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Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:51 am
by julioadler
Didn't know where to post this video, it might be a good idea to star a thread, if you may.
I can even claim as the 1st brazzo ever to create a thread here
Bells and then Burleigh 1977 (3rd and 1st event of 77 season)
Nice fking Surfing!
https://vimeo.com/160199309
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:33 am
by Nick Carroll
Wooo Julio!
I’m in Goulburn driving down to this joint.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:47 am
by Trev
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:33 am
Wooo Julio!
I’m in Goulburn driving down to this joint.
Quick stop at Maccas?
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:07 am
by julioadler
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:33 am
Wooo Julio!
I’m in Goulburn driving down to this joint.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:30 pm
by Over55yrs
And no leg ropes..............those were the days.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:41 am
by julioadler
Any updates on the forecast ?
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:14 am
by Rustt
Any photos of Gundagai this year?
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:56 am
by foamy
Winki is looking very pretty this morning.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
by Rustt
South west kicked in early round here.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:00 am
by buddy
Bring back the paddle battle from the beach
. Easy way to sort out priority for the start of a heat.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:43 pm
by Nick Carroll
Man I thought Bells was better than Winki this morning. I went out early and kept looking down there from up at Rincon. Solid sets every 20 minutes, quite a few wave sin between, but not all of them getting down to Winkipop. The crowd thinned rapidly in expectation of the event starting, but instead KP shifted down to Winki, and Bells was super fun for quite a while. Wind starting to turn a bit now though.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:04 pm
by Beanpole
Can't believe the projection Medina gets on his backhand.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:49 pm
by Beanpole
Rabbits hair has turned dark with age.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:45 pm
by black duck
Beanpole wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:04 pm
Can't believe the projection Medina gets on his backhand.
same, fcuking freakish.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:19 am
by Rustt
Swell kick quite a bit this morning, very pushy at a spot that doesn't pick up the swell.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:29 pm
by julioadler
Wanna ask something to the older lads here,
It seems like surfers are wasting a whole section, if you watch the video posted above you can tell people were using the whole wave, from the beginning.
And i'm not even insinuating that they're not using the area they should on that kind of wave, talking about only throwing away what looks like a great fking way to start a ride.
Some people doesn't even know what to do...
It's exactly why i think the tour needs Bells.
You can use tradition to look up the future.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:26 pm
by foamy
Julio, re: ignoring the first part of the wave.
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:28 am
I like Bells a lot and feel it is underrated and often under surfed in the event. People sit way down on the end bowl takeoff and sometimes even wide of that, then surf it "slow", trying to keep the pace down in order to time those straight up and down big-spray top turns. But the waves they catch have often already peeled for 150 metres from the top takeoff outside Little Rincon.
....it's just them trying to fit the panel's criteria
the top 32 pro surfers could ride that back Bells wave in their sleep on any board they own. Hell even an old guy like me can. Last really good surf I had out there was on a 5'9". But the judges don't really wanna see the more lateral lines you typically draw to make those longer sections running down toward the Bowl. The judges want to see vertical top to bottom turns pushed from outside the flat wave base up into the hook, riding really close to the foam and as steep as possible, and fully committed carves vertically down the face at speed out of the lip area. Plus whatever innovative big air shit you can come up with.
So going back in and deep and constructing an entire wave is not rewarded. Three megaturns in tight on the bowl section is. So that's what they do.
The delights of the back Rincon bomb don't translate to the criteria. They're just delights on their own. One of those odd times when the needs of a heat just don't quite fit the best essence of a location.
Re: Easter Classic 2018
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:16 pm
by Beanpole
Parko seems one of the few who can do both on occasion. Wasted waves.