Fiji Pro Cloudbreak 2017

[Lucky Al]

this is a pretty funny picture of connor o'leary!

[Lucky Al]

imagine if he looked like that all the time. i'd stay up for his post-heat interviews.

[Lucky Al]

rad, no flapping.

[Lucky Al]

looks like he's snowboarding.

[Lucky Al]

imagine slow-roasting that thigh over hot coals, mmmmmm...

[Lucky Al]

thanks for reminding us parko, may andy rest in peace.

[steve shearer]

thats exactly what i was thinking watching `parko.

[Lucky Al]

how lame is this turn. no wonder john john lost this time.

[Lucky Al]

these are all from the wsl site by the way. there's heaps of shots there, they're just poorly curated.

[Lucky Al]

now this is a tuuurrrnnn...

[Beanpole]

Really informative Lucky Al.

[Lucky Al]

you're not joking, beanpole? i'm pretty serious about this. i know it sounds like a joke, but it's true. i was thinking a lot of us probably lost interest and didn't bother looking more closely at what went on in this contest, which was some amazing surfing in great waves - if you had the patience to wait for it. i don't care about the long intervals between good things, it's like slow food - good!

[Lucky Al]

i'll be sad if they make the contests one-day or two-day events. what do we want - no more boredom, frustration or exasperation in surfing? i think that's crazy.

[Beanpole]

Spent quite a bit of time watching those guys surfing.

[Nick Carroll]

you're not joking, beanpole? i'm pretty serious about this. i know it sounds like a joke, but it's true. i was thinking a lot of us probably lost interest and didn't bother looking more closely at what went on in this contest, which was some amazing surfing in great waves - if you had the patience to wait for it. i don't care about the long intervals between good things, it's like slow food - good!

I dunno Al, I had a pretty close look at the final day, as close as you can through the webcast. I thought bar a few Wilko moments the surfing was well below par for a final day. Probably because of round three's complete seed eviction. In waves like that it shoulda taken an 18-plus to win, like double nines.

[Lucky Al]

i mean the whole event. you just had to wait through a fair bit.

[Lucky Al]

taken as a whole. two weeks out of our life. can't complain. we got it good. we are the sports fans of leisure.

[steve shearer]

i'll be sad if they make the contests one-day or two-day events. what do we want - no more boredom, frustration or exasperation in surfing? i think that's crazy.

I hadn't really thought of it like that Al.......maybe you're right.