Finally - some hilights and most of the final on Monday.
A lot of the best surfing was in the final and although not every wave was caught on film, the best ones were.
Cheers for that Andrew
Really enjoyed that while i was eating my pancakes.
I don't know much about judging by i thought the Dog should of been in the top 3
Best 3 waves unfortunately for the Casso and Dogman as their best 1 or 2 waves were crackers given the conditions. Casso's best wave was judged the best wave of the final by all judges and Dogman's in the best 3 I think.
Go a bit easy on the judging as the paid judges were super keen to work towards the current criteria SUP events are being judged on. Also after being part of judging the final on the weekend there is a hell of a lot to track during a 6 man final. Often 3-4 guys surfing 200m apart at exactly the same time doesn't make for 100% prefect vision.
Next year once SPSC has got some experienced judges amongst them they can step in to judge the SUP event entirely until then it's great they allowed us to compete and show off what can be done on a SUP in such small conditions.
Sam.
I think the judges did a good job I had Casso in front until the end but Ben just pipped him.
I think they surfed really well considering the conditions , Casso my man you rip on that 8-10 and so did Ben what was he on ?
Here's a good bit too:
"Because the paddle allows large SUP boards to be turned with high rates of speed and power, stand-up paddle surfing is deemed to be, at the competition level, a performance-centred branch of surfing, much like conventional shortboarding."
- International Surfers Association Rule Book
on what on seen
Dogman 1st ( He got his board right on to its rail in his turns rather than pushing his tail around looked better to me.
beau 2nd
casso 3rd
I'm not saying the judges were wrong but from the vid that's how i see it.
Jacko
Final results:
1st - Ben Apps (Southern Sydney) YELLOW
2nd - Andrew "Casso" Cassidy BLUE
3rd - Beau Nixon (Central Coast) GREEN
4th - Matt Fleming (Northern Beaches) WHITE (?)
5th - Roger "Tha Dogman" Saunders (Far North Coast) ORANGE
6th - Steve Beaumont (Northern Beaches) - RED (?)
Great video AA ,HOW DID YOU GO?
Boylos
Hi Casso, its my first time on here. All I know about my sup is that its 9ft 4 or 5. I have no idea about the rest of it because I leave it all upto Tully. As for my paddle i leave that up to Woogie hahaha. Im not very good at knowing all of that stuff. I prefer to ride whatever they want me to ride.
That was my first real sup event and had heaps of fun, no hassling and no ego. I hope to see all of the finalist again at some future SUP comps. Just as long as they dont judge longboarding stuff as I cant longboard for sh..! hahaha
Cheers mate Appsy
Great stuff Andrew, thanks for putting that up for us.I think they all surfed it to bits for the conditions.Appsy got the cream and thats how contests are hey?Every dog has their day,and no doubt Dog will,
Bring on da Mambo,
Robbo
Hey appsy, you should come up for the inugural Sydney SUP club contest on August 8th. Well done on your Snowy result!
Haha, your on to me Casso! Hey lets make that comp the State Titles mate!
None of this limiting the entries to 18 like the Snowy - give everyone a crack at it
A good start would be for Surfing Australia to include SUP in there judging accreditation course that way the judges are trained in what to look for. No need to re-invent the wheel, ISA have done all the hard work SA should just adopt it....but like the aussie titles all you get is a brick wall when you ask the question?
hi guys, loved the vid AA but gez can someone correct whos who on the vid please.
The last thing i need is to think its Casso when its actually The Dogman........love to get it right!!
yo dudes
just for the record i'm rapped with 5th place
and was just stoked to be in the water with a few crew on sup's
...lol... "the best tea party yet" next time i'll bake some scones guys...lol...
thanks AA for the video of the event
just waiting for the footage that casso's personal film crew took
big congrats go to appsy on taking out the sup surfing final
and sam for 3km paddle
and congrats to casso for beating me again in the surfing and the paddle race(f@rrrkkkk!!!!)
and congrats to newcastle sup for completing the 3km paddle on "the cracker sub-marine sub-vector" you must have past a heap of crew on the way back from the bower dude going off!!!
and biggest thanks to the manly longboard club for putting on a great comp
and making some cool trophies for all the finalists
