Women's surfing is more pure to me; more surfing, less trickery. Other than big barrels, men's pro surfing can't decide what it wants to be and it's greatly affecting the judging.

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As long as the powers that be continue with an "Air Contest", there shouldn't be any scoring granted to maneuvers to which the board leaves the plane of the water surface in Mens CT competition. If not, we're accepting competitive surfing to morph into a gymnastic jump show. They've evidently confirmed to us that "air surf'in" is seperate from the "true surf'in" dynamic by creating this seperate competition for it, so compete and score "surfing the waterworld" on it's unique characteristics (power carves, who is most appealing flowing with the lip transitioning to next maneuvers effortlessly, staying connected with the waterworld medium) and Air contests on it's unique characteristics. Or drop the ''Air events" and continue scoring flippity do dah day in CT. Even though the Ladies get up and out some too, their beauty performing power moves in critical sections the way they've progressed to have us unapologetically craving to watch a new "Women's Pro Surfing" level over jump'in beans. I must admit though- Caroline's total package demonstrated in this last wingding have us hooked too- ! Mel Bch Rules mang!!

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How many heats did I watch, none. I confess to being easily bored, especially watching. I don't know who should get paid what but do know that if it bothers you, you should get busy building those tvs.

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I agree with equi, to see someone drive down the line to pick up speed to only look for a ramp gets a better score than a hard carve or serious lip smack gets a better score doesn't make sense, not power surfing in the critical part of the wave!

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There are venues where airs aren't done. If Snapper was raging airs would not have factored in. But that was 2-3 foot beach break with barely any barrels and moments with little punch. What do you think is going to happen?

Next venue is Bells. Not an "air" place and gouges will rule.

Edited: 04/11/2019 at 06:08 AM by Greensleeves

It's the scoring discrepancy when airs are involved that gets me. If a single air gets a 10, then the next guy sticks a sick one and then does five more good turns, does he get a 13?



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Edited: 04/11/2019 at 07:38 AM by Cole

I'm with you. The single moves that get a 10 have to be game changers. And those have happened. But the judges have been hard on airs too. In a Qualifier Reef did a rodeo flip and got a 5 something. The judges get it rigth most of the time. Check Gabby's string of airs in his heat (the one before Yago). He deserved a 9. The score I did not agree with in the event was Italo getting a 7 for the last wave of the final. Brother robbed there.

"Bells became an air wave the moment Kelly Slater stomped that era-changing full-rotation against Mick Fanning in the 2012 Final. But let's not forget, Kelly lost that heat."

That....(and the fact I'm not very good) is exactly why I'm not pro...

Congrats Caroline! (rootbeer)

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