picking right the right waves and keep surfing and doing what I do uh I feel like when I get a good Rhythm I I can go pretty far
So that’s what I’m I’m going to try to do again keep riding waves well you’re looking amazing anything you’d like to say to your family and friends back home yeah thank you thanks Laura great job yod door into the round of 16 he has Kade Manson double shot as for
A performance like that backhand tail throw was Radical and that was the difference in turning the heat at the end it switched leads about four or five times throughout that matchup that’s what you want to see as Rio still leads this one EO holding priority needing a
6.34 to take the lead and still enjoying our time with Rip Curl Wild Card winning the trials earning it George patar from Manley how often do you guys run into each other do you see Richie love it all the time at home or yeah pretty often
Pretty often I’ve moved up to the goie just recently oh you did oh for the high performance center yeah yeah and just going up there and I’m actually living at Morgan’s place so just we’re just sort of serving here together up there and the waves are just touched better
Than manle but we still claim him though Joe we claim he from North that’ll be attached to Forever definitely from from North stank but how’s Morgan as a as a housemate is he clean is he good we run a pretty similar program cuz we um he requalified for the
Challenger as well at the end of last year so we’ve been doing pretty similar stuff but uh oh here goes Rio and congrats on that we’ll be following you through the Challenger Series once again Rio look how quick he is already smooth open face nice carve through the roof
And he’s got to get out it’s eo’s turn with priority Little Speed Jam to float section there he’ll float it again now he’s created some space a series of kind of backside turn hacks in the white waterer kind of like get all that white water you’re kind of floating it see if
You get a little more out of the next one and did well to go pretty far far down that line you could tell eel was just hoping for something really big so he can go giant above the LI yeah it felt like he was chasing pretty much
That whole W but uh what about Rio he went miles up the point there you know and uh he actually had second priority and that’s why you saw Ito uh take that wave down the line now Rio back in the takeoff Zone but uh he’s got a good lead
Here he’s put a bit of pressure on Ido 12 minutes to go semi comeback wave here I think you know this may be ito’s best scoring ride this last one but um we’re yet to see that big standout moment in any of Italo’s waves where he really
Gets to open up that backand that we know and love as we see this wave flowing through he’ll paddle over the top of it last for Rio 293 just for the start of eo’s last wave got out in plenty of time for EO to enjoy the rest of it yeah George looking
Forward to the Challenger Series again uh kicking off soon at Snapper and and Beyond uh what are you looking forward to now that you’ve you’ve had some reps and and you’ve seen it all before yeah it’s definitely definitely a different feeling coming into that this year like
I don’t know going into it last year it was just so new and I was just like there was so much doubt there and it was I’d never been to so many locations and um I don’t know it’s just going to be it’s going to be fun especially starting
At snappa that’s always good as we see this last one Rio with so much speed and then to eat to low kpo Guerrero’s in the water just watching how fast these guys are going two of the fastest on tour kpo for sure I mean two of the fastest that
I’ve seen today Joe just speeding down the line EO on the backand and Rio Rio’s in just his gear is in he’s in fifth or sixth gear skipping sections I mean his first wave he started way at uppers and cleared so much ground to make it all
The way through so yeah you’re right Joe two of the fastest Surfers that we’ve seen today I guess I mean you’ve been watching has anyone been sitting as high as Rio today is anyone what I’m sorry Jo been sitting high up the point like as Rio sitting or
Is he sitting the deepest so far today yeah I mean well I feel as the tide comes in we’re going to see more more of uh the Surfers moving up the reef to the upper section so um and and Rio started way up there but gained all kinds of
Ground down the line good man kyes thank you Rio WIA 617 was this opener then 46 still keeping that EO with three waves ridden which is always peculiar sometimes he’s got about 19 by now but just the pace of the waves at winky pop are kind of holding him back which I
Guess if you’re trying to find a way to beat your competitor if it is inconsistent that’s going to help you against celo cuz that guy can surf his way to Rhythm and yeah about you know sometimes even 10 15 waves he’ll just keep going totally wave and do one of those crazy
Rotations something uh super unique on the back hand and and get a big score but really important here for Rio he can he can really start to close this one out uh with a with a high scoring ride so really that comes down to wave choice
I think Felicity said it a couple of Heats you know wave Choice has really been a key uh in getting a heat wi today Rio with priority starting to move with the sets that are pouring through it winky pum looks at the first it’s breaking Underneath Him the second might
Do it just repositioning himself down the line in a good spot so far he’s got a defending or he’s got a former Bell’s champ a former World Champ of the wat so he can’t afford any mistakes Rio driving off the bottom keeps that projection turned down the line then digs in a bit
More on the tail drift smooth off the bottom and tags It Wide on the wind up big blast there at the fin Zone winding up for another beautiful finishing move just classy surfing from the Indonesian bettering a 467 briefly looking at EO and it’s just a throwaway but how
About that magic George that was fun to watch that was epic what the he yeah that was sick it it had that that second wave of the set the first one came through and it sort of took the chop away a little bit and I don’t know he
Just link these turns together so well he just waited for it and teed off it was was pretty sick a great Pace here Rio riding the sharp High 77 model just uh drifting through these snaps just putting the right amount of power uh and weightlessness as well you know he’s
Just he’s hitting them with a lot of power but then getting a little drift at the top just playing with the lip total control Rio out in front right now and Ido with work to do we’re going to take a bonsoy brew break but we’re still
Hanging out with George patar so send in questions at WSL on Instagram we’re going to ask him about his goals his life his surfboards what do you have for lunch everything else we’ll be right Back s for he5 still going we’re still hanging out with George and we still got Rio in the lead Gua thrown down a 75 and eelo needs an 827 now as he’s ripping down the line good cool Pace looking calm patient sweeping through the whitew there ASO another climbing snap and he
Bobbles and Falls so Ferrera needing an 827 as we focus on the rankings real quick EO number 12 in the world heading into this contest Rio 21st as we roll in Rich what happened here well Ito uh starts to wind up and at this point I was thinking wow this
Could be the start of his comeback wave a nice clean snap on the second but then the third here just got tangled up a little bit on the bottom turn up there just trying to jump up onto the onto that foamy section and it’s just uh his waves are
Just a little disjointed whereas Rio is finding these cleaner open faces that are allowing him to really get more flow between his turns and we’re getting a lot of questions in right now George for you mind taking a question from out there yeah of course thanks for talking on at
WSL on our socials this one coming from at Peter Mel hey the Condor on want to ask George who’s your favorite Surfer on tour and what is your go-to favorite CI model thanks Pete for the question my friend um probably probably Amani to be
Honest I just think the way he s w is just so different and I don’t know I’ve always like on the Challenger watching him going through there I was just so impressed with him and then I don’t know every heat I’d like never miss one of
His head side thing he’s and he’s such a standup guy as well he’s so like so nice he’s such a legend and um I don’t know probably CI model I I I run a few actually like I for my smaller waves I’ll ride like a fevera and um and
Then maybe like three Ford and and above sort of two happies in CI 2 Pros okay cool there yeah they’re all in there would you Rite a a ci2 pro today or I mean in the event uh in the event yeah yeah both and what just picking that
Model specifically what is that do and what’s that supposed to do with um I think it’s it’s just got a like a really good like forgiving rocker for pretty much most waves and then it’s also like hold as well you can put in a round tail
And oh he goes Ito Ito running down the line on the Timmy Patterson program as he’s got some speed trims it quickly lot of momentum for that carve nice Pace coming out of the turn and drilling it off the lip great composure and connection from a world
Champion first ever Big Win of his career right here at Bells in front of a maxed out crowd and Mick Fanning’s going away party and trying to break down an 827 loved his energy there Rich yeah that was much better from Ito you could just tell there was more flow connecting all
Those turns and for a moment there I thought oh he’s winding up to go to the air but then uh I’m glad actually that he chose to just uh do a series of Maneuvers to finish that wave off so it was always going to be a story of two
Waves and he’s got one in the bag now so just streaking for Speed now up and over this foamy section clean snap and then here I was just thinking okay he’s going to work down the line try and get a bit of an air going but just uh slams that final closeout
Maneuver board looks so spicy under his feet those Timmy Pattersons always sit in the water so well it’s crazy how much he moves his feet the whole time it’s a good point George do you feel like your footwork is similar no I don’t definitely not I
Think Ito is just like he just knows he’s board so well and you just see him get speed from places that you wouldn’t be able to get speed from and especially I feel like winky on your back end when it’s bumpy like this is so tricky to
Find like the clean sections and he’s just I don’t know he’s just reading it really well Ito in attack mode as we see the big man Jordy Smith he’s got a rematch of his Bell’s final which he w KY belly was runner up this year it’s going to be around a 32
Heat Kyo on the rusty program jumping on those surfboards a few years back they’ve been looking incredible under his feet different type of year for Kyo last two back to back have been incredible starts in Hawaii passing the gwm two-minute warning minute 44 in the clock last of
Icho 603 not enough for the lead r still out in front holding priority now with 90 seconds to go George as he went by really quickly we’re under crunch time here with just about minute 25 on the clock looking forward to seeing uh some big things from you on the Challenger
Series you see Rio’s brother looking on yeah thanks for having me it’s been it’s been fun and you breaking it down watching the Heats it’s uh it’s cool it’s cool setup oh coming anytime he throw and Under Pressure already knowing he had the win George yeah that was that
Was quality that was good stuff he looked so solid on his feet that whole hate it was really impressive loved watching that performance from Rio as he’s into the round of 16 uh George patar your plans kind of from now until the Challenger Series ends uh what are you going to be
Doing I’m actually heading over the wa so I think I got into wa yeah hey what I I have to check my emails I’m the last to know congrat rations yeah thank you yeah I can’t believe it it’s pretty crazy to get two CTS back to back wow
That’s cool man bit of a wig out so um yeah I’m going to head over there next week and I’ve never been over there actually so it’ be good to get a like a week in early before the comp and sus the wave out and then uh yeah after that
Head over to Snapper and get the year Rolling what a great year for George Well Done hey best of luck and I’m happy to know we’ll be hanging out what was that it’s the north stain claw man is it really am I allowed to do it
Give the energy was out of control I love it George patar into the event at Margaret River late breaking news and what a legend we’re going to take a quick break Jordy Smith kylea belly a rematch from a final here at Bells Ronnie Blakey Laura an coming in for the call and
Flick see you [Applause] soon Guys the see the seasons changing over the bar Hills Life is Like Summer Breeze that’s how it see the sun is rising in the morning welcome back to the show we’re here at winky pop for the third day competition at the ri Go Pro Bells Beach presented by bonso setting up the round
Of 16 this is the last Heat in the round of 32 and it’s a replay of the 2017 final Jordi Smith up against Kyo belly Jordy the second longest serving member on the championship tour at the moment out there in the red Kyo belly you’d have to call him a veteran as well
And uh he’s going to be out there in the blue jersey the Brazilian who’s looking to make a big climb up the rankings Jordy Smith interesting to note on that that live ladder he came into this event in seventh but at the moment he’s dropped back a couple of spots because
There’s been some Surfers leak frog frogging him on the rankings in Canoa igarashi and Jake Marshall so Jordi wants to maintain his spot at the top he wants to get through this one you just know that and wants to give himself a good shot at ringing the bell for a
Second time Ronnie Blakey sitting alongside Felicity paler and also joined by Laura en how do you see this one playing out flick does Jordy hold his Edge over Kyo at Bells jordi’s surfing at Winky and I think that’s a little bit different I just feel like okay good
Call yeah I don’t know it’s just a bit more down the line it’s small obviously no Jordy is one of the biggest guys on tour at 63 I just think today is just one of those days we’ve seen a couple of big upsets and I really think it comes
Down to who’s going to be on the best waves and the clean face waves today and if you don’t fall and you’ve got good connectivity I feel like you’re a shoe in for the win feels L like uh today the the favorites here at the uh the rip Pro
Bells Beach um the the The Underdogs have kind of had the Annie Venom in these marginal conditions for for those big names yeah they really have I feel like it’s just you know it’s come down to that wave selection some some of the guys getting W wave starved and uh you
Know I think this heat I mean I I understand what you’re saying about Jordy but I do see shades of small JB out there where he could just stick to the pocket and get some really nice surfing done however I wouldn’t even say Kai as an underdog he’s just this year
He’s so far down the rankings where we’re not used to seeing him he’s usually right up there he needs this result so he’s going to be surfing with a lot of urgency right now and trying to do everything he can and I I could see
Him going to the air and pulling out big Progressive Maneuvers so it’s it’s evenly matched for me I think that they’re both you know and for Jordi you know he said he’s dropped down from 7eventh on the live rankings but he also wants to be gunning for that top five oh
He sure does with a couple of wins at trestles when it was a a stop on the the regular season schedule back in the day you know he he’d have a fantastic chance if he got there but yeah Kyo belly you know he he wants to maintain Pace with
Those Surfers who were also below the cut line with him when he came in because a lot of people already moving through to that round of 16 and he doesn’t want to be the guy who’s kind of left behind in that race to get to the
The bubble or within it so you know we we know how important this heat is to turn around a bad start this season but Kyo 30 years of age plenty of experience thinking about these two and uh their history here at at Bells at the rip Pro
You know two Heats both massive scoring Heats they met in uh the fifth round back in 2016 both of them had 16 points plus and in their final they went EX again Jordy Smith had a Heat score title of 18.9 when he won the bell and uh Kyo was on 17.46%
Make it happen here because otherwise he’s going to need to you know final you’d think at stop number five seeing as though he was way back in 302 spot coming into this event let’s have a look at these two head-to-head as I mentioned four wins a piece but when they battle
One another big Heat scores really solid and uh yeah I hope we get more of that here today wow so this will be the decider look at those Heat scores yeah so close look at Co puffing up there making the biceps look bigger I know that trick but Jordy Smith
Is definitely um you know no easy easy beat on any rightand Point Break in the opening round he looked unbelievable having a look back on his Road through the victory in 2017 pretty sizing conditions that year L yeah there really was I mean this was just an unbelievable
Event and we scored for waves and you know Jordy at the bow we were just so used to seeing him in these finals quarterfinals semi’s always on finals day and uh he just has done some unbelievable surfing over the years just throwing into the LIF and these end turn
Those you know signature carves and oh I love the ear of Jordi I thought he was going to curse himself there because you know it was almost ringing it before he won it yeah we know that’s a no no had some great claimes over years as well he
Has he loves remember there was a Superman or oh remember he went on a claim Fest when he won Brazil that was amazing years ago but yeah as I mentioned before massive Heat score titles in that final 18.9 for Jordy with the win 17.46% coach in smaller conditions
Especially at small J Bay he actually won J Bay in in a tiny year um I think it was at a meling in the final with him that year and you know he he can still Flex his repertoire on a knee high wave it’s amazing he can still let go full
Rail power turns and also throw airs at us so we’ll see it’s a a lighter fitter looking Jordy in 2024 and and we’ll see if that shines through on these walls yeah absolutely I think you know let’s look at the positioning right now looks like kyo’s sitting a bit further up the
Point got some waves running running through here so I think jordy’s got priority here so I feel like he’d have to be taking this one yeah it’ll just be a positioning play from Kyo down the line here but Jordy is going to use that priority big
Foam climb to get started bit of texture on the face no drama so far for the Big South African as he whips that tail up and over that final section can See’s had an equipment change from that opening round and that will be the best number
Of the heat so far but not expecting it to go huge on the scale I think he’ll be he’ll be stoked that he actually made that cuz there was a few bubbles there there was a l a lot of lump on the face being you know the first wave after a
Set after not having many waves come through there’s always that little bit of extra lump but he did well to hang on because you know with 18 minutes to go if he’d Fallen there that just would have been bad he needed to bank that which he did just been talking about the
The favorites and some of their weapons being neutralized a little bit by the smaller conditions for Jordy it just takes away that huge forehand carve that he possesses and where he holds a real Edge over Kyo here so he’s got to be nimble and sharp and get that pocket
Work done yeah well he did and I mean he went straight up into the LP for those last two turns started with that floater and then two big cracks into the lip and you got to ech Echo what you were saying Laura he really did need to make that
Last turn it was kind of touch and go there lot of lump to contend with but with you know a lot of this heat chipped away already uh you can’t be affording to fall on that last turn there and I mean that that actually was only a one
Wave set that one so wasn’t much opportunity even behind it you know I think today it’s just going to be crucial if you can find those waves with that clean face it just looks so much better it looks so much more crisp and you really are able to find that
Connectivity and that flow yeah and just to get on rail I mean essentially those were three almost foam climb floaters that he just turned into like Sparky turns as we see all the crew down here on uh Saturday loving it big shout out to everyone I know what day it
Is going to have one of the uh t board Riders best Evers he’s taken out the club Champs a couple of times Andrew flinton and his band playing down there this afternoon I bumped into here before great core Lord from this local area and here goes Kyo now looking to respond
Jordy out a 4.83 on his ride kyo’s moved down the line now put himself in a a better position to swoop on this one a busy ride so far a lot of turns didn’t get the the chance to truly open up but he knows that with that series of
Maneuvers he’s likely going to better J his 4.83 and put himself in a good spot here yeah that’ll be the best wave of the heat uh he got that open face for that first car so that would have been nice and that differentiates J’s wave already uh then just kind of those foam
Climbs going down the line just to get to that end turn he added a bit of spark and a bit of fin flare at the end so I think you know nothing it’s not going to go too high but the judges would like it they’ll like the flow there and uh that
He banked off quite a few turns and and got that progression yeah as we see here this is that first carve that you were talking about Laura was nice to see him open up on that first turn but for the rest of the wave here it just felt like he was
Chasing it a bit he did the best he could and he and he surfed it really really well I mean timing was great and just dealing with that lump and bump you can see it on the face of that wave he he timed his turns really well I mean he
Loved it too you can see the little claim but this was nice here it was nice to be able to see him actually go and put that board on rail like that and get that variation on the wave for sure yeah I mean that onshore wind is providing us
With this gorgeous little crumble here which is very fun I mean there’s nothing like doing these turns in a free ser and they actually feel really fun and he kept his speed throughout it and he just had to he knew he had to just get down the line make these as pizzazzy as
Possible to then put a stamp on the end 617 for this wave and really you’d think that it’s all based on the first turn and the flow yeah as you said chased it a little but definitely put a solid finish on this wave but nothing wrong with the 6.17 out there
Today 15 11 15 minutes remaining uh CS the competitors what kind of conditions changes are they dealing with at the moment uh don it’s just the incoming tide right the tide has there’s a pretty large coefficient with the low and the high tide we’re nearing high tide and
What we’ve seen is you know the Surfers moving from the lower section here at winky pop up to the upper section there as the Tide’s filling in and and just to touch on the surface the playing field um It’s Tricky it’s it’s tough It’s bumpy out here you got to fit your turns
In between these sections and you have to be fast to make it down the line and clear these sections so there’s a bit of a challenge out here at the high tide winky what about just watching the the form Surfers you know deal with these desperate competitors trying to fight
Their way up the ladder at the moment there’s been some some big upsets big upsets today right and challenging conditions often time breed upsets because of the challenging conditions I think that’s what we’ve seen play out throughout the day today um with those big upsets you’re talking about Ron yeah
For sure and Kyo he’s got his hands full here big challenge Jordi Smith but he he has I think really put the pressure back on Jordy with that 6.17 now Jordy I mentioned that he’s been on tour for an age now he’s the second longest serving
Member he’s 17th year on the CT six victories they’ve all come on the forehand uh and we talk about a lot Laura for Jordy to get himself into this final five pitcher he has to convert on the right hand point breaks yeah he really does it’s his strength I mean
It’s his bread and butter we love watching Jordy in big open face waves that is where he’s he’s just come to to life and come alive I mean obviously that that wi in Brazil he went to the air quite a lot we saw we saw him going
To the air a lot in the earlier days but uh I feel like you know I love that every time we say Jordi come back year after year he’s just Reinventing himself and he’s just just bringing an extra spark and I feel like the spark there
This year he started the year with a fifth place at pipe into a third place at Sunset lost out in this round at uh Portugal so he’d be he’d be wanting to try to get back into the the final day picture round of 16 something rolling by at the moment
Jord is not biting and nor is Kyle belly he’s got plenty of time to find that spark just under 13 minutes remaining we’ll take a quick break more to come after this Well why well as part of our Global WSL one ocean initiative we’re partnering with Heartwood Habitat to create nesting boxes to ReStore Habitat for local endagered species and a donation from wsp will support Heartwood habitat throughout the year to help create habitats and Hollows for local species install nest boxes and conduct Wildlife
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Holding on to his priority and looking for a 2.25 at the moment to get ahead of Kyo belly beautiful Saturday down here huge crowd on hand to see the world’s best tackle tricky conditions here at winky pop we’ve seen Incredibly Close Heats we’ve seen some upsets we’ve seen
Surfers out there just begging for opportunity and struggling to find it but uh ultimately it’s the same story at any event you know you’re going to get days where you got to make it happen and Kyo Bell’s doing that at the moment 617 on his previous wave he’ll ride this
Wave to the death just to milk any kind of points out of it actually opted out but um yeah he’s he’s got Jordi chasing a number here at the moment how do you think the uh the big Fell’s feeling out there at the moment Felicity 9 and a half minutes on the
Clock I think he’d be slightly worried I would be if I was in jordy’s position right now I’d be slightly worried just seeing how a few of these Heats have played out today knowing that I mean just go to back to what Kyer was saying in the water we’re coming up to that
High tide Mark you know there’s been some really sleepy Heats I my mind straight away goes back to the John Cade Matson heat John had that you know High seven and was just sitting there waiting for a wave he only needed a 4.33 but the ocean just didn’t provide so I mean
We’ve seen long Laing it’s nerve-racking nerve-wracking times Well surviving the nerves in that last Heat was Rio he’s with Joe thanks so much here with Rio wa Rio that was a really impressive performance against a guy that’s one Bells he’s the world champion I couldn’t get past your
Positioning you’re sitting so deep up the point what were you what was your plan up there cuz the amount of speed you were getting was incredible uh yeah first thing we me and Ito PD puddle out together and then I guess he wants to take the deeper spot and I just kind of
Follow him and then you know you know I check the time still have seven minutes just kind of head down and follow where you’re going to go and and I guess he gave up so I was like so I got that winning advantage I got a little boost confident boost and
Uh I know I’ve been serving here a lot and working with micro so you know I’ve been aware the takeoff Zone and stuff so I feel like that’s helped me a lot you know my first round was my mistake was I was in wrong spot so you know I’ve
Been surfing a lot here Winky and uh of course trust my trust my what can I say my speed and my surfing you know even I take off really far up you know I just get speed and try to get around the session and stuff like I’m always do so
I’m stok looked really impressive uh high performance really really composed people are writing in saying even a young Michelle bz with the power you threw down uh do you and micro make goals for this event I mean what what is your whole game plan for this entirety
Of the event um not much go to be honest just you know I’m still I’m still a baby in this tour so I’m just trying to learn and you know just focus on what I’ve been working with micro the surfing and the positioning and uh you know there’s
A lot of thing and uh micro been helping helping me a lot you know since last year after the cut and uh you know I feel like I grow so much since since first day I work with Michael so I’m really grateful to have him and uh maybe
If I if I’m going to think what goal that my head is to ring the bell that’s it that’s the one we wanted to hear Rio I know you’ve got a lot of fans back home in Indonesia you want to say hi to them real quick yeah hello everyone I’m
Really stoked to make the next round and the ab sing again today so I’m really excited and uh I’m just want to say thank you everyone that supporting me and then I’m really grateful to have all of you guys of course my family sponsors friends back home and uh love you guys
And see you guys soon thank you back to you Ronnie take care thanks Joy REO buzzing I like that comparison he he does possess that that similar kind of twitch power wrap that that Michelle bz used to just grace us with but back out in the lineup now 6
Minutes to go and a big exchange Jordy took a ride clicking off turns as he made his way down the line but almost felt like he was not kind of connecting the way he normally would let’s have a look at a replay of it Felicity yeah this is what
Went down during that interview there was a lot of just once again so much lump and bump has to be that high tide doing well to connect the dots but just that you know what it was I think right now only needing that 3.68 but you
Know right behind him Kyo belly got to work and I wanted to see if he got anything done before that first that that first turn that we saw but you can see the comparison between the first wave the set and the second there that was that was the big thing I mean Jordy
I think he’s going to get rewarded for those waves cuz those turns cuz there was flow but there was no open face once again Kyle o finding the open face here so he got to do only two turns but the judges will will love them so yeah I think
Pretty comparable to kyo’s First scoring ride and probably with the strength of jordy’s finish he might get a better number and he does 6.9 so just a little bit better but Kyo really you know got the the benefit of jordy’s ride smoothing out the lineup and only got a
Little bit of room to move but he could be way more committed so only two turns and he turns into 6.6 yeah and still chasing yeah on top of that Kyo uh Kai with only the two turns his wave was shorter so he got out the back and and
Stole priority as well so he’s in a good position there his fiance I’m sure nervous moments just once oh yeah especially with this guy hunting around the lineup but yeah she’s uh really been a huge inspiration to Kyo as a a former athlete of kind of called him out on on
Just his dedication to his craft and he he just really kind of turned things around didn’t he he had a really solid run at it last year or you know I think he’s having to really trust that that all the hard work will eventually pay
Off cuz he’s had a tough run of results it’s it’s the hardest thing ever when you know you’re putting more than ever into your your tour campaign and things are falling apart more than ever and you’re just like how are the results not coming when I’m doing everything right
Taking every box and and that’s the the brutality of this sport it’s it’s something that’s really hard to understand when you’re like I’m doing everything and and it’s still just not happening and converting into the results and the points but uh you got to keep you got to keep the faith and you
Got to try not say not not be too emotional about it really just you know even if Kyo wasn’t to make the cut I’m sure he you know he just have to pick himself up and uh Blitz through the Challenger Series back on next year but
I mean anything can happen here and we see this cut bring out the best in those Surfers that are at the bottom of the rankings and that’s why there’s also been a lot of upsets today yeah he’s he’s climbed two runs on the the rankings ladder the live ladder is up to
30th position at the moment and you can check that out on world surf league.com click into the rankings and and watch the results change as these Surfers progress I mentioned Jordi Smith came in at seventh back to Ninth at the moment with Jake Marshall and Cano igarashi already progressing through to the round
Of 16 so he’ll be aware of that you know he sort of lost touch with the the final five pitcher over the last few years hasn’t had a crack at a world World title there at trestles wants that opportunity this season well this is going to be an
Exciting two and a half minutes right now looking over my shoulder there are some lines coming through at Bell so I think there’s going to be opportunity for them both to find something here Jordi just trying to sell Kyo I would say into anything to get that priority
Back an ex extremely committed sell as well whoa um but yeah he he just really wanted to to try and make Kyo second guess himself there and it didn’t work at all wow it’s two minutes on the clock I think it’s really telling that last
Score of kyos I mean he got a 6.6 for two turns and that’s just super telling to what the judges really want out of you for me that’s saying they want really smooth controlled committed surfing I mean jordy’s 6.9 it’s still a high score but he banged off about five
Turns on that wave whereas Kyo did two really nice smooth control turns and posted a 6 points so I mean Jordy I’m not sure if he knows that that that’s what K got that 6.6 on but Jord it could get it on one or two turns I think I
Think he had time to turn around and See’s last turn so a minute and a half to go we’ve just seen the gwm 2-minute warning come up and we’ve got energy coming our way couple of set waves Jordy eyes off the first one kyo’s going to
Take it using his priority wants to try and better a 6.17 here loading up goes to the air gets the double grab lands it clean now onto the Open Face roundhouse cut back building for a big finish on the inside swings the rotation land straight legged and can’t
Ride out Jordy on the outside it looks like that wave might have capped and broke on him but he’s going to make his move now after a 5.87 looking over his shoulder loading up with speed we know he’s got big airs he can go to throws the rotation he
Can’t ride out and with 40 seconds to go unlikely that we will see him get another opportunity here well I was almost going to say that could have been a curse of priority if uh that second wave of the set cleaned up but I think the second wave of the
Set was actually too big and pushed wide and and so jordy’s wave had a lot of foam on it then 20 seconds remaining here and jordy’s opportunity to ring the bell for a second time this year is going to slip through his fingers wow looks like there’s actually
A set on the way but I don’t think it’s going to make it there in time Kyle belly he knows the importance was already up two spots on the live bladder and you watch him climb again here as he makes his way through to the round of
16 and another former winner out of the mix here well that was so important for Kyo such an important win wow it was a close one not a lot separating the competitors but Kyo finding an edge and when you think about their history here at Bells Beach getting his
First win over Jordy in this contest we’ll take a quick break we’ll be kicking off the round of 16 here at the ri Co Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy right after This have e yeah got we’re about to get the round of 16 underway but here’s Kelly Slater leaving the event side here at the ri Pro Bells Beach thank you yeah look at how popular this man is he’s given us so many amazing moments down here four incredible victories a number of funnels
Appearances as well and the Crow just relishing the opportunity to get shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the greatest athletes of all time let’s get set for another big heat that’s going to decide our first quarterfinalist here at the event this year and it’s a clash between two novocastrian Morgan sibl taking on Ryan
Kinan and these guys hustling for inside position no friends in the lineup as morgs gets on the attack throws the fins on that first section he’s looked super sharp on his Road through to this point in the competition Felicity but Ryan kalon a finalist last year we’ll be out
To beat oh this is a cracker of hate two Aussies just going to go absolutely at it that first L’s from Morgan already I absolutely loved it just super spicy fin throw there at the end and uh his heat the other day was also awesome to watch
But Ryan on his backand out here we know is deadly got a couple of really big treats for everyone out there watching online uh first up we’re going to have an extended interview with Kelly Slater on the WSL post show this afternoon vaugh caught up with him just after he
Was knocked out of the event so stand by for that later on today but we’ve also got your second treat Jacob Wilcox join us uh J I know you didn’t get the result that you wanted here this year but a good performance against Canoa you were
Suring so well yeah it was pretty fun I’m actually pretty puffed I just ran up the stairs I was down on the beach um going to watch Morgan’s Ted and um had to run up so excuse me I’m kind of out of breath well that gives us a little
Bit of an insight into just like what the competitors are dealing with here it can kind of take it out of this place yeah that’s it um no it’s this morning was fun though had a fun heat um felt that that’s probably the best I’ve felt this year actually like making smart
Decisions and like competing well this year I’ve made some pretty bad decisions in my um Heats and it’s kind of let me down so it’s been a little bit frustrating but here I am I’m happy to be in Bells beautiful place wa soon Happy Days beautiful aming we love the
Attitude and uh we’ve loved watching you compete this year I know you haven’t had the results that you’ve wanted but uh if you if you’ve just found your form it’s come at the perfect time Margaret will be a big one for you yeah yeah I’m looking forward to getting home this uh
Start of the year is pretty intense but it’s enjoyable I’m leaving my dream we love it we love to hear that uh Morgan sibl out there at the moment one of your good mates travel buddies teammates uh this guy we’ve seen him reach you know the the
Highest uh point of the the championship tour cracking the final five and getting himself a fifth place finish he’s come so close to getting back to the CT the past two years from what I’ve seen of his surfing this year it looks like he’s so back mentally yeah yeah morg is I
Reckon he’s on watching him against um Robo the other day that I think that was a big heat for him mentally as well like just knowing that he can still like compete at this level and smash it um last year was hard he just missed out
From qualifying we traveled to a lot of the events together and we surfed like a few Heats together that were quite important but um no I’m kind of uh this is a hard heat I love Ryan I love Morgan um and I’m kind of I’m going to be on
The fence a little bit but I’m super excited for this matchup um I’m excited to see how Ryan goes out here on his backend I love watching him and um yeah morgs good start really good start solid start let’s talk about that because um you know typically everyone’s looking
For excellence out there but but today it feels like he if you can Bank a six at the start of your heat and win that opening exchange you’re just loving life yeah especially now I feel like I was down on the beach before it looks a lot
Harder to Surf look this little bit of onore oh here we go this was the very start of the heat so morgs I love it you know that that fight for the inside has really worked in his favor here but there’s the the release s good just just
So powerful and the thing I liked about uh have liked about his uh run in this contest Felicity so far is that when Morgan was having his Stellar year in 2021 he was just in full Attack Mode there was nothing safe about his surfing and it seems like he’s back there oh
100% that last fin throw was absolutely crazy he’s up and riding again looking to back up that number moving with a lot of speed down the line just hammering slapping it isn’t he what punches through that final section again that’ll be tidy little backup score making it
Look real good like it down there before like I was saying it looked like the wind was kind of chopping it up a little bit it looked hard to pick where you’re going to put your board and kind of the section that you’re going to hit but Morgan’s picked two really nice clean
Waves and how’s that snap the little firecrack snap beautiful I think that it’s just been the biggest takeaway for me even just watching that last he I saw KY get it you know mid-range six for just two turns but it was a clean wave and I just got to Echo what you’re were
Saying Jacob it’s hard to find those waves that are clean with that clean face and Morgan’s doing such a good job at finding them just straight up into the lp there a couple of times and he’s looking sharp he’s looking so sharp really solid staff let’s have a
Look at this slowmo what a what are Morgan’s real strengths Jacob I think his power like he’s just um he’s quite a compressed Surfer in his power and just like the explosivity he gets out of the lit like that he can do it so quick and whiff it
Around but he also throws a lot of water I’d say that’s his um his strength and yeah it’s like he’s just feel I feel like he’s just been like completing so well in this event and not really missing any sections and yeah slapping it here we go Ryan Ryan in response now
He’s found a bigger wall to work with and that could be dangerous with this incredible backhand approach plenty of vert in that second turn as he brings it through to the inside and gets a really solid finish that was nice as well is heat yeah I feel like when Ryan gets a good
Wave he kind of does a little no claim clim like like kind of loves it and I love seeing that as well and he smashed that wave right uh Morgan so solid on his first two waves you know I’d say that Morgan hammered his waves and then
Ryan with the the benefit of a bigger wave was able to throw the sledgehammer yeah straight away that second turn was so well timed third one as well but yeah just the size of the wave for me with Ryan is just a little that bit of difference between Morgan’s second wave
And Ryan’s first um but I like what you said Jacob I think I think he knows he’s on he’s feeling it uh and this is going to be a great heat yeah Ryan’s not huge on claims but the body language there was suggesting oh I’m good I’m really
Good I think he’s going to get a great score out of that one let’s check him with the winner of the last Heat an important Heat win for him Laura Kyo beating Jordi Smith that’s massive yes Kai you and Jordi have had some amazing matchups in bills beach in the past a
Final together actually but obviously today a bit different the conditions are hard you’re just saying you can’t make any mistakes out there yeah I surf with ji round one and he got two really big scores and I think his style surfing matches so much this this style of waves
And yeah I’m just really happy I I don’t know I been on a hard year I’ve been training so much I’ve been putting so much time and I’m still motivated after all the the hard results I got in the past few events and I’m just like really
Stoked try finally make it out the round three and yeah it feels good so hopefully like in the next Heat I can actually surf better and loose it up a little bit I feel like I’ve been so pressured of like not making any mistakes and catching the
Right waves that I’m still a little stiff and soon as I more Heats i surf the more I going to surf and the better I will surf so hopefully the next Heat I can get better waves and do big turns well on the live rankings you have
Jumped up three spots you’re in 29th at the moment just talk about how throughout the year you know those hard heat losses not making it through this round how have you been able to keep your your self motivated and you’re heading the game yeah I’ve been doing
This for a long time almost 10 years and uh the tour is there’s a lot of ups and downs and with the cut now it’s like it’s really hard there’s so much things that um so many things involved um before the cut like if you if you don’t
Get a good batch of boards straight away there’s no time for fixing and readjusting so like there’s so much on the line and we try to prepare ourselves so much on the past five months to have everything dialed and like things just don’t go your way sometimes and um I
Know this the last two events and yeah it’s it’s a lot of pressure but not like either way either way I’m I’m happy the where where I am today mentally and I feel motivated uh if things go my way uh that means that I serve good and I
Deserved and if doesn’t it’s all good too so um I’m really here to fight really hard and and serve my best so I’m trying to just do that amazing kle and any shout out to friends and family back home yeah thank you everybody that that been watching it’s really late in Brazil
So yeah thank you so much and let’s go one more heat in Portuguese let’s hear it for be got thank you Laura Jake I want to ask you you know uh Kyo he said he’s almost been on two of 10 years you know he’s not one of those massively hype names
But he’s a fighter and he’s had some amazing finishers um overcome world champions in heats you know once you get to the the CT I think when people are on the rise you know you have to have a a certain attitude and and want to believe that you can beat everyone on
Tour but once you get there and you see someone like Kyo who’s really grinded it out to keep his spot there does it give you a new found kind of respect for people like him yeah for sure he’s he’s definitely a fighter um I think sometimes people don’t recogn realize
How hard this actually is like um competing against the best people and then like you got to be on your game like all the time like you make I feel like the first couple events I made mistakes and they were so crucial and it’s was like one mistake AK and like
That’s a he done I feel like you just got to be so on to it and like you can’t discredit what Kai’s done he’s um had so many well 10 years on tour he just said like that’s not easy to do like um yeah it’s it’s impressive but yeah I feel
Like sometimes you you you you watch this from home or like even myself in the past I’m like oh yeah that’s that’s going to be good I can’t wait to get there and um then you get there and you’re like yeah this is actually really hard not that I didn’t think it was
Going to be but um it’s definitely challenging but that I feel like you that’s kind of why you do it right to challenge yourself and um to I feel like it makes you a better competitor and better at what you do so yeah I I I definitely uh recognize that of all
Surfers that graduate to the tour they kind of instantly start looking at people who’ve been there a long time and saying well like we’re a few events in and I’m I’ve got a real challenge in my hand to stay there and then you you see someone who’s been knocked off to come
Back onto uh and still fighting he he’s moved up three spots now on that live ladder starting at 32nd spot he’s in the 29th he’s got a ways to go but you got to respect the fight oh you have to respect the fight and I you know trying
To stay on two is one thing but I think also those Surfers that hang around that bubble area or fall off and then they get back on the Challenger Series they fight it out on the Challenger Series they get back on the tour I mean that’s
A whole another ball game in itself and I mean we’ve watched some great people do it and then had some great comebacks people like Molly Pam her first year on tour falling off jao chano was another one fought their way back on the Challenger Series and then ended up in
That final five uh conversation WSL finals that following year so you can it’s incredible stories incredible heartbreak and and also some amazing moments too and I mean the cut has just been something that you know when it first came on the scene and people were a bit hesitant about it I don’t know
About this and but I think it’s also I think it’s really push performance and straight off the bat too you know there’s no sleeping around if you qualify for that tour you can’t sort of wait to find your momentum it sort of forces these big performances early on
In the year and yeah we’ve just had some great battles yeah we got a great battle out in the water at the moment too 7.1 for Ryan Kal and in second spot only needs a 5.67 to jump up into the league Kos out in the water KS what are you
Frothing about uh I got a few things to froth about Ron first of all I’m frothing on the dueling novocastrian out in the water right now second fra is sibling rival Heat number five coming up in this round of 16 we’re going to have Griffin versus Crosby colapinto and you know
Interviewing Crosby when he qualified for the championship tour I asked him what was he looking forward to the most and he said surfing against his brother so Crosby is going to get his wish can’t wait to see that that’s what I’m froing on oh who’s going to win cops wow uh hey
We talked about difficult conditions breed upset um that one’s a tossup run I can’t take a pick in that one it is definitely going to be a tossup but it’s worth sticking around and watching guaranteed you don’t want to go anywhere with that one I’m a little brother say Crosby gets
It Jacob what are your thoughts it’s going to be a good heat it’s going to be a great heat um are they going to flip a coin for priority you reckon I no I don’t reckon I was actually out I was out in in the surf in Portugal with him
And um uh Griffin burnt Crosby on a w they must have had something happened I think Griff paddled for the one before and they just going at it I was like yeah boys I love this oh that’s awesome it h Goods famously had a hell stash out
At the bells Bowl one time just screaming at each other it was fantastic yeah love I love the passion but uh KS is right we got a A great battle happening between two Nova castan bit of head-to-head history between them and it was Morgan sibl getting the jump on Ryan
Kinan when they met in the quarterfinals at Merryweather back in 2021 morgs throws it away on that wave he is leading this heat but he really had a a good size wave then felt like he was on his way to another good number just butched that second turn a little bit
And you could see he watched that wave run off as he fell to he was looking down the line like oh no was that a mistake you don’t do that to yourself he can see him looking worst feeling that’s the worst feeling but he’s in a good
Position and he’s surfing good this uh this looks like such like those section just like keep flapping down here there quite hard to Surf and hard to time but he was looking good he just maybe pushed a little hard a little through the lip it’s so strange here I feel like you
Have to Surf underneath the underneath the lip but um when it’s a little bit light on like this you kind of have to hit the lip just got a a little loss there 17 and 1 12 minutes to go Jacob you you were inspired to your your your
Best finish in a CT event as a wild card here making the quarterfinals seems like Rip Curl team Riders you know you want to come and put a good performance on in front of your sponsors this is the home of Rip Curl obviously uh you know but you also get sort of the
Extra support from the the grandstand down there as well yeah it’s um it’s pretty special I’ve been coming here I think ripco brought me here my first time when I was 13 um to watch the event and I’d love to have a bell one day so um thanks for reminding me how I
Did running you’re welcome mate but um but the quarters is good yeah oh yeah that yeah that was a great year in 2019 that was amazing but uh yeah it’s so cool coming here rip Cur it’s like feels like it’s r K Town um when you go down
There and yeah it’s um they’ve been so supportive of my surfing career and yeah been able to come back here and show them a bit of love and um see what ripco is really all about and like where it kind of all started it’s really special
I had a little walk through the the back of the factory the other day and it’s like a museum uh all the you know the the unbelievable like uh construction room with all the the wet suit uh templates and it’s pretty remarkable all the patterns and uh yeah just it is like
Walking through a museum and incredible images from the different Easter Classics from back in the day you know some of the great sitting under the cliffs watching the event unfold and and photos from that big year as well oh I love walking into the rip Girl store you
Look up on the on the ceiling and there’s just all these all these beautiful images from over the years and super bright colorful Poppy I love the bit of fluro in the wet suits back then it just yeah awesome place and I love walking into that r St there it looks
Great bit of movement on the outside here Ryan kalan’s been super composed with his priority on the outside and he’s only after a 5.67 here he works this one over this wave hasn’t really stood up that nicely for him but it’s going to give him the opportunity for a nice little finish
Here what do you reckon Jacob oh it’s hard to say uh he surfed it well he looked like he was pretty far up at the end of it too I like that um it’s close I feel like the wave might have let him down a little bit but
Yeah it becomes a game of comparisons once those first scores drop doesn’t it and you’ve got to like think back to just the speed and and punch that Morgan had on his Sixpoint mid mid-range Sixers and then start to ask yourself is this stack up against those yeah that’s it
Well that’s what is has to be a point under Morgan’s first wave so that would probably be a good comparison but yeah I feel like sometimes out here all the different angles can make the the waves look so much different um it might look really good from one angle then you
Watch it from another angle and it looks a bit different so feel that can kind of factor in a bit so I love seeing that front on angle I feel like you can get the best kind of read of what it looks like from that do you think that maybe
That’s where there’s some differing op opinions on what these rides for because obviously the judges aren’t scoring off all these camera angles they’re kind of looking down on the lineup it’s a kind a different perspective I think the different perspective can definitely um alter how some of the scores come out um
Looking down on it I feel like sometimes you might miss a few of the small increaes of that’s a big word for me I know you know you did reasonably well with it yeah yeah I almost got it um of what makes like a wave look good so yeah
I feel like it can definitely play a little bit of a factor but yeah there’s sort of no denying excellent surfing though and Morgan’s looked really sharp on his earlier rides now finds a bit more space to open up spread the wing and glide through a big carve and again
Punches through that finish and swings that tail around so waiting on a couple of numbers to drop now it’s going to be close between these two once those scores fall that was beautiful and just the the face of that wave was so clean you know you compare it to Ryan and Ryan
Just looked like it was a little like you said Jacob that wave sort of let him down a bit but that one from morgs was just crisp and it seemed like he didn’t have to fight against anything it was just flowing the tempo was nice they
Were three big turns morgs is moving at a a faster Pace like you know that that is for sure it might be the waves that he’s tapping into they’re a bit more down the line but Ryan’s first ride it sort of just allowed him to to move at a
A slower Rhythm cuz the wave wasn’t going as quick it was a bit bigger pushed off the roof a little bit but Morgan’s just like fully got the foot to the floor here yeah his timing was so nice on this B just gets it early frees
Up the spray nicely and yeah nice ver as well like this last turn he kind of really punches it out yeah that would have felt good but yeah it’s a lot cleaner wave hey Morgan’s been really fine in them but his surfing’s been um Elite on them but 12 minutes to go feel
Like that’s I feel like this morning the sets are kind of coming in six minute intervals so I reckon we could get um couple more morgs already has the lead we’ll see where his next number Falls as Matthew mcgil from South Africa gets ready to hit the lineup I 11 the having G to the surf Coast since my teen years and get to go back every year now on the CT it’s really special I love the Tranquility of the surf coast and just the beauty of that whole Drive is just spectacular it feels very peaceful the
Waves are really fun everyone’s very welcoming when Bells is on it’s so iconic feels like a good reset so I love it down there Ryan Kin loving his time down here in Victoria and wants to extend the vacation by progressing out of this round of 16 and into the
Quarterfinals he’s currently up against it Morgan sibl continues to build here dropping a 6.83 on that last wave Morgan now out in front by a pretty good margin and Ryan needing a 6.4 to turn it Ronnie Blake he sitting alongside Felicity paler and Jacob Willcox Jacob uh mate obviously uh
You’re really focused on getting yourself above the cut line but can we get another edit out of you this year I mean into the D default like they’re two of my favorite clips that have dropped the last few years Che run yeah I I love making movies and love kind of going on
Surf trips it’s I feel like I’m struggling to find the balance of doing them both just cuz it’s so intense doing the tour and trying to give that 100% and um qualifying last year was um took a lot of took a lot of effort so it’s
Kind of took away from that part a bit but there’s always something coming but it just depends on how long it takes um maybe some search trips I’d love to do that um launching laun in the search again so I’ve got a couple of cool ideas
For that so hopefully we can make that happen but yeah well the big priority for you mate is getting yourself above that cut line on the live ladder equal 24th at the moment so we know that uh you’re going to need to to Really step
Up at home but uh it’ll be a great place to do it because it’s a tricky wave and a wave that you know better the most it’ll be good hey it’s um going to be nice to be going back home I haven’t been home in probably 3 or 4 months now
Um so yeah I look forward to that how good yeah it’s going to be good right we all look forward to it we love it over there 8 and a half minutes to go here and Morgan has just surfed a really strong heat so far Felicity started with
The big score and has been building oh Morgan is just looking so fast and his board looks amazing he just looks very in control as well and he’s managed to put those scores together with just I just feel like something bigger is brewing if he gets another set his wave
Selection has been on he’s been picking waves that are just so clean his turn his placement of his Maneuvers have been on point I feel like there an excellent score is coming I just have a feeling yeah well Ryan’s still hanging on to the the highest number proud
Moment for for Richard dog Marsh last year with Ryan equaling his result his best result here which was a second place finish it was an awesome final with Ethan newing Ryan particularly on the the bowl Jacob he Surly looks so good there uh I mean he he looks good everywhere but on
The bowl in particular if you got a full event over there he would have a a great chance of winning You’ think yeah he surfing looks great out there it’s um a bit ocas kind of could call it but um I love his surfing out here as well
Watching him last year in the event was um really cool it looked it was similar conditions to this kind of it seemed on the TV but yeah Ryan definitely can’t count him out s minutes to go got priority um feel like the advantage of the back end sometimes is you can you
Can whip it up and manufacture a score sometimes a little bit easier um but yeah there you go go there’s the boys down on the beach watching who we got there we’ve got Timmy Mark George Peter Corin Hutchings um T Wy big man Lobby moose behind him is that your golf crew
Yeah yeah that’s um bit of a golf pack there we’ve actually teing off at five so hopefully I’m out of here before then we might get you here for a little bit that’s right won’t make a difference I’ll still shoot about 500 over yeah it’s it’s great there’s a it’s
Seems like each country you know uh has a lot of comaraderie but uh especially you young BLS that are battled through the Challenger Series together it’s great to see crew that even that aren’t even on the CT down here cheering you guys on in this event yeah it’s cool hey um we’ve definitely
Got like a good a good friend group and um Travel Group that I don’t know we just all kind of love getting behind each other and supporting each other and um yeah we all kind of just love surf comps I guess too so that’s why they’re
All down here and yeah it’s um all few the boys are in the trial so that’s why they’re down here as well but here we go couple of sets yeah the Melbourne flight C CL flight cam here giving you a great perspective of the winky lineup and you
Can tell just how long it can stretch on for when there is a good swell running here and Ryan kalan’s hoping to tap into one of those swell lines and unleash This ferocious back end approach which he possesses already up four spots on the rankings on that live ladder in the
14th position doesn’t want to stop that roll but that’s not going to help his chances that wave had so much lump and bump in it real hard to read and you just see how difficult it was on his back end too he just got got bit hung up
There on those couple of turns his wife Nina on screen there watching on nervously but uh he’s going to be up against it now because Morgan’s going to get that priority and he’s still going to have the lead yeah he’s just like trying to navigate all those bumps and try to find
The clean kind of pocket to put it straight into it he’s doing well though I think gets a little caught on this and it might have thrown his rhythm a little bit going into the next one oh here we go he’s picked one off a little rebate on the
Inside but doesn’t like the way that one feels he gets out of there 4 and a half minutes to go he’ll head to the top and you just know at this point Richard dog Marsh has got that little black book out and he’s just writing all kind of notes down
Oh oh there you go speak of the little notebook there we go looking stressed at the moment looking so stressed I mean Jacob you’re semi coaching your friends sometimes when they’re in heats as well like I never see you’re looking as frustrated as Richard do Mar but it’s nerve-wracking sometimes H when you’re
You’re Bing someone onto a victory oh for sure and I’m it’s it’s hard like like it’s so hard to know what to do the oceans like can change so quickly Ryan’s still like so in this with his surfing as well like but it’s just the ocean sometimes the ocean can just let you
Down I feel like the ocean’s been so slow today it’s been a lot of um kind of there’s been lots of waves still but yeah just in moments like this when you need a wave or you want a wave sometimes it feels like it just doesn’t go your
Way and doesn’t come through so we’ll see who has the Rhythm in this heat it seems like it’s gone Morgan way so far when you think about the uh history of this event mate what stands out to you as the all time the alltime rip girl
Pro moment oh that’s a good question I remember when I was I don’t know maybe 14 or 15 and I was it was a mick vers Kelly final 2012 yeah probably 2012 I’ll take that that sounds good um and Kelly did the Big Air reverse I think Mick like started off got some
Good score put like on him and had pressure on him then Kelly did that big helicopter like air reverse it was like at the ball was like howling offshore did M up winning that final the helicopter we call it the helicopter yeah yeah the way Mick benon tells it is
That halfway through the air he was looking in and Kelly’s flying through the air and halfway through the rotation they might made eye contact Kelly completed the rotation stomped it got a 10-point ride and at that point we’d never really seen a big individual turn uh that was crazy fch a
Perfect number at Bells it was a point break you had to surf the wave start the finish and people were scratching their heads but Fanning great relationship with this wave he had an air of his own to finish off a wave and he put himself
On the two best wave but there he is the kopter wow wow it was the moment where they locked eyes it was so relevant still right like 12 years later like that’s such a crazy a still probably a 10-point ride needed one of those today on his Heat yeah yeah
It was an amazing moment and it was an emotional year Michael Pon had just passed away and uh they had a a moments was meant to be a moment’s silence before the final and everyone just got on their feet and clapped their hands and they were just applauding and Kelly
And mck were out in the lineup doing the same thing that’s as The Story Goes Kelly tried to talk to Mick Mick brushed him got the best wave in the opening stages Kelly thought but he was fired up you know there was people who thought Kelly won
That final but you can’t take anything away from Mick you know he took two classic Bells bow waves apart for a couple of excellent scores time ticking by here we are under the gwm 2-minute warning now and Ryan Kalan still on the hunt for a 6.4 Morgan sick hanging on to
This lead getting the opportunity to compete at the championship tour level once again and taking that opportunity with both hands but he’s going to give Ryan an opportunity on this one needs a 6.4 out of it drives up into the section A couple of times it’s a smaller wave so
He has to go hard he’s got that wild inverted handstand like backand reverse that he can go to and he swings it but can’t make it stick and Richard dog Marsh he kind of knows that it’s gone now that opportunity is lost he had the right
Idea though I feel like he had to go for that and he’s so consistent with that move it was just yeah the section it was hard for him I mean how many points really were in that wave and he Juiced it pretty well right like for what there
Was there but yeah that’s surfing right yeah difficult conditions today and it’s it’s meant that when you get a ride You’ got to make it count Morgan sibl did it a few times in that heat and he’s going to get himself the win here ficity yeah
He B another big win for morgs and there’s the boys what a heat though between those to Aussie just got a feel for Ryan you know it always sucks when you get the highest wave single wave score of the Heat you just can’t find that back up pretty impressive numbers from the
Two novocastrian but it will be Morgan moving through to the quarterfinals here at the rip kill Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy Jacob Wilcox mate uh looking forward to seeing what you can do over there at Margaret River it be nice to be home mate but great surfing here at
Bells perfect thanks for having you guys thanks good luck this afternoon keep us updated on how you score over there t Sands T Sands yeah all right good luck we’re going to take a quick break more action coming from the Rick Pro Bell speech right after This for for the rip Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by rip Cur the ultimate surfing Company by visit Victoria Melbourne every bit different by event bright proud sponsor of women’s surfing on the WSL Championship Tour by oakberry Fuel yourself with the official
S of WSL Australia and BYO official sunscreen partner of the world surf League we’re setting up Heats in the quarterfinals sibl Just Beat Ryan Kalan as we start off this match up Matthew mcil versus Sammy poopo mcil climbing to get out in front even a thin throw on
That last transition now the redirect on the open face and shuts it down Maddie McGill R loves a right-and Point Break loves to mix it up with his turns he’s got a really unique style and could go a long way in this event we’ve had one South African ring the bell in
The past that was Jordy Smith Jordy lost to kab belly in that final rematch earlier today and Sammy poopo is going to get a turn to roll into this one to get things started Sam well fin throw on the first effort looking solid as he comes around
The corner third maneuver will be a nice little fin throw off the top catching up to the end section and shuts it down Maddie getting on the board Sammy to follow Joe Trel with Richie love it long time CT stand out for the call a cool heat for these two competitors with
Both with a lot of great skill sets to to get a win today yeah absolutely uh I’ve got to give the edge to Sammy poopo just only on current form of the last few Heats uh he seems to have um clicked with that board from JS carbon technology but let’s have a
Look at MD mcgil first up and writing Taps it off the first section there streaking down the line projection floater foam climb little tail release so mixing it up now nice clean slash gets to the Finish little blow tail so on reflection not a bad wave there for MD McGill Sammy
Poo definitely a little taller in his wave selection but a few crumbly little sections to deal with little drift off the foam there and then uh nice little close out slam but uh a beautiful slice up the top gets that Tower release that was the best
Turn of this wave gets up and over the foam here so just keep keeping that speed running down the line another little check turn off that crumbly little lip and then bang hits this final section comes down sturdy positioned well balanced Sammy Poo’s got some work to
Do opening here on tour finished Rookie of the Year had some big performances as we check out their rankings at the moment they came into this event in a tough position Samuel 28th in the world mcil 22nd when you open the live rankings Sami poopo now up to 24 McGill up to
20 so you can follow that on world surf league.com big heat for both of them to get a little bit more room huge finally just inside the cut M what a nervous place to be man and they felt it before Sammy just fell off tour last
Season then he went on to win Snapper rocks and it kind of looked like he was just going to have a walk through back onto the tour and then he had a awkward run where he couldn’t make a heat put tons of pressure on himself heading into sakuro yeah absolutely that’s uh it’s
Never a fun thing you know when you’re uh dancing around that cut line and you’re under putting yourself self under under pressure and uh you know these athletes they want to perform you know pressure free so it’s important to get that good start last Heat Was Won by the Wild Card
A familiar face Morgan siick is with vaugh Morgan welcome back to the CT mate a huge result here with a big win over Hometown mate Ryan Kal in there and uh you’re the first quarterfinal of the rip call Pro presented by bonsoy mate how you feeling um I’m so stoked I just like
Want to do well here get some coin and uh get out so I’m stoked mate it’s really obvious to everyone watching that you are surfing with just no weight on your shoulders uh how much does that factor into you being able to surf at
Your best oh it feels so good I know I feel like a lot of the guys here have a fair bit of pressure with the cut so um it feels good to come in here pretty free and feeling good and I’ve been working on my boards pretty like
So hard with um Brandon Ley and uh feel like I’ve dialed them in pretty good and they’re feeling so solid under my feet so I’m just stoked couple of really heartbreaking new misses on the Challenger Series over the last two years but you know making the quarterfinals at an event like this must
Just feel you full of confidence and and help you believe that this is where you meant to be yeah it feels so good like my last year on T pretty much didn’t even make a heat so it feels good just to get a couple back and boost the
Confidence a bunch and I don’t know just stick to my process and um I know have a hell time with everyone down here we got hell crew down here and all the boys on tour it’s um sick to be hanging out with them again it’s epic that’s unreal mate
Um just finally before you go you know uh like I said it was a local Heat against your best mate is that something that lifts your game or or helps you to Surf even with more sting oh no not really I I swear never beat Ry when
We’re at home in Bor always smokes me so it feels good to get a win here over him um but he’s been doing so well this year so it’s epic to see him just kind of find his feet on tour and just being the usual guy that’s going to be in the top
10 at so sick well people who love pro surfing love watching you get through Heats M and now we’re so St for you to see you into the quarters best of luck in that next round thank you thank you V Morgan sick back with the wild card and a power shake from
Vono those two have spent some time together if you guys haven’t seen postcards from morgs yet it’s a Rip Curl movie that was kind of the debut for him globally to get his profile out there yeah Morgan was just unheard of globally they knew him in Australian surfing
Circles and I remember meeting him in Hawaii when he qualified I was like what can we look forward to and he’s like I have no idea he just hadn’t had time to to digest it yet then I was like well how do you say your last name and he’s
Like you know what say it however you want I’m like no no this is your career we got to figure it out we got to say it one way he’s like a sibli works but there’s a lot of different versions of it you know and he’s he’s just a mellow cat so he
Was like yeah just go with whatever feels good it’s just cool to see him rise to that fifth in the world finish that first year yeah it’s good and uh you know struggled for form really to be honest uh in the Years following that
And and it’s great to see him uh back to that level like that’s that’s the best heat I’ve seen him put together uh these last few Heats in the rip call Pro you know have been amazing for Morgan he’s clearly back in form doing a lot of work
On the boards as he said um and he’s been working with Brendan Ley he’s riding that round tail sharp ey Inferno 72 model it’s a single to double concave uh and he’s gone a little bit narrow too so perhaps uh that just giving him the
Space to be able to you know free up that surfing um but uh you can you can just tell when he came onto the tour he was surfing without restriction or pressure and then he felt the pressure the performance went down and he’s now gone back to that space where he’s just
Been able to free himself up again Samuel poopo already off and running with a 667 from his opening wave Mel had the 4.5 on the start now it’s the South African’s turn here tap float to start another one just feeling his way off the top nothing major yet now digging in on
The open face pushing some water out the back and section throw tail reverse for Miguel yeah nice clean TDY little finish to that one just got a little stuck on a couple of those opening Maneuvers but cleaned it up nicely so backing up that 4.5 Z put advantage to Sammy poopo that 6.67
Out in front at the moment still a long way to go Matty mcil and Sammy poopo have had three previous Heats on the championship tour mcil undefeated against Samuell they’ve had a heat in Margaret River Tahiti even Bells last year in the round of 32
Mat won as we look at this wave again yeah just tripped up a little bit on those opening pumps down the line now he cleans it up catches that little Edge there so uh you know just forced the issue to get that blow tail rotation in and I really can’t see this breaking
Into the fives and Matty’s going to need something more cuz I feel like Sam’s going to uh pounce on this next set that comes through and he’s going to uh you know put in another great performance he just looks on at the moment Matty McGill has been Allin in
His career spending a long time away from home even when the world shut down a few years back he just hung out in Australia and lived out of his suitcase that did whatever he could to put himself in big events this year even in the off season
He just spent the time majority of it in Hawaii just preparing boards preparing his mindset for some of those challenging waves on the planet Pipeline and Sunset Beach loving this guy’s dedication he’s gotten tens by showing off his Barrel riding ability and how late he can take off and then you kind
Of go into a nice fun right-hander you’re just going wow this is going to feel like he’s right at home Maddie looking without priority after paddling back out Sammy just a little bit out the back so Migel is going to see if he can better his low score
Now stepping on the whitewash and he’ll step out situation Remains the Same yeah just looking for that uh way with a little bit more open face those pockety little moments where you can really set that Rail Jam the turn perform that clean maneuver but really difficult to do on a day like
Today Tides filling in down here at winky pop jeez we’ve seen some good surfing today though reflecting back to the morning in those glassy conditions and man it has been a real uh display of performance surfing we’ve seen everything from open face hacks to carbs and airs quick snaps seen
It all yeah we have and some really exciting close Heats Liam O’Brien getting through this morning in the first heat of the day on that lower tide then Cole hman under pressure of the cut he’s into the round of 16 Keno gashi finding his flow and Rhythm and
Magic he’ll have a heat with hman later on today in the round we had Crosby get past Sammy’s brother earlier to Now set up an all Cola Pinto round of 16 heat heat number five Crosby a rookie Griffin number one in the world yeah that’s going to be a a pretty
Rad matchup the whole family is on Deck p and uh Camille here just uh spurring their boys on and uh at some point this was always going to happen they we’re going to meet up hopefully in a final but it’s happening in the round of 16
Today who’s your money on Joe who that is a put on the spot CR and Griff wow we want to hear from you at WSL on our socials who’s going to win that brother matchup you know who put it out there first was Crosby he made a post he’s
Like who you got and so that’ll be really fun I know they’re enjoying this opportunity with seating and just the way the world works on tour it’s like you never known you’re going to get another all brother match up so we’re going to go all in on this one uh
Griffin being number one in the world that you know that feels like a fair call but gosh Crosby so happy gol lucky and then Griffin might feel pressure of just being the big bro if anyone’s going to force him to let his guard down it might be his younger brother why don’t
We put 10 push-ups on it you take G I’ll take cross done well called we’re on Fair you guys do the same at home that’ll be a fun one later on in this round Miguel La leading this one 45 and a 383 and now Samuel decent size set here yeah looking
Like he’s just going to let it go through and mad’s going to do the same it’s going to touch wide on them so Miguel hanging in there for South Africa giving Jordy some backup on tour once again now turning s Samy poopo making a move he’s got so much speed on
That JS into his first turn how about a down carve oh no and then get stuck oh that is a get out of G free card there for MD McGill because uh that one big opening carve had all sorts of points on it he just needed to uh finish that with a
One or two turn combination and that thing would have been up almost into the excellent Zone I reckon let’s see what happen here Rich yeah beautiful looking wave from the takeoff shades of J B really streaking down the line here Samy gets this opening carve down holds that rail for
Much longer this time gets back on that heelside up and just didn’t quite get up onto the lip enough there just caught his toeside Edge as he was uh going up into that turn shame opportunity lost the brother heat getting prepared with their coach Tommy Wier Tommy coaching both the
Boys lot of love there between these two their father a lifeguard and a teacher but also had a surf camp and that’s where they were just surfing trying to impress all the the campers that were getting a lot of Knowledge from their dad on the ocean and on riding
Waves and they both had a different journey to being world class Surfers on tour for Griffin he was kind of the obvious one coming up as a young competitive Surfer through the USA championships in the NSSA Crosby I guess you’d call him maybe a late bloomer as far as just dedication
To the craft he always had the talent I think Griffin really reminded him hey if you work hard you could do this and now he’s just unbelievable watching Sammy poopo flow down the line trying to recover from the fall driving through that fin throw reverse and shuts it down that clean off
The top of the Whitewater section I can’t believe how quick that guy can reverse around that board is so fast so responsive under his feet solid call from Jason Stevenson to bring him some extra backup boards for this event this one’s magic as we watch it again yeah
Smaller inside waves streaking down the line just pumping over these sections blows the tail gets the reverse shuffles the feet back into position and just hops up onto the lip to get that final maneuver in so this is what those epoxy boards do Joe uh this is a full carbon
Construction EPS core epoxy resin and they they just twitch under your feet they feel so Lively uh and spicy it’s a uh it’s working so well here for Sammy poo with 16 minutes on the clock let’s see what Van’s up to very very special guest down here at
The rivco pro bills Beast Joselyn num and Annie Goldsmith the 2023 Isa adaptive world champion and first and second place at the recent adaptive Australian adaptive Pro welcome thank you very much for having us on oh it’s a real pleasure guys in the last few years um there’s no doubt you know Paris
Surfing has just had such a big profile explosion and it’s unreal to see you guys doing so well and getting such great results for Australia yeah it’s unreal to be part of this movement we’re Paris surfing right around the world is growing and hopefully leading towards par Olympic inclusion in the future but
It’s fantastic to be part of this movement in improving the visibility of parasurfing and just trying to push the level that parasurfing can achieve so it’s great to be out here watching Legends of the sport make the most of these waves on offer it really is um at
The recent Australian adaptive Pro an amazing event up there at Byron Bay uh I’ve never seen so much just incredible energy around a surf contest before how was that for you guys that experience I think it was fantastic I think from my experience it’s one of the if not the
Best event that I’ve been to around the world on this tour so it was fantastic to be a part of that and see the community get around it and see some epic scores be dropped across the entire contest pushing the limits and expectations of what can be achieved in
Paris surfing what about you Annie how did you enjoy that experience in Byron I just love being um part of the community there like everyone’s gets around everyone and it doesn’t matter your disability they all just get around each other in Australia we are so lucky to have so
Many Legends in Paris surfing Mark mono Stewart obviously I think he’s a five-time world champion now Sam Bloom em aidas uh Barney Miller from down at coughs I mean how important has the success of these guys being to you guys I think these people that have come
Before us have really paved the way for p surfing in Australia so it’s fantastic to see all of these Legends of the sports still involved in the sport and everyone’s there to support each other which I think is really unique and special within parasurfing CU everyone’s competing together across different
Categories but they’re just helping each other push the limits so it’s fantastic to be involved in such a supportive community and have those Legends of the sport around still supporting yeah and improving and winning events like mono was so cool to see mono win the recent Australian adaptive Pro as well and just
Finally uh a big moment for you uh last year you were the Australian adaptive uh surf of the year and recently at the Australian adaptive Pro you scored a 10 the first 10 of your career yeah no that was very exciting managed to get that elusive 10-point ride and finish with a
19.33% later on the week thank you so much for having us on magic thank you so much V and great to hear from Annie and also josn there winning in 2022 and 2023 World title tour wins uh really cool that they’re hanging out enjoying all the action at
The rip Crow Pro Bells Beach presented by bons soy always fun to see who you’re going to get to meet at a big event like this some Legends hanging out and a big one for the two brothers Crosby and Griff they’re still still hanging out preparing for a big heat later in this
Round take a bonsoy brew break we’ll be right Back e for you’re watching the Rip Curl pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy and you can get the special merchandise from this event if you’re not here on site get it at WSL store.com if you are here at the event you can walk up on the top of the bluff
Near the winky car park and find yourself the store we can get all that one-of aind merchandise to represent the event here in 2024 it’s never the same you got to keep it for the years to come there’s a lot of people here where you meet them and
They they tell you how many bells that they’ve seen a lot of fans here have seen more than 10 bells and they wear their old shirts to represent their dedication to the sport that they love Sammy poopo taking on Matthew mcgil it’s been all about winky pop lately in the
Last couple of days competition you can see that staircase and where those colors are showing Maddie with priority that’s where the judges are set up for this event you have that viewing deck a little bit higher up that’s kind of the the VIP zone for coaches and really
Athletes it’s a different type of feel when you’re around the corner at the bells Bowl little more Beach to hang out on especially with this higher tide the officials were really cool with letting the fans down earlier when it was low tide and then had to escort them up the
Stairs when they were running out of room Adam Robertson there with that blue shirt on it was the wild card that made the final against Parco years ago now run and surfing Victoria Ethan ying and Liam O’Brien an all Australian matchup as we transition back to live action Sammy
Poopo light on his feet looking for a major impactful move to release he just left searching there but his way before 517 has a out in front of Matty McGill yeah he’s uh kind of taking a pretty commanding lead here but mty still in it
Needing a 7.34 but we I think we’ve seen really a wave that that’s going to allow him to to get that 7.34 yet so I I I like his strategy of just being patient waiting for a set looks like we might have a bit of a set approaching the
Lineup now so uh MD will be calming his nerves here assessing the wave as he’s paddling right now thinking y this looks like I can get some uh some good numbers on it hopefully it doesn’t run off too quick here we go Miguel Now setting up his first turn nice hack
There passing Sammy poopo now driving into that Whitewater section connects well off the bottom and throw tail controls it forward and rides away so getting the completion there three different times and terms and now Sammy poopo is going to be able to roll in just for a moment up and
Out Matthew chasing a 7.34 it’s interesting with where they sit for a lot of the Waves they were catching earlier then a big set comes and you see him he had to hustle to make sure he got a piece of that wave and the rest of it just ran down to
Lowers yeah it’s always tough as a as a surfer when you have to make that Split Second decision whether to keep racing or just do the Maneuvers with the wave that’s in front of you the sections that just turn up right here so uh Matty up and through the lip
There gets thought he was going to go for the full full reverse excuse me at that point but he brings it round Rec corrects on the CI Pro and it’s looking really good under his feet here you can see just grabs the rail steadies himself there and what
That does is allows him to just control the way the boards moving under his feet a little bit better perhaps will improve on that 4.5 which will be uh we’ll make that requirement we’ll bring that requirement down and and he’ll stay in this heat Richie who are some of your
Heroes at Bell’s Beach uh Tom Karan was one I always used to look at Tom and and uh just love the the sort of uh fluidity and style um obviously you know that that classic match up with o uh back in the day it was I was sort of torn
Between Tom was my favorite Surfer at the time but then so was oie and he was the Aussie so you know it was pretty cool to watch that as a grommet and you know uh and then after that obviously you know watching Kelly out here you know and and competing against him um
Joel Parkinson and Mick Fanning spring to mind as well as you know Joel’s approach here that smooth swooping style you know almost looking lazy at times but you know just so much flow in and in the way he connected all these turns so um yeah there’s a couple good names
Those are some great names and you also made the quarters here yeah who got you um I can’t remember actually okay we’ll have to look that yeah we’ll have to look that one up but um I I did have success just focused on the Bell yeah
You know at that point oh no it was Cory Lopez there we go yeah Cory got me um but I like George actually won the trials here one year and that got me into the main event that was the first pro event that I ever competed in so
That was a really special uh experience and um yeah you know I’ve been coming down here for a long time now competing competing here as a junior and then through the Australian circuit and then obviously the 10 years on the championship tour so um yeah I’m feeling
Old right now as we’re talking about it it’s like a second home too yeah well it’s cool you know it’s yeah it really is an annual migration you know as a surfer you you need to come down here even if it’s not during the rip call
Time you know the rip call Pro time just come down and feel the energy of the area there’s so many good waves around here and you know it’s a really really special place yeah great seeing Ai and having him join us for the call the other day he’s still ripping and still
The Benchmark for how to perform on this wave on on your back end uh I would I would say that every goofy footo that’s come down here um you know really looks to oie for inspiration and and for kind of tips and advice on on how to approach
The way because he just does it so well um so yeah if you can unlock some of that ocupo magic then uh you’ll do well down here the other day Mark Richards uh tagged us in a post of the judging criteria uh from back in the day and he
Remembers walking by uh Michael Peterson the late great Michael Peterson MP had the criteria just taped to his his window and his car and he just studied everything the judges were working looking at they actually had points for certain types of Maneuvers back then
Yeah it was crazy uh I had a look at that post the other day and it was like bottom turn six points you know uh speed weave is another five points and like the list was huge there was like 20 to 30 different things that the judges were
Kind of ticking boxes and just adding up the points and I was like made me think imagine if we actually had that judging criteria now like who would win you know and would we we would see a totally different approach you know this is modern day surfing where we really focus
On two of the best waves the the biggest and best Maneuvers critical Maneuvers done with flow there’s you know it’s a completely different way to judge now but interesting how they used to do it back back in the day oh it’s come a long way hasn’t it oh totally and and bells
Has seen every update in the criteria since day one since the criteria was invented how do we decide who’s surfing the best and you know without everyone who came before and went through all those years of growing in the sport you know we wouldn’t have the system that we
Have today where it’s top two waves no wave maximum really highlighting performance you can get a 10 on one individual turn if it’s that big they want to reward radical surfing and wow there’s so many great memor and looking at the ocean pop up with some waves here
Sammy poo wants to dig in hustling now to cover some ground oncoming section he’ll just tap his way through throws an arc and cut back still has a ton of energy time to throw the tail towards the beach and gets the reverse mcil on the next one winds up
Off the bottom nice clean snap deeper off the bottom for another Hammer there throws the tail in transition wow there’s reverse and Miguel with his arms up celebrating I was thinking in the back of my mind when Sammy poo took off on that wave I was going the second wave
Of the set is always going to be smoother and Manny mcil he sold Sammy poopo on the first wave of that set and you could tell there was bump on it there was all this texture and Sami had to kind of fit his Maneuvers in the
Second wave of the set was much much smoother you can see here look there’s intent with Matty mcgil and and Sammy goes all right I’ll saying for Matty he that was so smooth the judges has sent out the message to all the Surfers in the morning they want
To see that flow from start to finish using the entire wave you have any stumbles on a wave like this at winky pop or Bells they’re taking note of that it’s all about that overall performance and mcgil just nailed it poopo up and out still waiting on scores from that
Last exchange down to 20 seconds Miguel doesn’t claim too often they’re going to have to compare Matty’s last wave directly with Sammy Poo’s first wave the 6.67 as this one’s counting down it’s going to be close he had some good turns good three solid Maneuvers on that wave Joe now we’ve run
Out of time but the most important exchange just went down right at the end Miguel L undefeated against poopo in the past let’s see if he can keep that and make it four in a row clutch effort there you can tell how fit he is one of the best paddlers on tour is
Migil growing up on point breaks ah this is what this guy does man he is solid numb coming through for M McGill a seveno to 77 as he hits the jackpot there and takes the win on the last exchange big performance from the South African to go from second to first in
The dying seconds and turning in a brilliant three- turn combination what a performance that is uh just determination persistency he didn’t he doesn’t go away this guy man he just hangs in there he stays with it till those final moments and I think he pointed at morgs
Cuz he’s like I’m coming for you in the first quarterfinal two good friends in the first quarter final together here at the ri Crow Pro Bells Beach presented by Bon soy brilliant surfing from the South African up next Ethan Ying takes on Liam O’Brien we’ll be right Back BL supp My You’re watching the 61st edition of this really special event the 50th at rip C has been a major part of it the Riff c pro Bells Beach presented by by bons soy watching Liam O’Brien get things going with Ethan Ying in the lineup driving off the top of bit just
Kind of a tap there and he will kind of run out of room as he steps off Liam from Burley heads we’ve got Ethan Ying from stradbrook Island they’ve got some great mentors to look up to J botle Thompson coaching Liam for a long time and they’re still
Really proud of their recent in at the Australian board Riders battle at Burley not just a surf event but a marathon Sprint to tag your your competitor they did a great job Thomas woods and Company bringing it home for Burley and with stratty B derage got Mr
Consistent on tour former runner up at this event as we look at Liam start during the break this was a 35 yeah just the opening wave here from Liam you can see sort of coming behind the section uh all the time on the that wave so no real
Special moments and then this looks like the replay of Ethan Ewing’s first wave jams it off the the first hit streaking down the line have a go at the speed here still more momentum down the line and just throws the absolutely everything the kitchen sink at this final section and
Uh the big layback hammer to finish things off great surfing there from Ethan Ying to open things up and and what about that for a score Joe 8.5 on his opener against Liam O’Brien this man can do that on demand he’s so efficient with his wave selection you don’t see him kind of
Running away picking bad waves off he’s always just right where he needs to be and an 85 what a signal to his good friend and rival of Liam O’Brien they’ve had some insane Heats together over the years Liam now scratching for one that one’s going to roll in underneath his way before a
257 and we’ll see this one get started remember Ethan Yan going for backto back Bells trophies and we’ve seen that happen in surfing history but it’s a really tough challenge to win one year show up the next year and show that you’re still the best at a CT venue
That’s beyond impressive yeah yeah it’s a it’s a very difficult thing to do but we’ve seen it done time time again perhaps Ethan can do it here you know Fair few of those um you know bigger I guess favored names have dropped out of the draw here so that spills opportunity
For not only uh the crew that haven’t had a win down here at bills but also for Ethan Ying to uh go for the double so Liam O’Brien with that big score on the board from Ethan Ying he needs to stay focused here needs to stay in this
Wave selection is going to be critical because you know Ethan is not not really going to mess around with taking any inside waves unless he absolutely has to 28 minutes still heaps of time on the clock he’ll be looking to put a huge number on the board and really shut Liam
Out of this one as close as uh as quick as he can so Liam needs to um answer back with a good score on his next wave first Surfer to go back to back the Bells Beach Easter rally it was called it was Australia’s Nat young 66 to 67 and then
The same thing happened in’ 68 to 69 with a man named Ted Spencer kind of owning that era here at Bell’s Beach uh Nat young one of the most famous Australian Surfers from that time getting the bell and those bells were made by a guy named Joe Sweeney he was
The guy that extended the dirt track down to Bells back in the day and he also would go in his garage and get the Bell put it on that cool wooden frame he made the trophies all the way into 2016 uh when he passed away absolute
Legend of this event and a big part of just getting it started in the first place yeah it’s a pretty special Trophy and uh we have the the great Fortune of of sitting next to it all week long here in the booth as they say you got to win it to ring
It and uh heaven forbid you give that thing a ring and you haven’t won the event yeah I’ll never forget luck Neil Ridgeway told me that he’s like oh yeah you can’t ring it cuz back in the day it used to be a tradition where people
Would let their friends ring it you know and I remember Taj when Taj won he brought the Bell home to everybody and had a huge party and the way Taj said I think everyone was ringing it and then someone rang it off the trophy and it flew off like the second floor and
Almost took somebody out downstairs well I think the caveat is that if you win the Bell you’re allowed to oh give permission give permission to ring it but if you ring this thing before you’ve actually won it in hate then uh yeah I think you get some bad juju ad DOA
Remember on stage he won first male for Brazil Sylvan won in 2009 but when he won he rang the thing off the trophy it meant so much to him fell off and he picked it back up you would if you got the opportunity to ring it you’d ring it
Hard as we roll in now deep positioning way up the point there for Liam O’Brien needing a -1 oh cool layback slide off the lip Ethan’s watching in everything from out the back and slams into another tail throw God so impressed with the options that Liam
Has but H yeah Ying watched every single turn from out the back you always wonder are they going to play close attention or are they going to kind of just stare out to see I think it’s good to get a you know keep an eye on your competitor
Just get a gauge you’re always judging your own waves and giving yourself a score soon as the ride’s done you’ll sort of put it in then you’ll hear the actual judges score come down and you’ll be like yeah okay compare it against that so it’s good to keep a read on what
Your your competitor doing too because you’re sort of doing the the arithmetic in your head and thinking okay I’ve got my 85 he’s going to build on here and this is what I need uh all that information comes uh readily available via the the beach announcer and also
Through the Apple watch um but yeah Ethan uh his strategy you can see right here is to just drop anchor and wait for that perfect wave uh that he can start building some bigger points well Liam O’Brien certainly did 733 and now he got a chance to catch up
With Matthew McGill who’s now 40 against Sammy poopo he’s with v Maddie 40 against Sammy poopo and that’s probably one of the toughest battles you’ve ever had with him really having to throw everything including the kitchen sink on your last wave to get the score yeah it was um obviously sami’s been absolutely
Ripping this event so I knew it was going to be a hard matchup and I mean he he started straight away with a big score and he was in Rhythm and the heat so I was kind of um having a mental mind game uh battle out there just trying to
Stay calm and um I was definitely stressed but just so happy to come back at the end there and yeah it really meant it really meant a lot to me making it through that heat it was a a great performance man I just want you to take
Us through that ride that last one because uh you really went at it with the first two turns but then that last section loomed up and you just went yep I’m just going to go throw everything at this yeah I mean I I realized that I had
To it was my last chance to get the score and if I just did an normal snap or Larry I probably would have I wouldn’t have got the score cuz Sammy beted his previous one so um yeah I knew I had to go for an air um and thankfully
My board stayed on my feet so yeah there’s a lot of emotion riding out of that wave nice clim on that one M but well earned well earned claim I’m Number 22 in the world coming into this event so crucial to get a result you must be frothing now that you’re
Into the quarterfinals your best result of the season so far yeah I’m so happy to finally be making some Heats um I mean I’ve been really focused this year and trying really hard and sometimes you’re just hitting your head on the wall you like can’t make it out of round
Three so um yeah just so happy to finally get the ball rolling and um get some confidence again and yeah hopefully we can keep it rolling the next match Up’s going to be pretty interesting it’s going to be a good one mate it’s your old travel buddy and one of your best
Friends Morgan SI I mean it’s so great to see you guys into the final what do you think he’s going to bring to that that approach oh it’s it’s going to be it’s going to be so much fun cuz um we’ve been talking about it the last two
Days we’re like oh if we both make our next Heats we’re going to we’re going to match up together and um I don’t think we matched up on the CT before so it’s the first time and um yeah I mean it’s going to be a fun a fun match up we’re
Definitely both going to try best and one of us is going to be in the semi so that’s pretty cool man I can imagine both of you rubbing your hands together at the idea of that match up congratulations mate quarterfinal finish oh sorry into the quarterfinals here at
The rip Co Pro presented by bonsoy and a great effort there can’t wait to see in that one thanks so much appreciate it good on you man thank you V mcil happy to get his first quarterfinal of 2024 and to go against siick is an obsolute classic travel
Partners for many years if you guys got to see makeer break which is on TV plus uh box tobox Productions were following these guys around there was one episode that was really just focused on Morgan focused on uh mcil uh Liam O’Brien would pop up here and there as a replacement
Surf for That season it was it was really that three-pack that we were seeing all coached by J bottle Thompson and uh the the conversations were just classic hilarious is what they were lot of oy lot of Aussie slang going on in there too m d favorite so sibl a
Wild card uh this year migil full-time on tour uh which kind of brings up a point here so we brought up Jay bottle Thompson he’s from where Liam O’Brien’s from we brought up be derage that’s uh where Ethan’s from let’s just kind of play like little fantasy Surfer here
Heritage heat like together bottle vers bottle vers bead these conditions at winky pop who gets the win uh love you bsy but I’m going to have to give it to be I I just think his adaptability um it was one of his strengths when he was on the tour and uh
You know he’s got that big forehand fan be had this ability to to Really emphasize that front side snap and throw a ton of spray and keep his speed going down the line obviously perfected on on the point breaks up in Queensland there but uh yeah bot’s um more of a big Down
The Line open face swoop so in conditions like this I’m going to give the nod to beat gosh that just felt good you know we haven’t been able to break down of heat be in in bot a little while that just brought me back yeah it’s good
It’s cool haven’t seen well I saw uh saw bsy up at the board Riders battle a couple of weeks ago I haven’t seen beid in a while but uh sure he’s doing well I’m sure he’s tuning in right now too so all the best to the fellas I’m sure
Bot’s doing great after that big win for the board oh yeah I think they’re uh they’re still at the pub classic Liam O’Brien out in front of this one 733 and a 3.5 as is low Ethan just one way but one of the best of the day
8.5 and he’s got 20 and a half minutes to get another wave there’s some Surfers that just know they just need two waves huh Rich yeah exactly and you know coach Tommy Whitaker who was uh one of the best at just being patient and just knowing that I just going to get the
Myself on the best two ways in the heat I’m not going to stress around muck around trying to scratch for fours and fives I just only going to take off on Great Waves but uh you know Liam with nothing to lose here he’s trying to build the score line underneath Ethan
Euwing Liam O’Brien has given Ethan some trouble in the past as he goes for a big throw tail to beat the section nice Rhythm down the line snaps it off the lip again hustling towards this section nice speed turns off the top and now off the bottom love these extended slides that
He’s thrown down on demand mixed up with variety Ethan now is going to wake up for his second wave of the match jump first turn big vertical fin ditch out in front for the carv to tail release whips it off the lip again total control and Mastery of that DHD
Surfboard unbelievable read for ying a giant score to go with his 8.5 wow so uh patience is a virtue and in this case it is paid off for Ethan ying and well Liam O’Brien he just tagged that wave down the line did the most amazing surfing on that on
That kind of inside Runner that Ethan let go let’s watch the replay here so pumping down the line here clicks with that first little section keeps projecting now he starts to open up throws the tail High readjusts gets the balance back in the stance a series of front side snaps all
The way down the line up and over this foamy section then gets this strong finish as well with a layback hacked to uh to really complete that ride to bookend it started off radically lots of work in between and then gets the the powerful finish just so agile on his feet staying
Nice and light boards looking really good from what we understand a modified version of the Juliet model of Ethan’s signature model that one stab in the dark you can see the mck Fanning fins there just blowing them tail High a really sweepback swept back fin for these really rocket
Out boards just help settle and control the tail of the board up and over that section lots of drive you can uh you can tell what Liam was trying to do there but behind him on a bigger better wave Ethan Ying you can just see there’s a difference in the
Speed execution of these turns and you’re watching one of the most efficient Surfers on the tour at the moment radical tail slide into snap no speed loss between any of those turns and then clicks with that finishing maneuver just so much speed you can see he’s actually accelerating through it
Gets the tail release re-engages the fins quickly brings it back under his body again solo to the surfboard as he gets up and through the lip watch the compression in the in the legs nice and low to the deck well balanced man this guy he’s found something Ethan Yan looking incredible
Now Liam O’Brien stepping on the gas driving into a little layback and he will try to find a better section down the line building some speed winding up for a big slob and lays back and does not recover I almost feel like that’s a good strategy he he needs to to do something
Incredibly radical if he wants to take down Ethan Ying it’s going to be hard to match Ethan on the on the on the face here just doing power hacks Ethan’s just seems to be cutting into the water a little bit deeper Li again hunting sections to go
Big and just lays into a meat hook of a carve lays it down again and blows the tail out I love his energy God as I say that he’s just stepped it up again Ethan yings last score 7-7 and Liam O’Brien responding incredibly well just with energy trying punts going for even
Bigger carves on the open face I mentioned how Liam’s G given Ethan trouble in the past he’s got him a few times as we look at this wave driving off the bottom here a longer more aggressive snap bang through the lip again and then this final one leans in
It so hard actually gets a little tail release through that turn but manages to hang on to it but you can see he he’s increased his energy output by probably 10 to 20% on this wave and uh this is exactly what he he is going to have to
Do if he wants to uh sort of match Ethan for power and speed a beautiful turn there just right just stay connected to the wave for 90 90% of that turn than that final 10% just lost it but then re-engages the fins keeps that rail of the board
Smooth and then this final turn here watch there just throws his whole body into it back foot almost coming completely off the tail pad and just shoves it back down great execution core strength coming into play that was Radical I think there’s this thing you run away with when you talk about progression
You’re thinking air above the lip and then that’s just a version of progression on the open face just unbelievable amount of speed big carve to holding your Rail and then a big carve to blowing your tail that is just so much talent right there on a surfboard O’Brien trying to find a
Way to come back in the seat Ying might have a go at this one so he’s seeing a way to improve on a 727 there’s that cool Tempo and Rhythm now stepping into his first turn cool snap off the lip attacking that one down the line
Driving into a big hammer and his first fall of the matchup and then right back to business so I guess for a coach snake Patterson he’s looking for any sort of error or any sort of feedback and he might go why’ you need that wave
But maybe not cuz if he lands that last turn with authority maybe that’s another excellent raid score and you could put it away what do you think ra well at this point even a half a half a point is going to push Liam’s requirement up into the
Nin which will make it really really difficult I don’t even think we’ve seen a nine-point ride today so he’s he’s going to have to produce one of the best waves of the entire day Liam O’Brien let’s check the replay here Ethan Ying pumping driving look at the hands very neutral in position slightly
Forward jams on the breaks as he snaps through the lip there but then hits the accelerator again up and over this foamy section and now gets into this final moment and just ropes it around and just loses it outside edge catches and over he goes but luckily just Scoops his board
Up did well to catch that mid turn actually yeah was Radical Liams up again nice fading WP to kick things off ton of speed quick tight jam on the pocket and then wraps it again needed something really major to try to get the score and we’ll see him just throw the
Fins out into reverse but he knew right away that wasn’t going to be it see wife Choice here this is like at this moment in the Heat or in that moment in the heat before Liam took off on that wave it was like okay my opportunity now is
To beat Ethan but I have to find the bigger set or I have to wait for the wave that’s going to allow me to get an 8.5 and I I’m I just don’t think that wave had it on it an 8.5 I didn’t see it so Liam O’Brien leads 3 to one in
Previous Championship tour matchups Liams beat Ethan at pipe and El Salvador at Sunset Beach earlier this year Ethan with one win that was at pipe at the start of this season the beat Ethan at pipe the year before as hman walks down to the rocks on this higher
Tide Cole taking on Keno gashi in Heat number four the rookie on tour trying to save his spot on the top 34 coming through with the biggest win he’s had this season over his hero Gabriel Medina you can see how different the playing field is though there’s so much
Room to walk out on the lower tide now the water right up against the cliff can make it tricky to come in sometimes especially when it’s pumping yeah yeah and it’s big down the line at high tide you really do need to uh pick your exit
And entry point but uh the beauty of Winky pop is that the wave doesn’t really change too much in that uh uh you know it doesn’t section off as you know at low tide vers high tide it has a pretty consistent Pace regardless of how much water’s on the
Reef very special uh type of wave down here 10:30 on the clock Ying putting on a special performance and so is Liam O’Brien but it gets you thinking will Ethan Ying be the Mofi charger of the event on the post show we’ll be right Back I for time to dive into the pul for a massive day at the rip CR Pro Bells Beach presented by Bon soy Cole hman creating the biggest upset of the day the three-time RO champ has been absolutely crushing it he surfed incredibly well in this seat really fast tons of turns 710
667 Charlie was loving it it came down to this final wave Medina with priority Cole’s positioning allowed him to get started the combination out the back was one of the best combos for Maneuvers in the matchup Louis was proud of him and Cole moves on then we saw Kelly go down
His board looked fun and rippable he looked inspired to perform in these conditions at winky pop ended up falling on an important turn and then Baron was surfing really comfortably finishing his waves good variety 65 in the end to get his first win of his career over Kelly
The greatest of all time as we also saw Kade Matson under pressure of the cut take down one of his Heroes John John Florence out of the event but two time Ro champ a Bell’s champ had some great moments here but it was all about Cade the ocean went flat John really didn’t
Find a backup in this heat and ends up losing in the round of 32 Madson 517 in a 683 a very crucial heat for the rookie another major upset and a very happy Coach and Jake the Snake Patterson round of 16 continues here with super Australian heat Ethan Ying
With the lead over Liam O’Brien an 85 and a 727 and it’s been fun talking about the surfboard models from a great human a great shaper Darren Hanley who’s one of the most successful Shapers for this event specifically at Bell’s Beach Rich yeah absolutely uh well Ethan Ying
Uh obviously having a lot of success on this DHD Juliet model just one stab in the dark and there’s a there’s actually a pretty cool story around it so you know what these Shapers do Darren in particular working with Mick in the past you know they’ll be working on a Model
But there’ll be different variations of that model and Mick used to call them uh a different give all these uh boards that he was testing a different girls name and that’s how we used to set them apart so with Ethan they were going through the same process and and to sort
Of identify each individual board uh they were giving it uh the letter of the nautical alphabet so obviously Alpha uh bravo charlie as they go all the way down and Jay is for Juliet so that was the one that they eventually landed on hence the name the Juliet I love that so
They went through quite a few yeah well all the way through the alphabet all the way down to J and each one of those boards would have been called that uh corresponding letter of the alphabet it’s beautiful Delta Echo fox went through all those I wonder what those
Boards felt like I’m sure they’re fantastic as well but there was a little bit of magic right in the Juliet model and that was uh that was the one and then uh so lobb’s actually writing a slightly modified version of the Juliet um and that seems to be looking really
Good under his feet as well Darren Hanley just won the stab in the dark with Kohan Dino it’s just an amazing contest where the Surfers don’t know which shaper shaped which board and DH ended up on top and that model was used for that win as well so the
Juliet bit of magic Liam O’Brian up and out leading an 845 now with five minutes to go Ethan looking to go back to back with his trophies here at Bell’s Beach two CT wins for Ethan runner up in the world last season to Felipe too and looks like
The man to be looking so smooth in this match up yeah blast the top out of these uh first two turns and then the third one does the big layback slide and that was that 8.5 one of the best scores of the day L O’Brien you can see the wave
Height a little bit smaller but some fantastic Sur nonetheless driving through these sections getting to the finish and staying quite radical trying to show a great Variety in his repertoire but Ethan just on the big up better waves being more patient he’s only ridden three waves in this heat but jez two of
Them have been exceptional you can just see the difference in speed and that’s what’s setting these guys apart at the moment Liam O’Brien just having big IND idual moments with crazy layback carves that was unbelievable to the tune of a seven-point ride but I love how he’s executing just a different style of
Surfing adapting to what’s needed in the heat I actually like that one better than he 733 and I thought that one could uh perhaps have almost gone into the eight-point range I thought it was excellent surfing even though uh he did take it way down the line and I think
That’s perhaps why the the score stayed around that seven markers is that it was almost taken off right sort of halfway down the lineup really oh it’s just the rat if you have a photo in any part of those turns they’re they’re getting shots in the magazine if you’re making a
Movie part you’re using turns like that it’s just that’s the kind of Surfing you you really want to see on the championship tour these are the battles that we hope we get more of this season because this is a fun kind of Australian rivalry on tour Ethan trying to bring a world title
Home last season did everything he could after the back injury in Tahiti everyone thought that was it and you could just see an extra gear for his determination not to give up on a chance to to try to bring a world title home to Australia
Yeah um you know he’s he’s had a little tast of it uh being in that final five Showdown exciting day of competition it’s all on the line and uh you know obviously Ethan ying and Jack Robinson are sort of touted as the the biggest Str hopes to to get a world
Title will 2024 be the year we talked about the Surfers who went back to back we mentioned that Young Ted Spencer uh MP he went three in a row Michael Peterson Mr Mark Richards he also had three in a row ended up with four before he moved on son Garcia was
Able to go back to back with his titles he had a few bells to his name Andy Irons also one of the huge names and often was compared to uh Ethan ding style or Ethan was compared to Andy I should say when he first came on the
Scene AI went back to back 2002 2003 that went with World titles but pretty hard to accomplish that two different eras when you come back a Following season and there’s new people on tour different conditions it’s a huge statement that Ethan’s trying to make this year 90 seconds on the
Clock Ethan with priority doesn’t really have to move unless there’s a wave where he thinks Liam could get the 845 he’s pretty much surfed a perfect heat here Ethan Ying conserved his energy here no unnecessary waves ridden perfect heat strategy executed obviously the partnership with Jake Patterson working well down here at
Bills you can also see we talk about his efficiency he forces his competitors to just look at every option they can you look at O’Brien 10 waves ridden so many different parts of the lineup surfed he really exhausts his competitors and he’s only looked at three waves this entire
Heat decent looking wave here we will get a ride and I dare say Ethan will uh just hold Lobby off this one take a Victory lap and Liam looking interested Ethan Ying rolls in with 30 seconds and flows into a foam climb another one just to get down into
Some open face white wat’s keeping them H us there but still looking real clean in his transitions as he’s just kind of going through the motions on that final effort 10 seconds left and oh hang on hold the get into this one O’Brien up in time needs an 8.45
He’s hustling down the line going for something big first turn nice and clean setting up a wrapping cutback staying engaged on this wave and just a little setup off the top and throwing a fin throw he gets caught not going to be the number he was looking
For but Liam should be proud I mean one of the most entertaining matchups and one of the cool rivalries that we have on the top 34 Ethan Ying solid moving on to the quarterfinals yeah was a good performance I mean when you look at Liam O’Brien’s heat total 14.33 I mean that’s
That’s good surfing right you know he he literally just did everything he could on the waves that he got but Ethan was just on the bigger better waves and you’re looking at a man there that is in total control in fine form and is really starting to announce himself as the man
To beat for this competition what a rooll for Ethan Ying 85727 moves on to the quarter finals coming up next rookie Cole hman takes on Keno gashi we’ll bring in the Blakey Brothers for the call right after This for for the rip kill Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by surf Coast Shire head to Surf Coast events.com Au to find out what’s on by bonsoy the official milk of the world surf League by Bon University not for profit and not to conform Bon University
Exists for you by weather guard official portable storage of WSL Australia and by hydrite official oral rehydration partner of WSL Australia moving through the round of 16 setting up quarterfinal Clash today what a Saturday it is the rip Pro Bells Beach presented by bonso we’ve seen some big
Heats go down we’ve seen some tough results some close ones but the action continues here heat four it’s another stunner Cole hman is going to be taking on cano igarashi here here for the call Ronny Blakey joined by vaugh mate you’ve been out there in the field you’ve been
Kind of feeling that pressure people chasing big results to stay at the top end and others desperate to get themselves above that cut R It’s been a pretty wild day Ron like we turned up this morning we basically looked at winky went yep cool there’s waves let’s
Rip it and uh yeah far out drama really solid surfing some excellent performances and a huge crowd down here as well to enjoy all the action uh if you can’t see it from the cliffs you just wander down into the the comp site and there’s a big screen and there’s
Heaps of people out there how are you folks and uh yeah like I mean mate the the atmosphere is is what you expect here at bills you know it’s sporting event as we always say but everyone really appreciates I was just down there while Ethan and Liam were going at it
And uh every ride was just getting claps and cheers and a lot of gratitude for appreciation of the surfing on hand yeah folks good on you guys for uh coming down and enjoying it I was actually upstairs too in the Kingdom of froth they call it that’s the bonsoy
Activation down here or the home of the you know the bonsoy uh stand stand and um yeah it was just awesome man you got views from the top level looking down at the big screen looking down across Winky and yeah they gave me some socks and
Mate you thought the the milk was good socks are even better they’re so comfy rocking the uh the the soy bur there Sam Sammy soy bur yeah Sammy soy bur I love it he’s a ledge beautiful view there of Bell’s Beach taking that Melbourne flight Camp Sensational some folks
Enjoying a swim as well down there in the corner but it has been a magic day and the action continues at winky pop and Cole hutchman will his big run continue in this event another tough draw for him Cano igarashi uh just before we we rocked up
Today we were sort of talking about you know will we see a a breakout performer and even though Cano has had a lot of runs at this event he’s never broken into the quarterfinals before so this is a key one for him but yourself and Richie love it sensing that that
Something’s clicking with canar at the moment definitely uh um I I just really think his style of Surfing suits these waves whether it’s bells or whether it’s winky he’s kind of got a full artillery that he can unleash on both venues um he was impressive this morning he looks
Dangerous he looks really focused uh he has that brilliant mind that magic mind helping him out in his coach’s box yep and uh I think he’s going to be yeah yeah I think he’s going to really go at this Heat against Cole here yeah well Jake Patterson might be the key
Ingredient for Canoa igarashi Cole hasman has been working with Luke Egan obviously a lot of competitive success and Luke tends to pick up goofy foot as any stable and uh you know I think that he’s able to really help them break down the locations where he’s obviously spent
A lot of time kl’s looked really sharp on the backand throughout this event so far as is a big test though it’s pretty classic I remember seeing Luke Egan surf dbar years and years and years ago right when he was at his Prime and you know he was
One of the bigger guys on T Ron heavy power Surfer I like really love to just bury the rail uh but could release and be explosive and Progressive as well uh but this de dbar was Tiny it was like one foot dribble and Luke was going
Ballistic out there and I reckon he sees kind of a little bit of himself in Cole maybe can understand what he need to bring to this Elite level so that he can get the best results possible and he’s he’s pulled off a huge one this morning definitely one of the uh the biggest
Surfers that we’ve seen on the CT in some time 63 plenty of muscle on those bones but it’s going to be Canoa igarashi kicking things off here in heat fall the around of 16 and just look at the flow this guy just sits on top of the water so
Beautifully and always pinpoint with the placement of these Maneuvers already flaring up that variety as he work works his way down to the inside came out of the water after his last Heat with a big smile on his face just loving competing at the moment and that could spell
Danger for the rest of the field as Jake watches on you can see that tide quite high at the moment yeah this morning that was all bare Brock and reef and uh right now it’s uh basically licking the edge of the cliff and uh these guys are really
You know having to deal with a lot more lump on the face uh but this as an opening ride is not too bad I think from Canoa it’s uh hasn’t got any sort of real major fireworks but it’s just so smooth down the line speed it was a really lovely
Blow tail a little bit of a sticky turn there and then bashes it off the inside down the line and I guess uh you know there have been Heats that have slowed down so just to get something on the board early is is a good call yeah just a a cool customer
Typically but you you can remember back to when he broke through for that win in barley when he had Jake in his corner there just how Fierce the celebrations were also when he went back to back at the US Open so he he has that competitive fire but I I think Jake has
Helped him reignite it this year and Jake did a similar thing for Stephanie Gilmore on you know in just getting her back to a seriously feisty mindset yeah and I mean canel didn’t finish or have a great year last year so he wanted to come out after you know experiencing WSL finals
Just one year beforehand uh and refine that magic you know click back into that competitive mindset um snake is the perfect guy to get your fight up and into that space look how high The Tide Is there that’s just amazing there was so many people down there on the beach this
Morning obviously when Kelly Slater hits the water Ron you know people just appear out of nowhere it’s like that uh Simpsons meme where Homer just comes out of the bushes that’s what it looked like up in the car park 583 for igarashi on his first wave and now we’re going to
See what Cole can do in response gets caught behind that doesn’t get a whole lot out of that one yeah you mentioned that uh that dip in form last year for Canoa he went from fifth in 2022 all the way back to 14th last season really well
Situated at the moment knocking on the door of that final five with a couple of surfers above him you know potentially making room for him to climb a couple of rungs on the ladder an important heat for him wants to crack the quarters for the first time
Here it’s uh you know a really there’s a really good chance that we’ll have a breakthrough Champion V on the men’s side as well we know we’re going to see that on the women’s side the quarterfinals are set they look remarkable but all the former winners
Are out of the mix there so we’ll see it’s been a big day of upsets but just based on that last performance of Ethan Yi I was like looking down from the top of the cliff and his surfing looked enormous Ron he just covers so much
Ground his speed and his power is just I mean it it felt like a real statement heat uh even on his first wave he just went full attack mode and he looked a foot bigger than just about everyone who served today that’s the exception on the
Men is itth still alive and you know here he is making his way up the steps seemed very focused lucky you doing oh yeah hey well sered that was incredible first was n all right scor for blues first blue 5.83 5.83 and that last one it’s on 25 minutes remaining
Know in the BL locking in 5.83 first wave blue has priorities he’s a busy man P all right I’ma out there at the moment but is just coach dethan true that heat nothing but uh accolades after that performance and uh well the potential for those two to meet in the quarters we
Gave Jake a ride to the comp yesterday morning Ron and uh we got a little I got a little Personal Taste of his coaching style he uh had recorded a post heat interview I was doing he’s coaching everyone and he goes hey voro uh CAU the
Length of your question in this one and it was me and Tommy Whitaker and I just spoke for about 2 and a half minutes before Tommy got a word in he go yeah maybe uh keep that those questions just a little tigh of mate so there you
Go super coach yeah offering just advice to anyone who want it or not oh we’re loving being that back here at Bell’s Beach rip Cur and the WSL of course acknowledge that we’re here on Wang country and we uh acknowledge the people the traditional owners of the
Lands and waterways we’re on I love that piece uh with humei Anthony Hume just talking about the the power of Bell’s Beach J you know the glow of that the cliff faces around here and and how much good energy comes off them and uh his advice to people when you’ve had a
Crappy day is just walk down the beach put your feet in the sand and just bask in that amazing glow as you can see the sun’s gotten a starting to dip a little bit now so the sun’s not quite on at the moment but it’s a beautiful thing in the
Morning V yeah it’s one of the alltime great scenes in surfing I was just uh thinking about it here it is just this little Headland as we cut to the action here Ron yeah Canoa looking to back up the 5.83 bit of a slower start to this
Heat so far but you just know that with the Cali caliber of surfer out there that you’re going to see some some big scores drop any moment but yeah just on bells it’s it’s actually surprising when you first come down here it’s not a very big Headland you know you think of like
I don’t know lenx head or Bley head they kind of these these big monuments that just stick out in the ocean have these beautiful points running off them bills is just its own Little Piece of Heaven its own piece of paradise and uh once you paddle out there I don’t know it’s
Almost just like the weight of the history uh both you know sacred and ancient right through into the surf history it just it’s all just simmering out there you can feel it in your in your bones man yeah it’s uh it’s interesting I genuinely mean that like
You you you walk down the stairs and you paddle out and you can feel something Cosmic going on for sure I I think um to just chatting with one of Australia’s great cricketers Ian Healey the other day on his uh radio show on sen here in Australia a really popular program that
He has and he was just saying how do these beaches compare to the east coast and that white sand and the the blue water and I just said it’s so unique down here the experience especially for traveling Surfers and at the moment Cole harman’s drawing some comparisons just
To the characteristics of the face of the wave here at winky pop to what he rides back home at trestles but yeah is unique just the the entry to the beach you know generally you’re taking on quite a few flights of stairs to get down there chunky grainy sand and just a really
Interesting uh surface but it’s just a really challenging uh Zone to figure out too these competitors do such a fantastic job great response there to Cano’s opening 5.83 yeah two major turns here and Cole doing what he really does best and that’s just bash lips and uh release the
Tail and I really do think that that extra bit of tweak is just far out it’s what he’s going to have to bring in this heat we know that Canoa has just so much Variety in he surfing but Cole can match it and the backhanders can square up Ron
You know that they’re going to square up mate yeah it’s it’s great to see Cole’s back end come to play because you know he was so strong on the Challenger Series last year he blew mines at narab beam winning in really solid conditions there and um you know getting on an
Incredible rle backing it up with a second Victory on the Challenger Series over at bedo and very early Shoring up his position on the championship tour and yeah he’s just a really confident competitor yeah goes at it come on so strong like you you have back-to- back
Wins on the Challenger Series and then you you easily qualify for the CT and then you get kind of bashed in your first few events you know you get a bit of a wake up call so this has been a great result here for Cole and you know
I’m really looking forward to see what he brings in this heat as Canal flies down the line yeah really nice hit there always with that that pinpoint timing that th throw such a reliable move for him and even when this wave gets all tricky and has bumps all through it he
Just manages to find a way through it and smooth things out another solid finish from him Eiger Rashi 26 years of age from Huntington Beach but represents Japan got them a silver medal and will be representing Japan again in Tahiti this year he’s had some big moments there so
He’ll be well and truly Prime to go one better man this high tide is just wreaking havoc on these wave faces it is so wobbly it’s like South curlyy out there at the moment nice big snap off the top though uh and as you say he yeah
He IRS it out doesn’t he just uh flies down the line I mean this is such a hard wave to Surf like what he’s been able to do on it is pretty remarkable but uh again it’s it’s just sort of a wave that won’t put him in a
Really safe position in this heat just yet I’m sure he’s happy just to to finish another one off at this point though 17 and a half minutes to go igarashi waiting on another number to drop here let’s check in with L Year’s Bells Champion Laura thre to the
Quarters once again yes Ean Ying putting on an absolute performance then we’ve had some slow Heats today but you came out of the gates firing with the highest wave score of the day and the heat total what was your approach heading into it cuz damn you made it look fun yeah it
Was actually really fun but uh these inconsistent Heats and and days is super hard to I don’t know it’s super nerve-wracking cuz you just never know how many opportunities you’re going to get and um I just went into it trying to get a quick start and obviously a good
Start and yeah the 85 was pretty good to start off yeah the 85 must have felt good you know going up against Liam O’Brien you guys you know got some amazing scores on the board um you know waves last year at this event were quite like this on finals day have you changed
Much up with your equipment because you’re looking just on point like you were last year uh yeah thank you um no it’s pretty much the exact same board same dimensions uh I think the rails a little bit different this year um but yeah Liam such a good Surfer on the on
On the tour you kind of there’s like guys that you match up with against so much and I feel like that’s me and Liam we we’ve already had uh three Heats together this year so um yeah he’s such a good Surfer and really smart competitor so feels good to get
One up on him and it’s been a pretty wild day wild day of competition you are the only man left remaining with a bell under your belt I guess I say um how does that about you feel and how good would it be to go to you’re into finals
Day yeah that would be amazing um but you just never know I don’t know not sure how the conditions will be there’s um still few days left and um yeah whatever day they decide to run I’m yeah I’ll do my best and try and get another Bell amazing we’ll see you into finals
Today congratulations perfect thanks Laura on you Laura unbelievable and uh thinking about Ethan vorno just one of the great Bill stories his victory last year and this event has so many obviously in it’s 61st Edition there’s going to be a lot but you know that that was one of the the
The more famous victories just so cool to win not just a world class surfing event like Bells you know with all that history and Legacy but have your mom have done it you know 30 years earlier is just incredible yeah have your mom’s name on that Perpetual Trophy and yours
And on it just remarkable here goes Canoa igarashi his last wave came through at a 5.07 this wave’s giving him the opportunity to open up a little bit he’s got a nice Pace to it and he’s just trying to put together some big hits down the line loading up swings the tail
Free Glides across the loop maintains control gets the finish and that should do it Cole hasman being very patient on the outside and now he he makes his move great start here explodes through that first section A really well-timed hit on the second and now loading up has he got
The speed to find the open face again you know he does as he tweaks that tail and send spray everywhere and that is good stuff from the rookie oh I like this things have just started to fire here 14 minutes remaining uh Canoa his wave was solid it was smooth it had a
Bit more intent little bit more sting to it but Cole hman has really clobbered that first section and he did so well to get that little bonus run through the inside and you could see the body language again Ron he’s building he’s building beautifully actually we have a look at
Cano’s ride first again was a little flatter on the face than what we saw col on but he’s just doing so well and just piecing it all together yeah he really is but you know I think what this wave is showing us is his body language is so
Positive you know he’s really going at it uh the last few waves he’s had have been really similar flat but he’s able to really you know get that tail look at the technique there that is incredible rides out of a cleanly but yeah I think Cole’s wave just stood up so nicely
Here look at that that was such a power vert gets another second hit on it and this wave did reopen for him so opportunities on the inside to back up those first two turns nice little whip there up and over and cracks it again and look at that he’s having a he’s
Having a ball out here right now he’s having a hell time and uh have a look vorno at just how how good’s the technique in getting himself back in front of this wave and getting off good turns without looking like he’s chasing the Open Face perfect timing y really
Good I love this bottom turn wow and this is uh he just clicks this thing in the perfect spot hammers the coping and yeah this is what you’re talking about doesn’t look too desperate just comes around that section nice little up and over speed float and again throws it up big sprays
He throws doesn’t he and when the board’s zipping up and down like that the vertical nature of it I mean Canoa just hasn’t had a wave that’s bowled out like that yet I think he likes it he loves it yeah that’s a good feeling especially just remaining
Patient when Cano is sort of hunting around on the inside trying to you know gather momentum so uh expecting a good number for Cole here waiting for it to drop but a 6.4 for igarashi the requirement 6.53 for the rookie Big Unit but you just you don’t
See it any surfing uh much like uh Ramsey book him yeah you just you don’t really they’re just so good in smaller conditions yeah the way he’s able to sort of constantly get up and over the lip is what’s really impressive about his surfing he never looks heavy on the
Wave oh look at this number that’s dropped in 8.67 and Cole jumps up into the lead igar rajin now looking for a 7.98 there is just on 11 minutes remaining here we’re going to take a bonsoy brew break back in just a moment w PR that’s Oh Welcome back winky pop providing today let’s have a look at the oakberry surf conditions report the swell coming in in the 4 to 6t range beautiful wind at the moment there is a bit of texture out there vno that Tide’s filled in quite a bit but it’s still providing some opportunity for
Some pretty decent rides one excellent ride in fact an 8.67 for Cole just before the break he’s in front that’s uh being the biggest difference really in this heat it’s not like Canal is having a shocker by any means he’s ripped these waves to Pieces but his waves have just
Been a little flatter and when Cole got that one that just CED out it was a duts Fest he just went whack whack all the the way through onto the inside and some big tail releases and this will be the replay and this first turn is just far out so
Cool and the combo you know judges just gobble that up like it’s an oakberry mate an oakberry bowl and he he just uh you know got right through onto the inside and it was just power you know he was able to really bring the power game
To that wave just a steeper face it will always give you a platform to really attack that power is uh you know not that Cano igarashi doesn’t possess some some serious clout of his own but it that real thumping back end approach here from from Cole gives him an
Opportunity to set a set himself apart from that nice fin release and slicing carving approach of Canoa the judges absolutely D down on it that transition was silky oh so nice and yeah it is kind of one of the the the advantages to be on the backand if
You can square it up time it right you’re going to really send a big old spray into the heavens and that’s what uh Cole’s done so well on this wave been some my iconic goofy footed performances here over the years for that but the Goofs have some work to do to catch up
To the regular Footers in all those years the last 60 years there’s only been seven goofy footed winners uh versus the 53 regulars so uh yeah Cole’s got a big opportunity here to join some pretty esteemed company yeah well I know there’s one name on there that everyone’s probably
Looking at as The Benchmark for backhand surfing at bills that would be Mark ocupo 98 champ 25 years since he won his world title and I believe it’s 25 years since uh the occum his uh classic Jack McCoy bio pick came out that’s right yeah they’re touring Jack McCoy’s
Touring that around the country first time ever on the big screen I think that’s all kicking off uh end of the month and then into May so go to Jack macoy.com and have a look at where you can catch that screening off he’s going to be turning up at those but yeah just
Thinking back to some of the more recent goofy footed Champs maty Wilkinson had a huge breakthrough win here back in 2016 Italo 2018 had his first CT Victory here at Bells um other than those two the great Barton Lynch Damen Hardman rung the Bell a couple of times here and Tom
Carol had that amazing performance in ‘ 86 which is like really a a famous year down here at Bells isn’t it it really is yeah that was uh the great heat between uh the Goliath goof and the smooth regular footer Karen and oie one of the alltime famous Heats in Pro serving
History that one was in the semis as we see igar Rashi now going after the number he needs 7.98 what he’s chasing with 5 minutes to go we don’t think he’ll get too many more opportunities at it with just a lack of frequency in those quality set ways today
So put it all on the line there with that final move and didn’t make it stick it’s going to be hard now with Cole assuming that priority on the outside he’ll dictate terms you’ll have that level of control going into the final 4 and a half minutes here wow that was
Gnarly that wave it was so down the line so Speedy but the the coping just wouldn’t appear Cano just hunting hunting for some sort of section how this Ronny wow this is a massive moment for Kinto oh the Kinto family dad Mitch mom Camille they’re down there they’re
Watching this one unfolded we got Brothers hitting the lineup this is like be this is the moment isn’t it this is a dream come true like I mean to have both these guys on tour is one thing to be pulling on the rashy at bills against each other
It’s going to be so funny I can’t well funny f and funny probably I feel like for the the little bro you Reon the little bro no chance manate no chance it’s going to be a good one to call that’s for sure looking forward to
It but at the moment bit of hustle here Canó igarashi on the cell and Cole says no worries I’m buying and races through those first couple of sections but sees a bit of rust down the line a bomb and now on the outside igarashi will get his chance big open face
Here couple of clean hits swings the reverse and he’ll ride on out 7.8 98 is the the requirement far out tense I thought for a second there that uh Cole’s worst nightmare might have come to life uh he looks so fast coming off that first float and usually if
You’ve got all that speed you rip into some sort of big major front side car but it looks like he had to cut it short slightly now he just bashed that lip into the air rev wow really good surfing and uh here it is just oh man
That was just a speed check the air is super impressive he hits it late technique is awesome feet slide up towards the nose of the board Finn’s grab he pulls it around it’s a major turn and he’s looking up there towards the judges personally I just don’t know if there’s enough
There I mean I could be wrong it’s a bigger wave he’s got that on his side but it was kind of reeling off pretty quickly so he had to sort of maintain that down the line approach did really well to get two hits in as we get
To the GW Wham 2minute warning and you know just did so well to project off a tricky section and get the rotation but when you you break down the air and have a look at how much he rotated how much height there was I I think I have to agree with
You and the judges do two 7.33 not enough to turn the heat minute and a half remaining here it was a pure emotional reaction for me I just I was watching it going no that’s not that’s not a clean eight and um yeah as good as that wave was and as fast as
He surfed it and as critical as that last turn was just missed that little bit of extra Firepower I think a big old wrap somewhere in there would have been the turn especially off those flights you know when you you Fang off the lip and you just come off the bottom and
It’s just sitting there for you and you can pretty much do anything but that one just crumbled a bit Yeah if you’re going to if you’re going to bust into that excellent range with a big individual turn it has to be the the one of the better versions
Of that move that you’ve seen probably not just in this event but maybe all year and uh it maybe wasn’t that even though it was super strong so Cole on the outside with priority holding the lead against one of the top rated Surfers at this current moment and Jake Patterson throwing his arms
Up igar Raj is going to take this Insider and now he will have to do something truly amazing to get the the number he needs loading up has the speed will he get the ramp down the line stepping on it just praying that this thing stands up look how fast he’s going
Speed float there drives up over the foam here’s the ramp it’s just a small one and he knows it what a bummer nothing in it and Cano she looks so switched on in this event but just couldn’t find it in this heat and Cole
Is on his way to his best result in a championship Tour event he’s into the quarterfinals as he looks to elevate his position above the cut line here at stop number four fario it how the load up then from Canal it looked like Sparks were flying off his tail and just uh no
Section and he’ll be frustrated about a big story here now as Cole continues he didn’t have the greatest start of the Year run but he’s found something here at bills and he says winky as well yeah huge day for Cole hman and he has stood up in a big way
He’s moving through to the quarterfinals do not go anywhere because after the break the brothers will go to battle not just in the booth but out in the lineup Griffin col Pinto takes on his little brother KSBY for for the shot huh love Crosby cinto will have the match up with his big brother Griffin to have our first heat on tour together this would be a good time for it we both want to beat each other I think we’re both going to go hard at
It how fun is this going to be the first head-to-head Heat at the championship t a level for Griffin and Crosby colapinto separated by a couple of years grip the Elder bro sitting number one on the rankings at the moment Crosby making his charge up the ranks here at the rip Pro
Bells Beach presented by bonsoy in the booth for the call Ronnie and Vaughn Blakey I’m sensing a little brother victory for good reason Mitch and Camille watching on Mom and Dad what a you know what a proud proud team they must be but uh also just an
Interesting one oh yeah this is this is a incredible moment for the whole family here is on straight into it big brother just turning the screw here probably a slly crow as they go under that wave I reckon well here we go it’s Griff who makes the first
Move oh look at this he gets nothing out of it just a 1.17 and little bro has stolen priority like it’s the last last cutlet on the table at a barbecue yeah here we go on the outside now it’s actually Griffin sitting deeper and he’s going to have to
Surrender his prior surrender to the man with priority he’s younger bro and let’s see what Crosby can do with this can he put a good number up to get things started trying to hang on for a rotation and it’s going to be uh low numbers for both competitors to kick off
The exchange here yeah this is a classic brother wrestle at the start of this one no uh real impressive scores on the board yet couple of Falls but plenty of attitude as they get in each other’s faces let’s see who’s going to drop the first big number here nice turn there
From Griffin pushing hard swinging the tail to the point of release loading up on the inside makes a habit of going to that rotation on his finishing turns but no ramps up there so yet another low scoring wave where I think we’re going to have to
Wait to settle into this heat a little bit VOR now it feels like there’s going to be some nerve nervous energy from both both brothers out there yeah well I don’t you know it’s funny I’m thinking about uh Crosby in this heat he’s looking over and he’s not seeing a gold
Jersey he’s not seeing the world number one he’s just seeing big bro and he just wants to take him down so uh this is going to be unreal fun I’m really looking forward to it and as you say it’s just been a little bit sort of messy at the start here
But early on what happens when Brothers get together is always a mess exactly well early on uh once he graduated to the the CT and you know doing doing some meteor in the lead up to the the first event on the schedule this year Crosby was asked what he’s most looking forward
To and he said I just I can’t wait till my first heat with Griff and um you know it just shows that little bro is hungry that he wants it that he’s Keen to go for it and uh if we just lean back on some of our childhood oh here we go kind
Of battles yeah uh not so much in heats but just straight up fist fights uh you were always pretty kind in that you wouldn’t punch me in the face that was sort of a a general yeah R you took in the Heats I didn’t have a problem with it no well
You loved punching me in the face but I mean the worst I could do to you was like a dead leg or a dead arm or something like that um but I do remember another occasion where you had a brand new Hot Stuff surfboard shape by Gil
Glover I got home from school it was just sitting there in the rack and I thought oh I’m going to have to have a crack on this thing this you weren’t home yet so I took it out for a surf and oh I remember the day I Came In Waves
Were pumping waves were cooking and I came in and um you were uh I don’t know pretty sheepish not really like saying anything about it and uh that night you know we’re sitting there at the table and you went he I got a secret don’t tell Mom
Though you got to promis not to tell Mom and I was going what is it what’s your secret you’re like oh well you know how you uh took that board out my board we’ll come back to that oh yeah look okay yeah well you go you take
Me down to my board in the rack where it had been waiting sitting by itself and it was full of chisel holes you just got a ham and a chisel and just oh mate I did make you promise that you wouldn’t tell M and as soon as you saw it
You wrecked my board but um no you deserved it and your board was a piece anyway I did you a favor anyway uh had those lamb magnamar sort of channels in the bottom after that design the point is I think little brothers even in a loving brother brotherly relationship
Like Griffin and Crosby have um you know there is a a burning desire a competitive desire there to to get one back because you do dish out a lot of copex and just mental abuse to your uh younger siblings in your childhood so let’s see let’s see if Crosby can get
One back here he’s got priority no number on the board yet it’s of any consequence but when we think about siblings on tour there’s been plenty in the past and this is one of the most unbelievable Doos right here Mike and Derek Ho flavan nio Pats of
Course at the same time competing the all time Bruce and Andy combo on tour CJ and Dam hobgood CJ getting the world title in 2001 sh and Cory tenner and Patrick adow is far out how cool ow and Mikey of course and at the moment we do have Mel and Samuel poo and
Of course Crosby and Griff and colapinto and it’s it’s been awesome to watch you know so interesting too just thinking about the rides they also had Tyler on tour at the same time which was really cool so cool and um yeah big shout out to everyone who’s watching all the
Brothers all the sisters and a big turn here from Griffin hang on Big Brothers starting to throw some serious punches here and that is going to be a keeper score griffi looked really measured on his Road through the contest so far had some big numbers definitely had some
Sections that he’s just gone into with so much speed and let go of some really polished turns but he’s definitely ramping things up here and that was an aggressive approach and really throwing some risk at that ride born yeah this is the wave he’s been waiting for and he
Flies down the line first turn good little board slide loads up here hammers a big Larry dropped his wallet way back and just a really high impact turn I think the judges are going to love this it’s been a bit of a slow heat so far but every single thing thrown at
This and look at that full disconnect from the back foot oh that’s something a little different it is so that’s that’s going to give the judges quite a bit to consider here I think I love the the risk involved as Griff does really well to to just stay connected to his equipment
There staying nice and low 7.17 for Griffin as Crosby now loads up on the outside has some speed got it a to the section A little late couldn’t really get the pop that he was looking for off that section I like where this Heat’s going bit more risk these two are willing to
To throw it out there we look forward to the back half of this he right now let’s check in with Cole hman he’s with Laura he’s into the quarterfinals yes Cole every event this year you have just built and built starting with that 33rd into the 17th
9th and now you have found yourself in the finals day the rill Pro Bells how are you feeling yeah it feels really good it’s um it’s kind of been a bucket list for me uh I kind of had a really slow start to the year um just kind of
Finding my groove and stuff and each event’s been better I guess I’m a slow Builder so um yeah just stoked and happy with that heat but yeah a lot lot of fun this event is so important for you you uh were down pretty far in the rankings
At the start of the event you have jumped up on the live rankings to 20th in the world so how does that that sound uh it sounds good but it sounds too close to the cut for me so I guess I got to make a few more Heats but um yeah no
I’m just trying to um at this point it’s like just try to go all the way now you know not think too much about rankings or uh scores and whatnot just go surf so and talk us through that hate that was an amazing one with you and Canoa and I
67 high score of the day actually but you were just saying it felt good to finally be able to just do the surfing you want to show yeah that way of um I kind of had a slow start to the heat almost a few mistakes and then I passed
Up two waves in that set and the third one luckily was just super clean I kind of knew right away it’s like I got two turns done pretty well at the back and then after that you just kind of stop thinking and just kind of lets you
Freeze up free up and yeah it was fun it just the wave went on forever I was like I was stoked on it so well pack your bag you’re going to have a big day for finals day when it runs enjoy it thank you anyone you want to say hi to at home
Um yeah parents watching at home mom sister my girlfriend Michaela and yeah thanks to all the crew at home supporting awesome we’ll say you tomorrow if runs thanks yeah and there’s plenty of them over there in s Clemen a big shout out to everyone tuned in and
Watching on Cole’s uh done himself a a solid here jumping up six spots it’s a massive climb but uh as he said you know uh 20th really good much better than where he was sitting um but at the same time a little too close to the cut line
So he wants to keep rolling Here and Now shifting his Focus forn and he’s able to do that into the the quarters starting to dream about maybe standing on stage at the end of this confer and giving that Bell a Mighty Ring well that would be uh an awesome experience wonderful
Achievement for Kyle I actually just noticed there he he’s settled down a little bit in his post heat interviews he was so frothing to just finally get through those early rounds and now that he’s into a finals day he’s uh he’s just just toned it down a bit just wants to
Keep his energy low and and save it all for the the big one 21 and A2 minutes remaining here the current world number one out in front at this stage 7.17 it’s it’s the only real score out there at the moment Crosby’s had a couple of shots at
It and uh hasn’t been able to bust out of the two-point range he is out there with priority as we have a look at at Griff wave once again yeah he just hammers this thing I mean this this little frame grab is pretty incredible but this here I mean
This could have gone anywhere really but it just has that technique where he’s able to get back over his front leg pulls it in rides out 7.17 yeah really impressive staff great control and really held on with everything he had to get the Finish there 20 and A2 minutes to go here in
The battle between the two brothers we’ll see you can get the win and move on through to the quarterfinals right after This for we gathered here at jaak jerak is the traditional name of Bell’s be it truly feels like the backbone of Surfing it’s been there before any other event on the calendar and it’s still going you have an opportunity to go and paint the most amazing picture for the
Fans on the hill there’s so much history behind this wave there’s so many great performances so many you know past champions and greats in our sport that have that have won in this event it’s the one trophy that’s lasted throughout time that that Bell everyone wants a
Bell honestly it’s the only trophy I want it’s the only trophy I want knowing that every great has come through it’s what everyone fights for what everyone dreams about for me it starts with the stairs you walk down the stairs and you look at all the names of
The people that were lucky enough to ring the Bell congratulations to rip girl 50 years supporting this incredible event and uh it’s going to continue as we we take a trip on the Melbourne flight Cam and you can see our competitors sitting there at the takeoff Zone here at Winky and it is Crosby Kinto out there with priority at the
Moment and just staying right there almost inside his jersey just letting him know that he’s got the Heat lead at the moment is Griffin paddling past him going deep in the point here we’ll see if if Crosby can get himself back in this heat 17 minutes to go plenty of time for these
Competitors F looking at all the the amazing siblings who’ competed together on the championship to of all now who who do you think had the most intense rivalries yeah it’s a good question cuz uh some brothers are are really you know close friends and super supportive I’m
Thinking like of Owen and Mikey for example you know they they’re just so backing each other in any scenario and then you had these other brothers that were really intense didn’t love each other any less of course but just Andy and Bruce spring to mind as two brothers
Who even in that classic old footage of them you know they and surfboards at each other there was always this intensity between what they were doing where they were surfing and in both cases it elevates your level of performance but when it comes to a rashy
Putting on the rashy he can also Elevate the intensity and amplify between that competitiveness that you have uh the Bruce and Andy Final in France I think it was in the Bruce movie years and years ago that was just one of the alltime great brother matchups like in a
Final of a CT and um you know kind of different surf but in a lot of ways the same but Andy just there was no way he was going to let Bruce win that there was no chance no and uh yeah Bruce when he won the Eddie famously had a black
Eye yeah when he hoisted the uh the trophy which Andy had dished up that’s uh it’s just amazing isn’t it yeah there’s all sorts of different relationships there but I mean there’s no bond like it either no like you know love you mate love you mate these guys
Are super supportive of one another they are yeah big to you even saw in in that kind of hype reel before we we got this heat underway uh in the earlier rounds you know Griff sending Crosby out into the lineup with you know a lot of love
And just wishing him all the best he’s had a pretty good run on uh in his rookie season I love you Crosby here have a 7.17 but yeah Crosby uh and and Griff it felt like we’re destined to Surf a final against each other over in Portugal um
But Ethan Ying changed that um and Crosby ended up leaving with a third but it saw him make it an important jump up the ratings before getting the o with the impending cut looming so he’s relieved a bit of pressure and if he can survive this heat he’s going to be
Styling as we see Griff on the inside here kind of a sleepy looking ride to kick things off and he’s over it trying to better a 3.9 to increase his lead here at the moment that Way’s not going to do it but uh he would be asking a lot of
Questions of Crosby who’s sitting out there acting pretty staunch at the moment holding that priority waiting for his shot at it it’s uh it’s a different heat for Crosby all through this event he’s just looked so free uh he looks like he’s been having a lot of fun he’s
Been catching lots of waves and and his performances have lifted with every uh heat that he’s progressed through this one’s a bit trickier this is a bit of a grind for cross so it’s going to be interesting to see how he he manages to turn this thing around forget the
Competitive uh experience uh obviously Griff’s got a real Edge there and just knowing this break probably a little better than Crosby but talk to me about just like where Crosby surfing is at and how it Stacks up against this big br good question Ronnie um Crosby like just in his sort of career
Arc he has kept right on group’s heels in a lot of ways you know as you say doesn’t have the same experience on tour but has put in massive performances over in Hawaii you know like every single season he was just stepping it up riding huge big thundering pits really packing
It and um yeah I think he’s just kind of followed in that slipstream uh of belief because cin uh is obviously a great mentor and role model for him and a show the way but in his own right he’s done some pretty incredible stuff Crosby so I
Think he’ll be like here going yeah I’m not just little bro I’ve got my own stuff going on as well yeah he’s had some incredible performances on the NorthShore unbelievable couple of back door waves just he charges yeah it’s it’s interesting I’m not going to uh name the people but just having just
Communicated with a bunch of the coaches even and talk to them about where they see uh these two going they say I think Crosby has the serious potential to be better than Griffin uh which is interesting it’s you know it doesn’t matter until Crosby starts a achieving
Those big results and getting himself up into that world title conversation too but he’s young he’s he’s a little bit taller seems to have like a really nice leverage through his forehand carves and you can see it but you know we’re we’re going to be the benefactors of these two
In this rivalry growing over the next few years 12 and 1/2 minutes to go here and Griff’s just still hunting for something to better this 3.9 at the moment and just put the squeeze the Anaconda squeeze on his little brow here who’s sitting out there with
Priority what a great moment I feel like I feel like everyone has just been so pumped to watch this heat go down and we’ve just had a bit of a lackl you know pulse there’s just been not a whole lot out here for these guys
And you know at the very start it was fireworks there was a paddle battle there was a couple of wave choices that both these guys wouldn’t normally go there was just that little bit of energy saying just I want to get up over this guy and it just hasn’t
Really provided much of a platform at the moment neither kicked a goal in those opening exchanges so uh you know they missed an opportunity for a score uh at the uh at the early stages of this heat and maybe pushed each other a bit too deep with that paddle battle
But Griff made up for it that the wave he took it wasn’t a long ride it wasn’t a quality wave out here by even today’s standards but you know you throw that kind of risk at it and you’re you’re going to get rewarded you got the the
717 it’s a huge Advantage now as we get down to the 11 minute Mark let’s dive into a recap of what’s unfolded so far here we knew we were going to see a great little battle especially for that inside position all smiles before they
Hit the line up Y no toss into of the coin there just going at it and straight into it all over each other yeah so Griff got uh the first wave first couple of waves it wasn’t a a lot on it big snap to slide to uh kick this thing
Off believe this might have been the uh 3.9 runny yeah that’s right just a a low number then he found this one not a whole lot of wall to work with but he made it count yeah nice big board slide to kick it off and then
Pow and a big blow tail there from Griffin colapinto and really that was the only moment of of authority we’ve seen in this heat Crosby’s going to want to really get a wave soon because just the the way this Heat’s going with Griff holding on
To that 717 he’s he’s going to need a couple of rides here cuz Crosby’s falling a little behind as Griff gets busy on the inside now looking to replace this 3.9 chipping away at this one and it’s a definitely not the best surfing it can
Do he’s capable of so much more but he’s been really smart with his decision making on his rad through to this point in the competition and that hasn’t changed there he’s just sort of taking any opportunity that comes his way to try and get rid of that 3.9 he surfed
Twice as many waves as Crosby in this one and yeah I agree Ronnie Crosby must be sitting out there going come on what’s going on don’t uh ride him off just yet though earlier on we saw Samuel poopo against Matty mcgil he just looks so on but with
Those mid-range scores the door was still kind of open and with a thumper set Matty mcgil was able to turn the heat in the final stages so oh that was awesome but hanging on to a 2.67 is not going to work in his favor he’s he’s got
To get two rides yeah and you think this is definitely going further north than 3.9 couple of nice cuties little foam climb little punctuation on the end what what do you think I think it’s just easy to um you know keep hunting for for opportunities on the inside without
Priority I don’t think Crosby at at this stage of the game can do anything but wait for a set because the the Heat’s over if he goes anything smaller and leaves Griffin out the back what do you reckon they’re talking about I don’t think they’re saying a
Whole lot to each other at the moment 4.5 so the requirement grows now for Crosby and it gets a little harder to turn this one round with a single wave looking for a nine-point ride at the moment still with 8 minutes on the clock has time to break it break it down with
Two rides a spot in the quarters up for grabs here and the winner of this one will take on either Baron mamir or Jake Marshall still some big clashes coming your way this afternoon heat seven Kate Matson yodora and to finish off today and the round will be Rio AA up against Kyle
Belly there’s been a few heits today where just competitors found themselves in Crosby’s situation and waited you know up to 15 minutes for a real opportunity yeah 4.5 for that last wave of Griffin so that makes the requirement a nine now for cros blue currently need a 9.0 Marshall have enjoyed watching him
Serve through this contest looking really sharp a magic roll definitely another one of those guys who just seems to be enjoying his surfing I think similar to sort of what we’ve seen from Morgan siick in this event just no waight he just looks like he’s cruising and uh you
Know I think another good result here is he’s going to really put himself in a safe space Oh yes going to be sweet so just under 7 minutes to go on Griffin you know he’s obviously blowing our minds with his performances in the rashy in recent times but you hosted the
Premiere of the new Trilogy movie just before the event kicked off oh so cool absolute Masterpiece uh the cinematography in it on a whole another level like I was watching there were times where I was watching the surfing and I was thinking I didn’t know I was
Watching a surf movie if that makes sense like you kind of zoomed in you’re you’re panning around it like just world class Vision there and uh a wonderful film less surf action film like the original trilogy and a bit more of a of a story like a documentary style film
Where we get to find out a little bit about these guys where they come from what crafted them as Surfers and athletes and yeah it’s fantastic and those guys are really on their way to being the new Trilogy you know um the original film with Andy Irons T Baro
Joel Parkinson it came out when they were at the very peak of their powers uh Andy already had the three World titles TB was a superstar in and out of the rushy and Joel was on his way to his Maiden World title it was uh around
About 2009 it came out so you know Joel was just ripping uh in the lead up to that year uh but these guys you know it’s a slightly different thing they they’re kind of e marked could have been anything and um yeah now uh By the time
Sort of the filming started on project and now they have become those guys so you know at the top of the game Griffin in the yellow Jersey Ethan number two in the world last year it’s it’s unreal to uh see their stories definitely H worth checking out
5 minutes remaining now Griffin with the real Advantage as the the clock winds down and you can just feel the pressure starting to build on Crosby now chasing a huge number hoping for a a sizey set wave so he can Flex a bit of that leverage that Big Frame swing it into
Some huge turns and get himself a good score to chip away at the the requirement here far out it’s been a tough heat for both Surfers I feel I think they both would have loved to have just gone out here and gone at it uh Griffin has Managed IT well though
Hasn’t he he’s managed it like a world number one he’s hustled when he’s need to hustle when he got his opportunity threw the hammer so he’s he’s really built a pretty well constructed heat here but I think even he’d be frustrated he’d would have Lov to have just gone
Toe to- Toe with the the little bro made uh yeah he’s made a point of sort of talking about how he likes to let go of expectations and just living the moment Griff and uh I think Crosby sort of followed him down that that path both of
These guys getting away and doing a big Meditation Retreat earlier in the year with Dr Joe dispenser over in Florida and uh just in a a week they did 35 hours of meditation so they went deep vno that is really deep I mean you you’re way down the rabbit hole you’d be
Seeing some magic stuff I reckon meditating with that much Focus for that period of time it’s a winwin situation for the colapinto family who are down here loving their time Victoria and witnessing this moment where they see their their boys go at it in a championship to a heat for
A spot in the quarterfinals at the longest running surf event on the championship to a schedule in its 61st year the remaining competitors with a huge goal to etge their name into the most iconic trophy in surfing what’s your favorite bill Victory oh man I really enjoyed ois just because it
Was my first trip to Bells watching the event unfold that was a special one but I loved last year it was amazing was so awesome and uh yeah I always go back to the 2012 final with Mick and Kelly just an amazing performance and just the just the
Absolute Vibe and atmosphere around uh the passing of MP and Michael Peterson who who’d won the event multiple times and just uh the big Standing Ovation that MP got just before the final kicked off was awesome yeah Stephanie Gilmore in 2018 put on a show as well yeah they’re all
Good love that there’s the gwm two-minute warning V times winding down he might have to do it in one wave here Crosby it’s going to have to be the wave of the event pretty Arch a ninepoint ride I don’t think we’ve seen a nine yet
And uh it’s far out M this canvas has been kind of torn to shreds by this high tide and slight roughly onshore wind and it’s been extremely slow we’ve gone from from hoping he gets the opportunity to break down the requirement in two rides now we’re just
Just begging the ocean to service up a set wave so he can get a shot at it certainly got some big moves we’ve seen that we’ve seen the highlight reel the free serving we’ve watched him make his way through the Challenger Series after a couple of tough runs on the regional
Qs Crosby Kinto certainly arrived with a big semi-final finish over in Portugal but this is the the big one that he wanted this is the heat that he was salivating over a heat with his big brother and unfortunately it’s been a little wave starved it
Has and there’s not much we can do about it but as we say you know Griffin he’s one of those Surfers kind of like Ethan like I felt like we kind of got to see a little bit of real Ethan in that last Heat he was so big on the
Wave face he looks so powerful and strong uh Griffin still feels like he could just be idling to me like I think he’s got a lot more to show us in this in this event if uh which it looks like he will be moving on yeah he’s uh he’s hanging
Back just getting ready to hash it out with his little brother here and you can see Crosby’s just going oh man yeah I’m sure both of them just wanted to put on a fantastic show and Crosby just hasn’t been able to do that a disappointing Heat score title for him
I think early on in the heat um they they made some mistakes both of them um but Crosby cleaned it up didn’t get a chance to compete though that’s what’s that’s what’s uh you know unfortunate for CR in this instance Griffin Kento though he’s going
To be hard to stop in in this event the world number one still maintaining his position at the top of the rankings as he moves on through the the quarterfinals and you just know that you’ll see these two meet again at some stage in a championship Tour event but
Crosby colapinto out of the contest we are going to take a quick break and when we return we’ll bring in joy toel and Richie LoveIt for the Call Oh e 4 the rip girl Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy is brought to you by Cooper’s Brewery the official beer of WSL Australia by Boost Mobile official telecommunication partner of WSL Australia by biog gland official vitamin partner of WSL Australia by gwm offici Automotive partner of WSL Australia and by m the
Official portable power bank partner of the ri Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy Mofi stay powerful you’re a little too far up good all good yeah better than not having together exactly Griffin Kento quick chat to his dad you can definitely hear them just hoping for more waves a bigger Battle the Griffin happy to take the win 11.67 total into the quarterfinals as he works his way over to his younger brother cross Crosby kapino disappointed as he really wanted to go toe to- Toe with his big bro just a 467 combined total Jake Marshall getting started how about that
Reverse his Dan so forward on that sharp ey and able to pull it off his confidence has been through the roof this week he’s enjoying his time as a pro Surfer on tour you can just tell he’s just his rhythm’s there he’s been winning and he’s got his first heat on
The CT against a good friend of his Baron mamia Joe trael Richie love it for the call Richie Baron vers Jake who has the edge here uh well in current form I’m going to say Jake Marshall has the edge he’s he’s uh really surfed his way into form this season he’s looking
Really sharp obviously equipment is uh playing a big part in that feeling very confident on his boards but he he just seems to have sharpened up his approach a little bit Joe and uh well Baron uh he’s been surfing well uh in the early Heats but just not quite as on point as
Jake so I’m just going to give the nod to Jake in this one but um you know he’s obviously seen what happened in the last Heat T went you know what I’m going to get busy real quick even if it’s on a couple of these little inside Runners
Clicks with that turn and up again so this is that four-point ride you can see it’s a much smaller wave but Jake does some great surfing and if he’ completed that final maneuver perhaps would have got a mid score up into the fives better right here though streaking down the line more
Speed and a beautiful uh throws the reverse gets the tail free look at that foot right up near the nose of the board but uh the judges will be calling that one as a make and as often happens when the ocean goes a little sleepy in one heat it starts to
Wake up for the next now Baron mamia waiting patiently to get started all the noise has been for Jake Marshall on now two waves Baron looks at the first repositions for the next opportunity here a win takes you to the quarterfinals so big opportunity for points and moving up the rankings
Heading into Margaret River meanwhile lower position for the California Jake getting started quick hack to that first section off the bottom Finn throw and he’s going to slide another reverse around laying load to right out of it it’s such a unique kind of slingshot reverse and The
Stance is going so forward you’re almost thinking oh he might Pearl with all that weight over the center line but man he’s been pulling it off now backto back versions of that throw tail reverse I think that second one was maybe even better than the first and just amazing how he’s able to
Ride out of these being positioned so far up on the board and he’s uh he’s stank busy here so a third wave this one stretched out Baron couldn’t get it so Jake went yep I’ll take it hits the first section then the second just a real creative sort of
Whiplash reverse there hits this lip perfectly and then watch the rotation here gets almost inverted tail super high look at that back foot nowhere even near the Tail pad and then as as the board comes around under him he is way up on the board here that front foot
Almost like 6 in maybe 12 in off the the nose very very difficult skin boarding the Finn’s really not even engaging with the wave face at this point but he gets the make wow degree of difficulty extremely high on that final maneuver and your stance moving so
Forward that made that so radical the back end of his board flying free above the lip and he basically had three chances of that he fell on the first second one got better third one he even bigger just having a better positioning with Baron sitting pretty far out the back with
Priority Jake Marshall quarterfinals over at Sunset Beach and he was able to feel that same feeling at the last stop in Portugal ended up losing to Crosby kapino but he wants to to match that result here at Bells continue making the final series and gosh’s rhythm is just
Really enjoyable to watch four then to a 55 then to a 6.5 before Baron caught a wave and a pressure applied to Barett mamir already looking at his watch knowing what happened in that previous heat totally wave starved from Crosby but Griffin the champ just being
Able to uh manifest some scores on some inside waves and that one wave in particular and Jake’s fallet suit here just understanding that those big final exclamation point Maneuvers really coming into play here we’re getting close to a higher tide Jake man this guy is most
Improved uh over the last season he has really started to come uh onto the scene here and make a name for himself on the championship tour Baron mamia starting to move down the line a bit potentially taking this way wave he will catch up to it on his opener against Jake
Marshall covering some ground Little Speed Jam to get around the corner attacking the Whitewater again looking for the wall to work with throws the tail towards the beach but starts with a fall Advantage Jake Marshall as now we have a chance to talk to Crosby and Griffin with Laura aner yes guys I’ve
Wrangled both the brothers gosh we really wanted to watch that heat watch you both go blow for blow but the uh the wave tap turned off out there unfortunately I’m going to cut to the chase grip how much did you want to beat Crosby uh I think Crosby wanted to beat
Me me more than I wanted to beat him so I don’t know but what do you think cros yeah cros I’d say we probably wanted to beat each other evenly like when we got first got out there and we got that pal Bell going in the beginning and I was like
Okay like it’s on you know screw this guy but but uh I walked away with two TW so yeah that’s how it went yeah unfortunately cros didn’t work out for you that heat but gri talk about just having this moment you guys have waited your whole lives for this to be here and
And do this in front of your parents and and everyone around the world two colapinto brothers in the heat uh yeah how cool is that oh it’s amazing I’m it’s uh yeah it’s pretty rad that my parents were able to be here for it um this is the first contest they’ve come
Together to like ever I think and so it’s pretty r that that cby I ended up matching up and you know unfortunately the waves went slow but I think we just hyped it up too hard and that’s what happens you know so got stay even K
Hallway so um yeah that was a tricky heat but we’re still living and uh I’m guessing it’s not going to be the first it’s going to be the first of many what do you reckon yeah I hope we can get some more because that that one kind of left a weird taste
In my mouth but hopefully we can get one in some good ways and that’ll be that’ll be more fun oh congratulations to you both Griffin into finals day keeping the ball rolling uh yeah we’ll see you hopefully tomorrow when if it runs all right thanks Laura looking forward it
Anything you want to say back to anyone still up at home uh yeah probably the grandparents and everyone in our family I know they support a bunch they’re always awake for this stuff and um yeah you know the family the family name we’re able to double double down on that
One so love you guys and Crosby had the right rashy on this time too yeah all right guys yeah little swapsies all right guys back to you for the last few hits of the day oh good Hang Time Laura thanks so much both kapinos hanging there to break it
Down you said you could tell that they’re just it’s it’s not finished yet they are waiting to do that again they wanted to be maxed out firing the next time they have their names together in a heat but Griff gets the first one as this brotherly rivalry heatwise on the
CT is just beginning yeah I think they’ll both uh agree that that wasn’t an ideal situation and and given the chance uh you know Griff I think would even say you know would prefer to go out it in a in a more even matchup with plenty of opportunity and waves ridden
By both the Surfers and uh it’s going to happen it’ll happen again time and time again oh looking forward to it MC Griffin number one in the world just thinking about that position increasing with more points as he’s in the quarters keep yourself in tune on the live rankings on worldsurfleague.com
Follow Jake and Bar M in their race for the final five that’s what Jak can really consider now it’s not just about staying on tour learning the ropes of the top 34 he’s just improving so much in front of our eyes and putting together some great Heats what’s your
Take on the separation right now with Jake sitting really high up on the point yeah I don’t mind it sort of Jake’s got free reign of the lineup now just because he has those scores on the board so he can kind of explore the lineup
Maybe uh hope for for a random wave to hit right up the top of uh the upper section here and baron sort of uh just positioned himself in the normal takeoff zone so uh yeah some good strategy here and I like it actually because Jake’s probably making uh Baron question his
Choices at the moment thinking oh maybe I should be up there where he is he seems to be in rhythm with the sets and and each time there’s a wave he seems to be on it so uh you know you got to try and find a way to break that Rhythm and
And make sure that you’re on the next set but uh well Jake with priority too at this point so you know he’s really in control of this heat at the moment Jake Marshall on the sharpy surfboard program on a storm model 60 and a half he said he actually didn’t
Bring too many other models he’s been riding sharp eyeses for a bit now he just knew the storm Works incredibly well at Bells and winky pop he loves how it feels down the line on a wave he just feels like it keeps his flow and Rail and rail just engaged
Really effortlessly and we got to witness that on on Oliver’s rid just Gathering so much speed and really looks connected yeah boards are looking amazing uh that whole sharp ey program over the last few years has really come on strong iioi really connected with all his Riders there working working really
Closely obviously the relationship with Felipe Toledo uh sort of spearheading a lot of uh that interest in those boards and in the brand and a lot of surfers gravitating now towards the sharp ey program you can see with each uh with each time Surfers getting on on the program their boards
Are looking good yeah and when you got a big time shaper like sharpy or Channel Islands for Baron you have options around the world as we look at Baron mamir had a 317 for the Wavey fell on trying to to find his flow looks casual to start nice clean hack there
With the fin Zone midface wind up for the reverse bit forced there another wave that he ends incomplete yeah this is a different board too through what Baron Road against Kelly Slater earlier today perhaps something a little bit wider given the conditions have deteriorated a little
Bit and uh the the faces of these waves a little full up bit more slope in them not as much cup in the curve yeah Baron’s been surfing a lot surfing a bit of bell surfing a bit of Winky pop really balancing his time at both the venues Jake with priority
Looking to increase his score of a 55 let’s see if he can do it here nice lip section to glide through setting up his second turn and whips that board all the way back to the pocket riding another clean forehand hook Jam to slide again for the Californian and now looking to
Just float it shut but cruising through his points really well working with his coach and one of his best friends Chris Gallagher and G would have been probably reflecting on a lot of memories when he competed at winky Popp and bells had a great career on tour winning events like Margaret
River so a go-to coach for a lot of great advice for this part of the world would work with Taylor Knox in the past the hob good Brothers many many years of coaching building boards and still ripping today and baron was coached by gley that Sunset win which really is one of the
Big reason why he’s still on tour today as we look at uh M’s last yeah so Baron gets a a really long projection floer to start things off clicks a little snap and then tries to force that uh reverse at the end of that wave just
Catches an edge and further up the point Jake just with some really great turns here really whipping it round nice and fast just with each one of these snaps off the top you can see just gets a little fin drip but able to control it really well didn’t quite get that
Finishing maneuver that he would like he would have liked to on that way but certainly got some good work done outside so he may even surpass that 5 and a half Jake just in such an incredible Rhythm making no mistakes Baron mamama needs to try to take some of the Rhythm
Back here as he will throw a quick snap down the line punches out the white water and slides away and the trouble continues for the man who won pipeline to kick off the year and wore the yellow Jersey and one of the most meaningful wins of his lifetime called it the best
Day of his career beating John John Florence in the final with a perfect 10 and tens are insane for a lot of reasons but when Baron says he can’t believe he made that way for the amount of barrels he’s had at piping back door it’s when he calls it one of his best
When he needs it in the final it’s how magical he his performance was that day yeah it’s uh you get those days where everything just seems to happen for you the waves come your way you’re in perfect rhythm you’re in tune with the ocean and you feel like you can do no
Wrong your board just feels magical underneath your feet and that was the day for Baron mamir had a lot of success in Hawaii just needs to convert it into these uh you know little Point wave style conditions and the beach breakes needs to be able to to uh show that
Versatility across all the different locations on the tour and just having a little trouble here in this heat just a number of Falls almost he’s fallen off on almost every one of his waves so far Joe so needs to tidy that up if he wants to take it to
Jake Marshall because he’s streaking out ahead here just dropped a 7.67 on that last wave way out in front now massive Rhythm for Marshall he builds on every wave so far a four to a 55 to a 65 to a 767 Baron is in a big combination as
We’re about at the halfway mark we’re going to take a quick Bond soy Brew break and be right Back for for It’s So we’re out to go into Melbourne and visit all the regions surrounding the big city it’s a really unique experience you can travel in just about any direction and find some breathtaking Australian Countryside a lot of on inspiring natural wonders and rustic Villages it’s a magic place
To be looking for wildlife I saw a koal across the street once on The Great Ocean Road I didn’t realize how rare that was that’s super rare man you’re lucky yeah I got it on video I’ll show you but it was uh just it took my breath
Away I couldn’t believe I saw koala one in the wild but then crossing the street it made it safely as we look at Baron throwing down the snap trying to really Force something on a small section series of speed floats he’s not given up on this thing yet and
Then the throw tail at the end is just not been working for him in this heat can see the pressure that he’s under just a totally different feeling from Jake just doing nothing wrong and and baron just really trying to make something happen but still 12:15 to go and he is famous for
Major individual moves just this wave didn’t give it to him no there’s a much smaller wave on the inside and and I feel like Baron is just trying to Surf into some sort of Rhythm here streaking down the line you know he was after this final section to to really take to the
Air and perhaps he needs to to go for a different maneuver here like a big straight air or some sort of mute grab anything but that um that kind of blow tile reverse just doesn’t seem to be working for him at the moment and uh in contrast stark contrast
Actually Jake Marshall he’s been nailing his final Maneuvers and uh certainly very high risk it’s paying off he’s got some great scores on the board there seems to be this powerful movement for California on tour especially when you got the the tour leader from s CL and then down the
Road in that incus region Seaside Reef that’s where you can find Jake Marshall’s Hometown and you think about the the standouts that he got to grow up watching from Taylor Knox from Carl’s bad that’s right next to inanitus from Rob Machado who’s got a view of all
Those waves from his house Rob runner up in the world to KY Slater uh pretty cool to see Jake kind of represent San Diego as well on tour and you know because it always all the stats usually lead towards Tom current you know as as the leader and sometimes
At events you’re seeing multiple wins for California but sometimes Tom Tom’s owns all of them another big name from that region Brad gerlock G former World runner up uh really close to where you know Jake grew up is where G grew up as well think then Brad moved to Australia
For a long time does a lot of coaching really works on technique still rips still loves to talk surf so I’m sure G is proud of all the California and stepping up this year absolutely there’s a definite movement happening there and uh well Jake is uh he’s found
Some form no doubt I just love the determination and the Persistence of this guy just to hang in there to keep going he was without sponsor for a little while reconnected uh with the with his uh previous sponsor Hurley they reignited the relationship and uh now the the kid is he’s off and
Running now 9:40 on the clock let’s check in with Bailey laders leaderboard with Kyo hey it’s time to check out the Bailey ladder leaderboard I here on my trusty p150 Bailey ladder let’s take a look at the men’s quarterfinals and we got some great quarterfinals coming up starting off with two good friends
Quarterfinal number one Morgan sick up against Matthew mcil and then quarterfinal number two what a great heat here defending champ Ethan Ying will be coming up against the rookie who has been on a roll Cole hman of course quarterfinal number three featuring Griffin kapino and the winner between
Baron Mia and Jake Marshall and remember whether it’s step extension or Dual Purpose Bailey Australia’s number one ladder keeps you elevated the final series already stacking up here at the Rip Curl pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy right now it’s looking like Jake Marshall with the rhythm of the ocean and is surfing
To make it into the final series if he does it’ll be in back-to- back events Baron fishing around under priority these two guys have known each other for a very long time as we see Baron now trying to hustle to get in the seat I love his
Intensity to try to make a big comeback here can he find a big enough turn just kind of still forcing those fins out and he’s still going to be comboed with with 8 10 to go yeah just looking a little frustrated isn’t he and uh we know he’s capable of so much
More and again just trying to Surf into some sort of Rhythm here but he’s running out of time 8 minutes on the clock Baron needs to uh find a good wave here cuz he’s in combination land he needs two good waves from this point he’s better at his score but it hasn’t
Really broken combination for him so it’s back to the drawing board he needs to figure out how he can wrestle a wave off Jake Marshall put a decent score on the board and then do it all over again yeah for Baron he’s one of those athletes that just loves kicking off the
Whole tour at home you know for pipeline being his P event easily one of the best in the world in slabbing powerful scary conditions you know you’re looking for him to be the favorite if we move over to the box at Margaret river that slab where you’d be fearing if you draw Baron
Mamama in elements like that AB absolutely you know but uh this is a tour where you need to be well-rounded you need to be versatile enough to serf any sort of waves any type of conditions and you know as good as Baron is in in those big heavy slabbing waves of
Consequence you know you got to sometimes uh be able to perform in these kind of you know two to three four foot conditions little onshore bit softer wave so uh you know the greats have been able to do it in all conditions and and uh that’s where you know you maybe
Sometimes need to go back to the drawing board and go okay what do I need to work on what’s my weakness that’s where I need to focus yeah a lot of the greats like Adrian do soza was just the king of putting himself on the road year round
You know to just learn the ropes at Bells and then became a champion at Pipeline and then became a champion I don’t know if anyone was you know more dedicated or committed to learning you know as far as being on ABS yeah yeah Mi
Did it as well he went and spent a bunch of time at Choo cuz he identified it was a an area in his repertoire where he he needed to to get stronger and get more confidence so he did the work Kelly’s probably the best example out of anyone
Who just spent so much time at all these different breaks when the tour left he would hang around and stay for a week or two longer and just per perfect his performance at all the different breaks around the world lifelong commitment to your goal of being a world
Champion 550 on the clock Jake will take this wave saw it with some potential for Baron to break the combo speeding down the line looking extra smooth and ends up being a throwaway for Jake first time he hasn’t converted in a while CU he’s been increasing his score line every
Time he’s gotten up to his feet yeah unfortunately not able to convert that into a score but what it did do was uh steal an opportunity away from Baron mamia but the good news for Baron is that he now has priority so he just needs to
Will some sort of s well line that he can perform on cuz uh with each second that ticks down on this clock his ability to catch two waves and convert them into a score is slowly dwindling away Kate Matson coming up next to take on Yago Dora important heat for both a athletes
But when you look at the rankings definitely the pressure will be on Cade in heat 7 as we look at the recap it’s the Jake Marshall show four to a 55 then got a 65 and a 767 but these throw tail reverses where stance moves forward are
Unbelievable wow look at at them back they’re so Dynamic and high risk and Jake’s performed a number of them but you can see here these waves that he’s found they’ve offered him clean face these pockety little sections where Jake’s getting that beautiful clean crisp W uh wrapping snap which he just
Performed so elegantly down the line these big finishing turns and uh trying to force a comeback here Baron mamir he’s gone for a a number of these close out reverse blow tails and just hasn’t been able to convert on them that’s the closest he’s come but uh yeah showing signs of frustration here
Up and riding this is live action mam looking to go for something big little running section and nothing there man you feel for him this uh this is is just one of those Heats where things just haven’t gone his way the flow the momentum it’s all with
Jake Marshall now I think we’re going to see another California into the quarterfinals lots of American flags in that uh in the quarters Joe couple of Aussies and we got some Brazilians left to compete in this round of 16 so um at the loone South African and MD mcgil into the quarterfinals as
Well Seven Bells trophies have gone to Surfers from the United States as we look at Baron 3 minutes to go not looking too invested in this one now there he goes the throw tail reverse that he was hoping for well perhaps that’s just a little consolation prize and he’ll be frustrated with this
Performance unfortunately we know he’s capable of so much more he is incredible in the air and we know that uh baram M has so much more to give one of the most electric Dynamic and uh well courageous Surfers on the two up streaks down the line here
Gets the pop gets uh the whole bottom of the board pointing towards the shoreline so really tricky maneuver here perfect execution off the lip just uh showing the audience the fans go and check out the bottom of the board and then brings it round quite easily the body language tells the
Story 517 for Baron does break the combination now needs a nine for a spot in the quarterfinals well there’s a chance Baron ended up getting knocked out of the event at Sunset early in the round of 32 same result in Portugal following the winded pipe but he’s still
Sitting number five in the world so he dropped a few spots after stop number three the season he’s officially made the cut so he knows he’s going to be competing for a full year and you know he’s going to do everything he’s got to try to fight
For a world title in September paddling into this one on his way back out chasing a nine doesn’t see it happening there one thing I’m loving about his energy here he’s not giving up even though the waves that he’s taken off on look similar and smaller little Runners he’s
He’s really still trying to keep his head in the game chasing a nine with one minute to go yeah you never know stranger things have happened I’ve seen it done time and time again you watch pro surfing for this long that uh you see amazing things happen miraculous things happen in the final
Minutes you you just never know what the ocean’s going to produce this is when you’re thinking of how you can get a 10 we’ve been referencing the the Kelly copter the full rotation punt where he got a perfect 10 for one move on the bell’s Bowl Baron trying to think about what he
Could do to get a nine right now as he’s speeding down the line up and out 20 seconds left and now Jake Marshall rolling in what a Stellar performance from the Californian fell off the tour last season worked hard to come back final in the Challenger Series in Portugal saved
That board and he’s been using it at this event and takes out Baron mamia in a convincing win 767 and a 65 Jake often running into the quarterfinals and he’ll have that match up in all California Heat lost to Crosby over in Portugal in the quarters now as gets the big bro
Griffin here at Bells Beach well it’s going to be a really cool matchup and uh we hope that it’s blessed with good waves we may run competition tomorrow we’ll be down here early checking conditions so uh let’s see what happens yeah we’ll definitely be having a look plenty left in the day
As well with Kade Matson trying to keep that California story th diving he takes on a solid goofy foot from Brazil yod Dora in heat seven of the round of 16 we’ll be right Back guys sove see the changing over Hills Life is Like Summer Breeze that’s how it feels See so many great things you could check out in Melbourne there’s almost too many things to list a big calendar of international events the Australian Open huge Tennis Grand Slam that goes down the F1 a lot of the Surfers checked out the Formula 1 right before the start of
This event you’ve got the great MCG where you could watch you know the cricket and also AFL teams go to battle I’ve been to that stadium before it is electric on the big plays and as soon as they hear my accent there’s about 20 Aussies surrounding me teaching me the
Rules Aussie rules of the AFL moments you’ll never forget and you’re not too far from the coast here about hour hour and a half Drive you’re winky Po and bells watching the best Surfers do so for major sporting events and entertainment state of Victoria is the place to be watching this little
Rolling from Kade Matson getting started against yodora Cade The Rook on tour youngest remaining in the draw punches out that section showing his power and now the difference from the backhander yodora throws the snap quick whip there attacking the pocket again throws it off the lip Yago still hammering this
Wall hugging the pocket really close to the Whitewater section and final turn hammers it shut great start to the matchup wow this is a great contrast of waves here yo getting multiple Maneuvers on his wave and Cade just blasting three big turns the young rookie from California
He’s got some height and weight on him he is uh what is he 62 Joe 62 63 I saw a little thing that said 61 but he he stands it really looks like he’s 6’2 he’s solid and just so powerful yeah he’s got that big front side snap on him and
Uh you know he uh he reminds me of a couple of different Surfers Chris Brown and Mike Parsons and a few others sprinkled in there as well I like that but let’s check out yod Doris obviously a a slightly smaller wave to what K got but um yo just getting this backhand
Hook just wound up time and time again blasting off the lip he keeps going multiple turns all the way down the line so several several powerful turns and really didn’t leave much meat on that bone and then CAD wave so Cades a lot bigger bit more open face
Cleaner K just uh getting two beautiful snaps off the top and then the Third that was the exclam exclamation point very expressive in his hand movements and positioning really tight radius pivoting turn off the lip there and uh it’s going to take some sort of powerful wave to knock this kid off his
Feet very shooted part of the Matt pis L Squad yeah it’s amazing how much Matt does for just a number of athletes globally but especially in in their hometown of s CL just creating World title boards for Caroline marks last year Carissa Moore for for years and years a lot of event
Wins and he’s got both athletes in the water now Yago and Cade Yo’s last coming through at a 6.67 the opener for Kate a 767 like it I think it’s a good spread I think it’s a fair uh assessment of the of the opening scores um you know the
Judges really paying uh the the meaningful power in Cade’s approach three uh back-to-back turns all done with commitment power degree of difficulty on that final turn uh really eclipsed anything that yo did not discrediting Yo’s performance on that wave certainly rifled off a number of clean backhand Hawks but just the
Intensity the the degree of difficulty in Cades uh three turns much higher 767 for the rookie and even though there’s all these experienced athletes that own bells and winky pop and the stories of their experience dominating there have been those rookie stories that have been fun to follow and even just thinking of
California the goofy foot Nat Young when he was first on tour his back end was so unique and his lines were different and he was confident didn’t travel with a coach he just was winning heats and he finished runner up on the ball to Adriano Doza Nat was talking about visualization
And he was just closed his eyes and hoped a bomb was going to come he just was sitting out there with priority opened his eyes and it was just white water across the Southern Ocean and his manifestation worked too well and the biggest set of the day rolled through
And it was UNS surfable really yeah that super powerful consistent backhand attack out here at Bells you get a second out here when you that was the second yeah that was that final moment with Doza and gosh it was fun to watch finaled with kyoten in Portugal that same year finished in the
Top 10 Rookie of the Year as you check out the grand stands that are quiet now cuz that’s over by the bells Bowl those dedicated to the Champions that have won before what are you seeing out the back Rich lines approaching it’s a it’s a hot sight to behold here especially uh when
We have offshore conditions but even in even in these onshore winds that we have now you can see these corduroy swell Lines Just marching through into the zone no takers Ona hang on yo is going to take this one under priority so late decision Dora ends up throwing down his first turn
Into a nice second clean snap and that’ll do it just a two turn combination he will improve on his second score Cade quick rip on that opening section throws in a quiet little backup for his 767 and looks to hold his position with priority yeah that wave just stretched
Out down the line just closing out so Cade just opting to get back out of there straight up to the take Zone and uh really nothing substantial in those rides at all yodora dropping the the 3.5 so he does Take the Lead but obviously Kade only needing a small 2.5 to uh take
That lead back off him so still a fun battle to enjoy yodora from florinis fun creative Surfer that’s thrown down some really cool edits in the last couple of years I was on this little movie panel and his edit uh blew my mind and I voted
For it to win not sure if it got the win actually at the festival but I was stoked to see him fit that in in the middle of working on the world title and winning heats always a tough thing to balance and certain Surfers can do it
Pretty well yeah you know it’s uh it’s a different approach that yod Dora has you know it’s I love his style but he has this you know these funky Maneuvers that he goes to really cked out you know backhand uh aerial maneuvers and uh even
On the front side as well you know we saw him take to the air the Brest Island event and man he was lighting it up Yago door’s dad was really still is it really into punk rock music so he’d throw these festivals down in floriopolis on the beach set up these
Stages and bands like bad religion and Pennywise and a lot of the the sounds that you’d hear in Taylor steel movies those would show up in Brazil and there’s pictures of Yago and diapers on the big speakers as we see him Jam that section real quick and tapping the Whitewater again slips
Off at the end of it his way before was a 3.5 so he’s just trying to see what he can do under kad’s priority yeah just staying busy and uh fair enough no harm no foul and we’ve seen the last two Heats Joe it’s been a complete one-sided
Affair where one Surfer takes control they’re on the best waves surfing well dropping the bigger scores but uh this is a pretty even matchup from the GetGo and Kade getting the better of the opening exchange by exactly one point so yo needs to make sure that uh
His second ride eclipses whatever K does on the next wave Kade focused on the horizon and also his competitor learning so much in a short period of time successful run in the Challenger Series and was almost heartbroken when he lost in sakur ama but Eli hanaman got a win for him
Which officially qualified Kade Matson for the tour said he was beyond words he thanked Eli for helping him get that spot with Yago running after a section here he’ll carve through the first running after a section to go tail High wow that nose was so close to his head super close that was
Dangerous managed to whip his head out of the way there but similar type of approach that really got him the win over Ian Gentile and Gentile was ripping in his heat earlier and Yaga went for that crazy inverted back end finin throw as we look at this one again yeah difficult on the
Back hand gets that first snap theno just pumping down the line comes right off the bottom there’s that backhand inverted rotation that we were talking about you can see there just gets his chin out of the way because that board wanted to give him an uppercut but he’s getting close you can
See what he wants to do right he’s just going you know what if I can put a score on the board under your priority and then shift momentum and pressure back to to Cade because at the moment Cade is uh in charge of the priority rotation it’s been quite a few stories
Of Surfers that have injured themselves and then improved you know Yago fits that story when he had that terrible injury that sidelined him before the season started that Liz Frank and then ended up coming back towards the halfway mark of the Season it was basically a warm-up for the following
Year and he just seemed better he he went said through his toughest time when you can’t surf you’re you’re missing out on events you’re in your Prime he said he had to dig deep mentally through that but then he found his energy in his rehab and just felt himself get stronger
And stronger and we find him saw again you’re like you’re actually better than you were before yeah we have seen it so many times I think uh you know back to when Mick um had that horrific incident over in Indonesia where he actually ripped the hamstring muscle off the bone
And uh that’s when he really clicked into training during that recovery period and he came back he was like put on you know a third of his body weight back in muscle and uh he just came back like this you know superhuman Surfer and went on a crazy winning
Streak Dora playing with some white water and it’s going to be a short ride up and out so he’s got to be careful here cuz sometimes when you start riding waves like this you can potentially miss a set so you got to make sure that you haven’t
Ridden a wave that’s not really going to go into your score line and you can potentially miss a set wave here he needs to make sure that if a two-wave set comes he needs to put uh a pressure on on cage so that he takes off on on
Hopefully the first wave of the set and then there’s a bigger one out the back so yodora trying to make a quarterfinal at Bells if he does it’ll be his first of his career it’s at a 25th a 17th last year his best at an equal ninth which is this round round to
16 but for Kate it’s all about getting past that top 22 which has been a tough season for him so far until this point huge win earlier against John John Florence all you guys that put Kate on your team in tier C on fantasy Surfer job yeah yeah awesome pick it seems to
Be a theme with the rip c pro this season uh we’re seeing a lot of new faces into the quarterfinal bracket and opportunity looks like we’re going to see a new face ring the bell which is exciting gosh Rip Curl celebrating 50 wonderful years all starting with the founders Brian Singer
And Doug claw warb just uh made surf ports in the beginning they were able to produce about four surfboards a week back in’ 69 then they’re like okay we’ve outgrown our little Shack here and they got a bigger space they moved it up to 12 boards at a time and they started
Hiring people over the years you know guys like Morris Cole he was first shaping under Rip Curl yep in the beginning wet suits came on very early now green joined forces for a year before moving on to another brand they had that sewing machine that worked well
With the dive suits and ding suits weren’t very mobile for Maneuvers and for surfing and they wanted to create suits that were performance-based can keep you Worm but you could feel free like you weren’t wearing too much they did well with that they kept moving their spaces a lot of times they
Wanted quality control claw really and Brian Singer were really worried about that so they were like you know we’ll do it all from our house we’ll we’ll handmake these Suits start hiring more and more people they finally moved to the big shop on surf Coast Highway in torque in 1980 and
It’s still there now here in 2024 big shop all the offices there in the HQ and the entire company comes down to watch every single heat watching this now Kate Madson fun looking section to work with throws some water off the tail into a clean float looking for just a 257 he’s
Doing well so far the kid from s chti on a roll through every single point throwing some water it’s just Landing there as he is into his wrapping cut back and now jams it again to finish off a long ride well served his support crew absolutely loves
It nicoa Pinto Scotty Hammond a great filmer great Surfer just had a big birthday the other day K on a roll on that one Richie yeah really mature surfing for the rookie he does not seem phased At All by this uh situation being in the round of 16 up against the more established
Yodora surfing so well patient you can see uh well can tell you that uh yo has caught seven waves and that’s only Cade’s third wave and he’s picked a good one some great opportunity here clean snap to start things off projection foam climb keeps that speed accelerates from
That bottom turn nice clean snap and again up and over the foam section bit more spice on that one with some tail drift nice wrapping cut back just uh Slams on the brakes and then readjusts for that final turn into the Shadows under the cliffs here at winky
Pop beautiful slowmo actions here you can see just how much control these Surfers have over their surfboard even under these turbulent sections of as they’re driving down the line watch this clicks the fins out and then re-engages with the smooth smooth face Underneath Him drives hard off the bottom navigating through all these
Bumps that weightless feeling when you’re up and over those uh whitewash sections keeping that control lots more flare on that turn Joe and then the wrapping cut back so good variety on this wave this is going to be a really good backup for Cade while weights and and you know heavy
Lifting is maybe part of the program too much of it when you bulk up you you can uh you know be in danger of losing that agility and that that ability to stay sort of nimble and light and agile on the wave you definitely need to have
That power to be able to tap in that leg strength that core strength we’ve seen so many times today where Surfers are gone for you know the the natural Footers are gone for that big layback maneuver that big layback slice uh to finish off their wave and that core
Strength to be able to stay on top of the board really coming into play yeah it’s cool to see how different some of these athletes look from their rookie season to today like a good example of that is Medina till you know the man he is now it looks like a
Different person it’s like TW twice the size I think a lot of these rookies are already coming in pretty big now and you Ethan Ying’s another example Darren hanley’s been busy trying to add more volume for how much bigger he is since his rookie debut uh Fanning another example of him
He was a little rubber band sling shot guy that could go so incredibly fast and then he just bulked up and became all about power with that big body torque WRA that took him to three World titles as we’ve got 1250 on the clock here and
Heat number seven of the round is 16 Yago needing a 734 now because kad’s last wave is a 633 more to come after to [Applause] [Applause] this for all you’re watching the round of 16 11 minutes on the clock and Kate is still out front Yago chasing a 7.34 last Heat though Jake Marshall put on a clinic Jake is now hanging out with v well Jake Marshall uh you know today there’s been some grindy Heats and then
There’s been other Heats like your one where you’ve got more Rhythm and Jive and James Brown man you were just uh absolutely singing out there yeah I felt really good out there um I kind of like my first few waves were kind of average waves and I felt like I was turning them
Into scores and it was giving me bunch of confidence and yeah I don’t know I was just feeling in tune with the ocean and that one and felt really good out there mate we’ve seen you building throughout uh this event in particular you know you just seem to be getting
More and more in touch with the tempo of the Ian for sure um yeah we didn’t get a ton of Winky pop practice before the event cuz the waves were good over at the bowl and but the last couple years here I’ve surfed out here a lot and um I
Don’t know the waves here are just super similar to what I surfed back in California so I’m wearing a wet suit like I don’t know everything just feels like home and um yeah I’m just feeling good I got the momentum and psyched quarterfinal matchup against uh Griffin
Colapinto the world number one how you feeling about this matchup that’s going to be fun that’s going to be like a throwback to our gr days so um I’m really excited to Surf that heat and I’m sure it’ll be a sick battle and hopefully we can both put up some good
Scores and put on a good show that’s awesome man I got some news for you as well you’ve jumped up four places in the ranking so I believe that’s to number six and you have officially made the cut so uh oh number four sorry you’re up to
Number four uh inside that top five and yes you have made the cut so no pressure going into Maries well that’s great uh last year here was a bit of a different story for me so it’s crazy the difference of year can make um been
Working like so hard to uh to have these results start to come my way and um yeah I don’t know I feel like I’m not done yet I got a lot lot more Heats to go in this comp so um still got a ways
To go and I’m sick for the rest of this event mate congratulations and uh best of luck in the quarter finals right on thank you thank you well done thank you Von and congratulations to Jake Marshall what a difference a year makes going through that struggle from last year
Going back to the Challenger series coming back better than ever into a a final five position on the live rankings as we enjoy Cade surfing here on his fourth wave against yodora hitting the lip well deeper off the bottom and now fun section to tea off the lip Ro K he’s
Just belting that lip line and shuts it down tons of energy as we come off the backand of yodora he’s answering back wraps it now timing another carve Dora stepping on the gas and goes for a quick whip on the reverse attempt but he’s down yeah B and Leandro looking a little
Stressed in the moment there they wanted Yago to complete that maneuver they’ve seen him do that time and time again and unfortunately the pressure of the situation just may be forcing it a little pushing a little too hard not able to stick that final rotation but a good pick up here under
Priority so K takes the first one gets a good clean snap to open up then find some better water down the line here plumes of spray going Skyward and this wave just kept on giving Cade opportunity all the way down the line lots of flow and speed momentum between
Each turn let’s see if uh yo got some work down out the back so just a little check turn to start things off deeper bottom turn that’s a better snap and again so uh multiple Maneuvers on the back end so we got some good work done outside comes through to this inside
Section takes the low road and uh this was just really the only mistake and if he’d finished that off that uh that wave was looking good too so uh a mistake here from yodora and I think it’s going to cost him really felt like he needed that finish
Finish since Cade is in such a scary Rhythm when Cade times the lip right there’s just a fire hose off his tail there’s so much spray it’s like a vertical type of plume of spray just straight to the sky ah you just can’t make those mistakes not at this level
Not with uh under 7 minutes to go in a heat where you’re behind and that was the turning point where yo actually was looking to change the Rhythm and the priority Rhythm and get a score but the worst things happened K’s actually looking like he’s
Going to get a score uh and in and in the meantime he’s also managed to get first priority back on yo so he’s going to try and control the last six minutes of this heat and any decent wave that comes through Cage’s just going to steal it off
Him so Kade Madson trying to pull himself on the right side of the mid-season cut getting past John John Florence still leading over Yago door as we still wait for the last scores from the exchange to come through but Kate a part of a really fun rookie class with
Some of his best friends like Cole hman Crosby colapinto Eli hanaman Jacob Willcox when you saw them all on stage at the Lexus WSL Awards it was just they couldn’t stop laughing like looking at they just childhood relationships their Rivals they just banded together in such an insane way that made us make
Comparisons to the energy of the Brazilian storm the Aussies like yourself and your crew that stuck together and created such a positive vibe around each other to lose your heat and then support your friend you know that’s what these guys were doing all year last year as we watch now
Dora fade the first section and step off well it looks like Kade Matson has uh dropped a 6.33 which equals his uh second best score so uh he doesn’t improve still waiting on previous ofo so he still doesn’t know what happened on his way before but he’s looking for an
Air section on the wind up throws down the shove it and lands it so starting to get creative now as he rote away switch Leandro enjoyed it matd benro still applauding the boys getting behind yod Dora here and trying to make a bit of noise and influence the judges wave before
That we were waiting for all the turns and the fall on the air 610 for Yago so he was still chasing a 734 let’s see what happens here okay so clean open face streaking down the line nothing yet it’s all about this one maneuver goes for the shove it pulls it off progression
Tick but is it enough uh it had some height but it wasn’t just uh I don’t know Joe something in me is telling me it’s not quite that 7.33 just perhaps needed one or two turns prior to this maneuver if he’ got a couple of clean
Snaps out the back and then did this then uh I’d be confident that the score would be Dropping [Laughter] well that’s pretty funny to watch so I can actually tell when B’s uh just Hamming it up and yeah why wouldn’t they be getting behind their guy still three minutes to go oh B is such a classic especially when he’s mik up when they’re making all these documentaries behind the scenes
He’ll come up and just say the wrong thing on purpose wait for everyone to squirm out of it you know something you’re like hey don’t you have a microphone on he’s like ow I didn’t know that walks away but he loves it he’s so passionate about the athletes he works with from
Yago Jack Robinson always supportive for J chanka speaking of J We’re wishing you a speedy recovery can’t wait to see you back last score for the shove it Dora throws down a 6.13 pretty rad move but like you said maybe a couple turns before it and that move
You’re seeing the lead change even one big hack before it can imagine so many things it’s the size of the section that go into needing a big score we’ve got time running away passing the gwm two-minute warning Cade still has prior is a better position now to shut
This one down and continue his run in this event beating John John Florence still with the lead over last year’s number six in the world yod Dora and at a crucial time with h the cut approaching at Margaret River Yaga will take this wave and Kade let him go
Now Kade just watching from the back he’s just hoping that there isn’t a ramp on this one one of the best in the air is Yo as he kicks out good leave by Cade yeah that was uh smart showing a lot of here the young guy from California just understanding the system
Here knowing that yo wasn’t going to get the score on that so he didn’t relinquish priority now he can really squeeze him in this last minute Yo’s going to have a new best friend here wherever you go I go so Matson after falling out of the sky at pipeline tough losses
To follow Sunset Beach Griffin got him at the end there with a crazy performance went down early in Portugal and now pushing as hard as he can to try to make this quarterfinal come true everyone holding their breath 22 seconds on the line up next it’ll be Rio waa and Kyo
Eelli the last teth to set up the cour quarters 10 seconds to go Kate has lost priority so Yago can take this wave running after a ramp section it’ll be late to it and he can’t come through with a big ramp he salutes the crowd upstairs and the panel and Kade Matson
Will get a crucial victory that he needed desperately Cade will move on to the quarterfinals and take on the winner of the next seed yeah I’m stoked for Cade Matson great performance from yodora nonetheless jezy surfed well on a number of those waves performance throughout this event has been uh
Fantastic but the young rookie showing some smarts and some great surfing to move through into the quarterfinals and uh even that achievement in itself in your first rookie season it’s a big one and to do it here at Bells can see yo I think he’s giving a little thumbs up to the judges
There he’ll go back and watch this heat what happened Kade Madson representing California knows how to party in the city of toque well done for Kade Ria wa takes on kywa belly next we’ll bring in Ron diggity dog and also Felicity paler for the Co for e oh Good afternoon from the ripco pro Bells Beach presented by bons soy we’re into the last Heat of the round and we’re on the lookout for our last quarterfinalist it’s going to be a heat between Rio the Indonesian who’ll be in the red jersey looking to maintain a position within
That cut line and kyoi who’s already starting to make his climb K’s going to be out there in the blue jersey here on the call Ronnie Blakey joined by Felicity paler Felicity this is this is going to be a good one one of those matchups where one of those Surfers
Sitting inside the cut line trying to hold off the fight from from one of those below it’s going to be a lot of fun oh it’s going to be fun but I I just think both Surfers for not for them for us though we’re going to bring the
Fun let’s see what unfolds here Ria looking to get things started early he’s looked great in his Road through to this part of the contest so far nice swoop off the top moving a lot of water Swift again on rail this wave Fades away though and he Ops out yeah he’s just
Trying to get that quick start you know we’ve had throughout the day we’ve had some pretty long LS so just trying to get the feet in the wax but I’m sure we’re going to see that score be replaced that’s come through a 3.5 but you know even though the waves
It’s been challenging today we’ve still still seen some big scores guys that have been finding to managing to find those waves with that really clean face been linking together two to three Maneuvers seen a few excellent scores today so even though it’s hot they they’re still out there
Rio looking to equal his best ever finish in a championship Tour event last year in Portugal he did make the quarterfinals there this would be huge of course Kyo he’s been around for some time initially as a a replacement Surfer then he he graduated to the CT ranks
Fulltime and he’s been here as a fixture and uh he needs a big finish in this contest to keep that place on the CT but he has gone up all the way to the final of Championship tour events before as we see him up now so nothing from R really on those
Opening rides that’s going to oh threaten Kyo here but you could feel that he board clubbed him in the head just that front foot slipping off who that was really gnarly I heard it I felt it almost wow I also think he was probably on his way to
A semi decent score too if he made that last turn that was pretty unfortunate looked really really bad the way that that board just connected with his forehead then let’s get a super slowo of it he’s all right well that’s that’s why we can kind of have a little chuckle but
He’s uh he quickly got his board and I think what he’ll be bummed about um is exactly what you said not finishing that wave off he was on his way to a good score really clean rail work on the outside here even with all that bump on
The face just Ed the big finish you could say that he just really to extend that top turn there lots of lump and bump to deal with had nice variety here went to this carving turn really burying that rail there and this is the moment
That we were having a bit of a laugh at it sorry K oh once he recovered we will look at that though oh did got him in the side of the head not nice and then uh yeah he was lucky to just get away from that
Equipment it’s happened to all of us you know then uh your mates generally enjoy watching that happen but he was really quick to get his board back so he knew he was okay only a 2.93 so the opportunity to kind of win that opening exchange is lost but I’ve been talking
About you know K’s success particularly in this event we know that uh he had that replay of the the 2017 final with Jordi Smith earlier on he that he was able to win important heat for him yeah that would be feel feeling good for Kai I feel that jordy’s been in good
Momentum this year I got to watch him at pipe and then at Sunset and I just feel like we’ve got a different Jordy this year he’s sort of reinvented himself again I I felt like I mean obviously on paper you’re looking at that and you’re thinking okay jordy’s got this but K ran
Away with it and I mean it’s got to be feeling good for him right now K really needs a result and I’m actually kind of surprised to see K where he is like he fights hard but he’s usually higher in a higher in a higher seed than this
Especially at this stage in the year so true yeah 272 minutes remaining here Kyo eying one off on the inside Ops not to go we have just seen Kate Matson went through and here he is breaking things down with his coach Jake Patterson unbelievable thank you you
Turned it into that score wasn’t a great wave yeah you just it was like uppers like you said and you just big turns like for a big boy well done great surface thank you all positive today from from Jake Patterson watching things unfold still got a couple of Surfers in the mix for
Finals day and on the women’s side as well sry Lim blab but yeah just very complimentary of the effort there from Kade Matson yeah a couple of big turns for a big boy J healthy head score title to 14 points for Kade yeah know really really good surfing I’ve been really impressed
With him I feel like he’s done a really good job at really just having a great Pace on the wave I feel like here at the well at Bell’s bowl and at winky it can be kind of a wave that if you’re out of sink or out of rhythm with that pace on
That wave it it just doesn’t look good and your scores are reflected of that and I feel like Cade has a good relationship with this he’s just very much waiting and placing his turns and it’s just been really pleasing to watch it has R you know looking to to break through
Into the quarters for just the second time but he’s had some amazing accomplishments on his road to this point obviously being the first Indonesian to to crack the championship tour ranks fulltime and uh also representing Indonesia at the Olympics and got the ultimate honor at the 2020 Olympics he
Was the flag bearer for the Indonesian team so LED them out and uh yeah he’s he’s a super Talent he he is and one thing that I picked up on uh from his first year on toour was that he’s just a student you know and he wanted to soak in all the
Knowledge all the experience that he could and knowing that he hadn’t been to a lot of those world tour stops he just kind of made that decision last year that hey I’m just going to stay on the road spend as much time in these locations and get as familiar as
Possible because I want to be here for a long time and as we see uh Griff there just exiting the beach looks like next to Cade obviously stayed down after his heat watched his fellow friend s CL friend there through San Clement crew is going to be well represented on finals
Day with Cole Griffin Cade Sawyer all into the quarterfinals it’s a good day for California on finals day wers these two uh Surfers you can tell just how you know desperate they are you can see R looking to the beach he’s looking up those stairs he’s looking for Glen micro Hall
Not easy to spot from far away but he’s just looking for some direction here in this lineup yeah even every wave that’s come through they’ve both been having a sniff at it and I feel like that that is just a representation of the nerves and what
This means to them and just knowing it how slow it has been today few and far between in the sets and just seeing big names go down I mean one heat I go back to is the John John heat you know he had that really High one score wave but just
Couldn’t find a backup it’s left out the back needing a 4.3 yeah we we’ve seen you know in most of the Heats the Surfers try to get a little bit busier early on in the exchanges and that’s exactly what Rio is doing here is he just comes hammering
Down the line here lot of speed looks looking super uh psyched and ready to to throw everything at this heat unfortunately falls on that final move so a mistake there that’s going to cost him some points sure I think that was definitely a mistake he
Had a nice flow to that wave as well but yeah I’ve got it he’s fell a couple of times now on on that last turn so I just feel like with the conditions like today if you take off you’ve got to be making these waves beautiful first carving maneuver
There gets it up into the lip here it’s eyeing off this section down the line it’s a little pop in the fin release followed by another one but that was crucial I mean the scores just come through 4.4 you got to be thinking I mean it would have been a mid-range five
Maybe another point on that if he’d made that last turn now I just think just with the conditions and you know what in in my break my long break I had I went down to uh the stairs at Winky and it it’s so it looks so different compared to what
You’re seeing on the broadcast here I mean it it honestly it looks a lot bigger than what it really is down there and then in another level again you go down to the Rocks right at the bottom of the stairs and it’s it’s even a different ball game it just I think it
It’s so tricky I think it this is making it look probably better than what it is I feel like it is super challenging and so to be on those good waves today and not be making those mistakes when you’re falling on that last turn is just super
Crucial yeah a lot of bump on the face 22 minutes remaining here just a 4.4 for RI on that last wave that leaves Kyo chasing a 4.97 we’re just on 22 minutes to go well earlier we did catch up with k Matson and with Rio having a look at
This wave we’ll watch this unfold and then see what Kade had to say after an important Heat win let’s go to that interview now Kade Matson mate you are into the quarterfinals of the rip c pro presented by bonso and uh a real tricky heat especially against such a seasoning
Campaigner like yodora yeah yeah it was super tricky out there it’s like I don’t know it’s hard to tell when the wave’s going to be good cuz so like choppy and like broken up but uh it’s kind of like similar to waves that I surf at home a
Lot so I kind of feel pretty comfortable and yeah it felt good mate uh we know that sort of this setup and these sorts of conditions really suit The Californians you know uh it’s a lot of waves and and conditions that are lock this at time yeah like I said I mean
Lowers is kind of like similar to kind of this sort of wave it’s like Reef break like kind of section you got to create your own speed so I feel like a lot of us like feel like we’re at home so yeah it’s good mate you’re looking at
Home that’s for sure but uh you do have a little bit of local help Jake Patterson what’s he brought to your campaign here at the rib Pro yeah it’s been insane working with him I worked with him about like four years ago and then he came back this year and I was
Frothing you know he’s one of the best like competitive Surfers ever so yeah just taking Knowledge from him and uh learning a lot uh in the process so yeah and mate uh you’ve elevated yourself to number 23 so right on the cut line I know it’s been a tricky start of the
Year but this is really the big swe uh Fleek of the switch that you were waiting for yeah I’m just trying to not really think about the rankings honestly at this point I told myself coming into this event I wasn’t really going to trip on it you know whatever God’s plan is
For me is you know it’s going to happen so yeah I’m just taking it Moment by moment and uh yeah just living it up it’s a huge achievement mate quarterfinals we can’t wait to see in action appreciate it thank you thank you so much appreciate K just seems super confident
Now he came into this event with AIG smile on his face um I really believe him when he says he he hasn’t been paying attention or or thinking too much about his position on the rankings he just wants to do some good surfing up five spots already really knocking on
The door of the cut line now wants to keep this magic run alive and uh obviously he’s going to be coming up against the winner of this heat it’s a big good day in the office for Cade right now great day in the office but I love what he’s saying just
I all I want to do is just do some good surfing some great surfing in the Jersey and and that is what he’s doing right now really takes that pressure off I’m it’s a daunting thing just thinking about oh no you know like I finally finally made it I finally on the tour
And this is my rookie year and all of a sudden I’m only getting you know five events it’s that’s a tough pill to swallow as we break down this one from Rio that happened during that postate interview couple of foam climbs there in quick succession
And four foam climbs backs it up with a bit of a tail release on that last one yeah he’s just looking so on at the moment he’s just got to be careful chipping away on these mediumsized waves I think it’s a good tactic at this point in time obviously without priority
But you know Kyo can sort of really take advantage of that priority if a quality set wave comes but you know they have sort of generally been coming in in twos those sets yeah they have and it from Just what I’ve been seeing it’s the
Second wave of the set you want the this first one here just looks so lumpy and bumpy what happens is that first one goes through the lineup it and then it cleans all this lump and bump up you know the second one that comes through
Is just so much cleaner and I think the judges are going to love that if an opportunity comes up up Kyo takes it it’s a cleaner faed wave it’s going to put a lot of separation between you know these mid-range forwards if Kyo can convert and if he makes if he doesn’t
Fall I feel like there is opportunity there there’s only8 18 there’s 18 minutes left it’s plenty of time I think haven’t we said that a lot today though there’s plenty of time and then someone just sitting out there just you know with Barnacles growing on them by the
End of the heat they’ve been sitting there that long dropped Anor yeah not moving um but hopefully we do see some great exchanges in this heat cuz Kyo feels like he’s sort of warming to uh with each performance and Rio has just seemed very switched on so I I I think
Rio’s for me got to be the in this heat just based on on what surfing I’ve seen so far what about you oh it’s tough as we see David Sila having a little sticky Bak obviously down there love I love the way the the Brazilian guys sort of set
The standard for you know supporting your countrymen over the past few years we’ve seen a Resurgence from other nations in recent times but I think the way that they egged each other on oh there’s so much passion so much passion it just inspired Great Performances you someone always was
There to to cheer you up and you know even if you were last hit of the day and and people had lost out in the event you know so good to see David on on standby here watching this one unfold cheering on his mate Kyo belly who’s got the
Priority and and at this stage really isn’t chasing too big of a number to get himself in the lead here back to what you were saying before I’m not sure who what way I would go I mean it’s it’s tough for me as we see k having a
Look let’s see if Kyo can can make this one count lot of bump on the face sticking with it threading things at the moment just trying to keep some speed for a a monster finish down the line loading up there’s a nice carve really ripping that board through all that bump with no
Problem at all forces are reversed on the end section didn’t really have the speed to do it and it’ll be another sort of average score here 16 minutes to go k fiance watching on there wow just that wave again I mean he’s time is taking away and I think I
Just got to go back to what you’re saying I mean how many times have we sat today been like oh he’s got so much time you know he’s going to be fine he’s definitely got to get a chance to get another score but K doesn’t really have
Anything on the board yet and he kind of had he he couldn’t fall on that last one I think that that was a little bit of a mistake still looking at from the water angle here I mean you can just see how tricky this wave is to Surf Kyle just
Really trying to pick the eyes out of it and find some smooth face here drops down into this section gets a bit of a foam climb that was kind of nice getting that carving maneuver there for a bit of variation and yeah what you said Ron he just didn’t have quite enough speed
Going into that tail throw well just over 15 minutes to go waiting on the numbers to roll through kyo’s out and about what’s going on KS hey there’s nothing worse than losing juice luckily we have Mofi and the power Banks here at mphi keeping us charged throughout the event and Mofi during the
Post show of the finals They will announce the mphi charger of the event the surfer male or female that shows the most commitment and charging throughout the entire event we’re going to unveil that post show finals day here at the Rip Curl pro Bell’s Beach presented by
Bonsoy thank you Moy for keeping us all charged up yeah thank you and uh yeah I like that the the muy charger of the event who’s going to take that honor and maybe it’ll be R if he can thread together some big turns here nice flow to kick this right off
And you can tell he’s not pushing too hard through those bumps but just really slicing nicely and bringing this one through to the inside get some release in the tail there might have find another couple of hits down the line here really strong Surfer got a a
Powerful build and it allows him to just keep punching through the sections as he gets right down the line here that that was in my eyes the best wave of the heat so far I think he’s only going to improve on that situation and yeah was
Really well served he had a couple of nice really clean sections as well now you spot on 5.83 for this one are you impressed with the the the way the Surfers are able to pick a tricky line up apart smooth the the the bumps out we’ve already spoken about it but I
Sound like a broken record it’s so much harder than what it looks and we I feel like this right now is is making it these guys are just surfing so good sometimes when you watch it with this camera following at the same speed as them too it’s hard hard to actually
Give Justice to just to how fast these guys are too this was just so well surfed it was so tricky there was so many different sections to navigate that turn there was the money for me I feel like that’s where most of the points came from it was really Progressive a
Big fin throw made up a lot of ground through that section and got a little bonus there on the inside really well served L and Richie loveit’s call just that comparison to Danny Wills I think the the sponsorship Factor plays a part that sticker on the end of the board but
Danny Wills had an incredible amount of of power and punch for uh you know a pretty short nuggety guy he just had pinpoint timing an amazing release out of the pocket of the wave uh and and R is displaying that at the moment starting to really just find some
Freedom out there too now that he’s building some scores for sure right now it just feels like he’s clicked into free surf mode a little bit just arm down the line may as well take off on that one throw the fins on the last turn he’s looking confident I’d say the
Confidence is building now and uh definitely making that task quite hard for KY cuz how many have a look look at this one this wave was caught in pretty quick succession after that last one that he got yeah just busy too in this lineup isn’t he and and it’s working in
His favor that was his eighth ride kyo’s been a little bit more patient trying to make his priority count he’s had only three waves and he’s kind of getting left behind at this stage of the game there is still plenty of time though just over 11 and A2 minutes to go as we
Take a bon soy Brew break For for E [Applause] Book your trip to Victoria come and surf the iconic Bells Beach take a trip on the Great Ocean Road and suck up everything that Victoria has to offer there’s plenty of good stuff to to check out down here it’s been a big day for the cola Pinto brothers and I think
Vaughn’s got some exciting news for Crosby well the battle of the brothers lived out there everything we thought it was B that was uh the battle between me Ronnie and the booth by the way we were commentating that heat but uh I know it’s was a bit of a frustrating heat for
You cros cuz uh you never got to really dig in and uh rip into your big bro mate but I do have some good news for you you have officially made the cut Margaret’s all that weight’s going to come off and you can uh surf freely into the back
Half of the year yeah that’s uh that’s exciting and it’s really fun cuz now I get to go to like chopes and Els avador and Brazil and Cloud break so that’s that’s super exciting it’s I don’t know it’s uh yeah it’s it’s cool I kind of
Came in kind of thinking like oh I hope I make it and then after like a couple results now I like I feel pretty just like comfortable and and want to go more than just like scraping by to get by the cut so yeah so I mean now that that goal
Has been reached where you can sort of open up a little bit more what are your goals looking like for the year do you reconfigure or were you always aiming for that that WSL final St um at first it was kind of like I don’t know if it
Was like make the final five was really too much of option like rookie year but like after the first couple events and like the way I was feeling I think it’s it’s definitely doable if I just keep pushing and and keep surfing Griffin and stuff and the boys so um it’s definitely
A goal but uh honestly just get the experience in the rest of the year and just like just really do my best surfing because that’s that’s kind of what it’s all about it’s just to like do good surfing it is mate well you’ve done great surfing this year we can’t wait to
See you do a whole lot more of it as the uh year goes on thank you wow that’s huge for Crosby I mean I think all rookies probably after they they graduate to the championship tour you know in the back of their minds they probably put their head on the pillow at
Night and dream about hoisting the trophy in their rookie season but I’m sure once you rock up that first event it’s like okay now I got to make the cut please please please please please can I go to Fiji yeah exactly I want to serve
Cloud I want to serve CH oh exactly the back half of the the schedule is you know definitely hiding some of the the tours gems and uh all these competitors want to get a crack at them and Kyo belly he’s been there before he surfed those full seasons and and he wants to
Maintain a position on this Championship tour where he’s been a fixture for close to 10 years so he needs to to switch into gear here he’s up against it chasing a 7.96 with 6 and a half minutes to go yeah this is really tough and I’ve
Got to say I mean I’ve Loved what Rio’s done he’s just been so busy and you know ever so slightly just making that requirement just that little bit hard up for Kyo looks like Kaio might have a swing here down the line he’s going to have to find that
Open face to get started just climbing up over that first section the wave is sectioning off a little bit but he’s got some speed so he’s keeping Pace at the moment as he loads up swings the reverse this time he gets a completion there that’ll be his best wave he’ll bring down that
Requirement a little bit and give himself a fighting chance here in the final six minutes that was really well done under pressure as well you know he he really needed to make that he couldn’t fall he’s had a couple of Falls similar going for similar moves like
That earlier in the heat so that was super crucial uh I don’t think it’s going to be that 7 point 96 but he’s going to make that requirement a lot less and the only thing is just time is the enemy I and we’ll break this down here now so he
Goes up into the lip there as a foam climb lot of ground to cover here bit of a Loosey Goosey foam climb that one and brings it through to the inside NE knows he needs to get a bit of progression in there bit of variety CU without this it
Just would have been those two foam climbs and I like that he put it on the line he needed to do this it was pretty critical yeah he knows what he’s got to do you can see the Surfers wearing their apple watches and they can get the uh the full
Run down you now they’re not leaning on on the onsite announcers who are doing a fantastic job but they really are aware of how much time’s on the clock who’s got priority you can see Kyo scoping his wrist there all the information where privy to the Surfers have out there in the lineup
And at the moment K sort of was saying to himself you’ve got work to do that’s what the clock’s saying for sure I I just get nervous I just remember when we had uh chipo in the booth or Jacob Wilcox earlier today and he was saying
You know I was timing the sets and sets are coming through every more than 6 minutes you know we just had a set and if it’s still in that same sort of period and rhythm today it’s looking like it could be a little bit difficult oh there’s R’s brother great Surfer
Himself bit more focused on the free surfing but super exciting so cool to bring your brother on tour with you travel around come to Australia serve some Great Waves had lots of fun waves before the event period started some nice swell beforehand oh have a look at this on the
Inside Kyo finds some space waiting on his last ride to come through as he punches through the lip looking fired up but just can’t get a ahead of this one so that’s not going to be it body language wasn’t looking great then where is this uh previous number going to go though they’re
Obviously thinking about it for quite some time I think I love the progression that we saw at the end I like how critical it was and I like that he put it all on the line I just am wondering about those those first two floaters they were
Just the judges liked it 63 best wave of the heat so far interesting so I think it was a slightly bigger wall I think that really worked in his favor and Kyo has really narrowed the requirement now he’s right back in this heat 5.73 is what he’s after now Rio on the outside
That’ll bring him back to life he’ll be thinking uhoh got to got to replace this 5.83 and make life really difficult for rebelli in the final stages of this heat he wants to get back into a quarterfinal position as he loads up he’s got some speed just sizing up his options here
Attacks the lip drives off the bottom big section here nice swoop off the top as Rio finishes this one off on the inside and that is feeling like the strongest number in the heat so far really great timing on that big front side ripped through the pocket
Felicity and yeah I can see this uh this going pretty high on the scale oh I agree that that first combo was beautiful was super clean as well this way once he gets past this section drops down here goes to the lip and then is able to really lay that board on
Rail could really that was really well surfed I really like that wave I’m just interested to see where it’s going to go compared to this 6 uh 03 that Kyo just dropped I think he is going to bettery situation and now that just leaves Kyo at the back with priority as we watch
That turn there was just super critical it’s kind of like he had to change his mind halfway through went up to hit the lip changed it to a floater comes around this section and whoa was just a textbook carve remember these competitors are trying to slot these counting moves in
Between pretty hectic lumps of chop and uh he did really well there so the numbers starting to roll through looking pretty solid but K’s going to get a shot at hitting back here climbs up on the fo and now drift in the tail this wave standing up nicely for the Brazilian oh
As he just gets a little bul down there and it just threw his flow off for a big finish there and there’s only 50 seconds to go 6.37 was the score for Rio best number for him Kyo needed a needs a 6.28 now oh I got to I think
Yeah Kyo B at the end of that wave but I think there was a bble at the very beginning that kind of got a little bit hung up on that first turn and it sort of the first turn and it sort of got him out of rhythm for the rest of the wave
Everything was just slightly off as we see Rio yeah it’s been a pretty close heat considering I mean tough sections to read KY was doing his best with that one but you know he he kind of really likes to lays board deep on rail as he drives
Up into the lip R pivots a little more quick Qui sort of between the chops to get to those sections so it’s not as rail to rail rail for Rio and it’s kind of worked in these conditions his approach yeah for sure I think he’s just had a better read
On selection I also liked his approach he stayed super busy throughout that heat was really important Glenn micro Hall with his daughter Zara there great young Surfer on the rip Cur team W that one’s got a sting yeah tough one for Kyo but he you know he definitely recaptured a little bit of
Form in this event didn’t happen for him in this heat as we see the the replay of that last ride you got a little sticky there on that first move recovered well on the second but sort of fell apart here on the end oh just and he knows it
Too just quick out of there yes just unfortunate that that was just I feel like it almost him and he’s chasing that 6.28 it could have almost been it but I just lost that little bit of Rhythm at the very beginning and I feel like from that moment onwards
Everything else was just feeling a little bit disjointed well Kyle have a big job ahead of him looking to stitch up at a place in the top 22 and save his spot on the championship tour at stop number five the marget River Pro but Rio AA he
Has equaled his best finish in a CT event and he’s not done yet he is into the quarterfinals and he is absolutely buzzing so he should be stick around we’ve got the WSL po show coming up with Joe Richie and bour stepping in to bring you all the highlights from Today for for for [Applause] [Applause] You are watching The W cell post show here for the rift girl Pro Bells Beach presented by bonsoy a beautiful sunset here on Easter Saturday and a massive day of competition finishing up the round of 32 finishing up the round of 16 and we’ve set up some big quarterfinal
Heats and we had an incredible Victorian crowd here on hat on the Bluffs they even got to sneak down to the steps on winky pop on the lower tide this morning as we look at the vacated Bell’s Bowl it’s been a quiet sight but a lot of incredible free surfs went down
Including Steph Gilmore who was out there said she had a blast at the high tide ringcon thanks for being with us lot to talk about today Joe Trel Richie Lov it Von Blakey thanks for being with us uh Rich how was your day uh it was
Long Joe but it was really really cool and I tell you why because the men did not disappoint they produced some amazing performances the surfing was incredible you know small winky pop it’s rippable and uh they they just produced all day long it was super exciting you
See a bit of everything don’t you winky pop this size V especially progression airs backand they look great everyone you know put in big performances yeah yeah there was some tricky Heats man like it wasn’t just smooth sailing the surf was far from pumping but as you say
You know there little CED out sections the goose could really square up on we saw Kyle hman put in some great performances today and then when you did see clean wall you saw guys like Morgan siick uh there was many many performances that stood out but you know
There was some good searing front side cuties Griffin col Pinto of course in the gold lead leaders jersey just he put on a show too gosh and a brilliant performance on dark that last h of the day Rio Wier into the quarterfinals Rio’s going to chat with Laura now yes
Guys Rio you got down here before the sunrose this morning you went out for an early surf you’ve been down at the beach all day and you’ve just made it through the quarterfinals after the sunet how are you taking this all in right now oh man I’m just really grateful to be in
Australia today was another beautiful day the sunrise was beautiful and the sunset was beautiful and uh it was busy everywhere at parking and everywhere and uh just feel that energy and be grateful to be here and uh I’m happy you know there’s a Indonesian here you know I’m
Really happy to have them to come support me so I’m really grateful to be here and uh you know just really you know take that energy and keep working hard and keep moving forward two amazing performances today from you you’re into your first ever quarterfinal here at
Bells you have jumped up the ratings are lot right now H you’re in 13th Place on the ratings eight spots you’ve jumped today so amazing work done here at Bells Beach you know what are you uh yeah well first thing I I came here early and I saw the
Wav and then I was like oh this is my wife I knew it’s going to suit me and uh and there’s uh if there’s opportunity for me and take that advantage and uh and ser my best and uh they thankful to have my team here you know to make me
Feel comfortable but you know it’s been really stressing with the cut and stuff I start the year with the what is it 25th or something that is the worst result and then start thinking about cut and then stressing and stressing but at the same time because of that early loss
At pipe makes me want to work harder and uh push myself and also trust trust how much trust and believe how much I I work hard during the offseason so and uh you know there’s a lot and I’m really grateful to be here oh well it’s showing
R we can’t wait to say what you into finals day let’s all get home and get some rest eh thank you I’m so hungry me too back to you guys yeah starving well done after all that surfing think about what Rio accomplished today not just moving up the rankings in a significant
Fashion but getting past AB bel’s champ and icho uh earlier today getting past Kaio who’s made the final out here for Kaio and EO this is one of their pet events so he should be really proud and should sleep well tonight heading final yeah absolutely and uh not for a second
Should that man think that he doesn’t belong on the world tour he’s surfing as coming in Leaps and Bounds you know he he deserves to be here and you can see the progression he’s starting to believe that himself and that’s translating into the performances he’s giving this wave
Is tailor made for him you know we may see Rio waa ring this Bell wow how about that big one for Indonesia as they have RI into the quarterfinals so many special stories but one watching Kelly later walk down the staircase at winky pop whether it be Bells you’re just
Filled with memories from him competing here now for 28 times vano oh it’s unbelievable and um you know we’ve said it throughout the course of this event but Kelly Slater he’s just always a draw card big crowds down here today it just SWR like Park but he had his hands full here
With bar Mia Baron Mama looked really smooth with his decision making got into the six range and I think for Kelly it came down to a significant fall when he went for that layback hack Rich that might have been a big difference there yeah absolutely if there was a moment
This is it for sure when Kelly just uh couldn’t quite finish off the wave and uh you know he’ll probably be really living that one in his mind tonight just thinking if I’d just kept the nose on the board out that could have been a completely different scenario and
Perhaps could be into the quarterfinals now so you know the one good thing is that he can take away from this that he his performance has really in this event uh you know he’s getting back into form and that’s well danger signs if he continues on on the tour but Baron
Surfed really well it was kind of Scrappy at the start and then he found this magical wave here and uh some of the best surfing from Baron all day and uh know that real front footed forward style uh a little bit of that wider stance and he got it done on this wave
Rapid fire Maneuvers all the way and got to the Finish got his first win off Kelly in his career as they shook hands micro is happy to be in his corner for this one and colani was there standing by just glowing just being here in Australia happy for that but yeah you
Know Kelly’s determination he wanted to break the record that he shares with Fanning and Mark Richards this one ending just a little bit too quickly for everyone who’s hoping that Kelly would get a chance to ring the bell once again I I know V’s had a lot of great chats
With Kelly over so many wonderful years earlier V caught up with Kelly after that heat Kelly Slater thanks for uh joining us um mate before we get into the heat uh fourth decade competing at the elite level um so many famous winds all around the world four of them here
Famous ones at bills uh coming down here still a magic experience for you yeah it’s been fun uh this will you know this likely my last one if I don’t win if I don’t win at Margaret this will be my last Bell so we’ll see what the uh future brings
But I I I can guarantee you I’m going to get very barreled soon yeah yeah but um I’ll enjoy I’ll enjoy margus for what it is and it I’m not going to try to push him too much but it looks like a good box well to start the contest that’s
What I was going to say man high tide all day and and uh good good direction wow that was a tease right there that was just getting started V what did you guys talk about I guess we’ll see the rest of it on world surf
League.com but he seemed to be in a good place post loss really good place Joey he was really generous with his time he was pretty amped up he was ready to get into the nitty-gritty of what went right and what wentong in thatte for him we’re
Going to fix your mic in just a sec vano but yeah he was uh talking about how he was breaking things down and and really patient with his time for just the the chat and the interview uh Kelly uh you know he’s looking differently these these days about just walking down the
Steps and trying to say hi to people that he’s known here for you know the last 30 years there’s a Vibe of reflection going on with Kelly no doubt about it and you know maybe this is the last bells that he’s ever going to compete in but he he’s certainly soaking
It all in there doesn’t seem to be any sort of kind of bitterness or you know Longing To just I have to win uh it’s more of reflection and enjoyment and and feeling the energy of of the fans and the moment and uh I just think it’s awesome that he’s actually committed to
Going to wa because we get to see him in one Moran at least best news best news K’s going to wa we love that that brings us to the Boost Mobile heat of the day so many Heats to choose from so this one really standing out today from the round
Of 32 all the way through the round of 16 hard to pick but when you look at the defending Bells champ and Liam O’Brien the way they pushed each other in this one rich was just insane yeah it was uh one Surfer was just busy all heat long
Just getting a ton of ways but this man here he only needed a couple and jezy picked the eyes out of it taking the two best rides and going to town on them Liam a valiant effort some great surfing some radical Maneuvers really showing good variety on a lot of his waves you
Can see we saw Ethan in the background there just going oh yeah I’m checking you out on these little insiders while I take the bigger better waves out the back have a look at this so Ethan just surfing with all that power all that speed total control as he goes through
Each and every one of these Maneuvers just showing flare and getting to the Finish super strong just so Compact and efficient in his style uh and the way that he’s going about the Heats as well not expelling any extra energy by taking unnecessary waves a that turn was so rad
And then throws down another version of a power car and a tail release loved every bit of that Liam O’Brien seven-point ride through a 733 as well with a loss to Ethan ying and Liam still leads in one-on-one matchups over Ying it’s now 32 as this will be a rad Aussie
Rivalry but Ying still in an insane position to go potentially back to back as he’s in the quarterfinals now yeah it’s um well it’s a really interesting quarterfinal draw and obviously Ethan Ying uh last year’s winner still in the draw and now we have a look at some of
These matchups dude checking out the Bailey ladders bracket for final series set siick Matthew mcgil two good friends going head-to-head sibl a wild card this time at Bells then the UN Cole hman matchup is his heavy powerful goofy foot all focused on the cut Griffin COA Pinto getting past his brother cros all
California he’s known Jake almost his whole life and then Cade was clutched this evening he takes on Rio white so many different story lines in the mix there yeah plenty going on but certainly a lot of stars and stripes uh in that bracket there so you know it’s it’s
Interesting normally you know bills can be reserved for the for the more sort of distinguished uh you know Legends of the of the tour but we’ve got some newness in this mix here and and I think it’s really exciting uh we’re set up perfectly for what could be a final day
Yeah looking like some options as well when we look at tomorrow Easter Sunday um also some talk about Wednesday Thursday let’s dive into a little bit closer with the Surfline forecast uh showing that we’ll see maybe a little bit of a drop tomorrow but with some potential for a finals day Richie what
Are you thinking uh to there’s every chance that we could run tomorrow we’ve got that uh that swell that’s that we’ve seen and experienced all day long today there was great lines and there was very very contestable waves all day long today so really the swell size is going
To maintain through tomorrow it’s only the period that drops down and then we have this new swell on hand uh which starts to pick up through Wednesday which is really exciting we’re keeping an eye on it uh the next few days Monday Tuesday in between that is looking a
Little bit dodgy and and some bad weather but certainly Wednesday Thursday a good possibility if we don’t get underway again tomorrow but we’ll be down here Brighton early uh because conditions will be nice that’s right big thanks to Surf line we’ve had you around two one of the lead forecasters from
Australia giving us the Insight so yeah we’ll be up at dark ronado hickle said hey we’re going to be looking at winky pop we’re looking at rencon we’re looking at Bell’s bow uh for that potential finals day quarter set for the men and women so we have a lot to look
Forward to when we think about crowning our Champions will it be Ethan’s story of going back to back or will we have kind of a fresh start with a new winner you know we know we’re getting that on the women’s side yeah absolutely and uh they’re all really cool story lines and
You know this trophy here the all our quarterfinalists will be starting to think they’ll be starting to just imagine what would be like to ring that Bell you know and you you really until you get to the quarterfinals as a competitor you can’t afford to give yourself that luxury have starting to
Think I might actually win this thing so now they can start to manifest that and start to think about it now it’s time for the biog gland daily dose as we focus on the top five moments of the day and a great list because we had so many
Great moments this man from Newcastle former number five in the world fell off tour and he showed the world that he’s ready to be right back in it on the top 34 oh jeez he’s surfing good he’s back morgs is back after a little Hiatus there and he’s been putting in the hard
Work and he’s got a good little posy down here with all his mates uh traveling with his Aussie bre Brethren and uh well the performances like that that’s what we saw in that breakout Year from Morgan and uh he’s got nothing to lose in this event and number four on
The list Von Cade makes his first quarterfinal yep the yeah the big fillers at it and uh he’s having a wonderful rle throughout this event so stoked to see him just find some opportunities to really bring that power game to the four uh it was spectacular
Today good so well member had JN John Florence and John’s won this event he’s so powerful van man that’s a huge win maybe the biggest of his career oh easily the biggest of his career and uh you know John looked on too he was so sharp I thought wow he’s just throwing
Air revs at will and then also Kade getting past dieago Davon as well he was on a hot streak I was down on the rocks for this heat and yo really did throw everything at Kade here but uh again it was wave selection he just got the big ones that mattered he
Found a good Tempo with this wave and Winky and him he feels at home out here he just feels like there’s a a bit of a Californian feel to these waves and right on dusk in the shade of the cliffs he gets the big pat on the back from the
Two naking number three Ethan Ying Excellence yeah well it’s just a completely polished display from Ethan Ying pretty much picking up where he left off last year and and this is the type of performance that we’ve come to expect from him you know he’s matured in
The way he competes uh and his surfing just keeps getting better and better the power he keeps tapping into it uh and then he puts this radical Edge on top of it and it’s uh it’s a pleasure to watch so easy to watch him surf it’s like sedy
Squeezing honey in your eyes I think that’s the thing that that’ll do that’ll do number two Cole hman still causing major upsets throughout the day-to-day Von this was a massive heat wasn’t it uh again I was down on the rocks and it’s a really different experience watching it
Live you know uh Medina and Cole there was not a whole lot of size difference in this set so you know I know that there was some argument that waves were slightly bigger or smaller but when you were down there the biggest wave and the smallest wave there was not that much
Difference between them and Cole was passionate mate he really did get to get upside down and throw a plenty of spray and yeah we saw Medina’s reaction but Cole has had a very very good run through this event and he backed up the Sao with a really impressive performance
One of the biggest scores of the day that big eight Ranger was unbelievable yeah it was incredible and uh you know see his asset along with Kad and a few of these bigger guys like Crosby they’ve got this size and they’re actually using it to their advantage they’re utilizing
All that power and it’s translating into giant turns and we know that the judges love that sort of serving and taking the win number one was that Brother battle and this was one of the best parts of it how entertaining was that start oh well I mean yeah sadly that was probably the
Most entertaining bit other than this one wave that Griffin got where he really got to you know I guess throw a little bit of brly flex uh we call that like a Crowe in our family just uh you know making cross but he never really got the opportunity to to Showcase what
He’s made of and unfortunately this wave this heat was wave star so you know it was the composure of the world number one that got the job done you tell when they’re on the Rocks they’re on the bluff and Laura’s interviewing him and they’re still just like it’s not over
Yet they just were like still like let us back out there give us another hour I mean I can’t wait to see them in pumping conditions to go head to-head and you could really pick any venue on the calendar where it would be an incredible show yeah absolutely they’re both so
Capable in in any sort of conditions and I mean this is going to be the first of many matchups that the col brothers are going to have and can’t wa for the next one can we start picking a winner can Are We There Yet V is anyone standing
Out men or women is there one take for you yeah well in the men’s it’s Ethan Ying all day long he his heat I was watching it from The Cliffs and he honestly looked two foot bigger and wider than every other Surfer today and that’s you know taking into
Consideration the big units Kade and Cole he just uh far out the speed he generates the distance he covers the amount of water he’s thrown around he is absolutely the favorite for a second bill yeah get sticking with the men as well that’s what we saw all day to day
Richie is there are you going to agree or disagree with vono there uh absolutely I’m going to agree with him and I I feel like the experience of both Ethan and Griffin are going to be hard to to to kind of you know get up over uh I think those guys could potentially
Meet in the final as well so that’s setting up well but just something inside me having been an underdog kind of wants to see an underdog Victory this time around yeah and all the the past champions on the women’s side are all out of the draw which is is kind of
Freshh we’re going to have a new champion this year uh from some powerful Surfers there’s the Gabby Bryan Betty Lou kind of Showdown uh Sawyer lindblad still in the mix a lot of cool stories there as well V for sure but I I’ve got the feeling that we’re going to see the
World Champ step up you know she has never rung the Bell uh she is building beautifully into this year now and she actually did put on probably the best backhand performance we’ve seen in this event so far with a couple of eights in her last round so yeah Carolyn marks I
Think the color car Lo for good reason Rich they do and uh for the sake of the discussion I I agree with you but I’m going to disagree with you as well uh my picks at the start of the event were were Betty Lou and also Gabrielle
O’Brien and they’re both in the mix so out of the two you know flip a coin I I’ll go with Betty Lou there we go make your picks around the world and be checking in with us early in the morning 7:45 local time on Easter Sunday here in
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The worst judging i ever seen! 😂😂😂
Horrible
1:25:43 lets see if WSL edits it out.
Gabriel Medina is right it’s getting rediculous
Judging was real bad this time. How come a guy who just keeps doing the same turn over and over again get a better score than one who turns, floats and goes to the air?
Medina blew it, should of took that wave..😢😢
Ramzi didn't get the score?, poor judging
Medina legendary for more than his surfing
Terrible judging
It's the Head Judge's fault
Judges had nothing to do with Medina's poor decision. Interviewed like a sore loser who was aggravated he got sprayed under priority. Easy to blame judges rather than self reflecting.
If WSL is a good company why they exclude the live chat? This is bs, SHAME WSL
It is what it is…do not judge lest you be judged..😅
Wave surf co.?
An addition to all of the previous comments, it's professional sports. The judges can be swayed. Enjoy the rest of it.
Why did we watch this??
Good to hear real shit from Medina on the judging. Kinda sick of some of the canned interviews the guy’s usually do
Please use AI as judges! It will perform fair results.
World shame league $$$$$