Hello Everybody, It's that time of year again and the canary islands has called us out to play again, but only just! With less than 3 weeks before the scheduled start date to the event it wasn't confirmed as officially on, we didn't even know if we were going to be here! i guess the global financial crisis has made the organisers - Pozo Compass, the Canarian government and the PWA tighten there belts so much so to the point that it almost wasn't going to happen at all, dark times..... Someone, somewhere obviously just remembered at the last minute they'd stashed a bunch of fifty's down the back of the sofa for such a rainy day and all of a sudden, we're on... Happy Days! good work one and all for the collective efforts to keep this show rolling.... As for me (Phil Horrocks), well, i started this whole forum rider event reporting at this very event last year, it seemed to go down rather well too. Scrolling through to page 10, on the general discussion pages is the thread from last year, 12,500 views or something like that? It was perhaps one of the most epic Pozo events ever so it wasn't surprising really! The problem i feel is i've set myself a rather impossible task to follow... It's my choice to write this forum and i write about whatever i want? but it's also welcome if you folks at home want to chip in with something to try and steer the ship along the way. It's primarily about me and my experiences here, the highs, the lows, but i'll also do my best to bring inside info on all that's going on out here.. For those of you who didn't read last years blog and have never heard of me then here's a little bit of background to me at my personal website for your homework http://www.ripandslash.com/index.html And a couple of pic's here to put a name to a face, board and sail.... Better get my rest now as i'll kick things off properly tomorrow... cheers Phil http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5121#msg-5121 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:09:58 +0000 Phorum 5.2.19 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5208#msg-5208 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5208#msg-5208
Here are the actual score sheets from the PWA Final, i was bang on for Victors score.....

Now it's time to fly out of here and get back to sunny wales!!

So, thanks to everyone who read the blog again and hopefully i'll bump into you at a beach somewhere nice soon!

That's all folks.......!!!

Phil Horrocks
K303]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:39:33 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5206#msg-5206 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5206#msg-5206
Ciao Bru]]> Mike GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:03:27 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5204#msg-5204 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5204#msg-5204
By the way, my prediction of Victor winning was based on 2 things:

1. From watching the little black dots on the webcam which update every 30 seconds!
2. The live ticker came in with the result before you could upload yours!

Great commentary and kept us all entertained and well informed.

Many thanks Phil.

See you soon.

Niggle]]> niggle GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:30:05 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5202#msg-5202 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5202#msg-5202
maybe i am a better judge than i thought!!]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:24:48 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5201#msg-5201 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5201#msg-5201 niggle GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:23:46 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5197#msg-5197 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5197#msg-5197
Victor 102
Koester 93.5

show's what i think!!!

tense wait for the results...]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:18:14 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5195#msg-5195 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5195#msg-5195
I watched the re-sail of the final and decided to write down the moves and have a go at judging it all myself.. Now it is just my opinion, i try and be as impartial as possible.... I'm not a PWA judge but i'm a PWA sailor and have seen a fair few results in my time... What i see is not necessarily what happens as judges can have funny shaped glasses that make them see things just a shade differently!!

In my book the re-sail final went down as follows....

Scoring
3 jumps factor x 2
2 Waves factor x 3


Victor's jump sheet:
Double Forward 12
Tweaked Pushy 9.5
Backloop 8.5

Total = 30 x 2 = 60 points

Koester's jump sheet:
Double Forward 12
Backloop 1hand 9
Big Forward 8.5

Total = 29.5 x 2 = 59 points

Victor's Wave sheet:
nice ride of wave with Shaka & Taka 8
ride with Goita and Shaka 8.5

Total = 16.5 x 3 = 49.5

Koester's Wave sheet:
Powerful Goita and Taka on wave 9.0
Sloppy ride and 360 in the white water mush 7.5

Total = 16.5 x 3 = 49.5



Add them all up and i get:

Victor 109.5 points
Koester 108.5 points

Victor Wins!!!

Now that's just my opinion, it's down to the 5 blokes in the porta cabin on the beach to cast their votes, either way, it's tight, one hell of a second final!!!]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:07:41 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5194#msg-5194 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5194#msg-5194
Koester wins]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:31:16 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5193#msg-5193 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5193#msg-5193
Sorry to hear its not going to well for you Phil but overall you boys are all doing us Brits proud. Were all watching with interest and pride as you all look like you are fighting hard for it. Now if we can just get the England football team as inspired!

Talking of which it does sound more and more like a German double!...or will Fernandez do a Holland!!!?

Well done Brits

Nigel BWA]]> BWA - NT GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:02:30 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5192#msg-5192 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5192#msg-5192
Campello with an insane double, and a massive forward, he's having an incredible heat!

I think Koester's done the business on him now though, it's not official but everyone on the beach thinks its Koester, a huge double followed be a pretty decent pushloop forward, it looked clean enough from where we are!!

The wave rides are not the best we've seen but i think that's more due to the lack of waves... they're still going for all the stunts though, 360's, taka's the works!

There's no time for hanging around, it's do or die out there!

I bet Victor's feeling awfully precarious at the top of the tree today, Koester's put the willy's up him! He'll have to sail out of his skin to hang on to this one!]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:55:04 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5190#msg-5190 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5190#msg-5190 Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:35:05 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5186#msg-5186 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5186#msg-5186
Swifty was on the charge taking his fight up to 6th before losing to the biggest charger of the day Ricardo Campello. Ricardo's up now against Dario and looks to be styling it!

It's not all smiles around the beach though, there's a few unhappy spaniards, Jonas blew a gasket after Ricardo knocked him out.. we heard he was pretty vocal so it wouldn't surprise me if he gets a fine from the tour manager...
Alex Musso was another suprise knockout, he did go down to Swift though who is in fire!

It wasn't all easy for Swift in truth, he did have to re-sail a heat against Skye after snaking his wave "allegedly". It didn't bother swift, confidence is up and he's nailing the moves! a man with serious hunger!

Skye got to face Swift in the first place by a gift from Antxon, who was in too much pain to sail the heat after pulling his toe nail off during a double forward in practice!! quality injury!!

Result just in! Campello's through... good lad, he's looking to go all the way, next heat against Koester should be awesome.... well, it would be more awesome if there were some waves around! looking not so good right now? It is the last day and it's push push push for a double elimination result....

Scoring today by the way is 10 minute heats, 1 wave with a score of x 3 and 2 jumps with a score of x 2, add em up and you have a winner.... or that's how it's supposed to work!]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:46:42 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5182#msg-5182 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5182#msg-5182 -------------------------------------------------------
> Go proffit, skye and swift!!! Old man Proffit
> beating Seadi, we ll never hear the end of it now!


I'm quite glad he did win! maybe he can change the record from when he lost to ..... by half a point!!!........ half a point??!!! HALF A POINT!!!! ....... he's happy now though! :)]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:45:49 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5181#msg-5181 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5181#msg-5181
I'm in too dark a place right now to bring you my feelings and thoughts on what i've been through today!, i'll come back to that later! It's better and only right that i bring you the sugar coated good stuff first....

I did mention something yesterday that Old timer Proffitt was back to his slippery best and i just wish i'd put my money where my mouth was on this one... First heat of the day was due to be Proffitt v Kauli and Koester v Lenny but it didn't quite happen like that?
Three jolly windsurfers were waiting for their heat to go into sequence whilst one not so jolly rider was getting a ticking off by the law for speeding! i think they'd been enjoying their breakfast or mornings activities a bit too much and were running a little late, pedal to the metal up the motorway and the blue lights came on, whoops!!

Duncan took the decision to give them a little breathing space and bump the first heat down to fourth of the day, that meant everyone shuffled up a notch and Proffitt had to wait a little longer for his turn at last years world number 2....
Initially a little cheesed off by the decision it actually turned in his favour, he got a bit more practice time and started to land a few things?

The conditions for all the riders today were tough, a fairly strong wind was paired with head high waves at times and quite a choppy sea, it made it pretty tough going.. With the wind up, the heats were shortened to around 12 minutes, it meant you had just enough time to get a couple of rides and a couple of jumps without too much pressure not to fall.
Proffitt was, as i said, back to his slippery best, getting a couple of jumps in the bank and piecing together the best rides i've seen him do since he's been coming here, well, one was very good at least. Ben made his backside 360 on the wave and a couple of backside turns, finishing off with a taka almost onto the beach at the end, critical was his timing as he did this whilst Kauli was having a bit of a moment, he'd crashed his jumps and was flaming a ride just as Proffitt was turning it on, so it looked to all the beach he was clearly the better sailor...
Kauli wasn't done and came back with a nice tweaked pushy and a table forward to match Ben's backloop and equally tweaked pushy, he was still scratching around for a decent first ride when Proffit caught his second decent scoring wave and pulled a frontside 360 out of the white water to put the nail in the brazilians coffin! Nice work Proffitt!!
Kauli didn't look too pleased but it's not over yet, he'll be on the charge in the double elimination for sure!

Ben went on to face Koester in the next round but his skills didn't quite get him through, despite better waves than Philip, Ben knew it was over when Koester landed a perfect stalled double forward right in front of him as he was coming in... it was pretty easily the best jump of the round and Ben didn't have too much to come back at him with after that!! A good effort but not quite enough for two upsets in one day...

It was all going pretty much to the form book with the exception of local Marcos Perez kicking out Volwater and Voget, before being stopped by koester, the old dog was ripping!
Dario did some spanish killing, taking out Jonas Ceballos and Alex Mussolini, who didn't look best pleased? i thought he'd sailed well and was unlucky to go out..
Brawzi upset Swifty and Ricardo on his way to the bottom half of the final four, where he met Victor Fernandez for a shot at the final...

It was the final we all thought would happen but not the result we all thought would happen, which was kinda cool to see. Victor was sailing pretty averagely for him prior to the contest but he seems to have stepped it right up since the flag's have come out..
He's been sailing brilliantly in his heats and the final was right up there with the best of the day, he must have changed something in his sails over the winter or been away and practiced a bit because he's got his whip back into his doubles and he nailed some to rival koester..

Koester on the other hand had looked dangerous prior to the heats but when it came to the crunch he just seemed a bit off the pace (the pace he has set in the past i'll add) he was almost a bit lethargic and not really on his game? perhaps the difficult conditions slowed him down a bit? his jumping scores are always busting out off the page, but when it's tough his riding isn't all that amazing, like today, and Victor was the deserved winner.. hat's off to you old bean...

Daida did the usual and creamed it in the women's, with the exception of her sister in the final the only one to anywhere near challenge her.. isn't it about time there were some more powerful women wave sailors coming through to challenge them, these two will still be lifting trophies in Pozo in 20 years time unless somebody like Sarah Quita Offringa decides to get into waves.. maybe she will?

With a spare hour or two and to set up for the grand stand finish tomorrow, Dunc started running the double elimination this evening, keen to get through some heats today we were cast out to do battle in a total chopfest! It was the most difficult conditions you can get in Pozo i thought? one wave every 5 to 10 minutes and soooooo choppy it was unbelievable, with only 8 minute heats it was pressure stuff, you can't risk a fall or it's over red rover!

I came unstuck to french ripper Jules Denel, he's fast becoming my nemesis!! twice in two comps he's done me in the double elimination, i didn't really help myself though and did well to bite my tongue of a few choice words i wanted to deliver to the head judge after the heat for putting us through that garbage!

It's all set up for a big day of competition tomorrow and all the boys will be fired up to get stuck in... again Proffitt's supposed to be first up... so we'll be up bright and early breakfasting as skippers is at 8.00 with a first possible start at 8.15
Now i'm out of the contest, I'll try grab a quick session in the morning but i imagine i'll be cheering on the team mates and bringing you lot anything i find interesting to write about...]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:41:07 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5180#msg-5180 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5180#msg-5180 Lady of the Manor GENERAL DISCUSSION Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:09:29 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5174#msg-5174 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5174#msg-5174
We managed to finish the first rung of the ladder, i'm still in which is good!

Proffitt kicked things off this morning with his heat against the big haired Jules Denel and on the other side of the heat it was the battle of the small people with big personalities as Hancock took on Lenny. Interestingly Hancock was on a 4.0 whilst Lenny was on a 4.7..... that could have been part of the reason for the result with Lenny taking the heat..
Ben sailed well making sure he was in charge getting good points right from the off, Jules looked like he was struggling on his stuff and could have done with a bit more power. Ben racked up the points and i'm pretty sure it was a convincing win, the Veteran Proffit is sailing to his full potential again ;) (Pic 1)

There was a bit of a break in the middle of the day as conditions deteriorated to a pretty poor state, so much so the 12 minute heats were cancelled, abandoned and then re run a couple of times. Eventually, somewhat desperately to keep things going they went with 18 minute heats, it turned out to be a pretty good idea, the sets were taking an age to come through and it was a bit of pot luck as to whether you were riding or jumping at the minute the set came in. At least with long heats there was more chance of everyone getting a bit of the action and removing a small amount of the luck element from the competition...

Ezzy and Jung are room mates back in the hotel and were drawn against each other, it was a bit of a ding dong battle and the helmeted warrior came out on top.... Gonna be some awkward silences in there room tonight.... Hopefully graham makes up for knocking his chum out by supporting Germany later... i'm sure they'll kiss and make up.

The rest of the heats were a bit of a blurrr really? i watched a few here and there, the best of the bunch was the battle between Moroccan Jumping Maniac Bouj - who by the way was so outraged by mistakes on the boardseeker Pozo promo page so much that he felt the need to get it off his chest! [www.boardseekermag.com] - and Jaeger i've got a bad foot Stone.... He has got a genuine bad foot but you wouldn't know it, he's busting out the backies and stunts as if there's nothing wrong? Must be his Tash power.... (Pic 2)
Bouj didn't have his best heat it's fair to say, he was sailing so much better last week when it was a bit stronger, i think the marginal stuff today threw him off track a little bit?

I was the last heat to go, i went on my 4.7 Manic and 74 quad fin, it felt pretty good and with long heats i'd thought no worries i'll be able to relax and go through everything i can do, it actually wasn't that simple, i could have done with a slightly bigger sail and i found it almost impossible to ride anything? I've been coming to this spot for about 7 years now, i still don't really have a clue how to ride here!! It's unbelievably difficult when it's marginal conditions. I find myself on a wave or swell and then i go to ride and the wave seems to disappear, back off and reappear somewhere else? the locals make it look easy, trust me it isn't!
My opponent, a young local whipper snapper by the way, they're the worst! i've been beaten by one in the past, you've never seen them sail before, never heard of them, and they're normally pretty damn good, fortunately this one was saving his best sailing for another day, i was too strong for him in the jumping department.

After my heat they went into the second rung of the ladder and Proffitt's second heat of the day, against a previous world champ Kauli Seadi, with the bottom half of the heat made up of Koester and fellow Red bull chum and nipper Kai Lenny.
The conditions were getting worse and worse and it was pretty pants stuff if i tell the truth? This was classic Proffitt upset territory, i've been to enough UK wave events that have been run in this kind of garbage and Proffitt definitely has the slippery snake knack of getting through heats when it gets tough like this.... and it was happening again.... Ben had a pair of jumps in the bank and a bit of a wiggle, whereas Kauli was taking his time, had 1 jump in the bag and struggling to find a wave.... Tick Tock, time was moving and Kauli was looking a bit frustrated, he swapped for bigger gear and it really was marginal... Unfortunately for Proffitt the heat was eventually cancelled and his dream of an upset was over! at least for today?
On the other side of the draw Koester was making the conditions look awesome, jumping and riding like no tomorrow..
I think head Judge Duncan Coombs could sense the kind of verbal volley he would have got if he let it run the distance, going for the blue and white checkered flag proved to be Kauli's saviour on this occassion... rightly so tooo... it really was scraping the barrel of conditions, you know it's not good if in an 18 minute heat you can't fill the sheets?

The wind never came back and so all sailors have been released for the day... we're back at the beach for a 9 o'clock skippers in the morning, all that's left to do is go and cheer on our respective teams back at the ranch this evening....

By the way, last nights Semi Final was played in the stadium in the background of Pic 3 below!

I think the conditions will be a lot better tomorrow and hopefully all of the UK boys can get through some more heats tomorrow...

ciao for now.]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:50:41 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5170#msg-5170 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5170#msg-5170 Mike GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:50:33 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5165#msg-5165 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5165#msg-5165
The beach today is a pretty windless sorry sight for a world cup windsurfing contest at the minute... It doesn't really feel like normal Pozo at the minute? There's no sunshine, no wind, no flags flogging noisily away, no PA system blaring out bad canarian dance music or the usual throng of slalom sailors rigging, tuning and causing chaos.... It all feels a little deserted right now?

For sure it won't last though? there's hot tips from locals that the wind's back tomorrow and i'm sure as soon as the sun's out, the rattling of the flags and the prospect of competition are back things will start to buzz again....

The draw's been done after everyone entered, not quite as i predicted, i might have got it a wee bit wrong, i didn't take into account this was the first event of the year and so the seeding worked out a little differently... check the draw at [www.pwaworldtour.com]

Obviously the biggest name missing is retired world champ Josh Angulo. Never his favourite event i would think but his keenness and presence is definitely notably missing on the beach... Well it is for me anyway? We typically rig and base ourselves the furthest downwind near the corner by the windsurf centre. Next to Swift, Buzianis, Angulo and Pritchard usually... it's usually overflowing with gear and people and there's plenty of banter and craic around the pits, i wonder if Angulo's keeping an eye on what's going on out here still and ever so slightly missing it??
Without the racers there's a lot less gear on the beach and fewer sailors so it definitely feels like an unusual year this year, quite a few are missing actually, the Jensen brothers are notable absentees too..


The biggest surprise to me about the draw is Koester and Kauli potentially meeting in heat 17 battling for a spot in the last 8? that's pretty early for these two to be clashing and one that can have serious consequences for a couple of world title hopefuls! the victor getting the pleasure of potentially meeting a Jonas or Mussolini most likely in heat 23.
The only one to be pleased to see that must be victor Fernandez. He has no easy route either, but he doesn't really meet a title contender until heat 22 which would most likely be a Bruch in my opinion...

Heat 23 is the one to predict, from there anything can happen really but i'd say from the top half we'd be looking at Koester and Mussolini and from the bottom half Campello and Victor Fernandez..

Just for arguments sake i'll go with a Koester, Fernandez, Mussolini, Campello finish to the top four slots in the single elimination.... but, there a lot of guys who can upset the apple cart on the way to this, including Kauli, Jonas, a charging Swifty and Bruchey to name a few....

looking out for team GB...
Hancock actually has Kai lenny in the first heat, if he advances that it's Koester waiting.
Proffitt in the bottom section of heat 1 takes on Denel, he beat me in Sylt and is quite dangerous! Kauli Seadi awaits.
Horrocks (me) in heat 8 against Mauch, not seen him sail yet, worryingly! with Pritchard to follow potentially.
Williams in heat 12 likely to face slalom world champ Albeau, on fire after cracking result in Sylt last year.
Swift in heat 13 facing either Ezzy or Jung, he should advance to face Brawzinho most likely.
Skye down in heat 14 is waiting for either Bouj or Jaeger with one eye on Campello if he advances..

This is a windsurfing competition, absolutely anything can and most probably will happen!! nothing's ever taken for granted so all sailors will be keeping an eye on the changing conditions and making sure they are best prepared for whoever they might face!

Should be a very interesting single elimination when it gets going.... looking promising for tomorrow....

It's officially off for the day, no more competition.... everyone's off back to the hotel for the Uruguay V Holland game... No one supporting Uruguay..... it's all Orange....]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:01:51 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5162#msg-5162 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5162#msg-5162
on the move front,for onshore such as pozo, doesnt getting a good critical cutback, or even frontside aerial involve a lot of skill, and should maybe be looked upon with greater regard than a taka over an already broken wave - do they score moves on already broken waves in surfing?

Also, since you mentioned freestyle wave, how does a bottom turn into grubby, then cut back, or similar with mid bottom turn spock score - they both look impressive. Do they even count?]]> Clyde Waite GENERAL DISCUSSION Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:56:54 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5151#msg-5151 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5151#msg-5151
There are no italians? well there were some here but they left before the competition got going, a bit like the world cup i suppose!

The English are pretty tight lipped with not much to shout about as you'd expect, apart from Proffitt who blatantly doesn't give a monkeys who does well and supports any nation that's got one of his fantasy footy players in!!! it's all about the points not the football....

Ze Germans are not overly boisterous either, they're not scheduled to be getting excited until after they've won it of course, the machine doesn't allow for emotion to be released until the job is done..... Klaas did let out a small Whoop by accident when it went 4-0 though?

The Brazilians aren't interested now they're not in it.... but Alfie did say the Brazilian freestylers were weeping like little girls in Lanzarote after the Germans put them to shame! hankies all round...

The Dutchies are suprised they got as far as they have, that's now turned to Mevissen being convinced they're going to win it! love his enthusiasm.... blind faith powered by red bull!

The spaniards are all bravado and flexing there guns on the beach.. they think they're going all the way.

and as for the French, well... they're still French whatever happens!


I wonder who Koester or Bruch for that matter will be supporting if it goes to a Germany v Spain final? will he be E44 or G44? or E181 or G181?]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:16:17 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5149#msg-5149 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5149#msg-5149 Dave Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:21:39 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5148#msg-5148 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5148#msg-5148
John is surely right in that judges at PWA level should have the knowledge and experience to be able to tell which move is harder in which conditions and score them accordingly. Taka after taka off piddly small white water should not be scored highly, but then again, if the only other option is to do a lame top turn are they not a better/higher scoring option?

I don't think limiting the type and number of tricks on a wave would work for every event, maybe it should only apply to events where conditions are really poor (like flat pozo).

Anyway, what I really want know is what is the rivalry like in camp between the respective world cup nationalities? Are Klass and ze fellow Germans strutting their stuff? And what are the plans for the semis and final?]]> Dave Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:17:35 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5146#msg-5146 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5146#msg-5146
It seems to be a pretty low budget affair this year? last year we had tents and pa systems going up a few days in advance, so far we have 4 containers and that's about it?

I guess tomorrow the PWA brand up what they can with the flags and there'll be lots of people around so it will seem a lot busier around the event site... at the moment there's not much happening at all?

The trials for the event were supposed to be held today but it seemed with no wind, nothing happened? i guess they will just give them out now??

We have the opening ceremony at the hotel this evening so that's when we'll really get to see who's here..

you can check the official Notice Of Race of who's in so far at [nor.pwaworldtour.com]

If you want to work out who's up against who in the 1st round (top 16 are seeded through to second round), assuming all those listed turn up, plus the 6 wildcards... as a rough guide you have to do this:

we know 17 goes against 48, add those two up = 65. Then do your 65 minus the seeding number and that's what seed your up against..

So just for fun, let's do Koester... 65 minus 25th seed Koester = versus seed 40 Jamie Hancock K218


I do find it totally bizzare Philip Koester can be seeded so low for an event he dominated last year?, but, i guess rules are rules...

You might be able to see the full draw this evening, if not, tomorrow when it all kicks off...]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:54:16 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5144#msg-5144 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5144#msg-5144
I think a lot depends on the conditions. Doing a taka at Hookipa is much harder in my opinion than a goita. However here in Pozo, doing a goita is much harder than doing a taka.... so I am not sure you can generalise and create a list like you do with the jumps. I guess we have to rely on the judges being good enough to know what is harder. A taka on the point in Pozo off a good section is equal to or greater than a 360 at the same point, however a taka on the white water on the inside is much easier than a 360 in the same place... so I guess we maybe just have to hope the judges know what they are doing. In most cases they seem to be on it in Pozo, except when I lose, and then they clearly have no idea!!!]]> John Skye GENERAL DISCUSSION Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:30:48 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5138#msg-5138 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5138#msg-5138
Pozo was covered in cloud and there was barely 15 knots of wind, and as usual, pretty flat! it was however quiet, as we hoped.

After a short while there was a line of blue breaking the cloud which just seemed to grow and grow. With that the wind came in and we were out, not many sailors on the water of note except Albeau who was putting in the hours, fair play.. the waves started to build, on 4.7's it was pretty fun, a few jumps and some decent riding at times, but, it was incredibly onshore, you could almost jump starboard tack on the way in as you were almost heading up to towards the break water above the cafe!

After an hour or so we were in and having lunch, it was a good chance to watch the boys putting in their efforts, the Pryde / JP team were out in force, Swift, Kauli, Antoine, Ricardo all out tuning it up.. The north boys of Victor and Brawzi were out, Victor's fleeting in and out of moments of brilliance, pulling big backside 360's in heavy wave sections and then following it up by catapulting in the shore break, Victor was also falling on quite a few backloops which is very unusual for him, he's still got a few days to pull it all together though..

I was just about to leave the beach and Koester turned up.. Fair play he's looking sharp.. I was sat up on the bank watching with Ben Severne and his entourage to see him nail a perfect clean double on his first run out, nice.... he followed that up with a ride in getting a shaka and a couple of turns. Second run out, perfect double! again! if only he was a bit more consistent we all commented! ha! ha! That was are Q to leave... back home to watch some videos and swat up for training tomorrow if were going to catch him up! He is looking a hot favourite i'd say!]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:39:33 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5137#msg-5137 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5137#msg-5137
So far the conditions haven't been anything special so it's not the easiest to see who's been working on anything big over the winter?

As it is, when it's marginal, everybody is doing the usual banker moves, the tweaked pushies, the one hand backloops, the doubles to a certain extent, you don't really have the power or projection at the minute to do anything new or especially radical, but, for sure as soon as it switches on full power we'll see the level of sailing rise rapidly!

So who's making the most of the marginal stuff? Brawzinho and Ricardo seem to be pushing the backside grubby harder in the lighter winds, chatting with Brawzhi this morning over his food mountain he thinks its a good move for the lighter stuff, expect to see it if he's on 4.7 to 4.2 but he's not holding out much hope for busting it out if it's full power 3.7 or 4.0. How will it score is a point i'll try and discuss next time i see a judge, in reality it's far harder and less reliable than a taka or shaka so in theory should score higher but perhaps visually it's not got the wow factor, so they might actually not score it so high? i'll get back to you on that one...

I'm hoping for a quieter session on the water this morning as all the spanish will either be at sunday morning church or the sinners recovering from their hangovers after last nights football result! the was a lot of tooting and hollering going on around about the hotel last night...

don't forget, you can register free and use the live webcam at www.cutre.com to view the live action..

i'm off to the beach to check it out... ciao for now..]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:39:11 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5135#msg-5135 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5135#msg-5135 Double back/push loop?
Triple front?]]> Mack GENERAL DISCUSSION Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:14:36 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5134#msg-5134 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5134#msg-5134
Back to the beach and the wind was back on but nearing a high tide the waves were pretty pants, not enough to tempt me out again, i'm saving my energies for the less crowded sunday morning session hopefully?]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:54:56 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5133#msg-5133 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5133#msg-5133
It's Weekend madness at Pozo today, seems like every man and his dog wants a slice of the action, and in the canaries it seems like every local does actually have a dog... horrible little things normally if i'm honest... it seems like the yappy little ankle biter is the hound of choice on this island... handbag dogs, it must be a fashion thing?

We got down the beach a little earlier this morning to try and catch what little swell there looked like being before the tide went too low, it does seem Pozo is all about the tides, you normally get something reasonable for an hour or two a day, it's just being there at the right time is the tricky bit! it's about a 14hr day here, and windy throughout, so like i say there's always some point when it's reasonable.

For me it was much better this morning, i had a few quite nice waves, some Taka's and a few half decent jumps, the 1 handed backies are feeling more natural and the tweaked pushy is coming back, as long as i can get high enough off the ground to give me time to tweak it! No beating around the bush, you do have to force a lot of jumps in less than ideal conditions but it's the same for everyone, it is good when you do get the good ramps and you can really fly!

For a while i thought i was at a freestyle contest this morning, i was in the water by the beach and 4 sailors came in, one after another, popping out shaka's on the way in, i think there's going to be a lot of guys trying these moves this year, will be interesting to see how many of them can actually pull them, off a wave, on demand, in the heat of battle...

Today's top performers so far were Bouj, Alex and Volwater, Bouj with some big forwards and you could clearly see him winding up for his doubles, i saw him try one but it wasn't great, he's clearly keen to get them dialled though so things are looking good for him, Alex was pretty consistent again. Volwater had so nice table forwards and good go at a double off what didn't like the perfect ramp, so it was a good effort...

The Brazilians are just launching, now they're out the world cup and there's no footy for them to watch we might see them out on the water more..

I'd thought Dany Bruch was still in tenerife, turns out he's here, just been nursing a sore back, he's planning his session to coincide with the Germans playing there quarter final at 3 o'clock, hoping half the tourists will leave the water to watch.

Hancocks having a terrific time, he brought a semi broken board, sailed it, it broke, unsurprisingly... his new ones just arrived and about to finally hit the water he's locked himself out of his car, he's blaming car mate Graham Ezzy so it's ok... not sure he's too stoked with the conditions either at the minute...

Off for some lunch now....]]> Phil Horrocks GENERAL DISCUSSION Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:26:24 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5132#msg-5132 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,5121,5132#msg-5132
Keep it coming. Too funny. (-:

Good luck for the comp!

RS]]> Robert Sand GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:16:00 +0000