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I guess that it why it is a subjective sport. There is no set of rules on what you should do on a wave from point A to point B. Yes the wave kinda of dictates but part of the criteria is mix it up which on your backhand becomes hard. So is it a group of people who are scoring based on themselves bei...

His performance today shut me up.

Even his air looked effortless.

It really is a bizarre thought that he gets critised for making it look effortless.

This "effortlessness" is really someone so at the peak of this dance we call surfing that it is beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals.

Nick

Where do you see Parko at right now. Bad year or having achieved a world title realising there is more to life than that holly grail.

Watching his heat tody it was his normal making it look effortless style but wave choice maybe cost a few points >

Interesting point at which to retire. It would be hard for your ego after a heat like that not to get caught up in the dream of finishing on a win.

Must know the time is right.

Does someone get a walk through in round 3 ?

I never understood why Garrett didnt join the greens. Given the messages in the songs. I think he woujld been a huge boost to their primary vote and put them in a real position of keeping the bastards honest. Instead became another of the balnd laborites who lost all credability with me once he appr...

Next time they could have some brave people like fongss floating in the lineup every 10 metres s decoys or sacrificial lambs. I am trying to work out if this thread is serious. Someone nearly lost their life.. Last thing in the world you would think about is returning to the water for something so i...

So Nick does that session tick both session and your stand out wave What about a turn that is seared into your mind ? I remember watching the Billabong desert challenge with Slater talking about a wave in the final that he will never forget I often wonder if for professionals and the number of perfe...

The jury is still out till we see a 2m wave. While it does reflect mans growing consumption based world it could also provide a reduction on pressure of our surf towns to be developed developed developed subdivide subdivide To see these in our inland towns next to a skate park driven by solar and wi...

Hi Nick I know you have a long time now on a board but is there - a turn - a wave - a session that stands out in your mind above everything else I have 36 years plus on a board and there a few things that stick in my mind. I have two backhand turns that 20 plus years on I still cant believe I pulled...

Hi Nick I am interested in your thoughts of the increasing average age of the elite tour. How much a factor is KS and has he opened the eyes of others about training diet etc and the ability to keep on improving through your thirties and now into his forties. Does the make up of the dream tour in te...

Hi Nick

Loved the recent doco on Alberts Blood and Thunder

Why wasnt George Young interviewed for this. His two younger brothers and partner Harry Vanda were in it but no George ?

Jay Davies I hope can really shake this thing up. To say that we saw him at his local is drawing a long bow as he comes from the other end of the cape. So if its solid and hollow it will be playing to his strengths.

Good evening Nick Sorry to keep returning to the topic of the lack of ads in the WSL broadcast but do you see this as a sign of defeat for Zosea in turns of trying to monetise the whole circus that these events are. I went to the Margaret River comp and could not believe the size of the whole infras...

Will the girls run in big cloudbreak or will they shift to restaraunts

If they shift it I hope the girls have learnt how to slow down as last year there was a lot of epic barrels happening just behind them

Thanks Nick I was getting the same thing for the Rio Billabong pro so even with a naming sponsor they were still putting up a blank screen while I assume the US and Brazilian ads ran as well as any pay TV feed So I assumed it wasnt worth the effort for the aussie market or as some one suggested mayb...

Tatiana Weston Webb is really leading the charge

A couple of great barrels

Performances to me range from amazing to looking like some not wanting anything to do with the sets

Nick Watching the Rio and now Fiji broadcast when they they throw to an ad break the online broadcast just gets a blank screen. In your opinion is this because no one can be bothered paying for the ad spots for the australian market or its not worth the production effort of feeding ads into the mix ...

I think you are being too hard on Mainbreak. During the times they were surfing the Box in the offshore conditions there were some seriously large walling lefts that were anything but fat. Until you experience the wave it is hard to comprehend just how much power there is. Maybe I am old school but ...