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Canaria , , mucho por vivir. Buenos días. welcome to Gran
Canaria . We are here en Las Palmas for the EPP world to
Gran Canaria and Pro on Oliver Soucont and Join Boy
Burningsen? Yeah Super excited to be here Ollie. What a great
day. We have. The sun’s starting to come out. We’ve
seen the competitors heading down for the first heat. So, a
great day action ahead. It’s going to be awesome. We’ve got
the the juniors who are going to be in the water first
and yeah, sun’s out. Swell’s looking good. It’s it’s
going to be building throughout throughout the day. Hopefully,
and yeah, it’s going to be some amazing conditions on on on
offer and it’s going to be fun to see everyone ripping out
there. That’s right. Yeah, few lefts coming through. Uh the
break here at Lassiser and we’ve we’ll see yeah we’ve seen
some great action over the last couple of days. It’s been a
little bit windy but today the wind has dropped. We have some,
yeah, really nice waves out there coming through. Like we
said, the juniors are going to be hitting the water. Uh the
junior boys first off and we’ve actually been taking a little
walk around the athletes tent and just checking out the
boards have been running. Yeah, there’s some there’s some
interesting boards out there. So, we got some different some
different size some different shapes. Uh there’s a few, yeah,
like surprisingly short, short boards for for what’s up but
yeah, this what what we’re going to see is going to be,
yeah, I’m guessing like a variety of of of different
different sizes and graphs out there, bud. That’s right. Yeah.
Couple of years since actually surf events on APP Tour have
have been running. So, first event back, hopefully the
level’s going to be through the roof. We’ll see a lot of
progression, a lot of innovation out there today. Bit
more of a beach break kind of style wave. We’ll be looking at
kind of a left point as well. So, yeah, lots on offer, lots
of opportunities for the riders out there today and I hope
that, I hope that we see some great action. Yeah, that like,
as you were saying, it’s been three years. So, two, 2019 was
the last what’s up surf event we had out and that was here in
Las Panamas at where we, where we finish off the final, and
yeah, it’s, it’s amazing to be back here for twenty
twenty-two, and it’s, who, who, who, who are we going to, who,
who you excited to see and. Oh, so many people. I mean, just in
the junior division, there’s there’s so many names. Couple
of juniors from Denmark. I’ve been speaking with over the
last couple of days is they’re going to have some really tough
competition against guys like Capona Fukuda from Japan and
also Pedro Vega from Brazil. Yeah, who’s only 11 years old?
Exactly. So, yeah, lots of tough competition. And Zane
Sands as well from Hawaii top seed going into this event.
Nice and then after after the boys were going to be running,
running the girls juniors as well. That’s right. Yeah. So
excited to see some of the women from there. We have
Annabelle Page from the UK. Uh exciting to see her competing
in this event. And also some women who were competing in the
Euro Sup. Uh the European Championship. So it’d be
exciting to to see those girls competing. And it’s it’s Monday
morning over here in Las Potamus. Few people going to
work. Few few surfers out already. There’s a lot of a lot
of people walking, jogging, kind of doing their morning
exercise. Yeah we could see Tucker in a way and Beno
heading out for a surf session. Looks like they’re on the long
boards practicing for the long board division at this event
which is again amazing to see that they have embraced Sup
Longboarding. It’s like I just putting on his leash there. I
can’t wait to see that. The last time the APP had that was
over in New York. That’s right. Yeah, so that was in in in
twenty nineteen. It’s going to it’s going to be good to see
what kind of maneuvers, what they’re up to, see to see the
level of progression as well in in a longboard stuff and. Yeah
definitely. Just watching a few of the guys yesterday even
though the conditions were lumpy, bumpy. Kinda big out
there as well. The long waters are just hanging five, hanging
ten through some crazy sections. So, yeah, super
exciting to see that. As we get the first glimpse at our surf
break. So, you can see it’s a bit of a left point setup. Ben
White just punching out through the white water. Have you
surfed out here? Before Ollie? Yes, sir. Had a fun session out
here yesterday. We we like kind of, on, on the right of, of
where the left is now, and there’s, there’s a few
different sections to the, to, to this wave, isn’t there,
buddy? Yeah, there definitely is. I had a paddle out there on
the left yesterday and it’s pretty sketchy out there.
There’s actually a boils and there’s a couple of rocks on
low tide that stick out of the water and you gotta position
yourself right next to that because just to the side of
that, it’s deep water. So, you really have to be on the spot
to catch your waves. As we see some of our competitors, think
that is the inner way. One of the sisters paddling out. Our
top seed, Zane heading down. Here is Shaka to the camera. He’s ready. He’s been out here
practicing. He has. Yeah. Ripping as always. is an
exciting Grom to watch. I saw a video of him surfing backdoor
on a what’s up in Hawaii and he was getting some mean barrels
and he he’s 17 years old. So, this is this is insane. And and
he’s from Oahu. So, this is sort of that’s kind of like his
his normal playground, right? Like. Sure. Growing up there
over there and. Yeah, that’s true. For us, normal surfers.
It’s just, it seems the next level. and yeah, there’s a few,
there’s a different sections. I mean, there is, there’s an
insight on offer as well. We we do have a right hander and but
I guess the the main part of La Sisa or what what we’re
going to be seeing later on is that left coming through and
then it’s just gives that option for having like long,
workable sections. That’s right. Yeah. It was interesting
watching this morning that it seemed like the smaller ones
were holding up a little bit more, a bit more face to work
with. It’s deeper section while the big ones kind of just went
into that deeper water into that that kind of mushy
section. So, it’d be interesting to see what the
competitors are going to do, where they’re going to sit,
which waves are going to select. Yeah. And on screen,
just on screen there, you can see there was that little right
hander that we surfed. Yesterday, as we see our first
heat competitors heading out. We’re going to go to a short
commercial break and we’ll be joining the action with round
one of the junior boys. es nuestra flor autóctona. que
hay más y mucho más ¿Será por esto que sonreímos
tanto? ¿O será por esto? porque cada día es un nuevo
descubrimiento. dale un
dale un giro a tu vida. ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado
por qué siempre quieres más? Más lunes sin alarmas. Más
primeras veces. más olor a mar mar mar y a campo campo. más
sonrisas a cámara. Más amigos de repente. Más reírte de la
vida. Más disfrutar del camino. Y si la respuesta nunca ha
estado en el qué? Sino en el dónde. Gran Canaria . . . Mucho
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Canaria , , mucho por vivir. ah welcome de Las Palmas, Gran
Canaria Gran Canaria s here parnection excieted to be wow opening the
event. It’s Monday morning here in Grand Canaria. Little bit
cloudy. Sun’s going to be popping through soon. We’re in
the north of the island. Las Parmas, the capital, Grand
Canaria. Yeah. Bo, how you feeling about the conditions
today? Good. I mean, yeah, like I was saying before the
condition looked really fun. You can see here, this is
Lasisare, one of the surf breaks in Grand Canaria. We got
a few of the free down the beach there. That is a bit of a
right hander. Bit of a left as well. Pretty punchy beach break
actually. But the main main contest area is going to be
straight out in front of where we are sitting and the event
site which is a left-hand point break and here it is. So you
can see some of our competitors there getting some practice in
before the event kicks off this morning. and some fairly long rides
coming through on offer at the back, right? There are.
Predominantly the left but there are some, you know, you
get the occasional right as well off here. That’s true.
Yeah, the right kind of goes into the rock wall which sticks
out and the competitors paddle out through there. Bit of deep
water. Make it easy for them. Yeah, we’ll see if length of
ride comes into it and if they get the sections on offer but
ideally, I think the competitors are looking for
those big outside turns to be able to get the scores but we
do see a further longboard sub-surfers catching a few
waves. As we hear the beach announcer
clearing the area for the free surfers. This is going to be
the junior boys. Heat number one, round number one.
25-minute heat. 25-minute heats, that’s correct. And here we go. The lineup for
round one. Heat one. Junior boys under 18. Zane Zanes will
be in the red. Pedro Viga from Brazil. Andrew Noel. From
France. And Vince Dushno. Now he is actually a local surfer.
But from from Fuer Ventura. Uh based over in Coraleto. Over
there in the in the capital of Fuerte. So yeah hopefully he
makes a few trips over here. Maybe a bit of local knowledge
for the break. That’s the off range. And he’s
bit of an all-rounder. Kind of depending on the conditions
over in Fuerdo Ventura. I mean there’s a lot of options in the
Canaries Gets a bit of wind. So, it’s it’s great for
windsurfing, for kiting, foiling, what’s up, surf,
bodyboarding, you name it. We’re we’re in the water sports
paradise over here. That’s amazing. You’ll see a lot of
these athletes doing all of those sports as well. And
almost cross training would you say? Like depending on on those
conditions and sort of what the day is offering. Definitely.
Whatever the conditions throw at you just have to have a a
board or some equipment for those conditions. So be it
windy, downwinder, foiling, winging, however you want to
play it and then when there’s waves you hit the waves. Yeah.
Go surf. That’s the world championship. So we see. Looks
like we’ve made a start. Looks like competitors are getting
into position. Zane. He’s taking the right out here
today. First turn off the top. You can see this little bit
slow out there. Competitors I think just finding their feet
for this first heat. There is a repercharge round so there’s no
elimination in this first round. First place will go
straight through to the semi-finals. Just good to get, you know, one
or two off the board early. Gonna shake off the cobwebs and
get him. Totally agree. The first wave back, three years.
There we go for the APP World Tour. Sup surfing. It’s good to be back. I mean,
unfortunately, due to the situation with COVID. Did have
to, you know, cancel his. Is Zain up again? Yeah, he’s
staying busy. The start of this heat. Nice little turn under
the lip there. Close that section. It’s going to get
rounded. No. But committing himself to those
outside turns. See, that was a big, that was a bigger set
there. It’s closing out across the day. but by you thinking
that kind of like the smaller ones, some rolling off a little
bit more off that. Definitely. So, on screen here, just on the
left side there, those smaller ones hug the reef a little bit
better and they kind of stand up a bit more but obviously,
judges do look for bigger waves and bigger sections, more
critical sections. So, if you can get a big one and get one
nice turn, they may be scoring quite well. As Vincent, what’s he seen?
Yeah, so taking a paddle in here. This will be Vince’s
first wave. Nice little turn. Using that paddle to get some
speed. Switching over now. Lovely cut back. See Vince with quite a nice
wide stance. Really great for stability. Probably using the
paddle. That was, that was one thing that, you know, it’s just
such an advantage out there. Propelling through those flat
sections and really kind of engaging the pedal into the
water to pro you forward, huh? Yeah, well, speaking with the
head judge David yesterday and he was saying how much you
competitors do need to use the paddle. Uh like you said,
getting that speed with speed, you can pretty much do anything
on a wave. So, no matter what turn but using that paddle
during a turn is going to be critical for the athlete to be
judged highly. So, I’ve seen Zane and Vince
catch some waves to begin with. Just waiting for Andrew and
Pedro to catch their first waves. As we see Andrew here.
Andre is up. Nice turn. Back into the pocket. Little snap again. It’s a great first wave there.
Um I mean, these are junior boys, Ollie. Um what I’m seeing
here is just such high level already from these guys and a
lot of these, I think all of these competitors are actually
going to be in the men’s trials event. So, we could see them
ending up in the pro event for the men. And really? Maybe even
have a bit of running with the with the top pros. Which should
be great. Great experience for these guys. We do have a few
days during the waiting period. So, we’re just depending on
what the conditions are going to be like. We’ll see
when we’re going to be running, running the trials, running the
men’s, pro and the and the women’s. And it would be pretty
good to see some of the juniors. Getting through the
trials and getting into the main event. Yeah there are a
couple of big names in the trials of Venezuela. Leonica,
Italian surfer, living in Portugal now.
Great Great drone shot here. Of La
Sisa right in front, you got the Plata the la Musica where
they have have like opera and various kind of music festivals
right in front here on the the groin is where we’re hopefully
on the other side is El Loret. The right point. Uh up and
running now. It’s Pedro. That’s right. Pedro, his first wave.
Just coming unstuck on the top turn there. About 11 years old.
Wow. I mean, it’s so good to see the young kids getting into
subsurfing. It was always a thing that was when it first
began subsurfing. It was always the, you know, the older
generation coming from longboarding, getting into it
that way. The surfers were always kind of a bit hesitant
to start. But it’s it’s so good the last few years has just
been a really big influx of junior kids. and it’s great
that the APP is giving him the opportunity to perform on the
world stage. And definitely in in Brazil,
there’s a bit of a scene like where by year where where
Pedro’s from, huh? Yeah, definitely. as we see This is
Andrew. Oh just not making around that section. But you
could see there was steep sections. There’s some slow
sections. So just timing those turns correctly. As we see that
one just breaking a little bit wide for the competitors. Does
look like Pedro’s taking a look. and Las Palmas. the capital here Some amazing spots on offer
along than this North Coast. Yeah, my first time here. Uh
all I’ve heard about is these waves, these elusive waves that
hopefully when this world does hit later this week, we’ll be
able to get a glimpse of but yeah, what a from what I’ve
heard is some incredible surf spots around here. Not far to
travel either from Europe if you if you do live in Europe.
Yeah. So, coming from, coming from the continent from
Portugal. Two hours only. Coming from the UK. What’s
three? Yeah, just over three-hour flight and you’re in
warm weather. It’s not bad at all. Yeah. pretty good for the
for a winter sun destination. 22 ° out here in the morning.
Monday morning in Las Parmas. Yeah, you can see the athletes
wearing wet suits, some wearing board shorts. Bit of a mix of
what people wearing out there. I was in board shorts
yesterday. You were in board shorts as well. I was just in
boardies and there was a bit, it was a bit windier yesterday.
I kind of felt it but it was okay. I was just stoked to be
out. Warmer water to be honest. Exactly. As you see, Zane
paddling here for a wave. Taking off the left, switching
the paddle for his bottom turn. Nice top turn there. So Zane
riding for Blue Planet. They’re based on Oahu. In Hawaii. Is that wave just flattening
out a bit but you can see he’s just linking it up with his
inside. Again, nice paddle switch off the top on the
inside. If he finishes off, probably one of the better ways
of seeing. That was a great looking wave. Are you guys all
ready? So the guy is just warming up
out there. Yeah, get a few waves under the
belt. Let’s say it’s definitely
looking a bit cleaner than it has been and competitor in the next heat.
He’s stoked. Very stoked. Looking forward to getting out
here. Fleheti. I think that is Capono Fakuda
from Japan. he is definitely one to watch
out for. Been seeing him surfing out here the last
couple of days. One of the only guys that have been out there
in the gnarly conditions that we had. Windy kind of really
bumpy and big waves as well. So he was he was ripping. So it’d
be great to see him out here and some more cleaner waves. As the guys just finding their
way around the lineup. We could see them moving a lot at the
start here and I think they’re just trying to figure out their
position. For the start of this event. How is it out there Beau
yesterday when you were out on the left? It was tricky. Um I
paddled out there with Capono from Japan. He was already out
there. He was getting so many wall waves that I was. But like
I said it’s just to the left of screen there is a really
kind of shallow rock shelf. And it sucks up. You can kind of
see all the sand in the water there just being churned up
from the waves. And there’s these boils and on the low tide
the rocks are sticking out of the water. You gotta position
yourself right next to that rock to be able to get onto
these waves or else it’s just a really slow and mushy And what are we likely to see
with that tide changing during the day? It’s kind of filling
in a bit more and Yeah, I think what we’ll see is the waves
maybe moving toward the inside a bit more. Bit of a smaller
swell today. So, those waves on the outside on especially on
the high tide probably aren’t going to be as good as the ones
that running on the inside on that shallower reef. We’ll
definitely see competitors. Hopefully, they’ve been out
here practicing and watching the conditions because it does
really come down to, it’s a wave catching contest. These
guys are at a high level. All of them surf really well. If
you’re on the right going to get through. And what sort of tactics would
then position themselves out there in the lineup? I mean,
they would have been scoping it out. Obviously, yesterday,
before we started this morning. Yeah, they would have been
looking at where the waves are breaking. Obviously, today is a
bit small as well. So, it’s a bit different to the last
couple of days. Maybe their positioning’s changed a bit.
So, competitors getting down here early. We carry 30
seconds. As we see Pedro here. Getting a little wave. and we had a little a little
look around the competitor area, checking out his board.
What what’s he riding? I love that. I thought it was a
shortboard sitting in the corner. It’s a 511 what’s up
and that is just crazy. Under 6 foot. But I guess he’s 11 years
old. He’s a tiny little kid. Uh. And here we are. This is
the competitors. zone. Getting ready. That’s right. There we
go. A few of our Japanese competitors. Giving us a wave.
Yeah. There we go. Showing us a T-shirt. Let’s get a 20 22 APP
sub surfing. Ew. Very cool. So there’s the Inaway family.
Tucker, Katie, and Sakuro. Looking forward to seeing the
girls competing in the junior event later today. Uh Danish
contingent. Tobias, Noah. As we pan across, you can see
all the competitors boards laid out. So you could probably just hear
that we are making a start for the round one heat one junior
boys. APP World Tour event. Here in Las Palmers Canaria.
Ollie. Great to be here for the start of this event. How you
feeling? It’s amazing to be here. Amazing to be back. Three
years since we haven’t been here. 2019 was the last time
that we’re in Grand Canaria for the Priam. And it’s pretty
pretty fitting to be back here in Las Paramas. The capital of
Grant area. We got some pretty good waves on offer. It’s
going to be, it’s a building during the week and today, we
are, well, we’ve got the the round one, heat one of the
boys, under 18, sub and then, we’re going to have the the
girls come after that. Yeah, the junior girls will be up
after that. In this heat in red is Zane. Zanes from Hawaii. In
white, Pedro from Brazil. In blue we have Andrew Noel from
France. And in the yellow Vince Dushneau from Spain. So,
they’re, they’re all sitting out there, Bo. Can you kind of,
yeah, explain to us a bit about that with the, yeah, I mean,
definitely rules have been changing, different rules for
different organizations as well, but we were speaking with
APP World Tour, CEO Tristan Boxford about the rules in this
event. Competitors are allowed to sit on their board if they
are waiting for a wave. However, they’re not allowed to
move while they are sitting down. So, they can’t use their
paddle to position themselves. They can’t use their hands.
They have to just be sitting on the board and then, when they
do want to catch away, we want to move around, they have
to be up and standing and you have to be up and standing as
you’re paddling out to the break as we see Pedro on his
stomach at the moment. So, there is a five paddle rule as
well if you are in your stomach so you are allowed to do five
paddles with your hands before standing up. And that’s mostly
just for when you are in the impact zone. but you see
competitors now standing up positioning themselves as Pedro
jumps over away there. They’re seeing something coming
up here. Looks like it looks like they’re just out of
position for this one. You see a bit of a left, bit of a right
here. Just nice. So, a bit of opportunity for the
competitors. and it’s going to be a four in
in in the heat for the first two rounds and then rounds
after that. That’s right. Yup. So, first place will go
straight through to the semi-finals for the juniors.
and second, third, and fourth will go to a repercharge round.
So, no elimination to start with. So, competitors just
feeling it out out there today. We’ll see how far through we
get the event today and and if we do run those rapid charge
rounds. and the competitors again just
waiting for waves to come through. Pedro’s just making
his way out. Hasn’t missed anything yet. He did catch a
wave just before the the heat started. So we saw him paddling
out. Looks like he’s not missing out on anything which
is always a good thing but it does increase the heart rate a
little bit. Just to think, oh, not position. As we are down to
21 minutes, 30 seconds remaining in this first heat. Some competitors making a move.
Positioning a little bit. You can see these wider ones coming
through Ollie. You know what direction the swell is? Yeah, it’s sort of coming in.
It’s like slightly northeast. Kinda hit hitting the northern
part of where we are in Las Palmas and in the north of the
island. And with that building swell during the week, we’re
going to see things light up On all the spots out here. All the
spots. Pedro. First wave of the heat. big to get a start. Just
fizzled out on him a little bit. Yeah, it did fizzle out a
bit but you can see Pedro looks like he was sitting on the
inside a little bit. So, again, a bit of strategy playing into
where the competitors are positioning themselves. On the outside that is Vince
paddling. It’s for a right hander. Oh, went up for a big reentry
there but just got caught as he was coming down. Bit tricky. Getting hung up on
the lip there a little bit. Yeah, it’s really, you gotta
time your turn really, really well out there today. Zane is
paddling for a wave and Zane looks like he’s looking for
those inside ones that do run a little bit better. We saw just
in that pre-heat warm up there that he was getting a few of
the ones that had a bit more of a a steeper face. Able to offer
up some bigger turns. So, we do have some points in. So, Vince
with one. 5, Pedro, 1. 17. Feel good to get off the mark
there. It does. Yeah, definitely. Shake the nerves.
And it always defensively. But yeah, just really emotional
scores to start with. They’ll be definitely looking to
improve on that. As we come down to 19 minutes left in the
heat. 25 minutes is a good amount of time to be able to
get a few waves out there. Maybe wait for some sets. The
Zane’s going to take off late on this one. Just gets caught
by the white water. He’s kind of looking for the reform
there. Yeah, it’s a smart move too because there are some
great waves coming through on the inside. But then again,
we’ve seen some great waves do on the outside. So, competitors
just figuring out where they’re going to sit. they would have been thinking
about their strategy before where they’re going to sit. Oh,
they’re going to be looking for that inside bank or they’re
going to be going outside and the outside of the moment is
kind of seems seems to have more on offer. Definitely.
Definitely does. It’s hard when competitors are making these
strategies. What? You gotta think about what the other
competitors are going to do as well. And you can always get
sucked into their game and their strategy. Yeah. Paddle
along with them. Bit of positioning as well. You can see Las Palmas in the
distance there and the Far away from there, you’ve got
behind the mountains over there. So, where actually are we,
Ollie? In on a mountain. See, the Canary Islands. Is a
technically, we’re in Europe but geographically, I would
say, you know, it’s more, it’s more Africa. It’s it’s close to
like, you can get to Morocco from Fuer Ventura in four hours
on a boat. So, we’re Couple of hundred miles away from from
the African coast. and it’s super close flying
distance to like continental Europe. You can go from the
mainland, from the from the UK. Two or three hours to get here.
Get out of the cold. Get get to Las Palmas. Damn. Watch all the
sub surfing action. As we see Vince. Vets is up. Taking one of the left here.
Switching the paddle nicely. That first cut back. This is
just slowing down a little bit. Is he going to be able to get a
reform? He’s looking for it. That’s definitely going to be
one of the highest scoring waves of the heat so far. See Vince riding an Indiana
paddleboards. They’re a Swiss brand. Okay. They make a lot of
inflatable boards, foil boards, and obviously sub surfboards as
well. We have Pedro. the nice, clean. Unfortunately,
just coming off there at the top. like I said there are a
really clean cutback that start. It’s really on rail.
Slicing through the water but just caught a rail as you turn
back. Looks like he’s on his bigger board. I noticed that
that 5eleven with Westberg speaking about earlier wasn’t
was quite colourful. So it looks like he’s taking his
bigger board out. Maybe that’s to do with the conditions.
Maybe. And that’s what the judges are going to be looking
for. They’re going to be looking for more rail to rail
surfing out here. Yeah, definitely to apply some
power, speed, flow. Definitely the main components of the
judging criteria and use of that paddle as we spoke about
earlier, Ollie. are not necessarily having to
use it on every single turn or every maneuver but just using
it to their advantage. Yeah. As as the head judge David said,
amplifying their turns using the paddle. So, making their
turns look bigger, more powerful. Three point three B.
As we do see, Vince, Vince’s last wave. A Three point. Three
point three three. Three point three. And then Vince with a
four. 8three. Alright, your second wave, one point 47. As you just see Zane there
waiting. Patiently for a wave. and Andrew as well. Starts to
get on the board. Hm. But we got some time. We got fourteen,
40 minutes, 30 seconds remaining. In this first heat.
Yeah, plenty of time. Really short paddle out for these
competitors as well when they do catch a wave. Really nice,
deep channel next to them. So, catch a wave, get into the
channel, paddle back out nice and easy. As These competitors are just
seems a bit of a lull out there at the moment. Making their way
back in. Maybe the wind pushing them out a little bit further.
There was a there’s a bit of current as well out there. So,
yeah, yesterday, I was just, you just getting sucked back
out. So, they’re going to be. They’re going to be wary of
that. Making sure that they’re, they’re keeping their position.
Yeah, lot of water moving out there. Especially across those kind of
reefs at the back there. There’s quite a few reefs that
stick out and wherever they occur, he gets a lot of water
movement. So, these competitors sitting next to one of those
reefs as we see Vince looking like a nice wave shaping up
here. taking off. Can he get up? He’s right. Yeah. See, he
looks like his front foot was just little far forward on that
turn. There we go. Nice. Nice recovery for that second turn
and again, sliding the tail on the inside. So, Vince really
starting to have a couple of scores now that come through
that are going to put him out into the leader. He still he is
in the lead at the moment. but increasing that scoreline for
sure with that wave. He’s going to be happy with that. Zane just found a little wave.
Didn’t really eventuate into anything. Now, we need to wait So Zainab Trying to get about.
Trying to look for this opening account. So this is one of
those inside waves that stand up a little bit. Just a little
turn off the top. Nice little foam climb there. That’s good.
Another one as well. that. Yeah, definitely his competitor in the next
heat. That is two to one. Here we go. Andrew. Good size
wave at the back there. Just can’t get around that section
though. And this is what we’ll see is that is that swell comes
in. We’ve got some sets that come through that break a bit
wider and if you can’t get around that first section
they’re not getting caught on that inside there. So, just over 10 minutes on the
clock remaining in this heat. As you see one of the ferries
out in the horizon there. So, that goes inter island between
the canary. It’s an inter island ferry. Not sure if that
one’s heading to Morocco. Good beef. We are going to But yeah, the
ferries are leaving, leaving every day from the islands,
interconnecting ferry. been on the ferry over from
Fuerte Ventura to Lanzaroi. takes about an hour to get over
there and Lot of waves on offer. Yeah. That’s it. Yeah.
Puerte. And Grand Canaria. Las Parmas. The capital. The the
joint capital with Santa Cruz Tenerife of of the Canary
Islands. I’d like to thank our sponsors
and partners for the Grand Canaria Prime Cabido, the Grand
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Municipal, the deportes. Holly, I’m so glad you speak Spanish.
It’s a little bit rusty. That was pretty amazing
pronunciations there but. but roughly translated, that is we
got the government of Grand Canaria, really helping support
this event. You need council. And we’re on the the city
sightseeing bus. The fun bus, the Wawa bus right in front.
And we got the judges here with us, Bo. Yeah. Judges up on top.
It’s our it’s our hope. It is our hope. For the week. Open
top bus. Warm weather. And last palmers. Not too bad. But you called it the Wawa? The
Wawa? What’s the Wawa all about? Chihuahua. As you see Zane
taking off. He kind of faded right to to get the left. Nice
turn off the top on that first one and then the second little
bounce. We’ll see Zane coming through the inside as it stands
up again on the inside section. Nice in the pocket. Just can’t
hold onto it though. The judges he was a bit frustrated that
one. He knows finishing off the wave is definitely what the
judges looking for as well. So the Walla. The Wawa yeah.
Canarian slang for bus. Ortobus in Spanish. Wawa. Andre. For
all the locals here. Wow. I love it. I had no idea what
that was when I first heard it and someone said they’re
going to jump on the Wawa. Didn’t know what they were
talking about. Had to ask them. You definitely. It was
confusing. Yes, very confusing. Now, when I say it with
mainland Spain, they don’t know what I’m talking about. But
over here at the Canaries. That’s what it’s all about. And
it’s easy to easy to get around the island as well on the bus. Yeah, so we got a replay here
of Vince. First turn then. Switching the panel on there.
For his second little turn. So good use of the paddle there.
As we see live action here. This is Andrew in the blue. Oh,
nice carve. Coming back around, Vince. Andrew looking left, looking
right. What’s his wave going to do? It doesn’t offer anything
else up for him but nice first turn. For one of the more
committed turns we’ve seen. As we do have scores dropping
for competitors last waves. Zane in red. He had a 4. 33 to
start with. So starting off with the highest wave score of
the heat. It’s a good looking wave. We
know he was a bit disappointed with the last turn but
six six point five. It’s alright
score. Nonetheless for for first ride. Still got time.
This is 6 minutes. 15 seconds remaining. So, as we hit that five-minute
mark, you’ll see the next heat paddling out. So, five-minute
paddle out for competitors. you are a thermosis. Obviously to
steer clear of competitors in the water. As all competitors
had a wave then. So paddling back out. Pedro a bit further over to the
left there. Remember Mexican. To a Japanese competitor in
white. Capono Fukuda. Riding a Sonofa board. Probably the same
size as my shortboard Ollie. I wouldn’t mind taking it for a
surf. It’s a shoreboard. But strong Japanese contingent
in this event. Great to see a lot of surfers coming out of
Japan. So they did well at the ISA World Stand Up and
Paddleboard Games just recently. That took home one of
the top spots in the country medals as Pedro Vega from
Brazil. Just getting some speed through this flat section. See
what he can do on the inside. Thank you. As you see Zane has
taken the lead. Yeah, with this third ride, 4.
17, So, he’s like pushing him above Vince. Is Vince up now?
Yeah, Vince holding onto that second spot currently. So, he
wants to improve these situations to make it harder
for the other competitors to to get him but as we said before,
for only first place does go through to the semi-finals. But Vincent nice turns. really
staying busy on that wave and Zane here finishing off a
ride. Hopefully get a replay on that one because it looked like
quite a nice wave. He had. three point 7 3 point seven seven two two So
we’re coming down to 3 minutes 45 seconds. As we do have a
replay here from Zane. Holly take it away. So on the last
kind of walling up. To take that back into the pocket.
Dodging Pedro. Just Dodge Pedro. It’s close.
Yeah, very close. Oh, live action. That was a nice turn
from Andrew. Laying on the paddle. Using that paddle. Look
at that. Power. Just putting into that turn as well. 3 minutes, 3 minutes. That was
a nice way, Ollie. I’m going to say that. That’s going to be
probably one of the best surf waves of this event so far.
Really shifting on the hill. Kind of going back a bit on the
on the tail pad there. ripping it around. Yeah. So, these
competitors, although these competitors are on smaller
boards, they’re kind of, it’s the same ratio that we’d
probably use or the competitors would be using. So, tiny boards
but still, they need to apply that power to it to really get
it moving. You could see Andrew there really leading on the
paddle. So, we’ll see how that situation does change. You need
5. 17 to move first. So, Vince is staying busy out there.
replay. So how’s this replay? Bo? Yeah you can see leaning on
that paddle all the way back to the white water. Critical
section. But these last two turns were really controlled.
throwing a bit of spray. I’d say. Right to the end,
Hurts. Right to the end looking. I’d say. But what it
has an offer. Spending a bit of time with Benoit Carpenter, one
of the best French sub surfers we have and as we do see the
leaderboard change. Andrew has moved up into first place. His
last score was a 5point67. Seven to one second. And the
third position of your fellow So, nine point four. Yeah, so
that’s pushed Zane down to second. So the moment with one
minute thirty-one on the clock. Andrew’s going to progress
through the semi-finals at the moment. But we’ll see. Zane and
Vince sitting at the back. It’s not over until that horn goes.
It’s exactly right. Exactly right. You can’t get ahead of
yourself. the position for yellow events Seeing what’s which
competitors going to try and take this wave. Pedro wants to
try. They know the time is ticking down. Coming off there. Little bit
bumpy. Oh, Andrew again. So, this is these inside waves.
He’s finding them. It’s playing a smart game. 25 seconds. So
from the start of the heat, Andrew didn’t really catch away
for quite a long time. Just biting his time, huh? Yeah.
Just waiting for the good ones. That’s right. So, sussing out
the lineup. Exactly. Replay here. Andrew’s last wave. Nice
little turn at the start. Just a single turn on that
wave. We’re going to be Counting down now. 7 seconds Is there anything left? Vince
is paddling for a little one but I don’t think it’s going to
eventuate into anything. Five, four, three. As we count down.
Three, two, one. And that’s it. Andre Nor taking the win. Zane in second. In third and
Pedro Welga coming in fourth. As we go to a short commercial
break we’re back with heat number two. Round number one of
the junior under 18 boys. nuestra flor autóctona. que hay más y mucho más Será por esto y sonreímos
tanto? ¿O será por esto? porque cada día es un nuevo
descubrimiento. dale un giro a tu vida. Buenos días, good morning.
Welcome to Las Palmas Gran Canaria . We are the Gran
Canaria Pro Am and in the water we have reall one heat to. With
God. Noah Stender. In red. Capono Fucaido. From Japan. In
2. in white and we got in blue and Tobeas. Ernest in yellow. Had a great first heat though.
Really good first heat. We saw Andrew Noel. Taking the win.
For the first heat in the junior boys. So he’s heading
straight through to the semi-finals. The other
competitors be in the repercharge round. But if you
guys want to follow along at home with the scores jump onto
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to follow along with all the scores You can also join us on
Facebook Live on the APP World Tour Facebook page. get your
comments in. Be great to hear from people at home where
you’re watching from. Yeah, any fun. Who you rooting for? Yeah,
exactly. So this here we see two Danish
competitors. We have from France, Capono from Japan. Zane
coming in From his first heat. He took second place. In that
heat. So we’ll see him again in the repercharge round. But
showing some promise. Just getting his yeah his feet in
the wax or the deck rip as we’d say on a what’s up. Yeah. and pretty much Dex top to
bottom on the subwards. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them are a lot of
people do use wax. Just depends. You get a custom, it’s
hard to get a pad on if you you may as well just put some wax
on. As you see, Capono, Paguda. Now, Capona’s been surfing out
here the last couple of days. He looks like he’s got a bit
more of a knowledge of these waves on the first one. Nice
roundhouse. Oh, that front foot just slipped. Up ah yeah Taking
off on a right. That’s primarily a left out here that
we’ve seen the last few days with the biggest swell but
obviously with that smallest swell today the waves reforming
for a right hander on the inside. So natural foot is in
beautiful footers. They get their pick of left and rights
which is great. I think it’s good to have a peak on tour and
take a pick. A lot of the waves such as the one around the
corner. Elarette is going to be a right hand point break. We
may see the competition moving there later in the event
period. The Tituong In blue up and
riding. That’s off the top condition.
Still a little bumpy out there. You can see the texture on the
water. Bit of wind around. Not too much wind. A lot less than
the last few days. So Capono. It’s first score coming in. The
four point five. That’s a nice high score for just that one
turn Ollie. At the back. One big roundhouse cut back and
then slipping off on that second turn. So judges really
liking that commitment. It’s just showing that commitment,
huh? Yeah, exactly. Just putting it all on rail on that
first turn. It’s really the the section that has the most
commitment because if you do fall off, you’re going to lose
the rest of the scoring potential for the waves. So,
put a big turn in there and you’re on your way to a good
score. So, Noah looking at this one. Kinda backing off a bit. 20 minutes on the clock. Capono up again. Surfing with a
lot of speed. See, he’s getting down nice and low during his
turns. Great to see if you got a another turn on the outside
on that wave. Bouncing that board. Golly made
through that. Getting through that flat section, huh?
vertically in the white water. Using the paddle for all it’s
worth. Pump tipping through. What’s he got here? Little tap
off the top. Right to the beach. You little claim. Love
it. Caperna’s happy with that one. Capone was one of the
athletes to watch out for at this event and it’s just proved
that then and there. These competitors standing up
to paddle out. As Tobias has had a wave. So just falling off there.
Didn’t look like he got the wave he really wanted. From
that one. And La Sisa where we are. I
mean this Couple of options here. So they do have the left.
They’ve got the right as well. Got the inside section. They
got the outside. Yeah, it’s great opportunity for everyone.
Certainly different to when when we go around the corner.
Later on during the event for El Loret. Exactly. We got the
advantage of being mobile here. In the in the fun bus. We can
just get up and go. Couple of hundred meters around the
point. Just left to the screen Ollie, it’s a Capona. Capono.
He’s just dropped an 8. 17 for that last ride. So, that’s the
first excellent score we’ve seen of this event so far. as
Noah Stender. First wave. Opening his account. Lovely cut
back. Noah showing a lot of control. Nice. Cutting back in.
He’s trying to use the paddle. See what the left has to offer.
See, he could’ve reformed on the inside but noone, of our
Danish surfers He won the under 18 Danish Sup Surf National
Championship. Let’s see the replay. So nice
cut back. Back to the white water. using that paddle. That was definitely been in the
racing scene a bit more recently and then he’s starting
to switch up back to the surfing. So good to see him
here for this event. As we do see competitor that did look
like. Noah. Noah again. On the inside. He’s coming off the pad
there. So, Noah’s last wave there. 3. 83 just dropping.
From the judges. Paddling out the impact zone. They are
allowed to do that like get time to get on their feet. The
five paddle roll. As we see a replay from Noah.
A couple A couple of cut backs. Nice.
Yeah. Oh he lost it on that second one. You are in the fourth position.
As we do see couple of competitors looking to catch
some waves there but Compono with a 12. 67. leading the charge here. Yeah,
one end. Massive second score. In that excellent range. It’s going to be interesting right position for it. Nice off the top. So often to go on the right
just fading out a little bit but he is trying to get onto
that. That’s the amazing thing about the paddle Ollies. You
can get through these sections. Which you could never do. I
don’t Yeah exactly right. Exactly. Even with the old
classic Huntington Hawpool. The shuffle to try and get into
that in little inside section. It’s it’s pretty tricky out
there. That was one big thing I was noticing yesterday. Being
out in the lineup. The speed that you can generate with the
paddle. Across those flat sections even getting out to
the back, paddling. I was getting pretty jealous. I was
just floating around, sitting on my board. Watching the stand
up surfers out there. Practicing for today. And for
the for the upcoming heats. Getting ready. Capona. Looking at this right.
It’s a nice little section here. What’s he going to do?
Champs it off the top. little. Oh good cockroach at
the end there. Late back load up floater Loving it. I think that turn before that
last one. You can see it just has that reform on the inside.
That’s right on the shoreline there. So, this a good, you
know, 150 yards paddle back out. So, this is it. This is a
replay. Component to go left. And then he just reforms. It
just kind of almost this woolly inside section. Seem to offer a
bit more, a little bit more vertical. And then just
slamming it off the top there. Lovely. Not sure if he’s going to get
extra points for the The laid out. So that way from
Caperna was a six point zero seven. So that it really
extends his lead. All competitors are in a
combination situation. So taking Capono to a fourteen
point two four. Nor stand there in second. Red
with a seven point 6. With a 4. 63 and Tobias with a
one point five. 14 points. It’s a junior girls are preparing
for their first round heat. Exciting to see the women
getting out there today. as Tobias from Denmark Just got
a little bit too tall there on the inside. You can see you
really gotta bend those knees when the conditions are a bit
bumpy like this. If you straighten those legs, you will
be falling off. Noah. Noah. Big cut back there. sort of looking to see if that
right was going to do anything for him. Decided to pull off. As we’ve seen the waves from
Capono, it just looks like he’s found those waves that do
reform on the inside. So, maybe other competitors are are
thinking maybe they could try and see if their waves are
going to reform. one of our pro competitors that
is Wellington Race from Brazil. A favourite for this event. 2019 champ out here. For the
Grand Canaria Pro Am. Being crowned around the corner in El
Loren. Here we have Noah. It’s looking for a bit of a
foam climb there and it’s like he just got to a little bit
late. So Tituan and Capono. Seeing something here. Yeah,
Tituan making a little line toward the peak of this wave.
See what this one has to offer. He’s going to stand up for him.
Off the top. It’s a nice bottom turn there. They really drew
that bottom turnout. is not too impressed that wave
didn’t reform. The conditions today, Bo, 4 to
5 foot. 132nd period. fairly light winds. Still pretty early here in Los
Panamas. I got just under 10 minutes to go. Round one, heat
two Noah up and out. It’s not really up to much that way. He
was kind of Really coming in with the the
junior girls. Next up. That is Marina. Luisa. I’m not sure if
I’m pronouncing that right. We’ll get proper pronunciation
from that. As we see Capono. Really working this left. Two
beautiful turns there by Capona. And another one. Just
coming back into the pocket. Really using that whole wave.
Come coming out. Faded back into it. So, inside walling up again. We got the situation. I lost
count how many turns he did on that wave but the solid five
turns there from Cavona. Kept very busy. With a smile on his
face right at the end of a dismount. He’s definitely happy
with that one. We’re going to replay already. Perfect. Bow,
take it away from the rip. Great turn at the start with.
Bit of a flat section but you can see him really compressing
there for that cut back. He’s really just waiting for this
wave to stand up as it did on the inside. So, just getting
some work done with cut backs on the outside. He just to go
left this time to stick with it for the reform. He knows he’s
going to stand up for him. This is where it gets a bit steeper.
He’s able to open up. And the versatility with the paddle. In
noticing that when they’re like position themselves, different
turns. Yeah, switching it over from side to side. When you do
switch the paddle over, it just allows for that rotation in the
chest. So, coming from that surfing. Background. Wanna
point your chest where you want to go. So, crossing it
over to to sub surfing. As we see one of our Japanese
competitors. Just
Just keeping an eye out. Yeah. That is Taka in a way. He’ll be
cheering on his sisters competing in the junior girls
coming up. The siblings from Japan. Yeah.
All round. What are men and women, huh? Yeah, incredible.
Long board, short boards, what’s up. Aerials, three
sixties. Yeah. They could do it all. Noah. What’s he got here?
just mistiming his turns at the moment. Yeah. It is tricky out
there. I found it really hard yesterday out there Ollie. Just
timing turns and getting it right. These competitors need
to spend a bit of time in the water here. Yeah. take on Capone taking his lead
to 15. said I told second position
with seven point eight six. Tituan. up and riding. This is
Wright going to have an offer. Little top turn. Here we go.
Standing up. Nice turn from Tituwan. Some good waves coming in now
and Noah behind him. He’s taken off there. Set a maximum but we
we We didn’t set a maximum. Two to one still going on this one
but just can’t stick that last turn. I think it’s okay. Three,
three I think his legs were burning on that one. That was a
long ride. But yeah, Capone Fakuda
stretching out his lead there. That last wave score coming in.
It’s a six point eight three. 5 minutes, 27 seconds left.
Second heat. It’s bias here. Just fizzling out on in that
wave. Be keeping an eye out. try and
improve on a two point four. Oh. just Just slash it up.
Casually throw and spray there. and here we go back into that
inside section. are going to the water. Which
is where it jams off the top there. Just such a nice a nice
wave that he caught there. Showcasing some great surfing
already. And what we’ve got to look forward to. As the event
progresses. We’ll get a replay of that wave
from Capono here. Just setting it up. Did you see that
vertical snap. He’s just taken this one
through. Fading back in not knowing that it’s going to wall
up on that inside right. This is section here. Beautiful tag at the top. And
then the finishing off section. Boom. Lovely control. Really
nice. Like you said just him knowing that. Just that
intuition of of a kid that’s under eighteen. Who knows which
waves are going to be good. That is just such a good sign
of a of a great competitive surfer. has really reading the waves.
precisely knowing where it’s going to almost where it’s
going to wall up Looking down the line. Luckhead said he’s
spent a lot of time out here the last couple of days. Every
time I look out he seems like. He’s in the water getting the
water. You can’t get him out of the water. There’s Noah there
just hitting the eject button on the top turn. Little bit of
a closeout wave. But still those big one turn waves. They
can score well if it’s done in the critical section. With a
lot of power. The judges be looking for aggression in the
turns. Yeah making sure they use that paddle to maximize
that turn. 3 minutes. Is it 3 minutes
remaining. Capernaum in the lead with
fifteen. Eight point four. Noah with a
7. 86 and Tobias, the two point four. This one just on a bit of
a breakout there. Fun fact. Ollie, Noah, Stender, and
Tobias Ernst. Both from Denmark. Both live in the same
town. Both go to the same school and are in the same
class together. In the same class. How cool is that? The
banter between those two going on in school. Yeah. They just
be talking about, you know, what they’re going to get up
to. Oh, where are you guys? What are you doing? On the
weekend. Oh, I’m going off to Grand Canaria. There’s Noah.
Just coming on glued there. Yeah, those two boys travelling
together for this event. Here with Noah’s dad, Thomas, who I
met yesterday. they’re really excited to be here. The first
time to Grand Canaria. If you see Toby is here taking
the left. Just trying to make something
work to the inside but getting all of that work done on the
outside sections. Noah here. Trying to use that paddle but
the wave just not cooperating there. A nice back end and just backed
off a little bit that way at the end. And Caperno’s extended
his lead again. Ollie. With another excellent scoring wave
and 8. 23 for that inside right that we saw. Couple of vertical
turns. Finished it off. First thing in the morning. 16. 4 on
the board. He’s definitely a morning person. Yeah.
Up Up and straight into it. Caprino again. Just a bit of a victory lap
here as we counting down from down to 30 seconds left
remaining. As he finds finds another inside. Loves that
section. A little aerial there. Little air drop. Floater. He’s
very happy with his performance today. It’s going to be coming
in now. 18 seconds left on the clock. if the second Yeah, happy with his
performance there. Getting this one out. Two, one. And that’s it. For round one,
heat two. Yeah. Yeah, Junior Boys
showcasing what they’ve got at that today. As we’ll head to
another commercial break and we’ll be back with the junior
girls, under 18. Liar? See? es nuestra flor autóctona. y hay más y mucho más ¿Será por esto que sonreímos
tanto? ¿O será por esto? porque cada día es un nuevo
descubrimiento. dale un giro a tu vida. Buenos días. Welcome to Gran
Canaria . . We are here for the Gran Canaria Pro am where in
the wow the fundas. I’m mo Joined by Beau Nixon. Former
Sup athlete. Yeah. Great to be back. For action. How good is
it to you afterwards? It’s amazing to be back. Seem. Some
of the best junior surfers in the water in the so super
excited. We do have the junior girls under eighteen. Round one
heat one heading out. We’ve got Marina Lorenzo. Kaida And Tefan Mariat. Yeah so
girls in the first heat. They’re out there ready for a
start. just take an easy. Look pretty chilled out there. Just
waiting. It’s a bit of tactics there, hon, with the, the stand
up. Are allowed to sit down as long as you’re not moving,
right Bo? That’s right, yeah. Again, contradicting what we’re
saying on screen at the moment. But I guess the the heat has
not started yet. So we are waiting for a start for this
heat. And some great scores coming in from the previous,
previous heat. Round one, heat two of the, of the juniors
with. Couple Excellent scoring range. Yeah. He comboed the
whole field with those scores. So that’s not too sore as in
here. This one It’s going to be awesome to see what the girls
are going to be doing. In this heat. They would have been
watching the boys. Taking some notes. having a look at what’s
on offer on those waves. Looking at that left and the
outside section. But also the scorability of that inside
right that Capono was just It is just dominating. Those those
last hits that he was Completely dominating. Finding
those inside rides. Getting the highest scores. Yep. On the
inside section. Just because of that speed, power, flow,
commitment to the wave. It shows some pretty progressive
turns out there. On the insides, Throwing some spray.
letting that tail loose. We only have to change. Here we
got the last Panamas. The capital of Grand Canaria. The
joint capital of the Canaries which shares with Santa Cruz
and Tenerife. Biggest box. Yeah, the the
bridge the majority of the population of Grand Canaria
live in Laspartomas. It’s the biggest city in the Canary
Islands. And it’s got some cracking waves on offer. Over
on the north of the island. There’s spots to the to the
west, to the east. We’re at last year? Right in front of
us. We got the mobile bus, the Wawa. giving us the opportunity
to pop around to the corner to the right, El Loret. You can
see in the distance. I did have a little look when we first
arrived to see what waves were on offer down there. Some great
spots. and up
and up and riding. Arena. Okay, this right So yeah, kind of maybe
following the footsteps of Capono there. Just looking for
those sneaky rights that do reform. Picking the right ones there.
It’s not, they’re not all walling up. Some of them are
fizzling out a little bit. Yeah, they do fizzle out. Some
just hit the deep water and it’s a bigger wave to run a bit
further. That’s no extender there from the heat previous.
He’s a big junior. Six three. He popped in to the athlete’s
zone. I felt tiny. Me too. One of the great Danes. Yeah no on the racing scene as
well. You can see with that build, he must have some power
behind him. Marina, in first place. So, Marina with the
first wave. Two point 3 three. Getting a start. This is the junior girls heat
one, round one. We’ll see another heat after this. with a
couple of girls. She has some had a good result I say. Uh
from Puerto Rico. Yeah. Really good result. Yeah a lot of these together
with their brothers. Really close family unit. And like we
saw yesterday, always in the water. Yeah, Katie got it the
second At the ISA. World Paddleboard and Sup Games. She
would have been stoked with that. Absolutely stoked. I just
built and wanted to build on that momentum here in Las
Parmas. For sure. She was up up against some big names and
again she’s just a junior as well. 17 years old. You can see with these boards.
Little bit submerged in the water. You know what that can
actually offer a bit more stability when the boards are
just under the water. On top of the water, it can feel all the
bumps. If you do have a high-volume board. but sitting
just underneath, you can get that sweet spot of stability.
Water wraps around the rails and doesn’t allow the board to
move too much. But you do see red, that was Marino, just on a
right hander there. It’s a fine. Going left. That
wave just hitting that deep water. As she looks to get back
out the back. Position herself again for a another wave. in your faces, in this
category, on subsidy with the junior Am I here? On the
scoreboard with a 2. 3 three. getting a campaign up up and
running. Kaida. Yet to score here.
DeFain DeFain with a one. 43. That
last ride. should be happy too. Just to
kind of feel it out. 20 minutes remaining. Plenty of time. to
to faint actually the European champion for the under 18
women’s. So good to see European champ over here
Competing on the world stage for a world title in the junior
division. All these competitors having
prior experience. Marina actually placed fourth in the
Pan Am Games. Pan American Games for sub surfing. He
should be used to competing with Kaida. Yes, exactly. as we say. There’s a there’s a
friendly vibe though. On land. Yeah. Everything’s pretty chill
out in the water. Yeah it’s competitive but the sub surfing
has never, never super agro as you might get from say
competitive shortboarders where like, on land, it’s kind of a
right and then, when you get in the water, it’s game on. Tiffany. Having a little look
at that one but just deciding against it. See her positioning
in the lineup too, Ollie. She’s sitting inside a little bit.
Maybe looking for the inside. Whereas Mariano and Gaither
outside on the left. Now here we go. Off the bottom.
The top. What’s this wave going to do? Looks like it’s
going to yeah. Is she going to keep going on this one? Can’t
quite hold that before has the right idea positioning yourself
really well out there. Some nice couple of turns
there. great to see that you.
Competing out here. So the competitors just
waiting. Bit of a lull in the action. and the scores have just come
through for second ride. That was a 4. 67. So, she’s out in
the lead. with a four point six seven and
a one point four three. Definitely looking to improve
on that one point four three. As we do see a Japanese surfer.
Katie. Big turn for opening. For Katie. Wave. And will she
get another one? No but that was great commitment. to that
first section. Oh, as we see, Marina just coming unstuck on
that on that wave. That was a great glimpse into
what Katie has to to bring to the this event. I’ve recently spent some time
in Portugal. With the APP World Tour Media. great waves and
where did they head? Where did they go to? I mean, so many
waves. just to find some ways. I know that definitely the the
base for APP World Tour is in As we do see a late take off
there from Marina in the Whitewater. Just that wave
didn’t offer anything. close to my adopted home. Of
Qashqaish. That’s right. Ollie’s moved to Portugal.
Three years? 3 years there currently. Yeah. You enjoying it? I’ve been
loving it. What’s there to love? Very very consistent
surf. pretty much guaranteed waves
around the region. Qashqash in the North, Centra, Ginshaw.
Don’t give too much away. I won’t say too much. But the
focus on where we are, that’s part of us. I mean, the waves
here. And the warm, the warm water, and just being out. mean
few different like decisions whether people are in, they’re
in shorties, they’re in board shorts, some just in thermal
kind of vests. Yeah, you can see Marida here just opting for
the the swimsuit. with a nice turn. Oh she just lost it there
on that second one. It’s on the end. Looks like she’s taking a
second to reset. Get her head back in the game. These
competitors are paddling back out. Is it authentic in the
lead. The 6. 1. Kay there in the way in second
with and White with a three point five. Marina with a 3.
33. Still plenty of time though, Bo. 14 minutes left.
yeah plenty of time for these competitors to get a ton more
waves as we saw in that last heat. Competitors taking a lot
of waves. But we do see Red jumping into the lead. With her
last wave. We came in at a 3. eight 3. Alongside a 2. 33 puts
her in just into the lead. Head of Tiffany. She’s been keeping
busy out there. As we bring you some great
drone footage. of the competitors and also of the
city of Las Palmas. just getting caught on the inside
there. It’s really tricky to position yourself in the right
spot out there. Yeah, I mean, it was, it’s kind of shifty a
little bit. There’s some currents out there. Yeah, a lot
of water moving. Kinda getting sucked into that like the
middle section of it. It’ll La Sisa. Moyetos. Off the wall here. but plenty of waves on offer.
And plenty more waves coming too. From the forecast Ollie.
I’m excited both. What’s to come? I think. Things are
going to happen. They’re going to heat up The period is
kind of, it’s just growing. I mean, it’s like thirteen-second
period at the moment. It’s going to be getting getting
almost gets up to like seventeen, 18 seconds. Jumps up
to about six foot. But today, Monday, Monday morning at Las
Palmas. Lot of people out and about as
well. There’s the whole kind of
seafront along here. Lot of people that running walking,
doing some exercise on the beach. Lots of surf lessons
happening. Surfers out there. It’s a yeah it’s a definitely a
happening city. The competitors just just
finding it a bit tricky to get out the back through that set.
I think a paddle out here in the channel. kind of dodge the
wide ones coming through. Exactly. But looks like we have
missed a wave there from Katie and White. Hopefully we get a
replay of that because she is just jump straight up into the
lead. With 11. 5 with that. Yeah, she locked in at 8. 0 for
her previous ride. So, we’ll we’ll get to that. Into the
excellent range. Stefain is just finding the edge of this
left. Bringing it back into the reform which is going to stand
up again for her. Nice little turn back into the pocket
there. He’s using the paddle to get in. To generate a bit of
speed to get through this flat section. Is it all the way into the
shore? opting for that paddle. Just to
just get through the impact zone. Get past the white water. Yeah, competitors allowed a few
paddles before they need to stand up but they do need to be
standing as they do paddle out through to the lineup. As we
are going to get a replay. Here we go. It’s here what she got.
Oh. Nice little lay back top turn there. This was their
first wave she caught which was a three point five. So we’re just trying to look
for the replay of Katie’s wave. Hopefully I had to bring that
to you shortly. Big shout out to our our
partners and sponsors for the event. The Canaria s. The
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Wawa, the city sightseeing, tour bus which we’re on
reporting from. We’re here with the judges. Seven Island Film.
Domingo Alonso Comortiales and Poema Del Mar. big community kind of feel
here. the city of Las Panamas getting fully behind the event
and APP and just a proper showcase of the amazing waves
on offer here in Las Parmas. And what a place to have it
right in the city. Right in the city. On the doorstep. Lots of
assistant. Perfect. Yeah lots of foot traffic coming through.
But right next to the biggest shopping centre in the Canary
Islands. Is that correct? It is. Yep. Yeah so it’s the it
definitely the biggest in Las Parmas. Here we go. So, Marino trying to find the
reform. Is she going to get there? Oh, she’s can’t get over
that. That little bit of a bump but catching lots of waves. and yeah, the situation of this
sport, La Sisa and El El Loret. Right in front of Arenas. A
little walk around there. When we had a lay day, just to check
it out, see what was going on. It’s massive. Almost got myself
lost in there though. That sounds huge. giant carry for
shops, the surf shops, so many like cool little boutique surf
shops around here in Las Paramas. Um the surf schools
all across the promenade and Caretas, some cafes, bars,
restaurants. cool little nightlife scene here as well. and the perfect place to get
away from coals and rainy parts of the continent. Yeah, namely
the UK right now. Yeah. And now, as the sun pops onto
the hour, beaming through the two buildings between us at
this moment. And onto the riders, you can see it’s just
sort of illuminating, bouncing off that white water there. And hopefully the sun’s
going to be sticking around. Yes, fingers crossed. Those
look like the forecast is saying for more sunshine. So,
competitors getting a nice getaway. Yeah, sunshine, warm
water. Good waves. What’s not to like about this event? And
the the variety of waves, all kinds of craft. Whether you’re
out there, whether you’re surfing, you stand up, paddle.
Few local bodyboarding Rippers is out as well and few slabs
around. His guide on the left. Nice
little turn. Back into the pocket. Just searching for that
right kind of looking down the line high. Yeah, those turns
that she could do. Just on rail. Lots of speed. As we see a set coming through
here. This is a late take off for Blue. Oh. Just under the
lip. Unfortunately, can’t hold that one. taken both of them out. Another
one coming. Just opted to kind of just tuck under the white
water there. There’s a bit of power in this world with that
with that period as well. I definitely noticed that
yesterday. I was get worked a little bit on the inside
though. It was heavy there. We we opted for the low tide
session in the afternoon, didn’t we? And it was proper.
It was just a dredge drenching off the inside. We’re going to
be expecting to see that later on as well. As that hydroxy
into the afternoon. Sun’s out. Marina up on a nice looking
right here. Great little cut back. Nice top turn. Can she link
this one up? She does. She does get that little push. And she’s
going to finish it off with a lay back on the inside but just
can’t hold it. beyond border? So, we take a replay of
Marina’s last wave. Lovely cut back there. Switching the
paddle up. Nice bottom turn into that top turn. So, staying
really close to the pocket for that speed. Getting nice and
low there on the on the inside right. Oh, just getting taken back
there. I had a few of those yesterday. That was, that was
that little slam in section I was talking. Yeah, definitely. I feel that one. So Kaida outback. This is definitely the
advantage for stand up. Could have been able to like, you
know, look around Yeah, he got some. The set’s coming early.
Super early. It’s just under the four minute
mark. So 4 minutes left. We’ll see that next heat. Paddling
out for the junior girls. But Katie out in front. and Mourinho has moved up into
second position. Yeah but 8. 23 on the board. Yeah, last wave
is a four point four. It’s a fellow UK surfer, Annabelle
Page. heading out for the heat number
two. Round number one of the junior girls. We’ll also see
Katie’s sister Sakura competing in the next heat. Just the two
of the girls. In the water for the next one. Where would they be opting to
paddle out? Would they be looking to go kind of straight
into the channel, you say, kind of get around. Yeah, we
had that inside. Yeah, we’re definitely trying to avoid that
inside. We have seen a few competitors paddling out next
to the Rockwall. Trying to sneak out in a bit of deep
water there and then shoot across over to the channel.
Just getting that timing, right? Yeah, exactly. Getting
that timing. Waiting for the low. Getting that timing,
paddling out through that shore break too if you are going to
get to the channel. So, couple of options for competitors to
paddle out through. Cicada and Tifain. Just waiting out there.
Outback. Yeah, so with these heats, we
will see first place moving through to the semi-finals.
Second and third will head into the repercharge round. So
there’s there’s there’s no knockouts round one. Takes the
pressure off the competitors doesn’t it? As we see Kay
there. Looking for a right but opting. That’s not going to
have any potential for us. So she kicks out. and controlling the subs on the
backhand, on the forehand. Hey, the judges are going to be
looking for, for them really to like the aggression, the
progression of digging in the rails into these turns. As you
can see here, Acada. The nice looking right. Wow.
finish that wave off really nicely. Great tap off the top
there. That’s exactly what the judges looking for. And still
not done. Just trying to get it right to the inside just in
case it sort of offers that finishing section on the
shoreline there. Let’s see replay of that wave too. So,
just really take it easy on the take off just to time it right.
You can see it getting nice and low there with the knees,
bending those knees. It gets on rail for that first turn. Like
you’re saying, Ollie, Judge is looking at that very closely.
And she gets her board up into the lip for that finishing
maneuver. That’s going to be another great score. And the
difficulty of that with the size of these boards. Going
onto that back foot there to kind of jam the board around. I
mean, how how difficult is that, folks? Yeah, it is, it is
hard, especially with the white water because the white water
wants to grab the board and throw every which way but
you’ve gotta try and control that bigger board. Being a
stand up board. So that’s where the use of the paddle really
comes into it. You can lean on that. Use that to kind of
maneuver yourself and and absorb some of that power. And
that’s it. The countdown. Just want to find there. Just having
a a few turns on the inside. So we’ll see what the situation
does. As that tide has come in over the rocks. See a little
bit slippery there. But that’s our heat winner for round one.
He one of the junior girls. Kay there in a way. Let’s jump over to commercials
and we’ll be back with round two. Round one, heat 2 of the
junior girls. Buenos dias. Welcome to Grand
Canaria. We are in Las Parmas for the Grand Canaria Pro Am.
APP World Tour Sub Surf. I’m Ollie Russell Cowan joined by
Beau Nixon. Beau we’re up. We’re up. Heat number two of
the junior girls. This is NFL Page. In the red. From the UK.
Riding a smick. really using that paddle to get some speed.
Couple of nice turns on that wave as well. So, opening her
account for this heat. Remember the winner does progress
through to the semi-finals. and Sakura Inoi in white. Up and
riding. We saw a sister win the first heat. with some very
similar surfing Ollie. The skill levels definitely run in
the family. Just waiting. Everything. Out here. Look at
this one on the inside. Oh. Just fading out a little bit at
the end. She’s waiting for something big to happen on the
inside there. Being patient. That’ll just calm the nerves
down a little bit. As we get a great view of the city here of
Las Palmas. Las Parmas. And the national park over there in the
back where the where the three three mountains are. I had a
little little jog down there the other day. This is sort of
suss out some more waves where they were. Check it out. Super
busy along the promenade. Kinda hugging the front of Las Panos
Canteras where we are. It’s like a three-kilometer stretch
of Bawbook. Pretty packed with joggers. Everyone kind of
getting their morning fix of exercise, you know? Just like
jostling through people, everyone. People having on the
sidewalk and really enjoying it So for Ahitu, Annabelle Page,
out of the UK. And Sakura Inure from Japan. Okay, there’s two
ladies in this heat but both at a very high level. Annabelle
starting her account with a 2point17. As you were saying with the
just paddling out, getting over that white water, when the the
board’s a little bit submerged, it almost makes it a little a
bit easier, huh? Yeah, it definitely does. Obviously,
those bigger boards are going to glide a bit easier
and. You could have a bit more stability as you’re paddling
over the wave. But those smaller balls, as you’re
waiting for waves and it’s sinking a little bit, water’s
wrapping around the rail, it’s kind of holding you in place,
gives you that added stability. That is Marina from the
previous heat. Just finishing off. She is going to be in the
repercharge round Coming up. as a goofy footer. Annabelle That wave just fizzling out.
Not offering much at all. Just a one turn on that. See the sets? Set coming in
now? Yeah. Bit of a closeout on screen. Maybe it’s going to
reform on the left. So exposed here in the Canaries. You is
just, you feel like you are in the middle of the ocean.
Because these volcanic islands, when it hits, there is nothing
in between it. So, when you’re on the continent, you do have
that, that shelf and parts and it kind of. It can be a bit
weaker but you feel the power over here. Of these waves.
Kinda similar to Hawaii, I guess, being open to really powerful swells. The
Atlantic Ocean throwing up some throw up some big swells at
times covered it. Obviously, we’ve seen Nazareth, Portugal.
We have. It’s been, yeah, they had the opening season in in
Nazareth. Couple of weeks back. The opening big wave season. I
mean, it’s consistent like the whole year in the summer. It’s
kind of super fun over there. And then when the winter comes
around, October time, The jet skis come out. The media and
the masses descend upon the lighthouse In the the small
once sleepy fishing village of Nazareth. But now I almost the
the mecca of Big Wave and Towing. Particularly in Europe.
Yeah. Sakura.
A nice A nice looking right here. That is her turns are really
fast and whippy and snappy. Just gets it set up. Ready for
that next turn. Obviously, the wave offering up just those
little sections but that’s going to be one of the better
scores for this heat. So, we’ll see her probably jumping. She’s
going to jumping up. She’ll be jumping back up. Still waiting for the judges
scores to come in. So with that second ride of
Sakuro with a four point eight three. Taking it to a total of
eight point five. As Annabelle looking for this one. Yeah, the
white water just catching her out on that take off. It’s
tricky taking off on a paddle board in the white water.
That’s definitely one of the hardest things. It’s late take
offs or if you are just take off in that turbulence is
really tricky. Still hard on a short board but just makes it
even harder because you are standing up already. Just
getting that balance right, Han. Yeah, you can obviously
get that force from behind pushing you. So, getting all
that weight onto your front foot. As you are paddling in
but then, if it’s a steep wave, you kind of want to get your
weight back and. So, yeah, it’s a tricky game to play.
advantages with having a bigger board but also a smaller board
depending on, you know, what you want it for, for the
conditions. That’s right. See, Annabelle just fading a little
bit there. She might have had a bit of opportunity but she’s
just holding on. Hopefully, it’s going to reform. It’s just
going to jump off there. So we have seen these waves reforming
on the inside. So if competitors can stick with it
for a little bit, they might get a bit more scoring
potential from that reform. Yes, Sakura jumped right up
into the lead there. Should have four point eight
three in that previous wave. Bit of a set here. Marching in. decides to, yeah, go over that
one. Yeah, maybe see something a bit better at the back. But
Sakuro, he she’s only 14 years old competing in this event.
one of the youngest competitors we have in the women. 14 years old and she surfs like
that. Oh. Wish I could surf like that at fourteen. pulling
off some incredible turns. God has such a bright future. rips
on a short board as well. And long boards. And long
boards. And do you reckon that’s what
it is? Both sort of that that mix and that ability to be bit
versatile depending on the conditions. They kind of feed
off each other. So whether you’re taking the longboard
out, taking the short board, the what’s up, Yeah, though
you’re drawing different lines on waves, it just gives you
different perspectives and you can cross over some maneuvers
from short boarding into stand up paddle boarding. You can get
more radical. Like yeah, you could play around a lot with
different things and start really acting as a a great
crossover for fitness as well. and definitely fitness
training. Yeah. Exactly. As you see Sacco here on the right. Oh
nice cut back into the white water. She’s going to find a
little reform here. On the right. She’s found herself a
great way of finishing off. Vertically in the white water
and just can’t hold it. But she did all the hard work
on the outside. I know the the five time world sub surf world
champ Kailleni. It’s always said that stand up has been
fundamental to his big wave surfing. Yes, Sakura here. Just watching
the replay. Fit a lot of turns in at the start of that wave.
Adam was lining it up to finish off with a bang. Would have
been a great score if she could’ve pulled that one. But
still, we’ll see her. Maybe even extend that lead a little
bit further. She has just extended it. Not
too much. But her last wave was a three point nine three. Page
needs a six point five nine to be able to get into advancing
position to the semi-finals but like we have mentioned before,
no elimination in the first round. They’re certainly not
cruising though. No. But yeah, like you’re saying, Kyle Lenny
obviously a household name now. In stand up paddling and
surfing. He he loves his stand up paddling. Especially for
those big waves. Uses it as a fitness to get his body
prepared to surf for big waves. So it crosses over between so
many different disciplines. And obviously SAP just can do
anything else up. Yeah. You can go surfing, flat water
paddling, you can go on overnight adventures. You can
go downwind paddling. You can put a foil on there. What’s not
to like about it? and even as a really young
Grummy, he was 17 when he won his first world title. That’s
crazy. From a wildcard entry, the first event is sunset and
people were like, who is this kid? Why, why are we letting
him in? There’s a but yeah, the rest is history from that.
Yeah. Went on to win. Win the event, win the world title that
year. Hello to our Inu Way family
from Japan. We see Katie heading out for the long board
division which is coming up next. So men and women in
together for the long board. Division here. The APP World
Tour. Grand Canary Pro Am. I can’t wait to see what kind of
maneuvers they’re going to be doing on the longboards here.
and Lasisa kind of feels like it sort of lends itself to to
long boarding a little bit especially on the on the
smaller ones. He kind of surf it into that inside section
boat and. Yeah, definitely looks like some good
opportunities for nose rides. Probably even see some quite
progressive surfing on longboards. Benoit Cupateer coming up in
that. He’s a French longboard champion. They’re going to be
attacking the lip out there as well. I think so. But Nose Ride
in Hangerton. Hanger five. Interesting to see what the
judges looking for in that as well. Whether it is more
traditional style or if we’re going to be scoring high on the
progressive surfing. I’d say mix of both. Yeah. Annabelle
taking off late on that one. Sakura. Now the back just
getting over the phone there. They’re pushing her back. Yeah,
a lot of power in those waves. Lot of power. It might look pretty easy on
screen but it’s not easy out there at all. Getting yourself
in the right position. Lots of water moving. It’s a five-stroke paddle. Lie
down and she’s back up on her feet. Having a look at this
where she’s going to go. Stopped it. No. Probably just
going to hit that deeper water that way and just disappear.
Just trying to see if maybe it was a good decision. They
should be able to get herself out the back. Hopefully onto a
set. So Annabelle Page in red. A
3point74. Second place, Sakura. leading the heat with an eight
point seven six. Yeah coming down to 11 minutes remaining
for heat number two of the first round of junior women.
Bids of great action already today. There’s been some
awesome waves. Doesn’t look fun out there. It
does. Best surfers in the world always make it look fun though.
They make it look fun and easy. but we know it’s a it’s a
different story when you try and get out there. Okay. And
the boards that you they’re using by I mean these are some
really small board what’s up boards. Yeah tiny tiny
supboards. Obviously the smaller you go the easier it is
to turn. But harder is to paddle. So there’s a bit of bit
of sacrifice either side of find that sweet spot of having
the right amount of stability. But also having a board small
enough that’s going to turn and allow you to surf to the
judging criteria. is a different opinions from the the
athletes the the surfers What sort of equipment they’re
going to be using and what type of waves Some opting for the
smaller boards for more maneuverability. Others, as you
said, going for something a bit bit wider, a bit larger. Yeah.
The paddling getting in really early. Exactly. Some
competitors thinking, you know, with a stand-up board, it’s
it’s all about maneuverability in the lineup, not on the wave,
just navigating your, your way around the lineup. So,
operating for a bit more high volume to be able to get to
places more quickly and position yourself a little bit
better. And we’ve seen that throughout the morning but even
with the junior events some guys on some bigger boards.
Some on some smaller boards. Obviously, it does depend on
their weight as well. What volume they ride. As we see,
this is the event site. It’s a athlete zone. The competitors
getting ready in there. They’re storing their boards,
stretching out, getting limber, getting loose. Yeah. It’s ready
to for their heat. I saw the beach marshal just there.
That’s where the athletes grab their rash guard. Four heading
out checking in for the heat. and sunny days, Monday morning
here, last Paramas, Grand Canaria. Just an awesome place
to hang out, have a coffee, kind of wait, wait for your
time, and just multi-sports mecca. Whether it is bamboo,
right in front, and Lacera on the beach. Over there in the distance. The
option could kind of check out the national parks up in the
hills there. Either if you’re trail running, hiking, mountain
biking. One of the highest points in the Canaries. Two
almost 2 000 meters in the center of Grand Canaria. He
actually mountain bike from the top all the way to the beach.
What? On a tour. Yeah. That’s amazing. So they they do a few
kind of say like MTB, either like E bike tours and trips. Is
Annabella and off. It’s a tricky boat out there. Yeah,
it’s really tricky. So we have Tucker there on the left.
That’s Katie. Benoit. As the
As the the plaza the la the la musica for the the opera and
concert hall there. Try to have a look in there the other day.
There’s a function going on. Didn’t get let in. They
wouldn’t let me in. but I’m keen to see what kind of
contest they do have this week and There are some awesome
festivals and just events in general in the Canary Islands
and Grand Canaria. Las Panamas has the Grand Canary Las Parmas
Carnival which is in February. Um in 2023 and it is one of the
biggest carnivals not just in the Canaries but in the whole
of Spain and Europe. And it’s a massive party which kind of
goes on. I think it would be like a couple of days. Kind of
about fiesta time. He goes up for a few weeks It just starts.
It’s going to be starting at the beginning of February and
going on until March time. They also had Womad Music Festival
in Grand Canaria in November. So, there’s plenty. Events are
back. We’re back. It’s been three years and stoked to be
here. So stoked to be here. Seems fitting that we have the
last event on the APP World Tour for subsurfing here. In
Grand Canaria and we’re back for the first event. Twist some
insane conditions for twenty, 2018 and 2019. Moving over from
Lacer. Gonna starting off the event. For both years and then
getting mobile in the Wawa, the auto boost, the bus here,
kind of going across to the point the one of the most amazing right
hand points here. This is some fantastic ways on offer there.
And we’ll be likely to be heading over there later this
week. We have got a waiting period until pretty much till
Sunday. So, it’s going to be good looking conditions. It’s
going to be dropping off a little bit tomorrow and then
going to be a little bit bigger during during the week. And
then, massive. Then, Iggy. Then, the swell starts marching
in. This is Sakura. Oh, looking left but just got caught up by
a little bit of white water on a toe side. Bit of a late
decision there. Though. Just like looking whether she was
going to go left and. Yeah. bit. Probably seeing something
down the line of that right that she could have maybe got
around to but then thinking no let’s go left and just ended up
falling off. So 4 minutes and 37 seconds
left on the clock here. Sakura in the lead. Eight point seven
six. Animal Page in red. Three point seven 4. Yeah, she needs
a 6 point five nine to be able to progress into that top spot. It is certainly double.
Certainly doable. These world-class athletes. See our longboard competitors.
Heading out. Great to see a longboard division here. For
the APP World Tour. What kind of, kind of size longboards
would they be riding out there? So, it’d be minimum 9 feet. Uh
would would be the restrictions on board sides. Obviously, the
round nose, long board style, be able to nose ride. So, we’ll
see a mix of people walking the board, doing some big turns as
well. It’s quick up and out there. For Sikura. Just waiting
for something a bit bit better. And again the longboard’s
going to kind of going to time that. Where they’re going to
go. Going throug
Going through the channel. Just just on the right of the left
here. And that foam and the force that is coming in with
these sets. Yeah, no duck diving on a stand up
paddleboard. You gotta go over it. Or there’s that kick out
technique. I saw you pull that off yesterday. Yeah, one. It’s
sketchy though. So, we. Well, Ollie’s talking about is you’re
paddling up to the wave and as the white water’s approaching,
you step back on the board and you kick it over the, kick the
board over the white water. So, looking at a replay here.
Sakura, this her best wave of the heat so far. Nice cut back there. Yeah,
lovely turns on this wave. Just couldn’t quite link up
there. So opting to sort of almost
paddle. The pedal towards it and then just paddle toward it.
Kick the board over the the wave that’s that’s approaching
you and the idea is that once you do kick the board over it
kind of ends up just above you or next to you when you do pop
up after you’ve jumped off. So this is White’s last wave.
coming back into the white water. Another turn. Just
couldn’t quite hold the rail. Looks like it’s get it out
there on What about when it gets bigger? What kind of
strategies Just bale? Just bail. Dive as deep as you
possibly could go. Exactly. Bin drop. Hold your paddle. Thank
you. Hold your battle and just dive down. There’s so much you
can do. Make sure you got a thick leash. What a keeping a
hold of the paddle be one of the trickiest things. It is
when you’re getting worked on big waves. Definitely and even
even just sometimes when you relax on small waves, sometimes
you just jump off casually holding the the paddle but if
it’s You know, if the blades at the wrong angle and it gets
caught in a bit of turbulence, it can easily just be ripped
out of your hands. So, yeah, having a tight grip on the on
the paddle is is key when you’re jumping under waves. We
were speaking to one of the one of the photographers and water
photographers. Yesterday, he was telling me even like your
camera equipment and your your housing. It just be ripped out
out of your hand. So, you really, you know, you gotta
have a good grip on you. Definitely. Big smiles on the
face there of Sakura. He’s probably talking to his sister
out there. Should we going to be counting down now? 47
seconds to go. In heat two. The junior girls. It’s Annabelle
looking for one last one. She needs to get that six point
five nine to progress to the semi-finals but Time is ticking
away. 25 seconds. Last 20 seconds. Is there
going to be anything out the back here coming in? Can’t see
too much. Sacramento might be moving over somewhere. Boy counting down now. Two,
one. The finish of the heat. With finished. We’ll see if
this wave counts from Sakura but she’s definitely won this
second heat for round one of the junior women. Moving
through to the semi-finals. Stripped through the semis.
Annabelle will get another chance to surf though. Yep.
Should be the record charge. And that’s the juniors wrapped
up for the first round. So we’re going to go to another
short commercial break. We’ll be back with the longboard
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Welcome to the APT world to Gran Canaria Pro Am we are here
in the world of the with the longboard men’s proy? pero vemos acá Leonard Nicker. He’ll be in the
white. And Kay there in a way. In the blue. Here she is right
now. Surfing against the men. Really nice stylish hang five.
That was sick. Really nice. Back onto the tail. As we see wide as well. So
quite a few waves being surfed at the start of this heat. as
Leo. Leo now residing in Portugal. quite a big name in
the Sup Racing scene as well. Leah so it’s good to see him
out here surfing. Benoit, Carl Pontier. Great longboard surfer
from France. couple of super versatile. Very versatile.
Yeah. Foiling, longboarding, short boarding, everything. Yeah Benoir a few few wins to
his name in the long board. Couple of French titles. Couple
of French titles. Yep. That’s correct. Junior title as well.
Here’s another one of those competitors that have moved
across from that long board background. He’s longboarding
as a kid. Switch to stand up paddling from a young age and
being on the tour for quite a number of years now. Started
when he was really young. Maybe sixteen, 17 on tour. You’ve had
a few hits. Had a few hits with Benoit. Yeah. Very strong
competitor. Tactical. Very tactical. Yeah. He doesn’t seem
very tactical on land because he’s just super chilled. Nice
guy. Easy to talk to. But as soon as you get in the water.
Look out. Bemoir’s on a mission. and our long ball
competitors will be surfing in the main what’s up event. And
trials. It’s awesome to see them do
both out here. Yeah, the resurgence of
longboard what’s up recently is been amazing to see. There’s
been a lot of people pushing for a a minimum board length
just within competitions but this longboard has really
revived that and allowed a lot of people to enter events that
usually wouldn’t think about entering events. So, you know,
some of our crowd that can’t keep up with that performance
surfing on the smaller boards. Jump on a bigger board. Got
yourself an event and it’s just such a nice community as well,
the longboard community. Do you see these guys are on pretty
small boards as well. You can see Leo there seeking the tail
of that board. Even when he’s paddling. And we noticed that a
couple of these competitors especially the lighter weight
ones are just on normal longboards. Prone surf
longboards. But riding them as what’s up longboards. Guess if they’re light enough
and the. That’s right. Got enough thickness on that board.
Exactly. Lay take off there from Katie. He’s kind of using the paddle
to get through that and flat section. Great style. Stalling
there to be able to walk up to the nose. Hanging five. Hanging
ten. Just styling. Definitely looks like you got a
bit more advantage of speed to on that long board. Definitely
because that length is clash so much more glide when you are
paddling. Especially on the wave as well. Get you through
flat sections nice and easy. The score’s coming through. on
our screen at the moment. So Katie first wave of five
point three three. That was that nose ride and reentry we
saw. Benoit. Benoit. Taking the lead. The 6. 3 three. Been more
hanging fires through the sections. Ah nice. Nice
roundhouse there. Really big roundhouse cut back. Very
progressive on the longboard. We’ll catch up with Benois Wave
shortly. But yeah, Penoir’s first wave, six pointthree
three. Leo’s first wave, two point 3 three. And that’s what
I was saying. That longboard there. That is just a prone
longboard. day, we are waiting to. So, competitors opting for
some different equipment. It’s Leonardo Jimenez there. ongoing. Leo kind of just
waiting. Scoping out the first heat. To see Guess I’m the
advantage coming the second here a little bit, right? You
can go see see where people are. Definitely. Suss out the
conditions. For sure. It’s hard when it runs free surfing to
kind of figure out exactly where everything is because a
lot of people out there But when it gets to competition
time, you really know where the waves are breaking. So, it’s
good to be in those later heats in the day. See the the
conditions are doing. See a set coming through. Benoit. Just had a score come
through then for his last wave. A four point ride. Nice. Here’s
Leonica. Up and riding. A nice turn. Drawing it back in.
Probably just leaning on the front a bit, using the pedal as
much as he can try and get past that flag section. Yeah. Into
the right. Foam climb. Gets it up there vertical. See Leo in that one really
trying to generate some speed from that big board. bouncing
it through. We’ll go to a replay of that wave from Leo as
well. Seem getting in position for that cut back, that carve. Using the paddle. To get some
speed. Notice that wave’s going to go flat so he starts
to get some speed. And they generate so much speed. Yeah. Throws it up there to try and
finish off with a foam climb. As we see Katie. Whoa. So the
best way the paddle just comes into it. You can save yourself
from so many situations. That was like the magic wand there.
I thought she was going to like go straight over. On the
backhand. Nice. With the long board. Very nice control.
That’s that’s really tricky to do on a long board. Gotta
really time it well to get up into the lip on the backhand.
It’s okay. Navigating that. Very nicely. smile on the face.
Big smile. Love it when competitors are just enjoying
it out there having fun. That’s what it’s it’s it’s all
about, right? Yeah. having fun in the water. and get that
adrenaline of competing and but when the waves are good, the
water’s warm. Can’t help it not have a smile on your face. Only
three of them out. Gotta love it. in a replay. It’s a tricky
conditions for a long board too. A lot of bump on the face
there. There it is. Is that paddle? Use of the paddle. It’s
going to keep it upright on the board. And a nice little carve there
and then just setting it up for this section. Throws it up
there. Controls it really nicely. You see that Liskas
getting caught in the paddle. That happens a lot. Especially
with that calf leash. He sits up a little bit higher. But
that wearing that calf leash it allows competitors to walk the
board freely without tripping over the leash. So if you got
an ankle leash sometimes you can get caught up in that other
foot as you’re cross stepping up to the nose. How does it
make it more paddling when she’s paddling out now. With
the leash. Sits out of the water a little bit. Yeah. Sits
out of the water. It’s a little bit less drag. Sometimes can
get caught a little bit as well if you are paddling with that.
But Leo as well you see opting for a calf leash too so. Very
much his competitors. In the preference out there. Yeah I
think it would be the preference. Bemoir as well. With the calf
leash. So some more scores coming in.
So Bemoir. Up in the in the lead with a 10point three
three. Gaida. Blue in second with an eight. eight three. And
Leo in white with four point six six. Seems a little bit more chill
on the longboard waiting out the back too. Yeah, it is,
definitely. Way more Jill. Lot more balance on a long board.
to that wider board all around. Bit of length as well. Helps
for stability. Sees Leo looking for this one. These competitors opting for
those these kind of inside runners. Nice. They are really
relying on turns of this wave. Here we go. Up to the nose.
Quick trip. I think just getting used to
how the long board feels. I know Leo’s definitely used to
riding a shorter board. He was out yesterday and
practicing on his shoulder board and That’s from throwing
some airs and doing some cool stuff out there. He’ll be
coming up in the actually in the trials event. He hasn’t got
a seat into the main event but a very good surfer Leo so
hopefully we’ll see him progress through. And there is that, the
progression. Sort of it incorporated into the, like the
judging criteria now of having, you know, not just whether
you’ve got an air game, but, you know, whether you’re
holding it on rail and really committing to turns. Yeah, it’s
definitely a lot that comes into it. If you, if you got a
rail game and you can surf on rail with calves and power and
speed, that’s going to score just as high as someone doing
an air. Yeah. Having those, those full bag of tricks.
That’s right. Is Benmore up? A nice looking right, cutting it
back into the wide order. And you see the smooth surfing from
Benoit. Coming from that longboard background. Straight
up to the nose. Oh. Oh wow. A little bit of a kick five
there. Very fancy from Benoit. Style him. You see he actually
was using the paddle to lean against as he was kicking his
back foot. Down to the air. Just almost effortlessly when
he’s paddling on this the transition part of the wave and
we’ll see. Nice bit of flare. Really great bit of flare. Ben
White just cruising through that first section there. Just
setting it up as he crosses the paddle over for a cut back into
the white water. Realised this wave is going to flatten out a
bit so he’ll do another cut back and then set it up for
this interesting. Yeah. And kicks it out using the paddle
there to lean on. Just can’t quite get his balance back. Bit
of a hang five kick out. Yeah. love seeing things like that,
Ollie. Just some new new tricks thrown in to long board
what’s up. Mix up again. Yeah. Here’s Katie. In a way she is
currently in second place. Surfing this wave really well.
Just setting it up for a bit of a cross step. We’ll see. She’ll
get to the nose. She does. Just can’t quite finish it. Four
point 6 seven. Tip it. Benoit just extends. Keeping busy.
Kind of stepping up Down the line. It’s
also and then deciding what to do when it does get a bit
steeper. It just makes it makes it that much harder. Exactly.
Especially on a long board. Benoit, they’re throwing it up
into the lip. Really nice cut back right back into the white
water. pretty comfortable on his backhand. Very comfortable
in all types of conditions, Benoit. You can sees to the
nose as well. So, He’s going to try and slide the tail here for
a helicopter but didn’t quite pull it. Yeah, so he he
actually won’t get score on that nose, right? Just because
he didn’t complete it. So he only gets scored on those two
turns at the back. If he would have just maybe come back off
the nose, he would have had that nose ride, a bit of a
variety in his his turns. It would have extended that score.
Into the lip, very progressive longboard in there. And this
cut back. Super nice roundhouse back into the white water. And
decides, okay, this wave’s going to slow down. Let’s try
and get to the nose. waiting for it to stand up and then
when he gets into this bit of a steep section here is the side
the tail out. couldn’t quite do it. I didn’t know where And Leo Niko here. Leo. Little left. up into the lip.
Nice turn. Longboard just loses that paddle a little bit. And
again as he digs that paddle in. You can see the blade of
the paddle just got caught on the top of the water. Just
digging it in a little bit. Yeah. Just twisted him a little
bit. We just dig it in a bit too early. You’re right Ollie.
And Bowe coming from a longboarding background. You
you’ve competed on the Longboard Tour as well as as
well as the Sup Surf Tour and what it what would the judges
be looking for? In sublong boarding? So definitely use of
the whole board when you ask longboarding. So walk into the
nose. And when you are walking up there specifically cross
stepping is definitely going to be the way that you get more
points as you get to the nose. Hang fives, hang tens, and
obviously those progressive maneuvers from the tail as
well. So bringing in that board element of using the board but
also that short board element of you can do some more
progressive turns. But obviously with style. Don’t
want it to be down to exactly. You’re on a longer board. It’s
going to flow a bit better. So you’re going to be able to yeah
have a bit longer rail in the water. So it’s not going to
turn super fast so making sure that your turns are smooth and
flowing. yeah we see all of our competitors getting to the
nose, getting to the tail. So. Zane. That is Zane. He was one
of the junior competitors this morning. He was keeping busy
out there. Catching a lot of waves. Lot of waves. Swim get
quite a few waves before the event started. But then during
his heat it’s couldn’t quite get the right ones. Ends up
getting a second in his first heat. and just so much goes
into that reading the conditions and the waves out
there and especially if you’re not familiar with it. Yeah,
like we just saw that a set come through. Wiped out a few
of the competitors. Benoit, trips to the nose. This wave’s
going to stand up for him on the inside as he does a big big
turn off the white water but just that board not fitting
into that pocket of the wave there. So you see that’s where
these competitors really need to place the board in the right
sections. Keep control of it. seen something. So it’s like a nice lift.
Again, he’s just struggling a little bit. I think with the
bump on the wave. Just wondering what to do with the
paddle. It’s pretty tricky out there. It is Even when you see
a kind of line up that left, Still got a few little wobbles
and warps on it. Definitely thrown me off yesterday. Threw
me off as well. Especially like I was saying the on these
boards. Not going to fit into those chops on the wave. That
well is a a short board would. So Competitors struggling a
little bit. Load getting up to the nose there. Consider opting
for the shuffle. Coming back from the nose there. As he got
some nice cut backs to link this up for the inside section. Leo just cross stepping up to
the. Oh, it’s getting straight on five. You see those toes
over the front. Toes all the way over. Yeah, lovely.
Finishes it off nicely. Right on the shoulder. Straight to
the shorey. Leo will be happy with that one. He will be happy
with that one. That’ll definitely. Bit of a slow start
kind of like jolting a little bit. As we’re saying, you know,
there’s bumps and wobbles but then and the wave cleaned up on
the inside, didn’t it? Allowed him to get a few more maneuvers
in. On the left inside, not just
the the Ryan offer. You see
You see the replay here. Just getting to the the nose there
at the start. Really nice cut back there from Leo. You can see utilizing that
paddle on the turns. And then using that whole board as well
as he makes his way up to the nose. You see here though. Here
we go. This one, the fried over the edge. They’re just attacking that
last little bit at the end. And the judges are going to
love that. I mean, just He can score pretty heavily if it’s
sort of one or two big turns but getting a few more, mixing
it up a bit. Yeah, that variety of maneuvers is is really
variety of repertoires that judging criteria calls for.
This is Katie. Finding a little right hander. Good looking way
too from Luckily, Hugo’s going to set something up for
the inside. Wow, throws the ball up there on the lip but
just can’t quite get it underneath her feet again. Just
going into full commitment mode, didn’t it? Yeah. Trying
to send it over that foam section. So, they’re climbing
up a little bit and then You gotta go for it. You gotta. You
gotta. So, 4 minutes and 20 seconds
remaining. In the long board. Heat one. Bemoir’s out there in
the lead. But Caden, she’s, she’s coming in close. Close to
second with a eight point eight three. Yeah, she’s holding down second
position at the moment. Great to see really good surfing from
her. As we know that her brother
Tucker coming up in the next heat. He’s done a couple of the
world longboard competitions as well. Pro long long board. Not
just sub. How he do? I’m actually not quite sure how he
went in those events. We’ll have to get that up. In the
juniors or the? No in the in the open cities. Yeah. Yeah. yeah representing Japan. He
went to the contest in Malibu, California for the long board
event. Malibu obviously being one of the best waves in the
world for longboard surfing. One of the Meccas. Yes.
Longwood, exactly. They’re in Noosa Heads in Australia. Oh.
I’d say probably two of the the main spots. Here’s Benoit in
the red. Taking off in this one on the outside. Carving his way
back around. That was a lovely cut back. Bemoir of course going to be
featuring in the pro division. Grand Canary Pro Am is Benoit.
Gets a little hang fire. Getting busy. So quickly
shuffling up the board. Coming back. Really using that that
heel edge. When he was going left. It’s kind of turning into
a completely over on the left side of the board. Yeah. On his
backhand. He picked up on a really good thing there, is it?
Cuz these boards are so big. You do have to be over to the
rail to be able to turn them. Going left, going right. Leo
Knicker just finding some great space to be. Is he going to
tuck in? Who’s going to go for a little cover up there? Yeah.
Finishing on a shorey there. and you do have a lot of lot of
space to move your feet and play with like a short or
shorter board. Yeah, hardly move your feet on a short
board. So, positioning his shoulders
but then, shuffling over to the side. As you said, both kind of
getting into that rail, right? Yeah. Yeah, these bigger
boards, thicker rails. Really need to dig it in to be able to
apply speed and power. It’s KD just just hitting. Negotiating
those. It’s tricky. I fell off few times out there yesterday
and it it’s really tough. Doesn’t look tough. It’s Leo
here on the replay. Just starting off quite easy
but really setting it up for this inside. See Leo here
banking it off the white water. Nice control. Five zero. And almost going to
be tucking into a little barrel there but went high. Picked up
a bit of speed. Exactly. Kind of propelled him forwards going
into that right. As we did see Benoir on his last wave there
drop a 7. 5zero. So he’s extended his lead flirting with that excellent
range. Yes. Almost. Exactly. So, yeah, getting a good idea
what the judge is looking for. Really progressive roundhouse
on the cut back on that first section. Nose right on the
inside and then finishing off nicely on the end section. So,
variety of repertoire. There’s key here. Off on a nice looking
left. It’s a clean on the face there. Give her a bit of
opportunity to run the nose. Come back down the tail. I love that. I was watching him
do that four cross steps up to the nose. Four steps. Really
stylish. Utilizing the whole board. Can they make it look so
easy but it’s pretty tricky to cut it. It is tricky.
Especially the conditions out there today. We’re going to be
finishing out this heat. See if these guys are not going to be
scoring these waves. And that’s it. For round one, heat one.
The APP World Tour Longboard Division. Gartier taking in the
lead. quite comfortably with a 13. 83 and Kaida in second.
Eight point eight three and Leonica in white in third place
with some point eight. Coming in now. We’re going to go
straight into heat two. But before before we go into heat
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nixon. yeah exteren to be here watching the long for the
vision the miction we have and a webinar so not just the men
competing out here today. But we do have two competitors in
the second heat. We’ll be running four heats of the
longboard. in the red is Tucker Inawe from Japan And in the
white Leonardo Jimenez From Brazil. From Brazil. They’re
getting busy already. Kinda out there. Leonardo catching a wave
there. Two guys out. Ollie. How nice would that be? It would be
so nice. Beautiful drone shot over here. Coming in. It’s
kind of looking He’s surfing surfers view of what they’re
going to be seeing in the when they’re in the lineup. Looking
out into the city of Las Paramos, the capital of Grand
Canaria. Joint capital of the whole of the Canaries which
they share with Santa Cruz, Tarifa. Uh Tenerife. And some
amazing waves on offer here. Hi, some great waves. Spoke
about some of them already. Good swell on the cast. We’re
going to be able to see some other waves during the event.
So do stay tuned throughout the week. As we mix it up. Head
over to place called El Loret. Which is a nice right hand
point break. You have seen in the twenty eighteen, 2019 Grand
Canaria Pro Am for the APP World Tour. Almost a little bit
JB. Esk. Yeah, I’d say that too. Yep. And if you want to
Yeah. Long right hander. Offering of potential. And
right out front here in La Sisa, in Las Paramas. smack
bang in the middle of town. Right on the front. Canteras.
It’s a three three mile promenade. The cafes, bars,
restaurants surf schools, shops, and a lot of waves. And spots
on offer. For all types of crafts. It’s got sub, stand up. Yeah, lots of wins. So, lot of
wind sports, windsurfing, wind foiling. Competitors looking
here. Tucker going right. Oh, a little bit of a cross leg cut
back there. really digging into the paddle there to get into
the next section. What’s he got? To the nose. Hang ten.
That’s what the judges love to see. Ten toes over the nose.
Throws up into the white water there to finish it off. Little
bit of crosswind picking up. Just sort of feel it where we
are in the in the in the fun bus. Open deck of the bus.
We’re here on the the top of the bus with the judges. So,
looking out onto the La Sisa. Great having that mobile
option. So, we are going to be moving over to El Loret later
during the week. When those conditions change, with the
swell today, Monday morning, Las Parmas, 4 to 5 foot, 132nd
period. Some nice looking waves out there. Rare looking waves.
We do see Leonardo. His first wave came into the five point
five. And he’s up on his Next ride, up on the nose. Straight
to the nose and just couldn’t quite hold it through that
section. See that rail? Just digging in.
that that was always the trick when
I was competing Ollie is that if you get your nose right in
at the start of the wave then kind of sort of sort of ticked
it off? Yeah yeah it’s kind of ticked it off already exactly.
That was when the judging criteria for longboarding was
new hats. Performance. Okay. Yeah. So it has changed
throughout the years in the prone longboarding. And it has
moved to more of a traditional style. So you’ll notice the
boards have gone a bit more traditional single fin. Bit
wider. More flatter rocker. Competitors will be using the
nose a lot more but it’s not just a nose riding contest so
still using the tail but not using those, doing those
progressive maneuvers. Okay. They want to see a mixture.
Otherwise, like when the the times when the boards were just
getting shorter and shorter so they could maneuver them more
and then. I like saying the traditional like the hanging
five, hanging ten, getting up there on the nose. Here’s one
of the very good longboard surfers, Leco Salazar in the
red there. He’s coming up in the next heat. His father, a
Brazilian champion on a longboard. So some great surface coming up
in the next few heats as well. But Tucker putting a 5. 0 on
the board for his first ride. Here’s Leo from riding. Just get out some nose then
just trying to shuffle back pretty quickly when you see
that one coming that whitewater station, Trinidad. Yeah. Got
steep in front of him then. He wanted to get back. I think it
looked like he might have tried to held hold that nose right
through that section but just kind of closed out on him. Some of the spectators
chilling. Las Canteras, La Sisa, right in
front of us. There’s the Wawa. The double
decker. City sightseeing bus. We’re on the top of that one,
Ollie. Up there somewhere with the judges. This is Francisco.
In the next heat, he’ll be in blue. Looks like he’s heading down a
little bit further to paddle out. Maybe opting for a
different surfing area to to get some scores. We’ll have to
see when that heat starts. Yeah, odds him to walk a little
bit further down the beach to kind of get out on that
channel. I think the high tide as well is pushed up to the
stairs here where the competitors usually walk down.
Yup. Few rocks down there as well. So, ABLT for the safe
room, safer paddle out. I’d be opting for that too. you are
the second. Welcome to everyone watching from around the world.
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long board division here of the Grand Canary Pro Am. Heat
number two of round one. This is Tucker in a way from Japan.
Just cruising on the nose. Grabbing rail. Pulling in.
Trying to throw the tail out. Very innovative search. Just
going to pop out right on the shore right there. And that’s what we want to see
by, right? Mixing up completely kind of. getting back on the
tail As well as using that whole board right out to those.
keeping busy up. Definitely. Staying busy on the board. On
the wave. So, Tucker’s now moved up into
the lead. 4. point zero was his previous wave score. He’s also
got a five point zero from his first wave. Leonardo Jimenez in
second position. He’ll be looking to improve on his
situation. Still 16 minutes remaining in this heat. So,
plenty of time for the surfers to catch some more waves. Big thanks to our sponsors. Can
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Seven Island Film, Domingo, Alonso Commortiales, and Poema
Del Mar. The massive support for the city Ray’s on the bus. Watching the
best in the world. Sup Longboard. Yeah it’s
incredible. We had to put the sunscreen on earlier. We did. I
didn’t think we were a little bit overcast. It was. It was.
It’s heating up. Put on some jeans. Now I’m sweating. Yeah,
changeably, it’s it’s super warm. So, if you are around,
Grand Canaria, come on down, say hello. Check out the event
site. Pop on over to the boardwalk. Straight out in
front. La Sisa. com. in front of the arenas, commercial, the
biggest shopping center here. La Plata the la Musica. Which I
will get into. Yes, you will. It’s going to be one of my
missions of the week. But it’s not just, it’s not, we’re not
here for the music. We’re here for the APP. We’re back. Three
years. Last time we were here crowning champions, just down
the road, just around the corner. 2019. At Eldoret, which
we’ll be heading to later on. Has some great hits this
morning. The juniors, junior boys division, the junior
girls. above. I was I was impressed. I just shocked to
see the level. Yeah, the level is through the roof of the
juniors and so exciting to see that there is a junior event
here. There’s so many entrants in the juniors as well. And
kids are getting younger, levels getting higher. It’s
it’s crazy. Boards are getting smaller. But there it is great
to see. We got the Red Bull Athletes area there. I’d say
that’s going to be pretty packed later on. As the event
starts to come to a close. People sitting down there for a
few drinks. It’s a good vibe down there. Early morning.
Looking around. Having a cup of Goleche. It’s just on the side. As we see Tucker in the red
jersey. In heat number two of the longboard. Straight up to
the nose for a hang five. He’s going to continue up to the
nose using that paddle to get speed through sections. Oh.
Holy cross step turn there. And he cruises back to the nose
with style. Arching back on that turn on those. Switching
the paddle over. This is what long board surfing is all
about. Using the whole board. Switching the paddle over for
turns. That’s a great example of. of perceptance the criteria
really well. And that’s going to get a, it’s
going to get some good scores that one, from the judges. yeah
tackle looks like he’ll extend his his lead with this wave. Up
to the nose for a hang five. Did a lot of nose rides on this
wave. And again walking the board, cross stepping up there.
Using that paddle. Quick hang ten. In that as well and a
lovely cross step cut back. And Beau, how difficult is that
with the, making the decisions with the split second decisions
whether you are going to go up to the nose, depending on the
waves doing. Yeah, you just really have to look down the
line all the way because with these boards, you get a bit
extra Goliath. It’s going to be a little bit faster. You have
to time it well, you have to sit on the tail sometimes,
install it just to be in the right spot. So really, really
controlling the board throughout sections. As we see
our white. In second position at the moment, straight to the
nose. Quick hang ten. Right at the start as we got this wave
building up and lovely carve. from Leonardo. So bringing
that. Pulling it back with style then. Still. That’s
building up here now. On the inside. It’s like he might try
and find a reform and he is going to get it. Again stalling
just on that back foot and the tail of the board trying to get
up to the nose. And he does get there as he switches back to
the right and he’s going to bank it off for a last turn.
That was a beautiful ride from Leo. He’s loving it. Frothing.
Hang ten at the start. Finish it off right at the beast.
Stoked with that. Quick paddle out the impact
zones. Get out of Dodge. And then yeah into the channel kind
of round. It’s like a opting to just just
pedal straight through that one. Pedal straight over it.
With those long boards, you do have that bit extra board to
help with stability when you do when you are in that turbulent
water after you pop over the wave. But Takay extending his
lead there. That last wave coming through. And the scores
on the last. Seven. 33. From Taka’s last wave with that.
Really lovely soul arching nose ride. Pushing his lead up to
twelve. three three over Leo. Takainoi. Must be stoked to see his
siblings out riding earlier. Just on the ball board,
cheering for each other, watching. Travelling with her
mum. Yeah, very close-knit family. Lots of support for
each other. Been coming from Japan, some
kind of bit of a difficult situation, sometimes of like
where they can serve, where they can’t. Yeah, definitely. I
feel like surfing with the Olympics now and it’s kind of
opened up a little bit more but subsurfing still still being
held back a little bit. But these competitors
representing Japan. As we do see Leko Salazar preparing for
the next heat. Wellington Rice there on the right. And they’ve
been travelling together? Yep. Brazilians always stick
together. Brazilian Storm. Not just in not just in normal
surfing. No, no, exactly. It’s tacos. There’s nothing in
general. Oh, really holding that high hang fire for
extended time. Switching it over and just getting caught in
the white water but grabbing rail. One, one, one, ten. Gets
back to the nose again. Tucker for a nice long hang. Five,
ten, and just can’t quite get there. But Leonardo extending his
score line. He got 6. 17 for his last wave. So catching up
to Tucker there. He needs another 6. 17. To be able to
get himself into the lead. Thanks for tuning in to the
Grand Canaria Pro Am. The APP World Tour. Let us know where
you’re watching from. Be great to get to kind of throwing in
some comments on Facebook. We’re also live on APP YouTube
channel. and of course, APP World Tour. com. things are heating up in Las
Parmas. Sun’s out and. Sun is out. In the Canaries. just really showcases those
waves as well. When sun comes out, you don’t have that heavy
sort of misty feeling when it’s a bit overcast, you know, here. Yeah, pretty warm in the water.
It’s like 20 degrees, 21degrees. About 23 Celsius on
land. Not bad considering where only a few weeks away from
Christmas. Yeah that’s right. It’s it’s super hot here. Up on
top of the Wawa. The city sightseeing bus as we take a
look at the city we’re in. Las Palmas. The Grand Canaria. That
is the event site. Straight in the middle of the screen there.
With competitors. In the water as we see Leonardo. Here’s Leo.
Just trying to cut back on that first section but digging that
rail. I have seen a few questions
coming on Facebook. Yay. We have Sup Junkie from the UK.
She’d like to know what the schedule of the day is ahead.
So, we’ll be running the we started with juniors. We’re
running with the longboard today and then, possibly
getting back into the junior repercharge rounds after this.
We’ll have to get word from the head judge on the conditions
out there. Yep. And see what the call’s going to be but we
are probably going to be continuing on with the juniors.
I think they want to try and get the longboard done as well.
So, we’re going to be jumping back into the long board and
trying to finish that up today or even tomorrow. So do stick
around. We’ll bring you word on that. You see that side really
pushing in now? Kind of right up against the the boulders.
Definitely makes a tricky kind of getting in and out.
Then you then you hit the sand. And then where they are now
just on that left. Left and right. I wouldn’t even say it’s
predominantly a left beachy but it’s sort of that seems to seem
a little bit longer than you’ve got that nice right inside
section. Yeah, some reforms happening. Competitors choosing
to go left or right on the inside section. Another
question from Matheus Lenfont. Thanks for writing in. We’ll
try and give you some more scores. He’s asking to get some
scores up on the screen but I’m not sure if we could do that
right now but we will try and bring you some more scores from
each of the waves that the competitors do ride. Some
competitors cheering on. Japanese teammates. Benoir as
well. People from New Zealand. Hello, welcome. Thanks for
joining in. Great to see everyone supporting. Yeah, Leo
needs a 6. 17. To climb up to the lead. And here he is. Just
banks it off the top. Yeah. Oh, there’s a little floater on the
inside. Okay, this here the Brazilian contingent cheering
him on from the from the athlete’s area. Fist pump.
Tucker at the back. Straight up into a hang ten. Gee, these
Japanese surfers are really showing us what they’re made
of. So much style on the nose. It’s almost as effortless. Kind
of running up to the nose of the board there. Yeah, it is great to see long
boarding. Being included on the world stage here. Sup
longboarding. As we’ll just watch a replay here. Take us
through this one though. Leonardo. So, just finding his
time for a bottom turn. Little. Cut back out the back there but
I think he’s got his eyes on something further down the line
as he cross steps up a little bit. Nice cut back into the
white water. We know this way finishes off with a pretty
nice. Here we go. He’s going to get to the nose. Lovely. The
hang ten. Through a critical section. This is just preparing
for the end of the wave here as we we see the finishing turn.
So, that inside section, like you were saying before, Ollie
is much cleaner, much steeper, more critical. I think that’s
where the the riders are getting a lot of their biggest
scores. Seems to be getting a little bit cleaner with the
tide as well feeling it a bit. Mm hmm. that guy you are. And
that the last wave of Leonardo has pushed him up into the
first position. Yeah, with a 7. 83. Leah’s last wave. Give him
a total of fourteen. So attack us now on the back foot. Yeah Leonardo bringing power
into that wave that he surfed. That almost hit that excellent
range. 7. eight3 has Tucker Rizek up again out the back.
Holding a long long hang five. As he screams through this
section here he’s going to jump on the tail. Quick little cut
back. He’s going to set it up for the reform that’s going to
happen here for this ride. Drop knee cut back. Very stylish.
And again. Cross step. Tucker is really showing his
longboarding skill We’re digging in the rail. Yeah. He’s
not going to get fired. He’s not going to get that critical
section that Leonardo did at the end. So, we have to see if
those scores. Oh, he’s going to have to watch his board there
with the. He is, yeah. Boulders. He’s going to check
his board, I think, but it’s one minute twenty on the clock.
So, think he’s going to finish up. Well, maybe he’s going to
head back out. An opting for a just one large, single fitting
there on order. Good spot on that, Ollie. Yeah, just opting
for a single fin in the longboard. Seems to be working
really well for him. Get those quick pivot turns with a single
fin. Obviously, if you are riding with three fins, you’re
going to be drawing out your turns a little bit more. It’s
going to be more of a carving turn. The single fin is
going to kind of turn on the spot. So, you’ll be able to
stall and do those nice turns that Tucker’s been doing but
obviously. some of our competitors.
Thought he was going to pop up there. Yeah. That’s a no no.
Just Just watching himself on the
inside of Leo but yeah, he’s decided to come in. So 20 seconds remaining. In a
heat two. The long board. We have some geos from Finland
watching. Hello, welcome. Thanks for tuning in. First
snow storm yesterday in Finland. Five, four. So, we do
wish you were here. And we see Tucker taking off backwards.
Finn first. How’s he going to navigate this one? He does. Is
he? He’s switched foot. And a little Superman. Over the
back. But Tucker his last wave. Pushed him back up into first
place. 15. His last wave at seven. Point 6. Last week.
Eight point four three. That first hang five he did through
that critical section at the back. That definitely got in
the scores that he needed. So tells you how much I’m a judge. We’ll just bring you the scores
from now on. It’s not over until the horse. Exactly.
That’s very true. You know the rules. Eh so yeah thanks everybody for
tuning in. We’re going to head to a short commercial break.
We’re back with heat number three of the APP World Tour
Grand Canaria Pro Am. take you way to heaven Hola, buenos dias and welcome
to the Grand Canaria Pro Am. We are here with the longboard
division men’s heat three, round one. We got Leko Salazar,
Maurice Mush, and Francisco Gill out in the water. Seeing
some really strong performances in the previous heat. Tacker
taking the win last minute and he two. Yeah, very last minute
wave there from Tucker. Held a long nose right at the back.
Just finished it off with some really great turns. Cross step
turns, drop knee turns. So, long boarding, having a big
revival here. In Grand Canaria, as we see some of the best
longboarders here, trying to paddle for a wave. And it’s great to be back with
the longboard event. It’s been three years since APP,
Longboard ran, ran an event that was in 2019 in New York.
over here for a return in Las Parmas, Grand Canaria, sun’s
beating down on the Wawa. and fortunate enough to be
surrounded by the best long board standout paddle boarders
in the world. and stand up pedals in the world in general.
The juniors put on a an amazing performance this morning. Both
the boys and the girls. And then we jump straight into the
longboard. As you can see La Cesar right in front of the
city of Las Palmas. and this break offers a couple
of options The three, three longboarders
are at the back at the moment. Hunting around the lineup for
the lefts. also keeping in in mind how how good the rights
have been earlier this morning. Yeah, very true. The inside
waves of the rights. I think that tires definitely played
into where the competitors have moved to. We saw a bit of a
lower tide this morning. So, the rights were definitely
happening a little bit more on the inside. and then the competitors opting
to sit out the back. To get the bigger waves to the left. Leko
Salazar paddling into this one. We also have Francisco. So
opting to split the peak here for both of these surfers. Leko
just keeping an eye on where he is. Francisco. They’re still
looking over. Just seeing what Francisco’s going to be doing.
Lekker opting for the left. Lego. This is. That was a super
long nose ride getting on the toes over there. He’s going to
get an opportunity or not. I think he’s down the inside now.
He’s not but really nice. He’s kicking out. Ride. The crowd
like that one. and Moritz. Just a quick one in
and out. Yeah, Morrits Marsh originating
from Germany but it does reside in the Canary Islands. So,
Morris here up on the nose for a long hang five. Just really.
Starling there on the nose. Is he going to do with the end
section? Little tap of the top. And into the shorey. This is
going to do a bit of a spin on his board as well. A bit of a
helicopter. And he does pull that off into the into the
shore break. That’s a nice opening ride for
us. Yeah, very nice. Yeah, great nose ride to begin with.
Oh, it’s riding gong. Surfboards, subs, gong is a
French brand. They have their factory in in France.
Everything is made there. They have a massive, huge store.
It’s like retail. They’ve got all their offices there.
They’ve got the shaping area, They’ve got a full empire. A
full empire. Yeah, exactly. A full empire. So, because
everything is direct, they don’t actually sell to to shops
and things. Everything’s bought direct. They keep their prices
down. So, you can get some good deals, some good boards. Gong
making everything from what’s up to foil, surfing. And
a and a high-end board, I mean, what’s that kind of setting you
back? Oh, high I mean, looking over around 2, 000
Bruce Pounds you know 2000 euros. Yeah just over like two
two thousand three hundred euros. Yeah. I think. Exactly.
For the high end. You can get them you know Gong has them for
under 1 000 euros. Some of them. So you can get your hands
on some good deals. Obviously there’s top brands
Starboard, Nash, Fanatic. Being in that premium price range As
you do see, Moritz dropping a 7. 0 for his first ride. Okay,
buddy. Yes, second score came in at a 5. 5 ride. It’s a
combined score of seven. Now, Francisco needs a 4. 84.
Is it going to come back into the lead? and Lego still being
patient out there. Yeah, waiting for that first score of
his. He had that long hang five. That came in. So you can see the judges
really rewarding nose riding in critical sections. Good boy.
And just the length of the nose rider like. Yeah. Pull it off. It’s just full commitment.
Instead of just running up to the nose, kind of tapping the
toes over the edge. come back. He was just properly stable up
there, hanging on the edge for a seem like a long while. I
would have just been skirting running up the board of it.
Trying to come back as quick as possible but it’s showing that
commitment. I’m really reading the waves and looking at the
sections where it’s going to wall up, where they can do
their turns, where they can do its ride. Yeah, because Leko on that one,
he did have the opportunity to could have run back from the
nose and he could have finished off with a floater or something
on that end section but just chose to stay on the nose and
ride it out and rewarded for that. So Leko making his first
position. in heat number three. of the long board division. We
did have a female competitor. K Day Inawe. in the first heat.
So we’re not just looking at the men. and Moritz here. It’s
taking off on a rope. He’s cutting back to the left. See
what he’s going to do on this one but he’s had a nice score
already come through. As he’s cruising up to the nose, he’s
gets his five toes over. For a quick hang five. We’ve seen him
again up on the nose. Using that paddle to balance a little
bit. As he banks it off the whitewater on the backhand.
Just can’t quite ride out of that one. Mora’s there. Nice
long ride. Francisco. Out the back lot. Looking down
the line here. Seeing what it’s going to offer up. So, using the pedal chart,
pushing. See if that inside session can. Decides to
dismount. It wasn’t going to do much. Leko. Leko. They cut cutting back into the
phone station. Lekker, nice drop knee. Cut back there. We
saw Tucker do one of those. playing a bit more power to
that turn. As we see Leko again drop knee with the switch
paddle. Gonna run up to the nose. Hang five. There’s a
little GoPro mount up there on the front of that board so
careful. Crowds loving that one. Loving
it. Absolutely loving it. Brazilian contingent down on
the boardwalk. As he jumps off. Looks like he’s actually
running the same board that Leonardo Jimenez was on. So
Brazilians changing their boards. I guess Those those
guys probably need to find boards if they start to get
through the heats a bit more. Pretty sizable boards they’re
using as well. Morning’s just like. Yeah, here’s Leko on the
replay. These boys being a minimum of nine feet long for
the long board division. Mako just styling. You can see. It’s
really just cruising, applying a power to that section. And then finishing off with a
nice rebound off the Whitewater. Got some people tuning in from
Puerto Rico. Thanks for tuning in. Hope you had a great time
at the ISA World Games over there recently. Lot of the competitors Over
here. The APP. in Grand Canaria. Podium places. The ISA
and Puerto Rico. Yeah, we have the ISA World Champions for the
men and women here. That is Luis Denise in the men. And
Luccia Cosoletto and the women from Argentina. So Leco Sales
are locking in a 5. 77 there for his second ride. Puts him
firmly in the lead. Moritzmarsh. He had a 4. 3 and
now needs an 8. 27 to take the lead. But Francisco Gill. He
had a 1. 4 in his previous ride and 2. 17 to start. So he needs
a combination of eleven point six. To jump into the lead
There’s just the Brazilians down there in the boardwalk.
Such as an amazing spot to watch the waves here. Just hang
out, grab a coffee, maybe grab something a little bit stronger
in the afternoon, late afternoon evening. Sun going
down. Yeah, really is the perfect place to hold an event.
We’re right in the city of Las Palmas. So, anyone walking by,
anyone coming out of the beach from the city can check out the
action. There is
There is going to be waves. Well, it’s non-stop now. For
the whole week. So, there’s. It’s only improving. The wind’s
dropping off all week. Swell’s picking up. We’re going to get
the long boards done today and the smaller waves. Oh. Norris
is trying to help that nose ride for a long time and had to
take the Bit of a pounding on that section. Yeah. And
negotiating. The long board. On those big sections is tricky
but. It is really tricky. Such a long board to back from the
nose from as well. If you do have a steeper section in front
of you. Here’s the lineup shot.
Paddling back into position. They’d be stoked just being
with a couple. Only a couple of riders out. Three of them just
cruising around in the lineup. Taking it in turns, picking off
waves. Yeah. Fantastic to be there with just a few other
people. Thanks everyone for watching around the world. On
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don’t, let us know. Always good to have you. Definitely more
facts. Yeah. So, as you see, Morit here cutting back Sully,
what is your background? Can you tell us a little bit about
yourself So, I am originally from the UK from London. Why?
I’ve lived over in Puerto Ventura. I was back in the day.
I was a surf instructor over there in in the Canaries in
Puerte. Living in Coralejo. And I love the Cana the Canaries is
sort of like, it’s got a special place in my heart over
here. The weather, that was one of the main draw cards to go
there but then, the waves. No, it doesn’t really matter if
you’re like in Tenerife, in Fuerte, Lanzarote, there’s
amazing waves in the Canaries and of course, where we are, on
top of the well, we’re in front of what we’ve got going on in
out here. La Sisa, Las Paramas in Grand Canaria. and yeah, I
moved over to Australia. Nice. Which university over there on
the Gold Coast? I actually went to the same university. We did
the same course. We did the same course. Can you believe
this a few years apart? And people will not believe what
the course was, will they? No. No. Definitely not. Do you
want to tell them? Well, the technical name is sports
management. Sports management. Let’s leave it to that.
Brackets, surfing studies. Yeah, basically studied
surfing. How’s it going? Here we are in
the the competitors area, the athlete zone. The Red Bull
Chillout Zone. Yeah, we see competitors getting ready for
the heat number four of the long board, Zane Schweitzer
there in the red behind those hanging up. That’s Noah
Stender. In the white. He was in the junior division earlier
today. But on a good showing. He’ll be in the repertoires
later on. As we see Francisco in the blue. He’s in this heat.
Getting onto this little wave. Looks like he might reform on
the inside for him. Working it through. He’s paddle quite
nicely. This is going to cut back to the right. Really using
that edge kind of getting right on. Yeah. On this hillside
there. And And what’s this insight going to do? It’s
going to reform for him and he’s going to he’s going to
handle that nicely. Get to the inside. Oh I just can’t quite
hold it on that steeper section. As you see, Lego.
Lego. Bouncing it off the white water.
Lekker Lekker known for his backhand
surfing. Big vertical whips. Obviously putting his
shortboard away for the long board in this division. He’s
going to be dangerous out there in the main. He’ll be very
dangerous here. Shoreboard. Especially if you move around
the corner too. Which is a nice right hand point break. Seeing
Leko on his backhand. That’s going to be very exciting.
Lekker’s got the thruster. He’s using theirs. Looking at the
big central fin. And then small smaller side fence. It’s a
extra support boat kind of. It is, yeah. So. Turns? Yeah,
definitely on the bottom turns especially cut backs as well.
Just allowing the board to carve around a little bit more.
The difference is with a single fin is you have to have more of
a a pivot feel. So, the board’s going to kind of turn on the
spot. It’s not going to carve around in a big arc. So yeah,
Leko there having those two plus one set up. See another
competitor there. So they’re heading off for the day.
Throwing the shackers. Yep. It’s pretty happy out there and
the competitor zone. Where we are back to the
action. In Las Paramas. Yeah, 6 minutes, 45 seconds on the
clock for heat number three. Morris kind of opting out of
that one. Didn’t really see much. As you can see, it’s kind
of. Fizzling out a little bit on the right. Just the tactics out there but
I mean, they’ve been looking for waves with you. You’re
trying to eye up for the longboard? I mean, it’s the the
judging criteria from what we’ve seen. It’s definitely
nose riding is is judging high and those inside sections for
the nose riding as well. Leko held a nice long nose ride for
a an eight point ride. But we also saw Tucker in the previous
heat surf a really big outside wave and held a long nose right
there. And he scored excellent range as well. So, it’s really
just depending on on what kind of your style’s going to be.
Whether you want to sit on the outside and get some bigger
waves or sit on the inside. To be honest I think the inside
waves are probably walling up a little bit better. Is Zane
Schweitzer? He’s looks like he’s using Benoit’s board. This
is Noah Stender there heading out for the the long board hit
number four. Danish competitor. Leko Salazar in red. Playing
this one up. And nice off the bottom there.
bending that knee going into straight to nose and
unfortunately over to Yeah, just nose diving on that one.
Just too much on the road. Too much on the nose, exactly. So,
we got just over 5 minutes remaining. Leko in the lead
with 13. 77. Moritz on his heels. 10. 5. And Francisco
Gill with a 3point74. He gets some scores coming in. And Moritz needs an 8. 27. and
jump up to the lead. Got one of my colleagues from
Cornwall, UK riding in. Part of the Supporter Magazine team.
They’re asking what are the volumes on the Sup longboards
for most of the riders? And oh thanks Lucy for riding in with
that. To be honest, a couple of these riders are actually just
on prolong boards that we’ve noticed. They can carry them
under their arm. So, I’m guessing around 80 liters, 85
liters for the the what’s up longboard. Obviously,
Francisco, they’re on a slightly bigger board. Benoit
riding around that 95 litre and that is what Zane is currently
on as well. He’s as he catches the backwash out there. So, I
think competitors mixing it up. We see. a Sakura. That’s
Sakura. In a way. Japan. probably on one about 80 liters
as well on that board. So yeah thanks for that
question. We’ll we’ll definitely take a look at what
the volumes they are because we’ve seen a few prone long
board designs and a few what’s up longboarders as well.
Moritz Marsh out here. It’s been like a hundred and ten
hundred and twenty liter board. Big board. Yep. Bit bigger
board. Just tanks through the the flax. Exactly. You can see
that wide nose on that board as well as he’s paddling into this
wave. And looks like Francisco’s also trying to go.
So we’ll see. Split in the peak. Split in the peak. Morris
is pulling off Francisco continues to ride
through. They’re working that board from rail to rail. You
see that heel toe movement getting a lot of speed. Just
too much on the heels there though. Yeah, thanks for sending in
your questions. Hit us up on Facebook Live. On the APP
Facebook page. People streaming in from all over the world.
Yeah, great to see people from everywhere tuning in for all
the action. As he goes Morris now. Cruising through that
first section. Nice cut back. Switching the paddle either. I was going to use in those
toes really kind of pushing it down into the right hander.
Running out to those. Yeah, five toes over there for a
lovely hang five. See more opting for the, yeah, it was
really nice. Seem opting for the shuffle up to the the nose
and shuffle back. See what the judges like with that. What’s
your preference with that? With the shuffle, the step. Yeah,
the cross step definitely is smoother. It’s going to score a
lot higher as well because it is a bit harder to do. So you can see the
differentiation between the riders styles and what they’d
prefer to do. Lovely drone shot of Moritz on this wave. As we
follow him into the inside here as he he’s really cool. You can
see the few the the lurking bowlers. Yeah, that’s right.
Exactly. as he pulls out Becoming a little bit too
accustomed to those yesterday. What else? Yes, exactly. Leko
again, just waiting for this wave to set up. You can see him
just patiently waiting for the wave. Straight to the nose.
He’s going to hold that nose right again for a long time.
And he’s just going to close out on him. Okay. That’s a nice
looking ride by Leko. So, 50 seconds remaining. Round
one, heat three of the longboard division. Leko. Salazar out in front from
Brazil. With 13. 77. Moritz in second. And Francisco Gill coming in
third with a 3 point7 4. He can get a bit of a glimpse
of what we’re going to be seeing later around the corner
there. It’s in the rocks. It’s nice to have those those
options in Las Parmas. Yeah, tons of waves around here as we
count down this heat. We finish it. That’s more. It’s just
coming in. Drawing it back in. Back into the power. It’s
going to count. I think it’s going to count just before the
hooter. He doesn’t think it might count
though. He didn’t really surf that wave. Yeah. I’m not sure
if he thinks this is going to be enough. That’s it. He needed
quite a big score to yeah get ahead of Leko. We’re going to be going to
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are watching the long board action as part of this event.
This is round one heat number four. We’ll be seeing Zane
Schweitzer in the red. Noah Stender in the white and Sakura
in a way. She’ll be in the yellow. This is just a men’s
event. We do have a few women competing as well. So great to
see. The competitors. Mixing up. as I’m being joined in the
booth. But none other than the APP World Tour CEO Tristan
Boxford. Good morning bowl. How you doing? Good. Great. It’s
been great watching the action this morning. We had the
juniors out there. Yep. Junior boys, junior girls. Junior
action huh? Yeah did you catch some of the waves? I saw a
couple. I saw definitely the Japanese kid looks as Capono
looks as though he’s got some game now. Yeah he certainly
does. It’s going to be exciting to see him in the trials event.
And that looks like Zane if I recognize correctly. Yeah. It
is Zane. That’s right. You can just tell even from the snap.
Saint a very competent longboard surfer. As he makes
his way to the inside but not going to find that reform. As
he kicks out. He he didn’t that. his boards actually
didn’t arrive so he’s borrowing a board today to be able to get
out on the water and compete in the longboarding. Um but as you
said a very competent longboarder across all
divisions actually great show border, big wave surfer,
everything. Oh yes, he does it all. Zane Foyler, he’s amazing
in everything. It’s Moritz Marsh coming in from the last
heat. Had a few nice waves out there. Nice nose rides. And so
pretty close to your heart and all the SUP long boarding ball.
Definitely. This discipline and action here. It’s so good that
you’ve made this part of the event Tristan and thanks very
much for pushing hard with this up longboard. I know that guys
down under in Australia are really pushing to to get it
seen around the world and this is the second event for
Longboy, right? We started in New York. Exactly. Yeah. It
wasn’t ideal conditions for it in New York honestly. It was
really small and and not great conditions that day as we got a
rider going here. This looks like Noah Stetna from from
Denmark quite able to get into it. He’s he did really well in
the Europeans actually. He did. Yeah. Yeah. But but yeah, no,
it seems like it’s definitely kicked off in Australia. I know
the longboard revolution guys might, it’s Mike Jenkins,
right? Yup. Uh really pushing hard and a lot of guys really
amping about the development of this discipline. I think in
Europe, it’s taking on gradually and that’s what we
really want to kick start. See if people can really get into
it and. In the US, there’s some some action too. I know in
Carolina, they they have a long board division. Uh it’s pretty
small but growing. Yeah, X Good to see you and it’s good to be
part of a on the world stage here for the APP World Tour.
Exactly and especially when we look at some of our athletes
like Leco Salazar started as such a you know an acclaimed
longboarder. His dad one of the most titled longboarders in in
history and certainly in Brazil. Um and then we got
Zane, we’ve got all those guys and Benoit as well. Benoit,
yeah. Longboarding, really up. Really successful. Yeah, it’s
so great to see him. Taka in a way as well from Japan. Styling
and longboard. It’s a great hang tens. No rides. What do
you think about the Japanese contingent? You know, I’m super
impressed by the Japanese contingent. I think COVID you
know, while they were locked down and couldn’t go anywhere,
they definitely focused on improving their surfing because
I mean, we got these young kids like Capono. We got another guy
coming in the in the main event or the trials which is Shion.
I’ve heard some amazing things about him. He seen some
pictures of some insane surfing. So, I think Japan’s
definitely established themselves as a force to be
reckoned with both in surfing and racing. You know, it’s
exciting to see. Definitely, that’s right. We had in the
racing in APP event in Korea, Busan. We had Rai. Rai Taguchi
pulled off the Miracle Heat that went viral which was
awesome. Uh and then of course, we got Shrimpy. He just won the
ISA technical and the distance. So, you know, Japan’s
definitely looking strong on the global stage which is
exciting to see and and the best thing about it is the the
age of all these guys. They’re all under twenty. That’s
amazing. It’s nuts. That’s so crazy. Yeah. Yeah, we still
have the the old generation Salazar, one of the originals
on the on the APP World Tour and then we’ve got this
injection of fresh talent that are under eighteens. Exactly.
We got Zane going here. So Zane opening up with a 5point33 on
his first wave. Let’s see how he can improve his scoreline on
this as he cuts back on the right. Saints often to kick out
there. Not much more on offer for scoring potential. Yeah
it’s it’s good to see. I mean, I think the the most kind of
here, we got another rider. Why? Looks like not such a
great wave that right. The left seems to offer a little bit
more reform option, right? Definitely does. We’ve seen a
few rights reform earlier in the day. I think with that
lower tide, we’ll see that start to happen again. This is
Sakura in a way. 14 year old, 14 years old from Japan.
keeping it in the family. The annoys got a lot of talent
between the two girls in Taka. And actually Taka’s on the
Longboard World Tour as well. So he he’s been turning some
heads there as well. So definitely an accomplished
all-round waterman for sure. I saw his website earlier
yesterday. There’s a first picture of him is busting an
air on a longboard. I was like what? Yeah. These guys have got
some skills. Actually we did that viral competition during
the during COVID. Yeah that’s right. He won the non APP pro
division because he just it was an error. I think he did. I
can’t remember exactly what it was but it was pretty
impressive. Yeah right. Amazing. Yeah, we saw Katie. Sakura’s
sister in the first heater Longboard. She faces second.
Yeah. In that heat. Oh, wow. That’s amazing. Yeah. She was
taking out the man. Amazing cross steps, super stylish, up
to the nose. Yes. Really nice. And I think that’s what, you
know, we had a judges briefing this morning about the criteria
and and you know, we’re not focusing on one aspect of
longboarding is the dominant part. Um I think it’s more
about the overall performance and the fluidity and the the
combination of maneuvers. So, you know, if a wave calls for
critical turns, critical turns are going to or if it’s a nose
riding section, they want to see a nose ride and and you’ll
be able to link between the turns rather than really going
in one direction or other. I think it’s embracing the the
whole repertoire which I think is the right move. Definitely
right move. We have seen some big scores earlier in the day
from long nose rides from their competitors. So, judges
rewarding long nose rising, critical sections but still, I
mean, like I Salazar in the last heat, putting down an
eight point ride for a long nose ride and a powerful turn.
So, mixing it up with the with the repertoire is going to get
you those high scores. definitely and you kind of
expect it from Leko. I remember when he first burst onto the
scene in 2010 and Ibi Raquera, he came and he actually won the
event, his first event and yeah, he’s he was definitely
from the school of lawn boarding but so smooth, so
fluid, and taken some advice from his father as we got
Sakura taking off on a nice little right here. Yes, he’s
going to control it through the white water as she comes into
that reform. Cross stepping her way up to the nose for a hang
five. Lovely style. Off the top. Oh just the these bigger
boards really need to get on the tail. Keep that nose up.
But Zane behind her. Just applying pressure to that turn
and again, just whipping that big board around. He’s going to
get a nose right in as well. So Zane showing a bit of variety
in his surfing. Zane always probably one of the
more energetic of the surfers on tour whenever he’s surfing
it’s just non-stop motion. Oh there’s no downtime. That’s so
true. And Zane coming off a a third place in the ISA. Yeah I
know he was disappointed but you know obviously Luis was the
the man of the day that day as we got a replay of Sakura’s
wave here. Yeah and late take off in the white water. From
Sakura. That’s really tricky to do especially on a stand up
paddle board. And add a bit more length to that. For the
what’s up longboard. She gets a quick hang five in there. Nice
little off the top but just got a little bit unbalanced on that
top turn. And Zane gets a sneaky hang five in at the
start. He cuts back into the white water. Really utilizing
that paddle. So he bounces off the white
water and another turn on the inside. So a good nose right at
the start. And then few turns down this wave. It should be a
good score. Might extend his lead in this heat. definitely
maximized every aspect to that wave. He even was going for the
nose ride to floater there. Didn’t quite didn’t quite pull
it off as Noah Stedden is on a wave here. And that one peed it
out. But that’s interesting to see the energy of the sport
right now as far as the surfing is concerned. Definitely Japan.
There’s this rise of talent. And Brazil which we saw even
before COVID with this just such a wealth of talent over
there both for women and men. Um and Europe it’s time for
them to come I think Noah’s coming from the North of
Europe. He’s taking the mantle from Casper to start pushing
from Denmark. Um you know, we’ve obviously got Benoit
who’s such a phenomenal athlete. Um but there’s
definitely, it’s wide open for some new Europeans to come on.
Definitely. Yeah, we’ve got Leonica. He’s made a big name
in the sport for many years. Racing ends up surfing as well.
Yeah and actually, unfortunately, Clement Roséro,
he’s a great all-round waterman. He had a a
conflicting wing file event that he had to go attend but
he’s definitely one of the European rising stars. but here
is Juan the Rostres, the Spanish guy that’s really,
really solid. Guillerme who is Spanish champion. Uh really,
really solid surfers. We have Ryder in white. This is Noah.
Little cross step. Turn there. Very nice to start the wave. As
he cuts back. We did see Noah and the Junior Boys earlier
today as well. So, the other exciting surprise Bow that we
might be receiving confirmation all day today is Kyle Vaj
turning up. Yes. Three-time world champion. Uh he had some
problems getting here in time for the open of the event but
now that looks like the main event will probably kick off
Wednesday morning. He’s looking to try and get in for tomorrow
so that he’s ready for action so. That is fantastic. Such
great news. Yeah. Hopefully, we’ll be able to see, you know,
at least two of our world champions in action here. Yeah,
just adding to that Brazilian contingent as well. Exactly.
It’s going to be some great surfing happening especially
with the building as well we have as we watch Zane Schwe
working his way through to this inside. Gets to the nose. He’s going to
opt for the big big reentry off the end section. Beautiful.
Yeah. Oh nice nose right from Sakura. Exactly. So, two
schools of surfing here. Zane going opting for the power.
Sakura, long nose rides. Very stylish surfer. It’s a great
surf in there for sure. But Zane always impressive and not
on his own board but doesn’t seem to be having too many
issues with that. No, not at all. I think he can ride
anything. Yeah. Just about pretty much pretty much. And
Zane’s definitely one of those guys. He’s been in title
contention for several years on the tour. Never quite managed
to clinch it. So, you know, I think he’s pretty determined
this year. You know, he wants to see that happen. Yeah, he’s
been training hard, been speaking with Zane last couple
of days and he really wants this one He does. He does.
He’s, yeah, he’s been working hard. Obviously, the ISA. He
finished third over there. Like he said, a bit disappointed. I
think, I think both Zane and Benoit really hoping for some
big surf which there’s going to be. Um so, that could play in
their favor. Both of them very comfortable and bigger surf but
saying that, you know, we’ve seen Wellington perform and
then some in really really good surf and Leko as well who’s
just such a great the great athlete is Noah getting to the
end of that one Completes the ride. It does. Yeah. Little bit
of variety there as well. Yeah, great. Great to see Noah. Nice
long ride there. What’s the replay of Zane? They hanging
off the white water. This is the one with the big turn on
the inside, I think. I don’t think Zay got to the nose on
this wave. So, we’ll see how the judges score that. Like he
said, Tristan, it looks like they’re looking for critical
maneuvers. Powerful. Like this one is a prime example. Timing
was perfect on that as well. Zane did complete that maneuver
too. Sakura nice hang five there. Start of the wave. You
see a lot of these surfers opting for a calf leash as well
for the long boarding. Just to get that leash out of the way
as they walk up to the board. Perhaps seem to get trapped
around the paddle a few times too. I was going to say I when
I used to ride a longboard I used to like that but actually
with the stand up longboard it does get caught up in the
paddle and I found I ended up putting it around my ankle
anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. because yeah, I’ve seen
that quite a number of times. And what about you, Bol? Uh,
ankle. Yeah. Preferably for for what’s up longboard just
because of that reason. Zane staying very active. Nice
carving opening turn back into the white water. definitely no shortage of waves
in this round one. I think the Rabbi Shah is going to be 20
minutes as Zane gets a nice nose ride for variety there as
well. Really nice nose ride. That’s really critical as well.
Staying on the nose. as he just pulls out of that one. So Zayn
still in the lead. Sakura’s dad chopped up into second place.
Yep they definitely enjoyed that double hang five that
Sikura had on that last wave. It was really smooth, really
well executed. Yeah she scored a 4. 27 for that wave. Noah had
a 3. 1 on his last one. What if that last score to come through
from Zayn but the one previous was a 5. 27. So they did like
that critical turn. But that last wave did have a good
combination of maneuvers. It wasn’t as critical the the
carving turn but it was a smooth carving turn into a
pretty critical nose, right? So. As we see, oh. That was an
up and over. It was an up and over. I was going to say that
was quite a fancy turtle roll there at the back but then a
little late. A little bit late. Yeah. Especially the big board.
Yeah. Sup long board. It’s going to be just drag you over.
I had a few of those yesterday actually. It was tough tough
out there. Have you been out the water yet? I went out
actually at Elliott on the first day and it was quite
challenging. It was yeah it was a a little soft and and sloppy
that day and really choppy so it wasn’t the best day. Um but
out here is really tricky because you got the reforms.
You got a section of backs off and so it’s definitely requires
100% attention to be able to get good guys. Yes, it does. I
was sitting out there yesterday and there’s like, it’s like a a
reef shelf. Yeah. And it’s boils everywhere but you gotta
sit right next to that for the waves to break because there’s
deep water right next to that. Yeah and if you go too wide, it
backs off straight away. Yeah. If you go too deep, you get
caught behind. So, it’s it is a tricky wave to read for sure.
Yeah, definitely. These competitors spending a lot of
time out there before these heats. Getting to know the
wave. Just under 10 minutes in the
heat. I was going to say Bo you’re not you’re not tempted
to get out there and compete in the SUP longboard division.
It’s not making you the competitive One day. Be nice
to. Uh it is actually. It’s exciting to watch the the
performance and the level from all the athletes. Mister Ducey,
Noah here. Optic for a left. He’s just slides off there. Up
in Love. It’s just it’s exciting to watch. Something
different of the the longboard. The nose riding coming into it.
Yeah, I’ve come from a long board surfing background. So,
yeah, it does get me fired up to get back on a longboard for
sure. as usual, staying extremely
active. What did you get on that last wave actually?
Interest, be interesting enough. He had a 6. 17. Yeah,
for the last one. Yep. A variety of repertoire. So, I
think that shows if you stick to just one part of the
repertoire, you’re not going to get as highly scored as if you
can mix up with a couple of with critical versus
traditional. And Sakura here. Straight to the nose. Lovely
hang five. Steps back. Little little turn but she just wants
to try and get this reform on the inside again. Paddling
hard. That’s the thing about center paddling. You can use
the paddle to get through these flat sections. Yeah. Open up
scoring potential on the inside. Little bit of a stylish
over the head paddle. Yeah. Hold there as well. It’s another well-surfed wave
there from Sakura. Showing that the women just as good as the
men. Am een and the young women. Yes. 14 years old, of
course. Yeah. It’s crazy. You know, they came over to
Portugal and spent a few days with us over there in in the
beautiful city of Viando the Castello. Actually, which will
be on tour next year. Oh, wow. For racing event and we got
surfing on the horizon in the future. So, definitely exciting
stuff happening for for twenty twenty-three. We’re about to
launch a schedule over in Paris in a few weeks. Um but but
yeah, no they came over and they scored some really good
waves and so impressive both assist as well. Taka obviously
as well but we kind of anticipated that and then the
girls just blew our minds. Yeah, of course. Will there be
any more sub-surfing events for this season? For this season
not because we kind of we kind of got boxed in in the
season. We had planned to to kind of make it all happen
before the end of the year but then with the turn of events
and kind of a slow return from COVID in the early part of the
year kind of back things up. Uh made it a bit complicated. So
we just went for let’s keep it simple this year. One event.
Crown a champion. Get back in action and then next year have
a full tour of I think it’s going to be three events for
next year. So some really really cool locations so. Yeah.
Schedule coming very shortly here. Excellent. a great event
to open up this season. Great waves. We’ve got a great
forecast on offer as well. Great to be back here. Seems
fitting as we finished here in twenty 19. Well, exactly.
That’s what I was going to say. I felt like we finished on such
a high with winning the well-deserved world title as we
got Noah taken off on this just quickly. Nice battle transition
there and back into the white water. He’s a big guy too,
Noah. He is six three. Yeah. A nice little cross step there. So is Caipo Guerrero would say
representing the great surfing nation of Denmark. But that’s
the beautiful thing about stand up padding. It is exactly. It’s
just amazing. You got people from every corner of the world
coming up. I mean Casper’s dominated. He’s been such a
dominant figure in the sport for the last eight to 10 years.
Yeah, that’s right. Um so, he really set the tone for Denmark
and it’s generated this whole wealth of talent coming there.
You got Caroline Kunsel, you’ve got Christian Anderson, you’ve
got all these guys, really multi-talented too. Yeah. Yeah,
definitely. We had some people watching from Finland as well.
Yup. Who were into the sub surfing? That’s awesome. all
around the world. Yeah, I mean, it really is such an inclusive
sport and that’s really the magic of it and that’s what got
us so excited about the potential. Just to see how
anybody from any where in the world, there’s no barrier to
entry. Anybody can get into it. There’s so many different ways
you can enjoy the sport that it’s it’s really great and when
you get to see people in great ways as well, it’s obviously my
most exciting moment. Exactly. Like you were saying, yeah, to
bring it back to Grand Canaria, I think it was a special moment
ending in 2019 and we were like looking forward to kick off the
2020 season in style. Unfortunately, we had a forced
break. Um but it’s nice to kind of pick out where we left
off and I think it’s very fitting that way too. Yes,
definitely very fitting. And we should be finishing the event
around the corner at Elarette. Exactly. Very different wave to
this. Um but here we have Zane Schweitzer. This looks like a
nice looking wave actually. It does. Bit of a style. Hang five
there. Bit of a sole arch. Zane again just showing that
progression and power that he has on a what’s up longboard.
And smart too because it feels like you want to follow the the
reeling wave but his decision to cut back and kind of go back
into the power source when it backs off is really smart
there. Exact goes to the right and he’s hanging five casually.
And finishes it off as well. So again, great variety on that
wave. Powerful when he’s going to do a headstand to
finish. Yep. Amazing. I don’t think he could have thought of
anything else to do on that one. I don’t think he could’ve.
No. Not at all. But that’s the aim for you. Yeah. Just very
angry. Thinking outside the box. You surfing is very
exciting isn’t it? It really is and actually I think on the
bigger board, I almost, I mean, he always rides great on the
short board but I do love him riding a bigger lawn board. I
think it really suits his kind of a powerful style. He’s able
to still get snappy turns but use the stylistic elements to
go into the nose and everything else. I think it’s yeah, it’s a
pleasure to see him Yeah. There’s no extender here. He’s
in the white. He’s taking off. Bit of a cut back on this wave.
Let’s see if it lines up for him on the inside. And so he’s chasing Sakura
there. He needs a solid wave to get back into contention here.
He does. Yeah. Noah’s looking for a seven point43 to get
himself up into first place which is going to move into the
the next round. So, after this, we’ll be going
into the of the boys and girls and then, finally, the
repetitions for the longboard and then, we’re actually
going to wrap the juniors division today. So, we had a
slight change of plan for later in the day. We wanted to make
sure we could crown some champions. The conditions
really cleaned up. I mean, it’s got beautiful out here. The sun
came out. No wind. Um and the waves seem to be improving all
the time, no? Yeah, excellent. So, there you go. Junior
division will be wrapping up today. Champion today. Exactly
and then tomorrow, we should have the combination of the
longboard and and then the trials for men and women and
then leading to couple days of intense action. Yeah. Pro
event. Very very exciting. We’ll see. Sakuri here catching
waves. She’s also going to be competing in the junior event.
Along with her sister and the women’s open. And the women’s
open. They’re doing everything. Yeah. She hangs 10 there. Using that
paddle trying to get ahead of this white water. Oh. Oh again
just couldn’t get quite far back enough. Looks like Zane’s
extended his lead after that previous wave as well. That was
an 8. 17 for Zane. So that was impressive and a nice hang
fight there from Noah. Critical right at the start of the wave.
So be interesting to see how that improves his position. But
Zane I would say pretty untouchable at this point. Very
untouchable yet. Other athletes are now Common combo. Just 2
minutes to go. So your first time to it is my first time. Oh
amazing place. Yeah. So cool. I love that the city is right on
the water and. Yeah. People can just come and watch the event.
This is the replay of Zane’s last wave. The 8. 17. You can
see. There really wasn’t one last moment on that wave. Even
the snap he did. You’d think oh that’s it but then he went back
and kind of foam climbed a little bit on the back on his
back end. He finished it off. in control. No. With the
headstand. With a headstand. That was the. 17 at the end.
That was. That was the. 17. And executed too. Stayed on the
wave. Yeah. Always the entertainers ain’t on land or
on the water. Yes he is. Always putting on the show. Yes, Am y
competing on the tour for quite a number of years now. We’ll
see one of the originals or just the. He is one of the OGs.
Yeah, he is. Yeah. Excellent. He he actually was sleeping on
our floor at 14 years old at the first Sunset Beach event.
Right. Wow. So, yeah, he’s been there. It might have been maybe
it was the second one. I feel like it was the first though.
Yeah, it’s either the first or the second. Right. Uh when
Akolu Kalama was like the leading light coming into the
tour. Uh everybody was complaining that I gave Kyle
Lenny a wildcard in the first year which turned out to be
quite comedic. Has he won that event? Yeah, as he won that
event, won the tour and won the title for the next few years.
So, yeah. Um no, it’s an interesting time in the sport.
I think we had an athlete meeting just before the first
event at Sunset and I remember Bonga Perkins was fighting to
have a nine-foot board minimum for obvious reasons. Um one of
the best online footer that’s ever really. So, yes, exactly.
Uh Noah on another wave. trying to improve his score. Not sure
that’s going to make the difference for him though
actually. He needs he needs a bit of variety. He needs a wave
that gives him some more scoring potential there. That’s
true. As we got 10 seconds left in this heat. Zain paddling
into one. Might do a bit of a victory lap here. riding Benoit
up on Diaz board. Oh is he just just fell off on that nose
ride? But that’s the end of heat number four. That is the
long board division. Round one wrapped up. Zane Schweitzer
taking the lead on that one. As we see the great City of Las
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Tristan Bogsford. Tristan, great to be back. It’s great to
be back. It’s great to have you in the booth, Holly and yeah,
what a beautiful day. It really turned out for the books When
we first got down here this morning at 6 thirty, seven
o’clock. We were watching in the dark, semi dock. And it
didn’t look that exciting. Uh I have to say, but we were like,
we gotta keep our options open and, and sure enough, it
kind of turned on. So, it was a good call. And it’s certainly
turned on and we’ve, we’ve run through a few, a few hits.
Yeah. Already with the, the juniors, the, the boys and and
the girls, the long board division as well. Yeah, I think
I think you know, some exciting takeaways already. First of
all, that the future is bright. Um there’s a lot of young
talent coming into the sport particularly from Japan as
we’re learning. Yeah. Yeah. Uh in all respects. Um I think the
other thing is that you know, longboarding is SGP
longboarding is definitely standard really bottle up all
over the world as we’ve been talking about in Australia.
It’s become a a really big part of the SUP culture there which
is great. Um and then, you know, now, we’re seeing some
great action from all the top guys. As Holly down on the
beach. With Zane. Mister talking about his last heat and
Yeah, he’s gotta be pretty happy with Hat Webb. You know,
it’s Zane’s one of those impressive athletes who really
does do everything. Um he’s come from the mold of Kyle
Lenny’s and Connor Baxters and all those guys that are in
insanely talented across all the different sports. Um and
you know, his low center gravity when he’s, you know,
he’s always, you know, keeps his his center balance really
low. So, he’s got such an amazing balance. No matter what
board he’s riding. Uh whether it’s a short board, he’s very
exciting to watch, very energetic and as we’re talking
with Beau, never a dull moment. There’s never a a down moment
in his surfing and on long board actually I it’s almost my
favorite form surfing. Um I think he really he puts a lot
of flare, a lot of power, and a lot of flow. Just style with
progression, right? Exactly. Exactly. And he’s able to
control his power like he can release when he wants to
release. He can get up to the nose and be super stylish
because he’s so agile. He can even do headstands as we saw in
that last that last heat. and the other, yeah, the other guy
I’m super excited about seeing in the long board is is Leko
Salazar. You know, his dad, one of the most titled Brazilian
surfers of all time. Um at we got a start of the heat. Um but
yeah, Leko’s dad was was a really celebrated lawn mortar,
Leco started in lawn boarding and came on to the scene and
stand up paddling right in the first year of the tour and and
just blitzed everyone and and you better you better get her
in the first Brazilian event. So, he’s been at the he’s been
at the forefront since the beginning. And good to see long
boarding back. I mean, after with the last time, it was 2019
over in New York. Mm hmm. Yeah, you know, I think it’s a lot
better showcase here. Um it was a bit of an afterthought in
Long in Long Beach quite honestly. It was something we
wanted to do just to do a little exhibition showcase. Uh
the waves weren’t great. Um but here actually it’s quite a good
way for it. There’s a lot of reform. There’s a lot of
potential to use the full length of the board. Yeah. Uh
there’s options for critical turns and and so yeah it’s
exciting to see it and I think it’s a great time to kind of
inject some energy into this part of the sport. There’s
lots. There was the guys were like splitting the peak and you
know you got the left and the right’s not just the left on
offer here, right? Exactly. Um yeah, it gives a lot of
opportunity and it’s it is a strange. It’s quite a difficult
reef to at you as we see Ryder and White here. This is Noah
Stenda. And then Pedro. Yep. In the back. Ah young gun. 12
years old. Oh I think he’s eleven even actually. Yeah he’s
eleven. Yeah. So Noah. Noah Stender from Denmark. Uh so he
just won oh no he didn’t win the Europeans but I think he
was second or third. He got to the finals of the Europeans.
But Noah actually won it. Uh well not Benoit. No it wasn’t.
It was Guillermo. Uh who was coming? He’ll be in the main
event. Uh the Spanish champion. Uh Benoit was I think Noah was
third. So, great result for Noah. Uh and I think he was the
under 18 champion. Nice. Zane out the back. Kind of look and
see what’s coming. So, waiting patiently for the sets. He’s
kind of got a I don’t know like whether they have, I kind of go
for everything or there’s some tactics out there for like.
Definitely and you want to. So, I think it was this morning.
Yeah, exactly and you want to have that bigger set wave
because those the smaller ones tend to fizzle out. Uh the
bigger ones have some reform potential and you can get a
proper hit on the inside. So, if you’re being strategic and
smart, you’re going to really watch for those biggest sets.
We got some scores in from Noah with a 3 point eight three.
With Pedro’s first ride, 2. 17. And Zane on the outside there
in red. Uh he’s been on the scene for for many years. We
actually met him when he was about 13 or 14. Uh, he started
doing the youth and the Kamakai Youth event. We used to do in
Turtle Bay. Uh, and then moved on to Sunset. Um, so he’s like
one of the, one of the soul rising talents and a young
rising talents in Hawaii. Unfortunately, kind of fizzle a
little bit. I feel like there’s starting to be a bit more
energy back in the sport again over in Hawaii. Mm hmm. Uh,
unfortunately, Bren Ro couldn’t make it this time. He’s another
one of the Maui talents. Um we see Zane looking to get into
that but Zane on the North Shore he really holds it down
for Santa paddling as we got Pedro Vega He’s going to do
this left. Nice little top turn. He’s going to work round
the section. Using that pedal. Back into
Back into the pocket. Just fizzled out and we got some got
some nice turns. Yeah, very energetic young Brazilian
surfer. A lot of support behind him from Brazil. It’s been a
huge campaign to bring him over here for the for the pro
juniors. So, it’s great to have him in this heat. Uh would be
great to see him go through honestly. I think he’s he’s a
great star of the future and I think it’s it’s representative
of the Brazilian storm that we do have in in stand up paddling
as well. A lot of cheers from the Brazilian contingent down
on the boardwalk. What he does? What he’s catching away and
especially when he kind of takes it right to the shore,
the sort of. Exactly. They love to see it. And here’s yeah,
he’s he’s, I think he’s got some competitive smarts to
learn still. I think his talent is really there. Um but you
know, like anyone when they’re young, even when you, well, I
considered young when we were like 17 or 18, not eleven. He’s
a hungry Grom. He’s trying to catch all the waves. Exactly,
exactly. Um but I think definitely a bright talent for
the future and I’ve heard Leko and all the guys talk to them.
Uh Leko kind of an elderly statesman now. Although he’s
only, I think early 30s but he’s been on the tour since the
beginning. 2012 world champion. Um so, he’s a ambassador for
the sport and he was the first Brazilian world champion for
for the sport and then Kyle Vaj who it looks fingers crossed
he’s going to be making it after all. Uh huh. Uh who’s
three times world champion, great multi-sport athlete as
well, big wave surfer, got a lot of really big waves at
Nazare or the big slabs in off Rio. So, really accomplished
surfer like like the the all these guys who are multi
sports. And the and the Brazilians are really close.
They will travel together. Yeah. Definitely a car. After
each other, right? Exactly. Leko definitely, like I said,
the elderly statesman, Wellington, and Luis kind of
the current stars. Uh and then you’ve these new new wealth of
talents, Leo Jimenez, who actually won the Brazilian
title. I think this year. Uh really, really good talent.
He’s been kind of up and coming for the last few years and and
young too. So, yeah, it’s exciting to see the the level
of energy coming from from Brazil and there’s a lot more.
So, you know, the more things start to open up, I think the
more talent we’re going to see from there. And in 20 19, we
saw Wellington take take the championship here. Well,
winning the event and yeah, he’s going to be eager to
kind of keep his, keep his title, isn’t he? Definitely. He
was he had his eyes set on the title. Unfortunately, just
coming short. Uh and ironically, it was his
countryman who kind of sealed the deal for him because Leko
beat lack of beat. Somebody who was challenging him for the
title. Um a fellow Brazilian, I think it was lose the news
actually. He beat Lewis Denise which basically ended Luis
Denise’s health for the title and secured title which was
yeah, an interesting turn of events and here’s Zane. So
Zane’s up on a nice looking right. See what it’s going to
do. Is it going to open up for him? Not some turning back into
the pocket. using the paddle really generating so much speed
in the flat section. Bams it off the top. Just caught it.
Caught the nose there but manages to recover but nice
little bang off the top to finish it off. So that was Zane’s first pop-up
wave. That should make a difference for him, I would
think. Pedro currently in the lead, eleven-year-old. So,
definitely handing it to the older kids. Um but yeah, Zane, Zane is a
very talented young kid from from the North Shore. Uh he
rides on Blue Planet. Actually, a great supporter of the sport
over there. Uh huh. Um so yeah, it’s yeah, it’s it’s
interesting to see the evolution, the ups and downs of
sports as they ebb and flow. Um you know, Hawaii is such a
center for like sports development that when the new
fad comes in, it just takes over and then as things
calibrate, you know, the the traditional sports tend to
kind of bring back some of the popularity and I think that’s
about it’s happening or about to happen in Hawaii. Uh as we
Noah coming unstuck. Unfortunately, he was in the
last heat of the longboarding. So, he’s probably pretty tired
right now. They’re young though. Straight
back out there. They got plenty of energy. Plenty of energy.
But yeah, no, to be interesting to see if there’s a new crop of
talent coming through in Hawaii. I think there will be.
Um, because it’s such a, a multi-sport culture as it is
over there. There’s a lot of guys, especially now with Kai
Lenny kind of making it cool to be multi-sport guy. Um, you
know, I think it’s the new generation sees it as something
aspirational. Even John John, all those guys now getting more
into foiling, getting into distance paddling, getting into
sailing, just becoming more versatile as as water athletes.
Yeah. Yeah. And they see the benefits of it. You know, it’s
definitely, it’s a huge advantage. We were talking
about it with Kai, you know, like how fundamental stand ups
been for his big wave surfing, campaigns, taking on and
almost, I think he was saying with the, without that, it
probably, you know, he wouldn’t be looking at the waves as he
does and. Yeah, I think it’s, you know, like Kyle always
says, it’s drawing on every single sport and actually, Dave
Kalama was the one that, the kind of the original mentor of
this kind of mentality of, of looking how each sport can
benefit you in another sport. So, training in one does not,
is not exclusive to training in one, it’s, it’s very
complementary to all the different sports, and as the
strap crew guys, the, it kind of originated toe surfing
in, in Piahi and draws in the early days, they learned that
we’re used to dealing with speed on a windsurfer and
having straps. Uh hang on all pulls on there as we got Pedro
Vega, a young champion here. Definitely a very alert surfer.
Knows where he is. Keeping in the palace also the wave. Hoping for something to line up
on the inside here. Uh it kind of fizzles out that way.
Like I said, with those smaller ones, they tend to look as
though they’re going to line up but they just don’t really have
the power to push through. But yeah, that the the strap crew,
they really came from actually windsurfing more than anything.
Um layered and Dave Palama and Rush Randall and Mark Angulo
and Olo and Josh Angulo. They all kind of culminated towards
this opportunity to get into surfing and ride really really
big surf on smaller boards. Uh and the idea that you could
manage on a smaller board if A, you were towed in and B, you
had straps to keep you fixed on the board because when you go
on at that speed, the chances of bouncing off without straps
is really, really easy but they were used to going fast. They
were used to drawing turns on a small board and a big wave
because on a windsurfer, that’s what you do and they were
windsurfing Piahi right back at the beginning. So, and win
seven is a great tool for that as well. Um so, that’s was the
first dawning days of this idea of this pollination across the
sports I think because then kite surfing involved and you
know, then stand up paddling came along and stand up
paddling enabled you to have troll ah over much bigger
board, right? A smaller board in Big Surf, a bigger board in
small surf, and it enabled you to really watch the ocean and
learn how you can maximize the waves potential. I think how do
you see these sports developing, I guess, with the,
say the introduction of, of, of Hydrofoil and You know, I think
every sport has its place. You know, foiling is like the next
big thing. You know, it’s an extension of surfing.
Everything is really an extension of surfing as we’ve
got Noah on this wave. It’s actually looks like a nice
wave. Keeping in the power source, making sure he doesn’t
go too far out onto the shoulder. decides to kick out
for something better. Um yeah, I I see it as an extension of
surfing. Um the great thing about it is you don’t need the
same kind of waves so that you’re not battling for the
same waves. So, I think that’s a complimentary form of surfing
but I think all surfers that have put a rail in the water
and felt what it is to drive a turn. Uh we’ll always end up
coming back to the core feeling of driving a turn on on a wave.
So, and there’s so many different ways you can do that.
Um the nice thing about stand up paddling is the diversity
and the different conditions you can really have a great
time in and especially as you get older and work starts to
become really important and you have less time to go surf.
Yeah. Uh you can maximize your time on the water because of a
wider range of conditions can suit suit your riding which is
what I found with stand up padding. And also not having to
think that if you go on a trip, like you come here, if you
gotta bring four boards, if you’re, if, if you’re surfing,
you know, you’re kind of looking at that. Okay, do I
need a gun? Do I need a step up? Do I need? Yeah. Do I need
a little grovel board? You can, you can take less. You can. You
can take less for sure. You know, like everything is always
going to be you’re going to wish you had your other board
if you’re when you get there and you don’t bring it but yeah
I’d say one board fits all more than in surfing. Um as we see
Zane on actually a bit of a set wave here. It’s a nice looking
left. Yeah, he’ll be wanting to back up at that first wave
where he got the nice bank off the end section. He’s got a bit of a reform to
the right there. Being smart to stay patient. He’s got another.
Yeah, nice hit off the top there. It’s a great looking ride from
Zane. His last score was a 6. 33. See if he can improve on
that. So there definitely will be a good backup. As Noah
Stender Stender is back in contention. He’s just ahead of
Pedro there. As we got Pedro on another wave. This looks like a
nice little inside wave. They might unfortunately just. Just
dropping out the back there. So great learning experience
for Pedro. I think like I said I think he’s got a great future
ahead of him. Um and it’s the first time he’s been over here.
First time he’s been over here. I got a feeling it’s the first
time he’s been out of Brazil. No way. Um so you know it’s a
big deal. Uh there was a lot of people that supported to get
him over here. His family are very supportive and very
passionate. So as here’s the replay of Noah’s wave. today. So Zane. With a five. For his third wave
of the heat. Yeah, he’s been selective. You know, he’s chose
the ones that that reform. Yeah, it’s a good backup and I
think it puts him in a pretty solid advancing position. I
believe the top two advanced through into the semis here if
I’m not correct or maybe it’s the top. Actually, he’s
probably the winner. No. It is the winner of this goes
through. So, it’s an important position. And what are we
looking to do later in the day? We’re looking to we’ll go
through the repersage of both the well, the boys, the girls,
and the longboard. Then, we’ll be going into the semis of the
boys and the girls and then in to the finals. So, we’re
going to wrap. We’re going to have some champions today in
the nice conditions. Uh long boarding will roll on into
tomorrow. Yeah. Um so, we’ll finish that tomorrow and then
we’ll have the open trials. Uh fingers crossed depending the
conditions being okay in the morning. Um so, we’re setting
ourselves up to be a bit more selective as we come into this
big swell period. And there’s some big, some big waves on the
way. Definitely some big surf, very exciting to to see the
full cost. Um as we got Pedro on it. Uh he’s not quite able
to get in there unfortunately. Um we got a great forecast on
hand, good wins. Um the one concern is that it might max
out the location. So, we gotta be careful that we don’t just
shoot for the the biggest and then get closed down but let’s
see. We’re we’re going to try and navigate the swell as well
as we possibly can to take the best part of it. Uh I think
Wednesday will be a great day. Solid is the first kind of hit
of the swell which is pretty constant. It’ll provide some
great competition. Uh and then we’ll kind of handpick the
final stages. And we’re in the Wawa, the fun bus right in
front of La Sesa and it’s mobile. So we’ve got that
option to go around the corner to El Loret. When the
conditions look kind of, I mean, when they do start coming
in, that that is an incredible wave and most likely, we’ll be,
we’ll be finishing off over there, don’t you think? 100,
100%. I mean, basically, the beauty of this venue is we’ve
got a successful venue over here that everybody can get out
and and participate and have fun. Ideal for the long board
component. Uh around the corner is a is a legitimate point
break, difficult entry and exit from the water. Um a lot more
complicated to it. So, it’s nice to be able to get some of
the open rounds and some of the juniors out without too much of
a stress and headache. Yeah. Uh and really get some fun surfing
and then be able to put the pros in in some meaningful
waves and you know, 2018 and 19, this place showed it’s
worth there was some great waves, fabulous point break
surfing and and the guys putting the best surfing in the
world on show. And finals day for both years just lit up and.
Yeah. Yeah. We were very fortunate and you know, the
riders made it really look good on top of that. Pedro. On a
nice looking right here. Just taps it off the top. He’s
going to try and look to get back into the pocket. See if it
reforms. Unfortunately just fizzles out for him a little
bit. Yeah, I know I’m excited to see
the evolution of the sports and you know, obviously, it’s been
a few years now. Um you know, 2019 was the last event. We’ve
obviously been seeing some clips online. The guys who are
super active, Wellington and Luis. Yeah. Particularly
definitely they want the title, both of them. Uh Luis is coming
off a win at the ISA event. Uh you know, fantastic performance
from him there. Uh Wellington didn’t qualify through the
Brazilians which is quite surprising but then there’s
such a hot better talent in Brazil. It’s not also not
surprising. Uh so, but yeah, it’ll be interesting to see
where they’re at. You know, I love watching Wellington surf.
I think on his backhand, that was some of the best backhand
surfing I’ve seen on a stand-up paddle board from him that year
for sure. In 2019? In 2019. Yeah, it was just so smooth,
not a water, you know, drop of water out of place when he was
doing his turns. Um lot of power, just positioning was
perfect. Um really full rail turns as well. Um Leko, a bit
more traditional but very much going vertical up and down. Um
not as on rail is Wellington but so fluid and you know, it’s
great to see the contrasting styles. Wellington just getting
really critical on all those turns, right? Just. Absolutely.
Putting on tail and just throwing out over the top and.
A lot of release in his boards. Leko’s got a bit more
traditional straighter rails I think and Wellington’s got that
kind of more short board you know, throw tail drift through
his top turns. Um yeah, it’s great to see the contrasting
styles both look beautiful, honestly. Uh and then you got
Luis Denise who’s at the extreme end of the spectrum
right in really really small boards. You know, 100% kind of
short board style and obviously throwing errors and all that
kind of stuff is we gotta replay Pedro. There’s a smaller wave here but
it does wall up nicely on this right on on the inside bank
here. It does. Unfortunately, getting no, yeah, he got a
little hung up on that second turn. It was just as it backed
up off. So, unfortunate there. So, we got a nice set though.
Zane. He’s going. Definitely showing some patience and
picking the right waves. He’s got a nice looking left here
but that that wave almost unfortunately coming unstuck
but right there, there’s a drop off. There’s like a reef shelf
and then it drops off. So, it backs off almost immediately.
So, you have to cut back and go back into the power source and
then it reforms once it hits the sandbank on the inside. And
a couple of wobbles out there. Well, yeah. I was out there
yesterday with Bow and we’re just scraping out a bit of bit
of current and. It’s a complicated wave. Uh it’s
accessible but it’s complicated. It’s difficult to
surf well. Um and a lot of the pros were saying that as well.
Like it’s a really difficult wave to to have great surfing
because you’ve really gotta be on your game. Your timing has
to be perfect. Um you know, point break, you can kind of
read it easier. You know how it’s going to, you know, you
can kind of line up your turns. This is a bit more. The Pandor
box, the Pandora’s box. You know, you never know quite
what’s going to come out but it could be great. So, Noah Switching paddles.
Drive it back in. kind of leaning on that on that
heel edge. There to get it back into the into the pocket. Yeah,
definitely you know, he’s a great hope for the future for
Denmark for sure. I see him as you know, the more he competes
and the more he gets into this, he’s going to be a guy to watch
out for in the future. As well as this guy. who’s got another
seven years before he comes out of the junior division. Just
incredible. Yeah. But Kai, when he was 17. Kai was 17. Um and
you know, stand up paddling right at the very beginning. Uh
that that’s the end of that heat. Looks like we got Zane
advancing through into the semi-finals there. and Zane
with 11 point 3 three. He’ll be going through. But yeah the
early days it was definitely like We’re going to be jump
jumping to a commercial break and then we’ll be back with the
reproach rounds. Heat two. Buenos dias. Buenas tardes.
Welcome to Las Canaria s. We’re here for the Grand Canaria Pro
Am APP World Tour. The juniors, We’ve been through a couple of
hits this morning. We’re now on the the rubber jacket round.
Heat two. in the water We have yeah that’s Vince so please
apologies if I pronounced it wrong. I think his parents are
German but he’s grown up here in Grand Canaria. Yeah he’s
he’s he’s over in based over in Fuerventura in in Cora Luco.
Yeah. Yeah. And actually he competed in one of our races
down in the south of last of Grand Canaria a few years ago.
So we’ve known the kid. We’ve seen him grow. Looking for that one. Yeah. He
just decided Good choice. Decided against it. Wasn’t
really up too much that way. And then we got yeah Tituan
obviously from France and then we got Tobias Ernst from
Denmark. So another Danish up and coming talent. Inspired by
the Viking himself Casper Steinfath leading the charge
for the Danish. So Casper is quite a character in the sport.
He actually this year paddled around Denmark. Um over a
45-day period or something. Wow. Non stop. So I mean he
stopped every evening but just went. Um and before that he
paddled to Norway. Foiled to Norway. Yeah it’s just yeah
he’s and he dominated in the big wave surf races that we did
in in San Francisco coming in Ocean Beach in Excel Surf. Uh
and he won it twice. So. Nice. You think Kai Lenny would have
won it hands down being the the guy that he is and Casper both
wanted both aims. Uh and then the first year I believe it was
Connor Baxter who won. So, yeah, it’s yeah, it’s great to
see the diversity in the sport. Uh how different skill sets can
come into play. And different scenes as well and how I think.
It’s really a hybrid sport that pulled off all the different
sports in its evolution. I mean, you had windsurfers
really like get attracted to it because they’re used to having
something in their hands. Uh they’re used to being outside
of the surf zone and and seeing the swells come as wells rather
than just seeing them as peaks where they drop in. Um so, that
was one component of it that came to fort. We obviously got
canoe pallets who came into the sport, outrigger canoe
paddlers. Um and then shoreboard surfers. Yeah. Uh
who came in. It was a great at the beginning. It was a great
tool for getting fit during the summer time in Hawaii for
example and that was really the kind of the start of it. Um and
then you you saw everybody started to grasp from the
potential in Tahiti where it’s such a you know canoe,
paddling, and surfing are the two big sports in Tahiti. Uh
and those guys really got onto it because they were great
paddlers and they were great surfers. So what a perfect
combination for them. So. And Longwood surf as well. Throwing
that in and then being able to do maneuvers and. Yeah. That
whole kind of the the tradition as well as the high performance
kind of lending itself to stand up. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I
know it’s it’s the evolution was interesting and you know,
the first year, like I said, we had Bonga pushing for a
nine-foot minimum. Within a year, the boards reduced by a
foot. Uh if not more. Um riders suddenly there was this burst
of young talent like Mo Freitas and Zane and Bern Rodig and all
these kids coming in just like and and Kai obviously leading
the charge. Um yeah it was a really exciting time for the
sport but then at the the other end we had, you know,
celebrated bodyboarder Kyno McGee who also got in the
semi-finals of the Pipe Masters in in surfing one year. He’s
like, you know, multi-sport watermen athlete. Dwayne DeSoto
who also is really dominant. Bonga Perkins, all these guys.
So, he had a really great and interesting mix of people and.
Yeah. Some of the heats or mow riding a six eight, bonga
riding a nine oh, or an eight five, you know, so it was, it
was a cool time for the sport and then seeing the evolution
was exciting and that, you know, the old guards still held
their own, certainly in big surf. You know, Bonga won,
Sunset, and I think in two thousand twelve, I believe. Um,
managed to clinch it off Kai. And it’s big conditions. It was
big conditions. Uh, I think I remember the winning wave was
just like banged into a big like left coming towards him at
sunset and and made it. So, did a bit of a magician as we see
from France. Back in. Just inside going to
do. It’s eyeing up A nice little turn there on the top. Cheeky bit of a lay back there.
I’m just going to leaning into it. You definitely use it rail.
Yeah, you can see not that the wave not giving him much power.
So, he’s a little bit you know, kind of edging into it. Not
able to put all his power into it in case he drops out the
back. So, he’s going to want to get a bit of a bigger wave with
a bit more punch to it, I think. But he’s led by
actually, it’s funnily enough, Benoit, who is now the kind of,
it’s not the old guy, right? He’s like the old guy, but I’ve
known Binwa since he was 15, and, you know, from La Tosh in,
in Northwest France and then coming out to Sunset and
really, I think when he was sixteen and he got into the
quarterfinals. Um, so really impressive young guy and now
he’s kind of an elderly statesman for you know, still
very much at the top of his game. He’s one of the leading,
leading guys on tour. Um, is he in his 30s yet or? No, I don’t
think so. Okay. No, I think he’s in his twenties. Uh, we
see a replay of Tijuan there. But he’s a little bit mentoring
these young French kids coming into the event for the first
time. being a fatherly figure and seeing his progression as
well over the years. Yeah, it’s amazing and you know, he’s
another one of those athletes like Zayn. You know, he’s an
incredible longboarder. He does the QS. I think he was European
champion or second in Europe in long boarding. Um so, he’ll be
great to watch out for in the next rounds of of the longboard
SCP longboarding as well. Um so, he’s a great all-round
athlete. He’s really got into foiling recently. Really good
showboarder and he’s doing the winging stuff. So, yeah,
well-rounded athlete as we’ve got. Is Vince? Vince? Yeah. Uh
just coming on stuck there. Caught the nose. Sometimes it’s
tricky with the just the change in contour of the wave the
whole time. You think you gotta keep your weight forward
because it’s kind of backing off and then all of a sudden
there’s a steep section and your nose catches. So. I’ve
noticed that with it’s like slightly bit of a wider stunts.
Yeah. When when he’s taking off and Just keeping that
stability, I guess when you do have those kind of wobbles.
Exactly, exactly. Yeah and it’s interesting to see all the
different styles of riding. You know, Mo Fredas, I remember
when he was paddling around, he would ride such small boards
that his feet would together. So, he would literally have him
at right angles to each other in the center of the board as
he was paddling out. Well. And when he’s paddling in, he was
like that and then he would literally leave that front foot
where it is and have his foot right on the tail pad. So, it’s
a one motion because he’s riding such a small board.
Yeah. But he was, you know, he kind of he a little bit
revolution ah or yeah he really spurred the evolution of
progressive stand up paddle surfing actually in Brazil. I
think it was two thousand twelve. Around then or maybe it
was a little later but he came with a completely different
board than anyone else was riding and I remember seeing
Kai just going wow. What did everyone think? Were they like
they were looking at it like well that’s interesting and
then all of a sudden he was doing some turns. He was able
to put his board in places of the wave that people hadn’t
really thought about. They kind of thought that you gotta
be a bit more conservative. You’re on a bigger board and
it’s never going to fit there. Yeah. And he was banking some
turns that people couldn’t believe. like a light bulb
moment for everybody. Uh you know, if we do. Oh no, for
sure. Everybody went back to their shape but straight after
that like and let’s copy what this guy is doing because it’s
working. Just chop half a foot off. Yeah. And even now, I
mean, he was working closely with Pat Ross and from Hawaii.
He’s a who’s a celebrated shaper for many years. So, used
to shape for Tom Carroll and had those famous boards that
people have seen for for decades and then they created
this unlikely partnership where they just really work together
and created magic together. So, there’s Vince. Unfortunately,
closing closing out there. I know it’s going to it’s
probably have a good reform. It’s got a bit more size to
this board. Hold on to it. trying to generate as much
speed as he can through those flat sections. That paddle and
just. Just there you can see. Catching the nose. Yeah. It was
the same problem. He was kind of keeping his weight
back. So, I mean, keeping his weight forward to keep on the
wave and then, the nose caught. It’s a fine balance, isn’t it?
With that, it is and you gotta watch it especially on a wave
like this because it changes so quickly. It’ll hit a little
bank and suddenly just jack up unexpectedly like it did there.
and he’ll be used to the points on the North Shore in in Fuer
Ventura. Exactly. I spent a year over there back in the day
and I mean there is so many spots. The slabs, the species,
the points, and yeah, it’s a it’s a proper playground for.
No, exactly. All these different water sport
activities that you get down to the south of the island for
wind surfing, or kiting. Yeah. Wink foiling. So, he’s a he’s a
bit of a water man. Kinda mixing it up He is? Nope for
sure. For sure. It’s definitely a hot spot of kind of multi
water sports culture over here in the Canary Islands with you
know the celebrated windsurfing capital down in Poso which has
been an epicenter for many many years. Uh for windsurfing. Much
inspired by our partner with the event. He was 43 world
titles I think. Um. Just been over in Namibia coming back.
Exactly. Soon. He didn’t manage to beat his record of 104
kilometers an hour. Which is mind boggling. What did he get?
Was it like 95 or something. I think it’s top. Speed was 102
or 1 03 but over the over the course, it was 96 or something.
The average speed. So, I don’t think it was windy enough is
what he said. You know, you need you some serious wind. Um
but it’s a crazy place because it’s a really narrow channel,
super shallow. Uh incredibly dangerous, honestly. Um but
yeah, they. And going as fast as the car. Keep going as fast
as possible. As a fast car. Yeah. As a fast car, exactly.
Exactly. So, and you know, he’s ever impressive. I think he’s
53 or something now and still is passionate as the youngest
growing on tour for windsurfing. He loves it. He
loves all the different water sports and and a big promoter
and pusher of all water sports culture both here in the Canary
Islands and and all over the world. So, you know, a close
friend of mine for many years. He’s a he’s a really really
great character and a great ambassador for all water sports
honestly. And his parents both windsurfed Super King
Windsurfers moved over here when born. Bjorn was I mean he
was like a couple of years old or something, wasn’t he?
Exactly, Danish and Dutch, his parents and they came over
here. They were passionate win in the early days of
windsurfing and. Set up a centre. Set up a centre. So,
his their kid had the best possible opportunity to get in
the sport. I think he started on the tour at 15 years old. Uh
you know, before Kelly Slater, it was a record-breaking long
career because he went from fifteen, I think, till, you
know, 40s. Um you know, mid 40s, I think it was when he
finally retired. So, from racing and he’s still competing
in in speed. So, still gotta yeah, Guinness World Records
for for speed and and now and then passing on the batten to
to his kids, Liam and Liam actually is he’s been built in
the the mold of Kailani as well in in the sense of that
multi-sport athlete like Zane and all these guys. His dad
obviously loves windsurfing insured. He had that
introduction to windsurfing but his kid was more interested in
shortboarding when he was young. So, he’s a great
shortboard surfer. Um he’s a good stand-up paddle surfer.
He’s been Canarian champion. He’s been Canarian champion. Uh
he’s done really well this year on the World Tour Windsurfing.
I think he I think he finished up 16th overall in the world
for his first full year on tour. Uh and and he’s also
super into wing falling. really progressive and so, you know,
definitely enjoying all the the water has to offer and here in
Grand Canary, you got wind and waves. So, perfect combination.
Exactly. Exactly. Especially between the different types of
years. So, in summertime, it gets really windy in the
Canaries which isn’t perfect for for for windsurfing and
then the waves pretty much turn on. Kind of like mainland
Europe around sort of September, October time.
Throughout the whole of the winter, you can get away. I
just will pass the sign and it’s the the temperature gauge
was twenty-six. It’s almost December and it’s 26 degrees. I
mean, what’s not to love? Exactly. I mean, everybody’s
wearing wet suits but really you can, last year, I was, I
was surfing in shorts. I mean, it’s possible. It’s just, it’s
a little chillier in the summertime but it’s beautiful.
Yeah. It’s beautiful. Yeah So heat two. We got 7 minutes
left. Vince. And in the lead, he’s
looking for one here. What’s this left going to do? So, come back. As the pocket,
is it? And try and get through this flat section. Really
utilizing the paddle. Fortunately, didn’t didn’t
reform for him. and Tobias still still waiting
out the back. yet to get a score in. And Tejwan needing a one point
eight. to come back into the lead. Here he is. This is Left
going to do. Not Trying to check out the boulders. Just catching, catching rail
there on the, it’s pretty tricky. There’s wobbly
conditions. This cross, cross on shore, not super strong. But
definitely challenging. Out there. Yeah, it is very
challenging out there. Welcome back, bud. So, oh, thanks.
Thanks, Ollie. I had Tristan Boxford, APP World Tour, CEO in
here for a while. Great insights with Tristan. Great
insights, great. Kinda background and history of the
sport. and just how it all began from
starting the tour in oh nine and Kyle Eddy now like the
superstar he is. How sort of kind of going from almost that
legacy at the beginning and to where we are, looking at the
progression, looking at the juniors. and yeah, we have Pedro on in
that that last heat. Fortunately not not getting
through. But yeah, 11 year old, 11 years
old, still a lot of potential. A lot of years left to make a
name for himself on the world stage. Still Junior for another
7 years. That’s right, exactly. It was what Tristan was saying.
He was like, yeah, this is true. Sorry, true. Yeah,
Tristan with the vision of of creating the the APP World
Tour. Still with that same vision today of just you know,
bringing this sport to the masters and having a world tour
that has the best athletes in the world competing on it. As
we do see a that is Tituan. Just trying to
paddle into that. Not too many waves ridden in
this here. Looks like Ollie coming down to four minutes and
15 seconds remaining. Yeah, there’s been Vince been keeping
pretty active out there. He’s got about five waves. Okay.
Tobias, is he? Is he in this heat? Has he? Haven’t seen Blue
Rash out there. Little left here. the foamy section coming up.
Just search it for that reform. Suffers a bit more bit more to
play with. Get some vertical. Um hung up there in the white
order. Had a few nice turns on the outside there. Yeah. I
think that’ll that score might even factor into the top two. As Vince the current heat
leader. He’s searching around there.
Trying to look for a way that’s going to back up his scores. And Vince is looking for a
smaller one this one. Almost dummying the left and
then, sending a right Fizzling out. If he can get through. He
can just generate so much speed through the flat with the
paddle. Just using it to his advantage. He’s going to link
up with the reform here on the inside. So, having something a
bit extra to work with there off the lip. So, another good
wave there from Vince. bit of local knowledge, you think?
From Vince? I’d say he’s definitely, definitely been
over here and just having that Canarian, Canarian knowledge of
the, the power of the waves. As you saw, they’re just in the
shorey there and it’s still It can slam you back. Yeah. And
the tide now is kind of getting lower and lower as the day goes
on. Little low tide around sort of around six. Here’s Sunset Sesh. and it does
get super shallow on that inside section there. So, hits
the, hits the sandbank just off to the rocks. Yeah, it’s
kind of like a little gully as you paddle out. Kinda gotta get
wet and then you get to this really shallow sandbank. Like
you’re saying, it just slams on the sandbag there. As we do see
Tituan. He’s going to try for a wave with one minute 30 seconds
on the clock. Needs to get a good score to get himself up
into that first position. Seem eyeing it down the line.
It’s going to have here. Little turns working it
through. Off the top. And just kicking out in. Kicks it away
there. Looks like he got pretty shallow. wait to see what the schools
are. for both riders on those last waves. See if it does
change the situation. So we got 53 seconds left on the clock.
Vince still in the lead with that five point three. One. 8. It’s not over until the horn.
That’s right. So when the first place does progress through. We do have scores to be locked
in. And we’re going to be crowning junior champion. Both
the boys and the girls today. That’s right. We’re going to keep rolling
through the junior divisions. Up next will be the junior
girls. As we count this heat out. So, we’re still waiting for
judges to input the scores. And we’ll get those to you as we do
see the scores come through. Last wave is a 4. 17. He has
moved up into the lead. Vince had a 2point9seven. How was
that actually the wave previous to the last one? Two two one
advanced but both looking looking in around a two point
ride for their last score. So Titawan taking a win. And
progressing through to the semi-finals of stoked with that
Iswan with the win. Absolutely. gets himself one step closer to
the finals. So it’s the semis. And we’ll be hosting
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the Gran Canaria were round now. girls. Heat
one. in red Marina Loyeza. And and white. We’ve got Annabelle
Page from the UK. And then in blue, we have Defania Millard.
Yeah, exciting repetitive heat. For these women. I actually
think that all of these women were in the European final. of
the Euro Championships recently. So it’s a bit of a
rematch. Between these three competitors. We have actually
won the event. Marina, I think was in second and Annabelle in
third. So there’ll be these guys. All
wanting to win. All wanting to win. Exactly. Getting through
this heat. As Marina taking off. Oi. Did you see those
bumps on the face with that wind? Blowing kind of cross
shore. Just getting along stuck on that bump. How did it feel
down? It’s getting a little bit windier. It is a little bit
windier but the sun’s out. Looks really nice out there.
The colour of the water’s so blue. As we see a competitor
from the last heat. That’s Vince. Unfortunately, just
getting pipped right in the last 10 seconds there. As the
scores come through quite late. So, great performance from
Vince. We’ll see him in the men’s
trials. Coming up that’ll be hopefully tomorrow. We’ll get a
start on that. I think so. So he’s just going to Trying to
almost just take what he’s learned from here, from today.
And put that into the trials. Yeah, look at maybe similar
conditions tomorrow. I think so. This maybe a little bit
cleaner. It’s dropping off slightly. The swell and the the size from
forecasts may maybe a tad bit smaller. But if it’s if it’s
going to be cleaner conditions it’s going to Definitely
going to see a lot of waves. Good period as well. 30 seconds
then in the afternoon starts building. Nice. Wednesday Gonna
be bigger. And then Thursday. Too big. Six. That’s winning.
Everyone go home. Yeah exactly. So big and scary. So we see Annabelle Page in the
white opting for this left on her forehand. Isn’t that paddle
to cut back? Really nice and low. Annabelle stays on her
board. For that stability. It’s a nice nice turnovers. Marina there with a lovely cut
back and again just catches a rail. Just struggling a little
bit with the bumps out there. We saw it maybe a bit more of a
relaxed stance than Annabelle. Annabelle opting for that bit
lower Wider stance so you can get a bit more stability in
these bumpy waves. As you see a set rolling throughout the
back. Tofain is out there. Shane get over this one. Is
she? Popped in to paddle over it. Yep. saw something behind
it. And then Marina there paddling
back out after a wave. Annabelle would have been nice
to see her pull off that last maneuver. Should we get a big
score for that? Lot of commitment throwing it up into
the white water. We’ll get a replay of Marina’s wave.
interesting. Yeah. Nice looking turn. Finney back in and then
just getting caught up. That white water. Yeah, maybe just a
bit too much on the toes. Just a bit too relaxed thinking
yeah, finish the turn but in a competition, you gotta be on.
As Tefaine just finishes off a little right hander there. You
see the shelf there in the back? so exposed here in Grand
Canaria, Las Parmas. Yeah, lots of open ocean swell. Hitting
these reefs, hitting these beach breaks. Creating a lot of
power as we’ve seen. Even just in the short break. Definitely
not to be underestimated. No, it’s not at all. Not at all. Annabelle trying to get out. It’s been really consistent
today. It hasn’t been a lot of you know big lulls or I’ve been
waiting around. Everyone’s been keeping pretty busy out there.
I feel like the froth’s pretty high in the junior division
too. Get a lot of waves. The juniors is so. For sure,
exactly. Especially maybe being maybe three and four people
heat. Maybe it’ll just start getting into the men or men and
women and women heats. The Groms are just stoked to be in
the water. They are exactly. Yeah. Why not? There’s a couple
of other people out. Why wouldn’t you be stoked? And that never stops. It
doesn’t matter what. That’s true. I’ve been known to overfroth on
occasions. Haven’t we all? Just cook it in the end, don’t you? Annabelle stroking hard into
this one. Oh again. Sticking the nose in. Looks like the
wind is definitely playing a factor in this heat. Maybe it’s
picked up slightly out there. Just opting to just jump off
the board. He just bailed. Yep. Fair enough. We were speaking
about that on the bigger ones. We almost just gives you a hand
for for bailing. Yes. It does. I remember. Sophie some short
boards and big waves coming in. I’m not going to be undocked on
this one so standing up on the board and just I’m just driving
down. Yep. Obviously on a what’s up. You’re already
you’re already standing up so you get that little bit extra
height to to punch down and again. We’ve just seen a little
nosedive so. Conditions getting a tad trick here. Yeah,
definitely getting tricky out there. It’s definitely not easy
if you’re just looking at it on the screen. It is tricky out
there. Lot of water moving. You can see it moving from that
left to right on the screen a bit. Moving into the channel.
On the surface. Yeah. His currents moving around. Almost fighting with the paddle
against the current. Be trying to suck them down like away
from where they’re positioned in the moment on that left. So let’s take a look at the
scores that are just coming through now for all the waves
here of the girls. So, Annabelle Page. She’s got a 3.
83 on that first one. Just a small score of a. 33. That puts
her up into the lead in first place. Marina, she’s in second.
2. 17. For her second wave and then a one point zero. Same
with the 2. 27. On that little right hander that we saw.
Earlier. So, girls 11 and a half minutes on the clock.
Yeah, halfway through the heat. Yeah. Plenty of time. 20-minute
heats for repercharge. It’s a little bit shorter in length.
So, definitely need to stay a bit more busy. because we know how much time
they get between when they if they when they do advance is
there a, is there a bit of a breather? Between. Yeah. Now in
the semis? I’d say so, probably jump back into the junior boys,
I’d say. I think it gives us some time
in the athlete. Give a little bit of time. Chill out area.
Yeah. Catch a breath. It’s also good. It’s also good that if
you when you do get through your heat and you feel like
you’ve surf worlds get back out there straight away as well.
Just so you still stay on that role. Build on that momentum.
Yeah exactly. Annabelle,
Annabelle, just a quick left there It’s on her way out now. She’s
seen there’s a bit of a set coming through. What’s this thing going to do? So she’s eyeing up the left. sided against it. Definitely a
good choice there. Good choice. Exactly. Dizzled out. Yeah,
really going to be selective with your with your waves. This
might do something. It’s not, no one’s going to get on it. 9 minutes. 39 on the clock.
Yeah, we’re starting to feel the wind coming a little bit
here where we’re sitting. So, definitely it’s picking up out
there. The flags and the walla. and wafting in the wind. Bit of
a nice relief though. Yeah. It is. It is. Fresh air. Yeah. So first and second progressing
from this heat. into the semi-finals. First and second. First and
second. Yep. And they’ll be meeting one of the Japanese
sisters. We both have in a way. They’ll be watching. In a way.
On the boardwalk. They will be watching. So those two are
Friday semis. To Fain in the blue. Nice cut back there. So
this is the European champion. Looks like she’s been waving to
the beach. Yeah. Maybe I thought maybe swapping out a
bit of equipment there or. You reckon equipment change? Maybe
it looked like it. It could be. the marina. Vamos. Let’s see. She gets onto
this one. Could open up for her. Nice little section for a
cut back. Nice come back in the tub. See a lot of rocker on the
front of that board as well. Oh, no. Steve Section system.
Yeah. Glue the She definitely does help with
those deeper sections. Bit of rocker in the front. That’s
interesting. There’s kind of more of an equal scene with the
other. A lot more, definitely. You see Annabelle’s board
there. She’s on a smick. So, quite flat in the nose. It’s
quite a wide nose as well. So, it offers a lot of stability
when you’re paddling around. It’s a bit more swing weight to
the board when you are turning it. But these snakes are
actually made as a kind of a twin fin with a little trailer
fin in there. I think Annabelle switched up a bit. She’s put a
bit bigger back fin in. And some smaller side fins. So
opting for something that’s a little bit different. As I do see, looks like the
longboard. Competitors are heading down. We do see the
longboard round two. Round 2, heat one. Coming up next. But we’re back into the action.
All the girls at Annabelle page. Yeah, we did actually see
Marina jump up into the lead there with a 4. 33 on her last
wave. So, there’s a couple of turns that she had. Managing to get the best wave
score of the hit so far and pushing herself up into first
place. Which means Annabelle she’s now looking for a 2.
eight to get back into the lead. But at the moment she’s
in that advancing position. So needs a 2. 57. But we are. I think we are
waiting for her last wave score to come through as well. From
Tiffany in the blue. And Marina’s lost weight of 4.
33. Taking her into the lead. The six point five. and Stefan. A nice looking
right here. Get round that section. Is it going to wall up
for her on the reform inside? She’s going to try and get
there. But just just disappears. It’s just sussing
it up sometimes whether it’s worth. Yeah. Kind of that extra
effort and that paddle to get into it. Is it going to kind of
bowl up or not or just leave it? Save some energy. Get back
out the back. Wait for a better looking wave. And as we see
there are some sits on the way here. Does look like it. and Marini’s going to take off
late on this one. Does really well. Notice how she gets down
nice and low for that take off. Just going to really low
compression. Yeah. Nice first turn there. Is she going to be
out? Yeah. Carves it back around. So really making this
wave work a little bit. Is he going to get the reform too on
the inside? But again. Again. Even with that rocker in the
front. Just coming unstuck there. You can see there’s a
couple of steps in that in that wave. Annabelle just jumping
on. Just super far back on the back foot there just to kind of
even with the rocker on the board. Yeah. Yeah, struggling a
little bit with the with the bumps and and the steps in that
wave. Annabelle just getting caught. Yeah. He’s getting
caught by the set. Coming through. He’s going to try it on a knees
nut. Good choice. Very good choice. Technique. Yeah, that’s
fine. As long as you’re getting the board away from you, that’s
that’s absolutely fine. You know what the board anywhere
near you? The old knee paddle. Yeah. It’s good if you if you
can’t get back onto your feet that quickly. And it’s coming
paddle for the challenge. obviously with the event here
we are looking at standing up battling out the pack. Five
paddle rule. Five. Yep. Five stroke. Five stroke. Lying
lying down. Yep. So five paddles. They need to be up in
standing. Marina. Extending her lead with that one. She had
two. 33. So just slightly extending and Annabelle now
needs a 2point84 to get to the lead and to faint a two point
six. She just had a 1. 63 for that right hander that come
through. That’s Toufain in the blue. Welcome everybody.
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So yeah, please do send them in. Annabelle just coming on
unglued there. Yeah, time’s ticking away now. Two minutes
50 on the clock. Marina. What do we have? So
fading. Fading it. Yeah. Right back to the right and then
ended up going left but it might put her in a good
position for this reform here. It’s a nice start just
crouching down. Really using that back knee.
Oop. I was immense at how quickly
she got back out the back to get onto another wave. So,
using that channel there that Annabelle’s into her advantage.
Paddling out nice and fast. Annabelle might even be looking
to get this one. She can try and take off on the it’s the
corner. Yeah. See, it’s easy to get. It’s easy to paddle into
that deep water than just get caught out that it’s that wave
disappears underneath you. It’s almost like you should be
wanting to head head to the impact zone closer. A dangerous game. Gotta juggle
it between. Is it going to break? Yes, exactly. Is it
going to break in front or is it going to kind of hold up a
little bit so you can take off? in a one minute forty left on
the clock. So Annabelle needing a 3 point
two four. Yes, Am ir again. Lead. With that last wave,
extending that lead a little bit further. Uh Uh Defence is a
bit late on that one. Yeah, I think she’s just trying to
she’s needs another wave to try and get ahead of Annabelle. Get
into that advancing position to get to the semi-finals. You see one of our competitors
there. For the what’s up longboard event coming up next.
As we’re under a minute now. Rep the charge. One heat one.
Got some big names coming up. Yes. Longboard. Who have we got
Ollie? We got Leo Jimenez. We got Leonardo Nica. And Kaido.
Anyway. Great heat. Is Annabelle looking to extend
that requirement needed from she can’t quite get onto that
one so we’ll see if Blue can get a wave before this heat
ends. That’d be the European
champion. Might be out of this event. She had it over these
girls in Denmark. For the European Championship earlier
this year. definitely a bit of a different
vibe. In the waters in in in Denmark. Bit different to Greg
Canaria for sure. So that’s it. The heat is finished. That is
Marina. And Annabelle progressing through to the
semi-finals for the junior women. Congratulations. to the
two surfers go through. we’re going to jump to a
commercial break and then we’ll be joining round two of the
longboard division. Five, five, four, three Buenos dias. Welcome to the
Grand Canaria Pro Am. We are back Round 2, heat two, the
longboard. Yeah, exciting to see the longboards back out
there in the water. We have in red, Sakura in a way from
Japan. More tomato in the white. Noah Stender in the blue
and Francisco Gill in the yellow. How you feeling about
this heat though? Yeah, I’m liking the lineup in this heat.
We saw some great performance from Sakuro. Nice, really
stylish nose riding, cross stepping. And then Morris as
well with a bit more power. Still has some nose rides too.
And nowhere in Francisco. Yeah, this going to be a tough heat. You can see just the wind and
the current out there. Just chopping up the water a little
bit. So competitors staying a little bit bumpy. We just had a
competitor surf through there. Bit of a wobble. Bit of a
wobble. Kinda coming through now and again. Yeah. And sometimes it’s not the
easiest. Are you going to definitely be hunting around?
Scoping out the lineup. Seeing. Trying to find that reform.
Take the left. That’s so true. We do see competitor in blue.
Noah Stender. This is actually this is Leonardo. So we’ll we’ll have to or is it
Noah? Noah? Noah. It is Noah. on Leonardo’s board. That’s why
I got a bit confused. So we’ve got some scores coming
in already for the Surfers. We did Moritz. Get some replays on
that hopefully but Morits Marsh. The five point five.
Yeah, great way to open up his campaign for this heat. That
could be a keeper score toward the end of the heat. He’s
going to back that one up. Definitely a good backup score.
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If you prefer, YouTube Live on APP. One more, two, Yeah, so just waiting for
competitors to. They’re waiting For some waves to come through.
Beautiful weather today. Really nice weather. I was expecting a
little bit of little bit of overcast. Still some going to
be some rain but it’s been sunny. Has been really nice
weather. Last couple of days have been very windy. Bit of
rain. Yeah. Lingering around as well. So it’s good to see for
the event. That we are getting underway in some lovely
conditions. Sakuda having a look at this one. we do see our
competitor in white. So, that is not Moritz Marsh. So, I
think we’ve got some different names up on the screen. I have
a feeling this is actually heat one Rather than heat two. As we do see. This is Leonardo
Jimenez from Brazil. cruising through with a nice
little hang five there but just can’t quite hold it as he
finishes off that wave. Apologies to everyone at home.
We do have some different names up on screen so we’ll make sure
that we get those fixed. We do have in red in this one.
It is K day in a way. Sakura’s sister. Leonardo Jimenez in the
white and Leonard Nica. In the blue. So we are at heat one.
Round two Of the longboard division. Not just the men. But
you have the Inner Way Sisters out there as you can see. Katie
on screen right now. So three surfers in this heat. And first and second. do go
through They’re just waiting for
schools to come in. So La Sisa, Las Parmas, Grand
Canaria. Great to be here though. In the capital. The
Grand Canaria. Yeah, it’s a pretty cool city. Right on the
water here. Lots happening. Lots of people walking along
the promenade. Really buzzy. Yeah. and plenty of waves right
on the doorstep. Yeah, even just down the beach, I counted
about forty shoreboarders and bodyboarders out there just
before. So, lots of waves on offer along this beach At the
sea saw. A lot of people learning as well. Few surf
schools down there. And just a hive of activity on
the promenade. We got Wagga’s Running, jogging, walking. Bit
of everything. These are everything. Indeed. quite a young city from what
I’ve seen. Lot of young people getting around and all the
young kids. Just on a Sunday night last night. Went out for
a bit of dinner. So a lot of lot of good student vibe. Yeah
good student vibe exactly. Walking along late at night. As
we do have their correct names up on screen for you now. With
11 minutes, 20 seconds on the clock. As we do see Katie on a really
nice looking right hander here. He’s going to hold it through
this section here. Yeah. Well done. Manages to stay on. Is he
using that paddle? Just get around the white water. and not
to be. Manages to fall off of that one. Don’t think that wave
had much else to offer. So, just trying to manufacture a
score. So, we do see you know, just pulling out. So, those
scores that we did see earlier will translate into this heat.
So, Leonardo opening up with that five point five. It’s
around the halfway mark now. It’s round two heat one. 10
minutes remaining. Replay from Kaylee’s wave. Nice cut back
into the white water there. She’s definitely looking to try
and get a nose right in. She’s really great on the spin. Yeah.
And apolog And apologies again to everyone
back at home. It’s like complications with the names
but we are all corrected. We’re back. As we see a beautiful
shot of our competitors and the city of Las Palmas. Here we
are. There’s so much to explore here. Leo. Leo. Almost a little
triangle. And Leonardo here knows riding
his way along the start of this way at the switch paddle
cutback. Leo just fading it in. eager
for that inside. What’s what’s going to happen? He’s going to
get there. He’s going to get a hang five in before that wave.
Starting to get a little bit gnarly there with that tide
dropping out, isn’t it? Yeah. Few steps in the wave. Little
low tide grinding. Yeah. We’ll definitely see the longboard
competitors trying to surf all the way through that section. Leonican Kaida. Out the back.
Just waiting for some bombs. Yeah, waiting for those bigger
waves. Maybe offer some more scoring potential for these
competitors. Getting your nose right in or something
progressive on the outside is going to score them really
highly. As long as they’re doing it in that critical
section. and just mixing up for the
judges as well, right? Getting on the nose but gets some, get
some aggressive turns in as well. Yeah. Yeah, speaking with
APP, Bob Tua CEO, Tristan Boxford about the long board
judging criteria. So they’re looking for kind of progressive
but really good surfing in the critical section of the wave.
So even if they aren’t doing those rides, if they’re doing
in the critical section with power, speed and flow, they are
going to get rewarded. But we did see Lacos Salazar on a long
nose ride getting rewarded very highly in the excellent range.
So, obviously is rewarding critical nose rides as well. As
that was an amazing paddle in. From Leon Nicker. This is an
Italian surfer. He’s cutting it back there.
Really using the whole weight here, Nico. Kind of. Bouncing
it off the end section there. And again, just a foam climb on
the inside. Showcasing that he can throw these big boards
around. Get some scores in. So Leo Gymnes. His last ride of
four. Seven three. Is in front. not super
comfortably. 11. 5. Okadas on his tail with eightpoint 3
four. Yeah, she’s actually got the highest wave score of the
the heat so far. A 6. 17 from Katie. One of her first waves
that she caught. So, Just waiting out the back for
some waves. But here we are. APP World Tour. Glenn Canaria
Pro M. Ollie. Greatness. Yeah. Welcome. Good afternoon
everybody. Stoked to be back both. 2019. Last time. We ran
the event. Too long in the princess. As
Trista put a force break. Rod events the last couple of
years. I guess with the, you know, the
surfers are kind of being been at home, been traveling a bit
as and when they could. and we’ll see. Not here. Katie. A
quick lane five at the start but those bumps. We saw it in
the previous heat of the junior women. Really? It’s a wicket of
a nose ride there. What a nice nose ride. He’s coming unstuck.
On those bumps. So, 5 minutes and 20 seconds remaining. Round
2, heat one, long board division. Yeah so competitors are allowed
to sit down if they are waiting for waves. They need to stand
up on their board when they are moving around as we see
Leonardo Menace. At the back by himself. Just going to take her time
now. See if see if she can improve on that six point one
six. nice to kind of get that as a backup score. Yeah,
definitely Probably looking for those more
inside waves. So the back it looks like a little little
bigger. Little bumpier. So first and second will
progress through To the next round. As we see Francisco Gill
there preparing for the next heat. And just in the top of the
screen, you can see all of those free surfers out there.
Ton of surfers surfing the right hander of the beach
break. At last, it’s who’s coming up, Ollie? Yeah. Yeah,
there are a few out from Monday afternoon for sure. Maybe a
lunch break. Yeah, probably a lunch break session. You
definitely get some long, bit of long lunch break and span in
in the Canary Islands. I used to enjoy that. A bit of siesta.
Siesta. Yeah. If you don’t want to go for a siesta, just
pop in the seat. Cheeky stuff. Exactly. Exactly not a bad
lifestyle. No, they stopped. Definitely stopped later. So,
they stopped working at 10 AM and then things normally finish
around one o’clock. and then they open up at about three and
they work until about eight. Bit of an extended day but so
then they normally have like because of the heat. It’s when
it’s so hot in the summer. It’s like 30 degrees, 35degrees. You
want to be eating around like seven or eight. Being English myself, I like to
eat a little bit earlier. I do too. You. Yeah, so we have Leonardo
Jimenez at the back. Right in nice turn on the outside
section. Try and get a bit of speed through here as he’s
getting to the nose. Oh, in a critical section but just
unfortunately, falls off the back of that wave. He’s our
current heat leader. Couple of good scores. Locked in. A six
point ride and a 5. five five as we see Leo Knicker. Nice cut
back on the outside section. There’s waves slightly backing
off a bit. he’s going to get to the nose. the foot maybe not quite over
the nose. Be good to see him up and up and right in the front
of the board there with some nice cut backs. As he’s trying
to link up this end section. You are watching the APP World
Tour Longboard Division. But the 2022 Grand Canary Pro Am. We have our Italian surfer Leo
Nicker in the blue paddling back out after that wave. In
the white, Leonardo Jimenez. He is from Brazil. Currently
leading this heat. And away. A 17 year old Japanese surfer.
She is surfing in this division against the men. Which is
awesome to see. Amazing to see. The sister will be up in the
next heat as well. proper all rounders. Yeah. and just all round smiling,
happy. That’s the thing as well. Every time they’re on
camera, you seem smiling and people just waving and smiling.
Yeah. Waving. So cool. Throwing shackers. They love it. The
froth is high. So one minute remaining in this heat. See how the countdown’s on.
Leonardo Jimenez. So this is White’s last wave.
Or his best wave actually of the heat so far. So, this is a
recap of of Leonardo Jimenez’s best waves. It’s a nice comeback. I think
this is that’s where he got the majority of those points. It’s
that powerful carving maneuver and getting to the nose as well
looks like on the inside here. Oh wow. Slides out the tail so
we must have missed this one toward the start of the heat.
We definitely missed this one. The foam climber just Holding
on. So really can see. Following that board. Yeah
lovely turn. ah ah Two lovely snaps there. to see him walking to the nose
again. With a hang tan on the inside. He’s thinking about
what he’s going to do. Keeping his composure. You can sort of
see he’s like, you know, just relaxed, biting his time in
that, in that flat section. Not trying to get. Over excited.
Just kind of just waiting out. That’s the thing with longboard
surfing as well. It is to look smooth and and look nice,
controlled. as well as head to a short commercial break before
we get back with heat two of the longboard action. Buenas tardades. One seven
nine. Welcome to Las Paramos. Grand Canaria Pro Am. We’re
here for the APP World Tour. We got the longboard division from
the water. Round 2, heat two. Yeah, Sakura in a way in the
red. Morris Marsh in the white. Now, a Stender. In the yellow. And Francisco
Gill in the blue. Noah, Noah in the blue, and Francisco in the
yellow. That’s right. We got the wrong way around.
Colorblind. No, I’m not actually. Before competitors in this
heat. Top two moving through. To the quarter finals. The heat is on. Round 2, heat
two. and 20minute heat Yeah, 20 minutes. Not that, it
feels long but it’s not actually that long when you’re
out in the water. It goes by really quick. We’ll see Noah
Stender. We actually got Francisco Gill. Bit of a drop
in. I don’t think he really interfered though with Noah’s
Wave. We’ll see what the judges do score with that. Noah working his way through.
With a lovely cross there. That was nice. Yeah and getting up
to the nose and the inside. And white out the back. This is
Morrits Marsh. a German
a German competitor living in the Canary Islands. We’ll see more. It’s coming up
in the pro division. Later on this week. But that was a
lovely turn off the whitewater on the longboards up there. So
all competitors getting a start there. We’ll have to wait for
scores to come through. See where everyone’s going to
stand. After that first exchange. It’s a great shot there. the mountains in the back. of
Confidal area way. You’re on the way. The yellow’s up. Yeah,
just sitting a little bit wide and hits that to this deeper
section. You can see that wave a bit
steeper. Further at the back. Sorry. Opting for the a bit of a lie
down paddle just to get on that section. It’s all allowed. Yes.
Five five strokes. Five strokes. Five stroke rule.
We’ve seen a few. Yeah. From other competitors but. Yeah, I
wonder if it’s. Don’t tell the judges. I would say until the
judges. They’ll be watching though. Yeah, they will be
watching. yeah this is a stand up paddle
competition. Using that paddle the whole time. Especially on
the wave with the maneuvers. We’ll see Sakura fourteen year
old. Sakura in a way. Getting right up to the nose to start
here. Lovely hang five to begin with. She cuts back to the
white water. To stylishly dancing back there. Love that
cross step. She makes her way to the
inside. Section. Got a bit steep. It’s up and over the
float. So, really well done. Listen, there’s something about
watching women on long boards and just the grace and style.
The grace. It’s it’s amazing. So fluid. A really nice to
watch. Just beautiful surfing. So White. Morris is up on the
right. Almost straight into the nose right there. Straight to
the nose but just falls off the back there. But you saying that
you, you know, it’s almost, if you get that opportunity to
pull a, pull off a maneuver straight out, straight off the
bat. run up to the nose. If it offers it, if it offers it,
exactly. It’s definitely one of the things is, you know, get a
nose run at the start. Cuz it’s critical out there. Like
exactly like Moritz is doing right now in that critical
section. Now, you can go to turns but he just gets on that
toe side a little bit too much. Still manages to hold it. And
it sort of feels like you’re flying, dude. It does.
Definitely does. Yeah. Nothing in front of you. Just stand up
on the nose of that board. Do you kind of mix up the
crafts that you ride, Ollie? Little bit. Yep. Yep. I used to
long board a little little bit in in Freshwater in Sydney.
Nice. When I was living there. Take out the small days. I’ve
got no business taking out on the big days, bro. No, a lot of
people don’t either. It’s it’s a lot trickier. As we see, Noah
Stender here. Taking this wave all the way through. So, the
couple of nice cut backs on this wave and nose rides his
way through that section there. He banks it off the white water
again. Like in the nose just keeping that board moving the
whole way. That was nice. Straight to the inside.
Francisco Gill. Kinda hanging on the edge there. Digging in
his heels. And then pivot around. Maybe a duct tape on
the nose of that board. There is? Yeah. He wants to be having
a world with customs. Yes, exactly. I do remember. I don’t know
what airline has been flying. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true
and unfortunate. One of the biggest problems I think we
were talking about this. It is travelling with these boards
especially these what’s up long boards. It’s more it’s March
goes backwards and then. Oh. Starts to cheeky. Around. You see this. What? Really
wide. Giving him that stability. Just so quick and
now like powering back out. Back to the lineup. Those
boards give you a lot of glide. So we’re bringing these scores
as soon as we can. As soon as the judges have locked them in.
Still waiting. There’s been lots of waves ridden. Austin riding. Waiting for
those scores and Sakura just finishing up there. Been trying
a little lay back. Yeah. Finish off move. So you’re travelling
with a longboard what’s up. Yeah, it’s very difficult. A
lot of airlines. There’s only a handful of airlines nowadays.
It’ll take up to three meters which is actually nine feet
eight. Yeah, there’s there’s one or two airlines that will
take up to 10 feet boards. So, a lot of airlines on the
naughty list on the we won’t we won’t mention. Definitely,
definitely and then sometimes you got a payload extra as well
too. Yup. To get those boards especially when you are flying
through the US and places like that. A lot of the USL always
charging. So what what’s the like of the the additional fee
when it jumps up? From what size? They have like a short
board. Like an eight foot or a 9 foot. Yeah, flying kind of
easy jet things like those. You can you probably get away if
you’re a short border paying for the the small sports
equipment. But then I had to pay for the lodge. Coming here.
That’s a nice wrap back into it. Noah again just with that cross
step Turn. Really nice. Off the really mixing it up there Noah.
Kind of. using the different sections. Yeah, using the board
as well. Getting to the nose. Lash Patamas. The capital of
Grand Canaria. I love this place. Spend a bit
of time in Puerto Ventura. This my first time in Grand Canaria.
And from what I’ve seen so far we’ve been having a great time.
Great time. You can see the black sand there. So, it’s all
volcanic. All these islands here. So, black sand beaches.
Lot of rocky beaches as well. They got some sandy beaches
down south. Yeah, a bit calmer on that side of the island and
the on the southern side. And really like The geography here
is super super different depending on what part of the
island you’re on. You can get to the center of the island.
There’s a mountain or a volcano in the middle. Almost 2000
meters. You can get a little bit of snow in the winter time
right at the top there. Yeah. Same in Tenerife. One of the
highest mountains in Spain. You can get snow covered. No
skiing. But you could probably throw a snowball or two. Maybe
maybe build a snowman. There you go. You get lucky. Yeah
yeah. Yeah obviously the the city’s down it. See they’re
staying nice and warm throughout the and obviously
with that altitude you know it gets it gets to like four
degrees. Maybe colder at night time during the winter. The two
or three never drops below. Well. Can one 1degree to
degree? That’s cool. Then you get to the coast. In beautiful
as promise. Jump into the board shorts. Put a T-shirt on. Put
that jacket away in the in the bag. No need for that. As we
found out this morning, things just heat up pretty quickly as
the day goes on. Pretty quickly, exactly. Especially on
the Wawa. Yeah, on the open top bus. Calling all the action. Up
here alongside the judges. As we see our competitors. We
got some scores. Fight on the way. So Morse is up. Yeah
Morris. Nice cut back there. Switching that paddle over. His
six point ride on his last wave. Be looking to, yeah, improve on
his, on his first score, five point five. There’s a cheeky little nose
ride from where it’s there. Yeah, really working his way
all the way through. He’s going to try and slide the tail
out again. Really good. Helicopter time. Do it. I
want to see one of those people off. Mid faced. Exactly. Yep.
Slam it in the chopper. Oh, we just see just on the right of
the screen there, Francisco Gill going over the front. But
Noah bit of the screen here. He had a late take off. Hasn’t
been able to do too much on the outside but gets a quick hang
five there. It’s a nice Oh. Oh. Serving the front of the board
as well. as we have competitor in red in
the next heat. That’s Andrew Noel from France. He’ll be in
the semi-finals. Of the junior boys. Here at the Grand Canaria
Pro Am. And ready in this heat. That’s Sakura in a way. A 14
year old female from Japan. Sorry guys. Mixing it up with
the guys in this heat. Same as her sister as well. Mm. They’re
causing some waves in this event aren’t they? They
definitely are. Which is great to see. The future is looking
pretty bright. Stand up. Got some kids who are absolutely
ripping. Ripping. And now the progression just keeps on.
It’s just almost stepping up a notch, Phil. Yeah, every every
time. It’s to do with the competitors as well. They push
each other especially in events. You gotta take it to
the next level to be able to get the good scores. Francisco
Gill here. Working his way in from left to right. This one.
Thinking about heading up to those. getting rumbled. Yeah, his
timing was just a little bit off there. It’s like in two
minds of what to do on that wave. I was thinking about
going up to the front. kind of last minute decided against it.
Exactly. Just pulling off. We will get those scores to you as
soon as we can. Apologies for the delay here. Lots of waves
being surfed. Lots of action here. almost a a relentless supply of
waste. Yes. In less part of us. Yeah, right. You can never have
too many. That’s a good thing. Definitely a good thing. See
another set coming through. We just heard a five-minute call
for this heat. So, 5 minutes left. So, see if these competitors
take any of these waves. Just panning out on the lineup here.
Lasisa. Michael’s name for the break. We’re going to be, we’re
potentially heading around to El Loret. The famed right-hand
point break. Couple of hundred meters away from us. next day
or so though? Yeah, that’d be really exciting to get over
there to the corner. You’re going to be driving the Wawa?
Across there? You could drive it, Ollie, yeah? The party one.
Yeah, the Party Wawa. We’ll get the Reggaeton music cranking.
Get behind the wheel of the Walla. Take it to the point.
but it is it’s a great option. Having this bus, having the
judges right in front. Just sitting next to us. Now a stand up. Getting a
raise. On top of the double decker. Yeah, the sun’s beaming
down. Watching the action here. No Estender had a nice nose
right at the back. Can’t quite link that wave up. Makes a
little cheeky change from Cornwall. Yeah. Very cheeky
change. Cornwall. Yeah, it’s raining there today. Pretty
cold. So, you’ve been getting the room? The the report. I
have. Yes, exactly. As we see the competitor in red Sakura. Throwing a bit of spray on that
little cut back there. She’s going to get over this little
**** She doesn’t unfortunately. Can’t quite link that wave up.
Been seeing a lot of those reform waves offering the most
scoring potential. The action just keeps coming.
more ways and we see competitors for the next heat.
That is a man on man. Semifinal for the junior boys. So getting
getting toward the pointy end of competition for the juniors.
Gonna crown a champion today. Thank they can, yeah, they got the
going to paddle out, give them enough time, sit there in the
lineup, assess things. You can really see that deeper water
there where the competitors are. And there’s a bit of a
shallower sandbank just out from them where it gets pretty
heavy. That detonating sandbag just breaks into about an inch
and that one. Gonna get you down. Exactly the one. Exactly
the one. I had sand and literally everywhere.
Yesterday. When I went out there. Got pounded. Sand in the
shower. Going back. Exactly. Yeah, the city of Las Palmas
here. Showers on the beach when you get out from the surf as
well. So, really catering to all ocean type swimmers,
surfers, windsurfing. Just an amazing setup. Some really good
like surf shops for rentals. Get a wet suit. Get your board.
Repaired. Get any dings. Don’t worry about it. Just take it
down to the local Ding Repair boys. They’ll fix it up pretty
quickly. Yeah, it’s got everything right here that you
need. Noah sender. Just checking the
time we are. Coming down to crunch time in this heat. had a slight issue with the
scoring but we do have it back online for you now as the
judges are going to start importing scores. We’ll get that to you and we’ll
get the final results from this heat as we as we’re counting it
down. Fairly soon. Uh so we got Moritz. Over the
top of the leaderboard with the nine. And Segura. Needs a 5.
17. That’s 6point 7 6. Coming in. Yeah. As we’re going to count this
heat out but Noah is just perched on for a hang ten.
Lovely ride. So that is going to factor into this this
heat as well. So. Three, two. hanging ten. Definitely one of
the hardest things to do. In some long boarding. Way for the
heat. We will definitely bring you those scores as we come
back from the commercial break coming up shortly. And yeah
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Welcome to Las Palmas. Okay. It’s go the Junio Boys.
Semi fun he. Un party. Permiso. Ah perdón. On the You the
action. Hello good be so many waves this morning all
throughout the day and now we’re in the semis with the
boys. Yeah, this is. They’ve been ripping. Absolutely
ripping. It’s just going to be a tough heat as is the next
semi-final. We’ll be crowning a champion today in the junior
boys division. Which is really exciting. That’s a great waves
like Ollie just said. In the red. We have Andrew Noel from
France. Scraping over the wave there.
Kinda feeling it out. Yeah, that is two to one. Peugeot in
the white. So Andrew battling it out.
First place will go through to the final. As the boys are just waiting
for the start of this heat. In 20 minutes, twenty-5? So 25
minutes semi-finals. The semi. we will give you an update on
the previous heat results. It’s the platter the la Muziga, the
Opera House. right in front of both brakes of El Loret, the
premium right-hand point break which will be going to heading
to in a day or so. And then La Sisa where we are right in
front of us. Right in front of the bus. Yeah. It just either.
Camera panning across there. Lots of surf breaks on option.
Free surface down there on the beach. Bit of a right bit of a
left. There they are. Enjoying it. Beginners advanced. Kinda
good for everyone out there. Just great ways for everybody.
I mean, right from like from the surf schools in the white
water. If you’re, if you’re new and you’re like kind of
starting out. Yeah, we see some surf schools just there as they
come in a shot. Great place to learn. Water’s nice and warm.
Oh. So good to learn. Instead of you don’t have to put on a 4
million, five million boots and gloves. You’re just jumping in
your booties. Maybe a rash vest. Yeah, exactly. And you’re
out there. The water is about 22 degrees, 21° at the moment. and yeah, so you need a spring
suit in the depths of winter in January, February time.
Obviously, it warms up during the summer. and some of the
warmest months can be like September, October time. Just depending on the wind.
There’s the the Red Bull music. Kind of reggaeton party wagon.
Down by the the athletes. Machines on there. There’s Red
Bull vehicles. Bringing the vibes. Yeah. Always bringing
the vibes. Still on chill out zone there. No one chilling out
just yet. No. Action is heating up toward the. Yeah. Finals of
the juniors. We are looking down toward the spot of
Elarette just around the corner there. But people sitting and
watching the action. Yep. On the road. Right in front of the
Platha Musica the the concert hall there. They’ve got this
crazy statue of Medusa. Yeah that’s right. Right on the
front of the the top of the building there. Just above
where the palm tree is. Here’s Les Paramas. It’s the north end of the
beach. La Pontia. Yeah, you see all the beach umbrellas there.
It’s kind of protected from the wind. Yeah. Lot of tourists.
Little bit sheltered when you go around and kind of hug the
coast around. And there’s no waves there though. Bit more
protected from the from the swell as well. But we’re here
for the waves. We are. So that’s why we’re at the
southern end. Two surfers just waiting out
the back now. in surfing the early heat.
Kinda want to keep the energy. Yeah, definitely. We haven’t
got a start yet to this heat. So, we are just waiting. Oh,
really the results from the last heat, Ollie? That was
round two, heat number two of the longboard division. We had
in first place, Moritzmarsh. He had a 9. 0 combined heat total.
Second place, Noah Stender with 7. 14. So, those two surfers
progressing through into the next round of the longboard.
Unfortunately, Sakura in a way, she had a 6. 76 heat total
coming in third place and Francisco Gill with a 3 point
zero four He was in fourth position. Couple of free surfers out.
Getting ready. Between the flags. It was like surf school
area maybe. Where the flags are. Lifeguards out on the
beach. Yeah, people often wear wet
suits. prefer probably prefer board shorts out there coming
from the colder waters of. But a three two. Three euro. Max. 3
two max. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Or even just a vest. A four mil’s
got no business in the canal. Not at all. What about mid
winter? You’ve spent a bit of time here. I never worn. No.
Yep. I think spring suit kind of got me through the winter.
Perfect. Aurora three two. Christmas time In a new year in
Tenerife and I was boiling. Oh, there you go. Should’ve just gone in bodies.
It’s good. Good to keep that windchill off. Kinda always
windy here as well. In the Canary Islands. but doesn’t
mean you can’t escape the win. You can get those proper glassy
mornings like first thing, any time of year, like in the
summer. Winter, It swells all year round. Waves all year.
Waves all year. There’s always somewhere Cuz being an island
in the middle of the Atlantic. Just getting pounded from all
directions. So whether it’s like a a full on winter ground
swirl. Or a wind swell coming in sort of summertime. And then
you get these these really crazy gnarly winds coming off
Africa. Look at this dust winds which kind of descend on the
canaries and bringing all this brown like sand from Sahara and
you can wake up in the morning and your car would just be
covered in sand. No way. Yeah. Same in Portugal. That’s crazy.
Yeah. Wow. And you’re like, what is going on? You look up
at the sky. This guy’s orange. You’re like, oh, has there been
some bushfires or something? You don’t really know what’s
what’s happening out there but it’s yeah, the winds kind of
picking up from Africa. From the Sahara and then just taking
over to the Canaries and then up to slank gets like in
Southern Pine and Luthier in Spain and then across the
Portugal. That’s some strong wind. We
went to Fuerte and just saw the card. It was just like I
watched it the day before. I woke up in the morning. It was
just covered in sand. What’s going on here? Oh my gosh. So
there’s the pier and just down there. Elwood. the premium
right-hand point break. Here’s the top of the give us a wave. One of our cameramen.
Definitely doing a great job on the camera following all the
athletes. But we are just on the left there behind that
sign. On the top of the bus. Joined by the judges. See both competitors
upstanding. We’re going to get a start of this heat. Pretty
soon. Just taking a short break. in the action just to
get ready. We are going into man on man. Which means we are
going to have priority situations come into play. Guys
here just running. Feeling their their feet here. This is
Andrew Noel from France. And Tituan in the white.
Paddling over this one. Gonna be a good heat. And the next
one coming up as well. That features Japanese surfer Capona
Fakuda. And he is on fire at the moment. And then obviously
Hawaiians and Zanes. So Zane and Andrew in the first heat
this morning. Getting knocked into repercharge but they’ve
obviously made their way through to the semi finals.
Great effort from them. Big shout out to our partners.
on the Grand Canaria Pro Am Calvido the Gran Canaria.
Torismo the Grand Canaria. The Institute of Insular deportes
Canaria s. Maspalomas. Costa Canaria.
and up and up and running. Just
fiddles out of them. Facebook comment. Just come in
from Carolyn Redway who is actually might be surfing in
this event. She actually wears a four -three in the mornings
surfing out here. Huh? Can get a little chilly. So. There we
are. Fair enough. Fair enough. Guess it just depends on your
level of cold. Where you what you feel? That is good to know. Still a
little mic. Especially those first things in the morning.
You know the sun’s not up yet. Didn’t pop up until like what?
730? Eight? Yeah. Earlier than that. Yeah. especially that
wind around as well. If that cheeky wind kicks in. Hmm. The
north wind. The free surfers out there.
They’re probably in four threes as well. Seeing the mixture. Yeah,
springies. That’s right. Someone who rash guard in the
background. I mean, the suits go. The suits now. I wear a
four three all year long in Portugal, summer, winter, and
they’re so flexible like you feel like you’re not even in a
suit sometimes. This man knows all about wetsuits. This is our
water photographer. Psy. He’s getting it ready. He’s
like, what am I doing on camera? He’s probably wearing.
Looking behind him. He’s probably wearing a four three.
Yeah, he’s a four, three, three, two. Yeah, I’d say he’s
probably going to think where to just. We got a grill em when
we when we see him later. We’re going to get to the bottom of
it. Yeah, exactly. Especially, yeah, if you, obviously, you’re
moving around as a water photographer in the lineup.
Trying to get the best shots. Yeah, so I wanted the best in
the world. Shot a lot of events. Lot of windsurfing
events. He’s been doing the APP World Tour events for quite a
while now. I was having a chat with him this morning about
what’s his favorite type of of shooting if he’s is it land? Is
it in the water? And he was just saying it’s gotta be
barrels. Every time you feel a part of it. You tell me. It’s
just when you’re out there in the lineup. Yeah. Just looking
down the line in the barrel. You can just see them getting
completely slotted. You just said that is the. And then you
get that take that image. That’s amazing. Yeah. That is
insane. Families out here today Tourists. So maybe he’s getting
a photo of the Wawa. I think no I think it’s probably the
probably the Medusa on top. Yeah probably the. Yeah. The auditorium the the Playa the la
Musica. Yeah, it’s the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium. It’s a Opera
House, Platte of Musica. They have different types of music,
Jazz concerts here. Let’s have a little look at the poster
outside showing him multiple like events and concerts coming
up. What kind of genre music? More like the classic. More
like kind of classical. Yeah. I think they do have like some
jazz. Yeah. Stuff as well. Nice. Don’t know if it goes
into the kind of You guys ready? Music boat. Down there.
Down the road. Probably down there. It’s probably. In the
buzz. You know they’re going to be cranking come the weekend. or even as we saw Sunday. Yes,
exactly. That’s right. So, we are looking to get a start in
the semi-finals of the junior boys. Semifinal number one.
Counting in. Maybe just slightly out of
position for this set. Coming into the start of this heat.
So, the first of the semi-finals Junior boys. A
solid set has come through. One of the biggest waves of the day
actually. Maybe it’s because they’re junior boys. It looks
like. Andrew Noel. What a really nice looking left here.
He’s found a nice one that’s got a bit of a clean face as
well. Can he get through? Fortunately not. Not going to
link it up. So you’re sitting quite wide. You can see the
wave behind. Just going to run into that deeper water too.
Just goes into the channel. I think. Right now. Let’s see one. Just looking around. The 25
minutes for the semis. Yeah, good to have that bit extra
amount of time. To play with. How was that though when you
were when you were competing? Those five extra minutes? Oh,
made a huge difference. 20 minutes felt really rushed. 25
minutes, you’ve actually got a bit of breathing space. So, you
can strategize a bit more as we do see a fantastic view. This
is giving you both both the lineups. So, on the right
there, you got Eldoret. Then in between Platamusica, the
auditorium. And then we are on the on the left of the screen
here. Assis Up and riding. Andrell. Sig top 10 there.
Yeah, keeping busy. Staying nice and busy. As you probably
noticed, yeah, a little slash. You’ll probably notice on the
top of the screen there. We do have priority in the semi-final
heats of the junior boys. So, you’ll see a little P one next
to the name of the person who has priority. Something they
didn’t really have to worry about. In the previous rounds.
Exactly. So, priority means that you basically have right
of way for whichever way you want to catch and the other
competitor needs to give you that right of way. We’re
going to see some paddle battles. I think we do. Always
exciting. They’re always exciting. see if competitors,
you know, catch a wave one after, after each other.
They’re paddling back out. Be able to see them fighting for
that position. That competitor who does reach the lineup first
will get their priority. and a big advantage having having
that priority. Being able to wait for a good wave. Huge
advantage. Get the choice. Especially if they’re not just
coming in and sort of like sort of seeing maybe like on the
biggest sets like two sort of coming in and But I feel like
hasn’t been a stacked kind of lineup like like three or four.
That’s right. Sets. Feel like it’s a tricky out there. It
might it might even be best not to have priority on a daylight
today. You can kind of go around the inside. Yeah. Some
little waves. Stay busy. Look for those nuggets. The smaller
ones that we were talking about earlier today. Exactly. You
know for a bit more high scoring opportunities. So a
lovely top turn there from Tituan. So just that one turn
so far but really critical in the lift. And he spotted
something down the line. And he’s going to get to it as
well. Finishes it off nicely. So even though just two turns
they were really controlled, committed. Great finish there.
Really good finish. So we’ll see that score come through
shortly. Yeah I can feel like with
priority, he can get the nerve. That was the dismount. That was
there. That was the dismount. Push the board over the over
the wave. We’ll see a replay of Ttwo one’s wave. Loving the
down the line drone angle. It’s like a follow drone cam. Yeah.
Yeah, great drone footage. Like I said, just the two turns on
the wave but good two turns. This bit. Oh. So we just see that Tituan
there. Four point eight three. Let us know if you have any
questions, comments. We are live on the APP Facebook page.
And also on APP World Tour. com. Thanks for tuning in
everybody. From around the world. Fifty-five. So great
bringing the community back together. I mean 2019 the last
time that we could have this. and yeah it’s it’s so great to
see all the faces come back. To be able to compete for a world
title. Yeah that’s right. ISA. Yep. Puerto Rico. That’s right.
Lot of competitors were there for the World Games. We have
the ISA World Champion in the men’s and the women’s here
competing at the event. So very exciting. See these these guys
coming up in the next couple of days. And past Grand Canaria
Pro Am event winners for twenty nineteen. So, Wellington,
Reece. And Ibea Moreno. That’s right. Both men and women’s.
They buy a 2018 world champion on the APP World Tour. So,
looking to get a second world title to a name. She’s already
got about a million windsurfing. She has got a lot
of world titles. I’m actually not sure of the number but her
and her sister over combined. Windsurfing World titles. I
think so. Something. I don’t know. Something crazy. I’ll
have to get that stat. She’s now based in Puerto Ventura but
is from the south of the island here from Grand Canaria. Oh,
sorry, the east, the east. Yeah. There we go. So yeah, the
Bolema if Kerala. So, just just south the airport there. So
here we are. Did one again. Backing up that score of a 4.
83 on this ride. He’s had a couple of nice little turns and
he gets up just there. See, I will say that Ibaya and
her sister died her. 28 time Windsurf World Champion
combined. Which is just incredible. Dominating. It’s 28
years. 28 different years. Spanning that career. I mean
Las Canaria s. Just amazing. Surfers, windsurfers. Just water sports. All
rounders. Yeah. Really is the mecca of water sports. You can
do it all. As we see Andrew. Andrew and Oil. Just slipping
and sliding a little bit. Can’t hold it. Wave looks like it
fizzled anyway. So. Skid it round there and didn’t quite
regain it. No problem. Could’ve been looking to get a good
score on that because Titawan has just overtaken him for the
lead. He had 2. 93 on that previous wave. So, having a
total heat score of seven point seven six. Now, just got
priority. He’s going to go on this one. Yeah, no. Second
half, I’m just going to fix. Decided not to. I And that priority will be
switching. One, two, one. That looks at Tituan. He’s having a
little paddle. He’s not going to take that wave but. We
do have plenty of time left. 17 minutes. 27 seconds on the
clock remaining. Conditions maybe glassing off a
little bit out there Ollie. I hope so. Get a bit of an
afternoon glass. Definitely those those flags have stopped
flapping in the wind. Not shaking. Wow was not shaking.
Okay that’s been the last couple of days. But what a
fantastic. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be moving to
another location. Shaking so much. Lost. Right. No the wind
is definitely it’s calming down. It’s just going to get
just lighter and lighter as the week goes on. Okay good. Good
is for all the competitors. As we do see Tituwani up again.
One turn and then a big extended cut back into the
white water. Nicely dragging that. The paddle there. There
is. Let’s get back into the the zone, huh? Yeah, really leaning
on it using it. That’s the thing with Zeno paddle
boarding. You can use that paddle. You can lean over so
much on it. It still hold you up. And then you can push with
your feet. Whether you amplify or turns. That’s exactly what
the judge is looking for. But it’s not that they have to
use it for every single maneuver. They just use it when
it’s going to be. That’s right. Exactly. It’s going to benefit
the maneuver and the turn and cranking those bottom turns
with the paddle. Andrew Just waiting for this
wave to start to stand up a bit but again, just hitting that
deeper water. It looks like just fanning out this on the
channel there. So maybe he’s tied. It’s just just making
this outside pick a little bit more appealing than the inside
possibly. So fifteen. On the clock left. Okay Still
plenty of time. Andrew Noel. The four point nine. Maybe somebody just shouted. As
soon as. The seven point seven six. Not sure who has priority. I
think we’re just just organizing that now. They’re
just getting their priority system set up properly. I
believe that we just did see. I think it was. Yeah, it’s too
too long. Yeah, intro on the last wave. So, Tituan. With
priority. With priority number two. What’s coming in here? You see
both competitive. Both. Giving it a look. They want to want to
go onto this way but obviously Red has to give way. To White
with priority. Wipes up. Oh. Up in there just pushing it
a little bit too much here. Yeah, I think just rail. Yeah,
I think just trying to push that board a bit too much. Go
for a second. Just falling off. So Priority now sits with
Andrew. Yes. It looks like a nice wave
coming here. For a competitor in red. Wave. He’s going to be
able to get some into the top. It just didn’t quite happen. Uh
just a little bit. So conditions changing a lot from
just the even the last heat. Ollie. Seeing competitors.
Sitting a bit wider into that channel. I was thinking of a little bit
too far over maybe. I think so. Yeah. Definitely could be. I
think the inside now with that lower tide is not really
working as well as it was this morning. So we we’re seeing
competitors head out to the back. It’s really strange
because out outside there there’s a a reef. And you have
to really sit right on the edge of that reef and as the tide
drops out against shallower and shallower. You went out there
yesterday for a little. Yes. Look around on the left. Have a
little look. Didn’t do much. It was mostly just looking. But it
was Good to see that it is really tough out there to find
the right position. Need to be really sitting on the edge of
that reef. The bigger ones break a little bit wider but
then they get it to that to that deeper section. So really
tricky to to find out where to sit. These competitors decided
to stick together. But there is another wave a bit further down
the beach. You were surfing yesterday Ollie. It was pretty
fun. It was really fun. I mean it looked fun from the shore.
When you’re out there it was it was tough. It was tricky. I was
just happy to be out there bro. Yeah that’s exactly right.
Yeah. Always try and go into that mindset. Whenever you
pedal out you’d be like yeah you’re surfing. That’s right.
Exactly. You are surfing. There are definitely worse things to
do. That’s exactly right. a great backdrop as well. City of
North Thomas. It’s beautiful. To see Andrew. Andrew hit.
Fading back. Get a bit of speed. He’s going to what’s he
got for us? Nice turn in the pocket there. So opening up
that wave. Again just hitting the deeper section so. Just
getting that one big turn in. Yeah. Looks like it’s going to
be. The battle of getting a really critical first turn in.
For the high score. The competitors of the next
heat. Hopefully watching closely because there’s
conditions of change since they were in the water before. Yeah.
changing all the time out here. See with the tide, you know,
dropping out. It’s getting lower and lower but then on
that far end, out the back here, sort of dropping into the
channel and just losing a bit of power. So See going. Looks like he’s
cutting back to the right. Wants to bank it off the white
water. Lovely turn there. He can keep this one moving
through. He wants to bounce through but he’s not going to
get that connection. So, really seeing the positioning come
into play now. Competitors sticking together. We actually
do see two to one. Just waiting for some waves here on the
inside. He thought maybe that one was going to stand up as he
heads back out. Yeah, I was wondering if there was a, he
was looking at it. Just shifting position out there out
here. We can see that water moving so much. Just a ripple
on on the front of the current wear. Where the water
photographer is. Trying to get as close to them when they kind
of do those turns. So this is the heat number one
of the semi-finals of the junior boys under eighteen.
We’ll be crowning a champion today. In both the junior boys
and junior girls. As Andrew just comes unstuck on
that take off. Not needing a massive score to get into first
position. First position will advance through to the final. So, 9 minutes, 25 seconds
remaining. The first semi-final. The boys, under
18s. If you are watching online, let
us know what you think of the level of the juniors. Yeah.
Great to hear what you think of the performances so far in the
event. Ask us some questions. Send it in. We’ll be checking
the comments. Let us know where you’re coming in and from as
well. We had a a good morning from Huntington Beach just
before. So, thanks for tuning in. Be pretty early over there.
Yeah, I think so. Very early. Almost six 6 AM. Yeah. Six, 6
thirty, California. Yeah. LA time. Great to say that you
love stand up paddling. You’re tuning in first thing. Waking
up. Cuz this is psyched. Yeah Zane Zanes. Running a blue
planet. Hawaii board. He’s getting in the zone there.
Yeah. Just thinking about his game plan. Exactly. Maneuvers
he’s going to get up to. Definitely need one out there
today. These tricky conditions. And Capono Fakuda from Japan.
This is going to be a really great second semi-final heat.
For the junior boys. They’re going to be all in.
Trying to reach that final. Get Bono doing some warm ups. Little limber up out there.
Yeah. Seeing a bit of some jiu jitsu style warm ups this
morning. Yes, we have. Yeah, we know a couple of the Brazilian
surfers black belt jiu jitsu. Yup. Oh, not going to mess with
those guys. Not just amazing on a standout or a longboard but.
Yeah, amazing on the. Lethal on land as well as water. Very
lethal. Always have to be courteous in the lineup. Yes,
exactly. I thought it was nice the Brazilians this morning
heading out for a very early morning free surf session. Come
and say hello to all the judges. Yeah. All the events.
Super friendly. Fist bumps. Fist bumps all around. Spirits
are really high here in the community. We stand up. Just it
feels so welcoming as well. Being an outsider myself. Being
super warm welcomes around. In Las Palmas And a great vibe. Between other
countries. We’re doing the opening opening day. Everyone’s
kind of chatting and Yeah, really good vibes all
around. Stand up community is a great community to be a part
of. As we are looking at red Andrew Noel. He needs a 5. 06
to move into advancing position. That is Tituan on
screen right now. How was it when you were competing? This
is fourteen? 2014? 2015? 20, yeah. Yeah, it was, I mean,
there was like Kyle Lenny was doing it back then. And it was
tough competition because everyone wanted to beat Kai.
But still everyone would have. Be the champ. Yeah, he’s like,
everyone hang out in the evenings. I remember Brazil one
year just. Brazilians super welcoming. Just having house
parties and not too much drinking but just music playing
and. No, just throughout the event. Already? Yeah, yeah.
Just big dinners with everyone. Just like a family community.
Yeah, really enjoyable. And in Tahiti as well, it’s such a
family-oriented community there and you know, Sundays are just
barbecues on the beach and. Nice. Yeah. Super cool. So, no,
it’s. Just a warm Polynesian. Yeah. Welcoming. That’s it,
exactly. We have a comment saying Japanese juniors are
pretty good. As we see Kafono on screen there. Yes, they are.
So, yeah, they’re in a way sisters. Capone, Pikuda. Running a Sonova board there.
You see that rail has a little bit of a a step to it. It
looked little. Hmm. Very small. Short board. My short board
size. That board’s actually six ten. He’s riding. around 70 liters. Pretty maneuverable. Very
maneuverable for that one. Yeah, I’ve seen Caperno out
there the last couple of days. He’s been the surfer out there
the most. So, he knows his break really well. definitely
helped to put the time if you can. Oh, yeah, definitely. I
mean, just after paddling out there yesterday, I definitely
need a few more sessions if if I woulda know this break for
sure. We’re just coming down to the
four minute mark. Four minutes, 15 seconds on the clock. Two
different strategies out here. Beau. Andrew just opt in to go
for a little casual sit down. Yeah he doesn’t have priority
at the moment so to the one in priority. Look at the waves but yeah that
that rip’s really starting out there. Yeah. You can see it is
bit of wind, bit of the bit of current. Did you see Andrew paddling for
that wave but not going to really happen. You can see just
to the left of them is that reef that we were speaking
about earlier. Waves break there and they’re positioning
themselves right next to the reef. hopefully get a left that
breaks off there. But it’s really now just. Yeah. You get
pulled out and you get a little bit too far or then you want to
sit in close but see the sets come so it’s really tricky out
there. So Red’s got priority. Yeah
White made a a kind of an effort there to paddle for the
wave and lost priority. As we do see Andrew paddling for this
one. But he’s not going to get onto it. So it’s going to
switch back to White with priority. Very interesting as
we count down. this heat and almost two and a half minutes
left. Super close. Very close
exactly. Andrew doesn’t need much of a score either. No,
that’s five. 03. In reach. For Andrew. Yeah, the surfing we’ve
seen him in doing this morning. This needs a 5. Point zero six.
Climb back into the lead. 2 minutes and 17 seconds
remaining on the clock. In this first semi. Now Tituan out in front at the
moment. So the boys are sitting down. Not much happening out
there in the water. Hopefully we’ll get another set come
through just before the heat wraps up. Welcome everyone
watching from around the world. People tuning in from the US.
Early morning on the West Coast over in California. hopefully getting to watch. Get
amped up before getting out the water. Yeah. Coming into surf
season over there too. getting amped, getting ready.
The South Swells. Always one of my favourite
things to do to watch surfing before you before you go for a
surf. Always. Put on a surf movie. Even better when there’s
a event run. When there’s an event running. Such as this.
Grand Canaria Pro Am. Watching the best surfers in the world.
This is the junior division. which just blows my mind.
Right. How good they are. and they’re still genius. I mean,
So many more years left. The quality of subsurf. Just
getting better and better. Kids are getting younger. Such
younger. We had 11-year-old Pedro from Brazil and to this
event on his 511 catching a million waves. Yeah, exactly.
Frothing out. So 27 seconds left. The first
semi-final heat. Tito one. He’s going to use his priority here
at the last minute just to keep Andrew off this wave. Back into
the pocket. Not a lot happening so far. Prosperity red. It’s the last 10 seconds. Looks
like we actually do have Oh Andrew finishing. Nice.
Yeah. Long right one. All the way through but we do have
Andrew up on a wave as well. Just before the horn, yeah.
Watch though. He wants to get a nice reform and he has that.
But then, he’s found it. Little off the top. Little jam off the
top there. Throw a claim in might get an extra point one.
Claim. You gotta get the fist pump in the air just to. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Throw the paddle in the air. Swirl it around. Were
there some of your tricks, Bo? Oh, always. Paddle twirl. Yep,
put it behind the back. The paddle twirl. Yep, the paddle
twelve. So it’s either one. We’ll wait for those scores.
Wait for the final scores to come in. Yeah, for Andrew to
come in. So, being a good sportsman just waiting for his
competitor to come in. Gonna shake hands. He’s riding a
gong. Alley seven four, that board. And Andrew. This is normally.
Seems a great sportsmanship there. Well done boys. From the
first semi-final heat of the juniors. Great semi-final. On a
show. Everyone watching. On the boardwalk. In Las Paramas.
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Joinny Boys. What’s great action a bat today? we got
Capone Fakuda in the red. Zane Sanes in the white. This is
going to be a really interesting semi-final. Because
These guys, Zane coming as the top seed in this event and the
surfing we’ve seen from from Capono so far is mind blowing
as a junior surfer. And I think he’s probably going to make
some waves in the main event as well. and is he in the trials?
He is in the trials. So he’s in the trials. That’s correct. but
before the trials. we got the semis. We got the semis. That’s
right. And then the. All the juniors entering the trials of
the this event. So, we’ll see them all surfing again. Which
is awesome. They’re going to see if they can get through to
the the main. For both the men’s and the women’s. Pan out there on La Isla, the
Grand, Grand Canaria. National Park in the background. Epic
hiking. Walking route up there. And La Sisa. Seeing this wave morph, couple
of times during the day. Depending on that tide and if
it was changing, sort of going from you know, it’s been about
four foot all day. Yeah. Three, four, five, some of the sets. But the focus has been, yeah,
the left. But given that right bit of an option as well.
Definitely inside. Reforms. Yeah, it is part of the contest
area. We haven’t seen any competitors. Head over to the
other break, yeah? No. So, it’s plenty of free surfers over
there. Plenty of free surfers over there. I don’t know. So these two competitors just
waiting for a set wave to come through. You can see Capone there on a
pretty small board. 610. Sonova. Yeah. Quite thick in
the middle. But the rails really taper down. It’s really
nice and thin. Definitely different styles between
between these two. Definitely. Different constructions as well
between these two boards. Zane on just that traditional epoxy.
While Senovi is a wooden lamination. Bit more strength.
flex. Yep, exactly. It’s his own. Yeah. Oh, straight up into
the lip. That was a really nice turn. Hopefully, they got us. The
Zane trying to wait for this little reform and see what’s
going to happen on the inside. We have seen it stand up on the
inside here as he finds his time. Getting busy. Yeah,
unfortunately, he’s can’t find that section but a really nice
turn on the outside. That was a great, great turn on the
outside. It’s a small score coming in
from Carbono. Point 33. Yeah, he just paddled for a little
one at the back. just to repositioning. Take a loose a
little bit. Yeah. It’s like a couple of little
lines at the back. Could see Capono get onto a wave here.
Coming into the pointy end. Semis. This guys are being put
it on. Yeah we’ll have on a show earlier this morning. Oh,
yeah. Certainly will. Have the girls coming up too. As Capono
is paddling for this one. He’ll switch the paddle over.
He’s going to go left. Nice whipping turn at the start
there. Find a little bit of a steeper section. Nice. Little
cut back in there. Again, it’s going to stand up for him. So,
Capono finding a good wave. Three turns on the outside.
Nothing too critical. But three turns that were linked together
well. Get the reform. Yeah. This is going to show me time
out there. Does really pay off. Finding the right waves. Also
not giving up on it. He could’ve just done this three
turns and then ditched it but. That’s right. Well, watch a
replay of of Capono’s wave. Really nice. That first one was
beautiful. Yeah. Seem extending that back foot. Throwing spray. And there, yeah, you’re right.
There he could’ve tried to do it. He could’ve just kicked
out. Yeah. Okay, I’m done with it. That’s it but you could see
this opportunity on the right and he had to clear all this
white water section to get to it but another two turns. He’s
catching once on the inside and then twice as finish off. Bang.
Was there a third? So, he just pulls out there. Amazing.
Amazing. On that wave. He will be happy with that wave. See
what the score’s going to come in. We did see Zane drop a 5.
67, though for his first ride. Nice. So good score coming
through. And the situation used to these
kind of conditions back at home you reckon? I definitely think,
yeah, I think so. Bit of punch. Yep, that’s right. That Zane
wouldn’t be afraid of the big stuff. No, that’s exactly
right. Be charging. Charging indeed. Suzanne. Hawaii definitely
getting similar. Born and raised in a while. Yep. In the
trade wins there as well. So to get some windy conditions. When
does the wind switch on? Over there. Switches on. Really
trade wind during the winter. And then kind of a till about
late March, April. Then I’ll start to drop off a little bit.
In the North Shore to get those northeast season. Trade wins in
the on the North Shore yeah. Throughout winter slightly
event to run there. You get some. Just diving, ditching his
board there. I felt one of those yesterday. Oh yeah. There
we go. Then another one. Double whammy. So, he’s going to get
straight under there. Yeah. Just ditch out. We were talking
about it with the paddles. You just gotta then just let me
dive off. You got under the water. He’s just gripping on.
Yeah, he’s hanging under the paddle. It’s not as bad as you
think with the paddle underwater but sometimes it
gets caught in the turbulence and if you’re not holding onto
it, super tight, it just gets ripped out of your hands. Mm.
So, you do have to be on top of it. Zane just sinking that
board there. So, you’re on a board at all? Just walking on
water? Exactly. So Zane just paddling over this
one. But Capono locks in a score for his first ride. Yeah
six point ride. He jumps up into the lead. Stoked with
that. See, obviously, three turns on
the outside. Finding that reform on the inside. Can you
get your scores in that good range? So 16 minutes. Semi-final. Heat
two. Capono. versus Zane. This could easily be a final.
Ollie. Between these two surfers. Hawaii, upper, up
against Japan. Super even at the moment. It’s
Yeah, these scores are tight. It’s hard to pick. As we see the city of Las
Palmas in the background. Perfect place to hold this
event. Grand Canaria Pro Am is part of the APP World Tour.
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the coast of Africa. Desmi thinking it’s warm in Portugal. And we’re coming at you live
from the the Wawa, the fun bus. In Las Parmas, Right in front.
This left hander. Such a fun wave on different
different tides during during the day. Further across on the
right, there’s a nice right hand over where the free
surfers are. And then the competition area, some lefts
and rights. It’s Campano up. on the left. Fast off the first
turn there. Whipping it back around. He’s finding these
waves that link up and give him a little bit of scoring
potential. Nice deep section there. Hits it into the left.
And again he’s going to find a nice bank off the white water.
He’s on his way to a good score already. That’s some six snaps
there. Really nice. and again, really negotiating
that flat section. Hungry for the inside. What’s he got?
Little tap. Yeah, a little tap. Can’t quite finish it but all
the hard work was done. He got it. He’s going to get a good
score. Good score on that. So, he’s going to extend that lead
already that he has. We had a question come in. What
are the trial event? What is the trial events that is
happening for as part of the APB tour? So the trials?
Basically gives an an opportunity for I guess the
winners of the trials to advance into well the main
event. So the men’s and the women’s. Yeah Yeah, we’ll see. Replay here.
Capono’s replay. Just non-stop turns and here we go. It just
opens up in these more critical, steeper sections up
into the lip. Bouncing off the white water. can read a wave
really well Caperno. nicest
nicest bit of foam climb. Yeah. and then again, just reading it
to try and get one last turn but just unfortunately falls
off the back of this one. yeah the trial event. If you’re not
seated into the main event you can have an opportunity to get
into that main event through the trials. going once again. We’re glad. It’s that last wave
of Capone Fakudo. 7. 17. So very very great way from
Capona. Just taking his lead. A total of twelve 8 four. 12
minutes remaining. So he’s got Biff catching up to do now. more sets coming. Just a
constant flow of waves here in Las Paramas. yeah the action’s been non-stop
all day. He’s making a way through the juniors. Had the
long borders out there earlier as well. Styling it up. Those
rights. Zane. From Hawaii. Another Zane two chains in this
event. But this is just fading back there on the right and
then opening up to left. Off the top. Slightly missed time
but still looked really good. So, looking for the reform, is
he? Not quite there for him. Yeah,
there. And for a capital city, I mean,
the waves in their backyard it’s an absolute dream. I’m
surprised. There’s a lot more people there. Fun student
university town. Imagine studying here and. Be awesome.
Yeah, super cool. We were lucky enough to study on the Gold
Coast. In Australia. Did our sports management degree there?
Sports management, bracket surfing studies, Bo. Exactly
slash. We weren’t in the same year but. No, exactly. But what
a funny course that was. Surfing Sapper Rocks. Living at
Kirra. Yep. Where did you live when you were there? I actually
just lived just behind Kira, Tweed Heads. Nice. But yeah,
not not far away like two-minute walk from the
border. So, New South Wales and Queensland. And where was,
where’s your closest break? Was it Duramba? Literally, Kira was
was was was the closest, closest one to me, yeah. with being a paddleboarder and
a longboard. It was that liked. It’s always going to Currumbin
Alley. Oh. Surf the beaches. The alley. And Burleigh.
Burleighheads. Yeah. Some amazing waves. Such good waves.
You see the Superbank. The time I was there. It was sort of.
Kira was sort of wasn’t classic. Old Kira. Kira of the
day but there was enough sand so it worked. I remember one
one day I I snapped three boards in one day. What? It was
a very expensive of day. Very expensive, right? Oh my gosh.
Especially as a student there. Yep. Yeah. I was like, run back
to the shaper. Um. Yeah, having a good. Love it again. So, what
were you doing in? I was like, I was pulling in. I just wasn’t
coming out. I’m heavy enough. Yeah, exactly. Just making them
to to perform it. Exactly. That was, it was good times.
and the water sort of feels like the water temperature here
in the Canaries feels like the same as the Gold Coast. So, you
know, the winds are over there. You’re in a wet suit. Shorty.
And Zane. Up on the left. Off the top. Nice snap in the
pocket. Bring it through to the inside.
Just in the white water there. Zen did get a 3. 5 on his
previous ride. Not enough to get into that first place. He
is looking for a sevenpoint18. Nicely negotiated there on the
inside. Yeah, it’s getting shallow in that. It’s
definitely getting shallow. You can see it bubbling away. Few
of the bowlers. Slippery little rust because those boulders.
They are. Capono. Oh, so Zayn. Now with a score
of ten. Four three three with that last
wave. Yeah, improve his scoreline just a little bit but
still looking for that seven point one eight. As Capono is
on. Really nice looking wave as he goes vertical. Rail. For
that first turn. And again in up into the white water. Just
really attacking this one. Fading back in. Probably one of
the most critical turns we’ve seen. All day. All day I think
yeah. All day. And he’s going to find another little
bit of wave to work with and he’s going to run. It’s great
surfing. He faces this one. He made sure
of that. He’s still going to go. Yeah, that deserves a
random rifle component. That was a really good wave.
Remember, these guys are under 18 years old. Just to spray off
that first turn. It was amazing. On rail, committed
It’s going to be great to see the replay. So this thing.
Perfect. You gotta slow mullet. How’s this? Off the top.
Vertical. Yeah, Right on rail. Timed it. So perfect that the
white water just pushed him back to be able to get and then
again, into the lip. but he’s not done there. He’s not done
there. No, he he didn’t want to force another turn in there
either. He just wanted to wait for the wave. You know, he’s
got some good turns in already. So, he’s going to make his way
through here. And more. Get the scores coming through for that
ride. That was an 8. 33. In the excellent range, Capono
extending his lead. Capone had two waves in the excellent
range in his first seat as well. So, total 15. 5. Total
heat score. Zane now needs a nine. eight three. To progress
to the final. Anything is possible? It is.
Yeah, it is. That’s right. They got 6 minutes on the clock
remaining. Semi-final number two. Capona really just not giving
up on those waves. Kind of pushing through the the flat
sections. Getting into the inside. Yeah, he’s working the
the whole wave. Reading it really well. Just working it. What’s Zane
seen? He’s kind of heading out. Further out back. Yeah Zane’s currently got
priority out there. It’s a little bit Little bit
rippy. It’s coming through the channel. It’s Capone just
trying to make his way round. Round the main breaking
section. Here’s a set coming. You’ll see if Zane. Nope. He’s
not going to get over there. He’s just going to. He’s not
going to get over that one. Just presses the eject button.
Get out of the just under 5 minutes remaining. in the
second semi-final of the junior boys. Junior girls coming up
next. It’s going to be exciting to watch. Yeah very exciting.
Stoked. Yeah. Got the innovate sisters. Annabelle Page. Along
with Marina. Bayelsa. We’re going to be going
straight into the semi-finals of the girls. Yeah. So Zane leading a nine point
eight three. Triumph. Take Capono out of the top spot.
Otherwise, it’s going to be the young Japanese Capuno heading
into the final. Yeah, of the junior boys under eighteens.
Grand Canaria. Las Bartimas. He’ll be up against two to one.
He’s already made the final from the previous heat. It
should be resting now Tituan. Yes. He’ll be watching this one
on the ball walk. Hopefully, definitely. Seeing he was he’s
going to be going up against. Been chilling out in the
athlete zone. Yeah, maybe listen to some music. Getting
warm. Did you listen to music before your heats? Yeah, I did
always. Get psyched up. Yeah, yeah. What did you, you used to
listen to? Oh, it has Aussie, Aussie rap. Aussie rap? Yeah.
Always Aussie rap. It was the best. Like who? Uh Blizzard
Esso. What about your favorite one? Yeah. That was like that a
good song. Yeah, this is a good psychopath song. Nice. Just
getting into the zone. Full zone. Hilltop woods. Yeah.
Yeah. Loving it. I love the hilltop heads. Probably like fanning. Mick
Fanning star. He’s going to be. Exactly. Yeah. Massive big head
first. Yeah. Would you would you done the big the big
headphones? No, they weren’t that big. No. It’s fun, a
little quiet area. Just put the earbuds in. I just stretch. It
kind of. Yep, this cheese get ready. That’s it. Get in the
zone. And then some competitor walked
past and say hello and I’m like, oh hey. And that’ll be
out of the zone. Yeah. Don’t get me out of the zone.
Exactly. Uh. You’re going to be sitting there with your mean
face on but. Yeah, that’s it. I know. So, two minutes and 8 seconds
remaining. Capono. Good lead here. He knows knows the situation.
It’s going to be just waiting. Yeah we’ve just seen the
priorities switch there so. Zane maybe on a wave. 35 seconds Yeah. Coming down to the crunch
time right now. Capono. Got a pretty healthy lead. I saw it
flattened off a bit. It has. Let’s hope the competitors get
a chance. Complete to Zane. Capone just looking for what’s
on the horizon here. Yeah, Zane. They’re sitting down and
resting. No sitting down, definitely not with the last
minute remaining. Okay, 1 minute, 1 minute. Zane wanted
to get a wave. You see the inside wave running there a
little bit. Offering some potential. It’s definitely not
as fat anymore. No, it’s definitely not that lower tide.
Staying into it. Yup. Definitely helps the
competitors just watch all different conditions out there
with the tide changing. What the wind’s doing. How the
swells coming in. Hitting La Sisa. the wave playground that is Las
Panamas Grand Canaria. So many waves around. It’s amazing.
good bodyboard waves. Good short subway. Pretty serious.
Bodyboard waves are out. Good sub waves. Foiling,
Windsurfing. White trying to. Yeah. Zaza. Actually on this
wave. Must be the last ride of the heat. And Zay is going to
go right up into the lip. Can he run ahead of it? He’s not
going to get out of it but that was very radical. Fins out the
back. Just giving it his all on that last. He had to do a
little helmet. Hail Mary for sure. Nine point eight three he
had to get. To be able to progress. And Capono. Yeah
Capoto will go up against here. So this is the highlight reel
of Capono’s waves in this heat. He seems slashing away. As he
gets into this critical section. Up into the left. Jams
it off the top there. Such a great surfer. Yeah. Can’t wait
to see him competing in the trials event. Alright. I don’t know. On his,
this is the big high scoring wave. Just that one massive
turn. Then backs it up back into the white water nice and
vertical again. was sick. Really controlled surfing from
from a junior. 17 year old. 17 year old. Like. Oh so it’s
better than us. Definitely. I mean look. The
phone plan there. Yeah, Caperna has. Just looking out for what
sections up next. Taps it off the top there. Fantastic wave there. As you
see our competitors. Caperno coming in. He’s very happy
progressing into the finals of the junior boys. Up next we’re
going to have the junior women but we’ll go to a short
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Welcome to Grand Canaria Pro Am. We’re in the water with the
semi-finals, the first semi-final of the girls, the
junior girls, under 18. Yeah, Kaylee in a way in the red,
Annabelle Page in the white. Up against each other, fighting
for that final position. So he’s going to be crowned
champion of the juniors today. Just saw two amazing
semi-finals. Yeah, the junior boys did the one. Peugeot and
Capodo Fakudo going to be in the final of the Junior Boys
but here we are. Sakura Inuwe taking off late on this one and
she’s going to carve her way back toward the white water.
She’s going to hit it off the top. Really nice flowing
maneuvers. Just absolutely going for it.
That’s what the judges want to see. Exactly. That’s what we
all want to see. Very true. Great surfing. Think this is
Kaidi. In a way. the older sister. And we have Annabelle
Page up on the screen. We do have team number two. Which
will be coming up after this first semi-final. So that is
Annabelle Page out there in the water in the white. So, Katie
opening up her account. Really nicely, really strongly. So bring you those scores as
they come through from Katy. Welcome
Welcome to everyone watching around the world. The APP World
Tour here in Las Panamas Granken area. Hope you’re
joining us on either Facebook Live. Throw in your comments,
your questions. Okay, are you ready? Had a question coming
about the longboard event. That we’ve been holding today. And
why was it mixed with men and women? Good question. Yeah,
very good question. We have I think we just wanted to open up
the division. Probably not enough entries for the women.
Hm. So, they ended up surfing with the men but they put on
some great performances against the men as well and we will
see. Which was epic to see. So epic. We also actually see
Kader in a way progressing through into that quarter final
of the long board. which will be maybe looking at holding
tomorrow. Yeah. Having the long boarding on. Exactly. There’s
our junior boys finalist. Capono Fakuda. Walking up the
stairs here. Congrats. Yeah, put on a great performance.
Excellent scoring ride. He’s here with his dad. One of the
highest scoring waves of the day. Definitely he’s one of the
highest scoring waves. I think he had some excellent rides as
well earlier in the first round. the juniors. It’s just
that hulk that combo just combining the outside section.
It’s super long last and then just wrapping around into the
inside. Again, sort of six, seven turns on the wave. definitely putting his all into
that semi-final. He’s going to fire up the points with the
judges. That’s what they want to see. keeping that board
moving. But the waves he found as well just offered up so much
potential and he could just find these critical sections
that that Zane couldn’t find in that previous semi-final. And
he’s been out here a bit practicing. He has. Trying to
get as much water time unless he sends as possible. Over the
last couple of days. pretty stormy junky, bumpy conditions
before we got here. Yeah, he’s definitely been putting himself
out there in all conditions. Still learn this break and it
paid off. Absolutely. You need First rep, second
wife. the junior girls here.
Annabelle Page in the white on just to write a screen there.
KD in a way. Just waiting for some scores to pop up on the
screen. So, those smaller boards, it’s
tricky out there both to just very tricky with bumpers. Bumpy
conditions as well and just going down on a cut back there.
He’s getting a bit unglued. Especially with Katie. She’s
been in the long board division. As well as her junior
division. And how does that affect? I mean your mindset out
there when you’re switching boards. In from just going in
and then half an hour later or even an hour or longer an hour
later. Jumping on a shorter board. Probably haven’t got
that buoyancy when you’re paddling. Kinda feeling a bit.
Out of sorts. Definitely. Yeah, definitely changes the way
especially when you’re jumping from a bigger board to a
smaller board. You you notice it a lot more. Obviously.
Annabelle just diving through. The face of the wave there
trying to get out the way of it. Yeah, you don’t want to get
in the way if you’re bored. As you’re going through a wave.
So, opting to just bail there. Yeah, stepping down from a
bigger ball. It’s always harder because that balance is a lot
less on those smaller boards. So, see Katie there just
sinking the tail. Trying to stay balanced on that smaller
board. Did you have that situation? Were you like
competing in different divisions? Uh yeah, definitely
a few events in Australia that have a mixture of longboard and
what’s up and all that kind of stuff. So, switching between
boards. Yeah, definitely but one of the guys in the event
here, Zane Schweitzer, who’s going to be coming up in the
pro division. He’s been the ultimate waterman champion for
two years and do you know about the Ultimate Waterman? They had
the events in New Zealand, I believe. I know a little bit
about it but not. Yeah, not that. Ten, 10 different
disciplines. Ten. Yeah. All pretty much back to back like
surfing, foiling, what’s up Oh, a ton of stuff. Downwinding,
all of that and yeah, just switching up boards between
things and and yeah, Zane came out on top with that. So,
obviously, some people can just jump between boards. As we see
Annabelle, She’s just caught away there
just trying to get through that fat section. sort of fanned out
the end. Yeah, should be looking for a better wave.
Katie obviously playing the patient game. We’ll get those
scores to you from Katie’s first wave. Very shortly. You
see it taking off. Really good. Nice late take off. She’s
going to try and stick with it. See if anything happens on the
inside. Little turn there as she makes
her way through. starts to open up here. With a
re-entry and back to the left and hits it off the white water
but just can’t quite ride out of that one. But two good waves
to start her account. semi-final number one of the
junior girls. pray of a wife. Welcome to everyone watching on
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Probably a few people watching from Japan as well. Cheering on
KD in a way in this heat. Do we know how many
nationalities we have competing? That’s a good
question. in the event. So, quite a quite a few will have
to get that stat for you. He got some locals, the Canaries,
Obviously from France, from Peru. The Brazilian storm.
That’s right. Argentina. the UK, Japan And now after a couple of years
off the APP twenty nineteen The Grand Canaria Pro Am Stoked to
be back. Yeah, really stoked to be back. Got a great forecast
ahead for this week as well. We made a start today as this was
a bit smaller. Get the juniors and the longboards out there in
the in the lineup. As we do see some scores starting to come
through. For the surfers. So, KD in a way. Her second ride
was a 7. 17. And then her pre was a 3. 67. Eight four. He’s
bringing that total to ten point eight four. Yeah
Annabelle Page just with a a. 8 so far. Nine point and another small score. 12
minutes, 40 seconds remaining. It’s a bit of time for
Annabelle. Yeah plenty of time on the clock. we will be crowning junior
champions in Las Palmas. Today, later on this afternoon. local time here, 330. Doesn’t
get dark for another few hours. It’s a nice thing about being
in the winter down south. Very. It goes dark until like 6: 30. which is, yeah, it’s definitely
a bonus. It’s a bonus. The sun’s almost setting back home
in the UK for me. Around four 30, it starts to to head down
over the horizon. I know. I remember there we used to have
this this alarm clock which was a light. Yeah. With a Lumi.
I’ve got it. I use it. Not afraid of that one. That’s
great. Do it good. Do it going to bed as well. Yeah. Yeah. Put
on little sunset mode. When the sun goes to bed, we do it.
Yeah, yeah, we did go there. Gator in a way. Off the top.
Massive reentry. And she did land it. My goodness. So one
turn. Just blasting. We’re going to be getting the replay
of that one. Yeah. 00%. We’re getting a replay of that. She wants to stick with this
wave. Just to get at least one more turn in. But she’s not
going to get it. I mean damage was done on the outside. Just
getting just seeing the blast and the spray. The corner of
the screen there. We’ll be getting a replay for everyone
watching. Just exciting surfing. From this 17 year old
female from Japan. Junior. Junior. Here we go. Replay.
Ridiculous. Wave. She’s just waiting for it to belts it off
the top. Wow. That was critical in the lip. She had to navigate
that white water, didn’t she? Really pushing the board away.
Keeping a balance. Yeah. And getting up there and sort of
managing to then kind of keep composed. relaxed Yeah, that score came
through as a 6point 67 for one turn on that wave. So, just
going to show that you can get big scores. You can get big
scores. One maneuver, two maneuvers. Yeah, just that
commitment. Critical section. control as well. The power.
It’s completely blasted off the top of that wave. She’s headed back out. Looking
for more. Looking for a lot more. Annabelle, that puts her
in a combination situation. Now, looking for a 12. 91. So,
under 10 minutes now. Kayda. 13. 8 four. Remember you can follow along
the scores. Go to Live Heats. com. Search for the APP World
Tour. Click on the Grand Canaria Pro Am event and you’ll
have all the divisions, all the names, all the entrants, and
the live scores coming through. Jump in the comments. Let us
know what you think the scores as well. Yeah, we can tell the
judges. And what do you think of the level of the juniors? Is
this just mind blowing to me at the moment? It’s absolutely
insane what we’re seeing. So Sarah Perkins has messaged in
asking what the age range of the juniors are. The age range.
Yep. So it’s range between I think our youngest competitor
is it’s Pedro who’s eleven. From Brazil from Bahia. And
then up to seventeen. So there’s a bit of a gap. Yeah a
bit of a gap for sure. We have Katie up there riding her
sister. Sakudo is 14 years old. So you have a ranging between
11 and 17. That is just amazing. Almost in under
division. Thanks for writing me with that
question. Someone tuning in from Barbados. Great to see. Epic event there
in twenty nineteen. In Bathsheba, Super Bowls. Yeah,
what a fun wave that looks like. Oh, such a fun wave. I
was lucky enough to surf it a few years back and nice. Yeah.
Only a couple out. I was I was stoked. That’s better. Super
warm. Yeah. Proper Caribbean vibes. Little bit of a, yeah,
cool food as well. Have like banana breakfast with like a
English-style fry up. It’s the combo. Amazing. bacon and eggs.
Yeah. Banana bread. So good. Get out for a soup bowl
session. Living the dream. Certainly are. So yeah
Barbados. Hopefully you see what happens in twenty
twenty-three. Whether we’re going to be heading back there.
Hm. Be interesting. We we’ve been speaking about what what
events we’re going to be doing for sub surf for next year. And
finishing off in twenty nineteen. With the yeah
crowning the world champion. Over just round the corner in
Las Banamas where we are. and then for first event back
for twenty twenty-two. Fortunately due to COVID in the
of the situation couldn’t be running the events. But now
we’re back in full swing. Yeah that’s right. And this event
actually we are going to be crowning world champions here
as well. So this is the the only stop on the APP World Tour
what’s up surfing stage for the 20twenty-two season. We’ll be
back with I think it’s about three stops in 2023 but we’ll
confirm those with you later on. I know Tristan Boxford the
CEO is working hard to confirm all those events. Pretty sure they’re going to be
in some fun spots. Definitely going to be in some fun spots.
Tristan’s always pushing to get the competitors in the best
waves there are. Obviously Lust Palmers. Canaria. Having some
amazing waves here too. And just putting on a show. Putting
the the greatest stand-up surfers in the world. Some of
the best waves in the world. That sounds like a perfect
match. For them, I mean, they’re just stoked being out.
Only like one other person. One other person in the lineup. As
you do see, our competitors. Annabelle, still in
accommodation situation. Coming down to 5 minutes, 25 on the
clock. Scratching over that one. What sort of board is
Annabelle riding? She’s on a smick. Hipster twin. So Smick
is an Aussie brand. Uh huh. Scotty McCurcher. And she’s
running a custom board from him. Um and she’s just actually
ordered a new one. She’s been telling me she’s pretty excited
to get a a new board coming soon. She wants to get on
something a little bit smaller. Okay. Something that’s going to
help maneuver a little bit faster. But she is enjoying the
stability of this offers. and just coming unstuck there with
that wind. You can see it plumbing up the face there a
little bit. Looking at this one. She’s going to have a go.
She’s up. Go on this one. It looks like it’s going to stand
up. Is she going to have something off the top here? She
does. Bang off the top. And she’s going to almost hang on.
Thought she was going to ride out of that one. So close. Annabelle just going through.
Oh that did not look very. Hope she pushed the board away.
Yeah, hopefully get away from that board. Looks like she’s okay. Hold on
to the paddle. Yep. She’s still got the paddle. I think I
want to let go of it. A long time ago. Just as. Throwing the
paddle over the back of the wave. Exactly. Get out of my
way. The worst feeling is he getting pulled over the fall.
Oh. You just have those moments.
People sort of in the lineup watching. They’re like oh. Good
to see them. Annabelle here. Annabelle from the UK. Great to
see a lot of representation from around the world. It’s
awesome. It’s properly diverse. Both on the the men’s and the
women’s. And the juniors as well and the boys and the
girls. Annabelle. Growing. Stand up
around the world. The popularity increasing. Last
couple of years. More people getting into it, you say Bo.
Lot more people getting into the sub-surfing side. There’s
been a bit of a debate about if it’s a growing sport or not.
But definitely from what I’ve heard, what I’ve seen. A lot
more people are getting into it. I’m definitely keen to get into
it. Yeah, you need to get into it early. Definitely,
definitely need to get into it. That’s great fun. Oh, he’s
getting proper jealous yesterday seeing how fast
everyone was going with the paddle in the flat sections and
it’s yeah, it’s just great to see. What kind of kind of speed
and momentum you can build? Yeah, you. The versatility of
being able to surf in small waves, in bigger waves. You’ve
been out there at big sunset. You can take these boards in
pretty pretty serious conditions. You can, exactly.
You can go downwinding on them. You can stick a foil on it. You
can race them. You can, yeah. so versatile this sport. And
that’s the greatest thing about centre paddling is just you can
come into it from so many different angles. You come from
a wind sport. You know instead of paddling kind of follow that
that origination from from windsurfing. Lot of the
windsurfing brands started making stand up paddleboards
back in the day. You got brands like Nash, Starboard, Fanatic,
all coming from that wind sport background. Taking it
everywhere. Take it to the rivers. I think competitions in
in Korea. The APP. over in London. Yep. And they’re
going to be heading to to Paris to to Alicante in Spain. Let’s
start with the finals in Saudi Arabia. Let’s hit a mid
February twenty twenty-three. So be crowning the racing world
champions there. But this event creating the Surfing World
Champions. Yeah. And you you were over at a
racing event, didn’t you? Yes, I was. So, god, my memory is
bad. Yeah, well, so is it the US Open of Sup for the APP
World Tour? That was their first racing event for the
season. We had the Sprint. Technical, the long distance
racing. Connor Baxter winning the sprint racing there. and we
had Itzel Delgado and the men’s taking a long distance. Nice.
Then April Zealg also she took the long distance for the
women. Is is there some crossover
would you say between the the surfers and is there some of
the surfers we’re doing racing? At the in the in the beginning
when when the ABP World Tower Tour depth started? Definitely.
There was crossover. A lot of the athletes were doing both.
It’s because the surfing and the racing were usually taken
to the same places. So for example in Hawaii they do also
a race and they do a surfing event. In Brazil they do a
racing and a surfing event as well. So the people would cross
over there. But they’ve kind of split the tours now. So giving
the races the best chance in in the best conditions and then
obviously taking the surfing to different occasions. So, I’m
seeing a little bit more of a split. Yup. Between the
athletes nowadays but you’ll still see. At the level is
getting exactly. Super high. So, I think it’s very cool.
Almost they’re just focusing on one discipline, right? That’s
very, very true, exactly. So, the race is going to stick to
their their craft and. Yup. Obviously, they’re better at
racing and and the surfers better at surfing. So, we do
see Katie in a way. Oh, really calming that cut back. Back
into the white water and she’s going to bank it off this
section at the end. Surfing with of power. So great to see. Five, five.
Still going trying to get through the right to the end of
the section. Left on this one. That will be the last wave. Of
semi-final. Number one. all the way to the shorey.
Kader. So replays with the best waves
from in this heat. Obviously getting up into that excellent
scoring with one of these waves. But this was one of the
first waves she started with. This scored her that 7point17.
and and then we have this wave.
Talk us through this one Ollie. Six just jamming it. They’re
really committed. For 6. 67 on that. Just one turn. Shay we
didn’t see Annabelle. Yeah all in. Shane we didn’t see
Annabelle Page managed to get a wave toward the end of that
heat but good showing from her. We’ll see her in the women’s
trials. And congratulations. Yeah congratulations to but we
head to a short commercial break back with semi-final
number two of the junior girls. Have you ever wondered why you
always want more? More Mondays without the alarm.
More first times, more leaps into the unknown. More
breakfasts in bed. more whiffs of the salty sea
and the countryside country. More smiles for the camera.
more heartbeats per minute. More enjoying the journey. More
dreams almost fulfilled. More unexpected friends. More races to anywhere. more flavors to discover. more being at a loss for words
more time Time to lose yourself and find
yourself again. In short, more moments like this. And this.
And this. And what if the answer was never really what?
But where? Grand Canaria, so much to live for. Buenas tardades. Welcome to
Grand Canaria Las Panamas. We’re here for the Grand Canary
Pro Am and up next, semi-finals heat two of the Junior Girls
Under eighteens. I’m Ollie Russell Cowan. I’m joined by
Beau Nixon. Oh, so nice to be here. Just seeing this here, we
have Sakura in a way up and riding now in the red. And
Marina awaits her in the white. The sister of Katie who just
won the last heat she threw to the finals of the junior girls.
So maybe we’ll see if it’s a all Japan final. Sisters. It
would be interesting to see if that happens. Obviously Marino.
She’s got some games. Yeah exactly. It’s not going to
want to let that happen. No. So we’ll watch a replay
Sakura’s wave there. So really nice top turn. That was such a
nice turn to start with. So opening that account. Making
sure he first turns nice and committed. And the whole Inaway family
riding the same the same shape boards. Same sponsors. Same
sponsors. The older brother Tucker. He
was made an appearance in the longboard event. As we see
Marina here. Riding through on the inside. Let’s see what work
she got done on the outside. But we’ll follow her through is
she just ends that wave so looks like a really controlled
ride for Marina. I’m just waiting for those scores to
come in. See how they both did. Marina heading back out. Lot of
rocker on that board. Yeah. Earlier on. Just that nose lift
in the front. Helping with those steeper sections. Yeah a lot of lot of different
board shapes. Getting around. Most of the surface will be
using the the grip pad on the front as well. Yeah, definitely helps a lot
more grip. You see some surface options just for wax. Lot of wax on the nose for the
longboarders. Yeah, that’s right. Lot of wax. Some serious
hang fires will go down today. Yeah, great nose riding. As we
do see Sakaro locking in a 3point 67. you know going to and your
second And Marina. She just locked in for 2. 27 for that
last wave. So at the moment Sakura in the first position.
There’s plenty of time to go. 25 minutes these heats. 20
minutes. 37 seconds remaining. loads of time. We’re in Las
Palmas. Capital of Grand Canaria. the joint capital with Santa
Cruz in Tenerife. It’s a great surf city. Las
Palmas. University town. home to the biggest carnival in the
whole of the Canaries. Which I’m pretty excited about
visiting though. Are you attending? Huh? February? Next
year? I wouldn’t mind going. Yep. I’m a big fan of carnival.
Nice. Okay. You’ve been to a few? I’ve been I’ve been to
quite a few. Been the one in Brazil? I’ve never been. I’ve
never been in Brazil. That is on definitely on my bucket
list. But the last one I went to was a Spanish one in
Badahos. It was just across the border from Portugal and that
was great. And in Cologne. They have this carnival with about 6
million to 8 million people go. Wow. And every single person is
dressed in fancy dress. That’s amazing. Like a fancy dress
house party but with 6 million of your best friends. It’s good
times. Very good times. How much thought it was going to
be, you know, a little bit, little bit reserved. But, you
know, it’s like Oktoberfest. Well, they know how to have a
good time. But Endless Panamas. this notorious for for carnival
here. Yeah, I think I’m going to have
a little look. Yeah. 2023. Hmm. Very good. And it goes on for
about three weeks. Oh, there you go. Uh. So, yeah. If anyone is
thinking of a of a trip over here, I mean, you are
guaranteed warm weather. That is such a big draw card. I just
think if you’re on, if you’re on the coast and the Canaries,
it doesn’t really drop below. I The high teens in winter.
That’s incredible. So Sakoro was looking to have a
little look at that one. Yes. Offering up much. 14 years old.
So one of the younger competitors. Youngest women
competing in the event. And just awesome to see the level
of the juniors. Absolutely insane to see the level. So
we’ve got here It jams it back into the pocket
there. Sakura using the paddle to get through that flat
section off the top. Nicely done. Again. Tapping this inside. Still making a way through.
Little slash there. Just right in. Still going. It
waves ankle high. She’s making it work. And just making it
look so easy in these kind of tricky conditions. Yeah, that
are tricky conditions. You can see that bump on the water at
the back. Competitors obviously trying to get through the white
water on their way back to the lineup. Lot of water moving out
there. Very tricky. It’s going to be interesting to see
what scores she gets from the judges comes in from that one.
Yeah, a lot of lot of turns on that wave. Nothing too crazy.
Nothing too critical. Yeah. but it wasn’t really like lending
itself to that sort of little bit, little bit crumbly. Yeah. Definitely improve on that
scoreline. She looks to get out there. This might even see, see
how far Sakura’s back but maybe a paddle battle from priority. Marina’s making her way back
out. Marina fourth place at the Pan American Games. For
subsurfing. The ISA. Hi from in Puerto Rico. Yeah, she’s probably feeling at
home here. Yeah. In Spanish. Oh. And in Puerto Rico. Yeah, it’s handy language to
speak Spanish. Definitely useful. You think
it’s surfing locations, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Some of the judges over there.
Speak all four. so Sakura anyway. Last wave
come through at 5. 0. So kind of that mid-range score for
those turns. We see Marino opting to sit on the inside
here for these reform waves. So, let’s see how she goes on
this ride here. Cutting back into the white water. Getting
nice and low to stay balanced on that way. Seeing if it’s
going to open up for us all. Definitely sticking with it.
This left might even reform here. It’s been quite a bit of change
in direction today. So they’re going in the front side.
Thinking looking at the rights, looking at the left, seeing
what’s going to open up on that inside section. Yeah,
definitely. Competitors always looking over their shoulder to
see what it’s going to do. Keasley back off and then you
got yourself a ride or steep up and stay on that left.
Splitting the peaks as well. You look over your shoulders if
anyone’s. Yeah, that’s right. We’ve seen a few followers
here. Ride the same wave. We got 14 minutes, 35 seconds
remaining. Sakura in the lead with a 8. 67. He’s pedaling
back out now. Marina just finished off a ride. He’s going
for that. Lie down, prone. Just a five strokes allowed though. Yeah. I’m not going to be
counting. Bit more than five. I counted. Yeah so Yeah, We’re
going to be going to the desert. But it has been a lot
of talk around the rules and regulations of stand up
paddling. When you should be standing, when you should be if
you should be sitting down at all. Or lying down paddling.
Obviously you know the conditions do make it a bit
more tough to be able to stay standing. Marina obviously
standing up now. Paddling out. So probably just using that
line down technique to get through that. Just to get out
of the impact zone. An impact zone exactly. Get out of the
way. Yep. All the white waters kind of closing around. They
just want to get into the channel and then you can hop up
on your board. Stop paddling. So competitors are meant to be
paddling out, standing up the whole way out and obviously
standing up to catch the waves. And we have heard that they are
allowed to sit down when they are out in the lineup waiting
for a wave but they can’t. They just the paddle. Just waiting.
Just waiting. So if they get pushed out of position, they
have to get back on their feet to paddle over to where they
were. So just probably just better opting just to stay
standing. Yeah. Move around. He just got that advantage of
being he can just see more. Oh yeah. See the sets coming.
Yeah. And with priority as well. You can kind of just buy
the time. Get into position. As we see. Sakura here. Looking
at a wave. Here we go. Seth standing up. She’s going to
paddle over. It looks like doesn’t like look at that one.
I thought she was going to spin and go on that one. Oh, she
might have but Marina might have the inside. Marina’s
having a look. She’s not going to go. She’s. And then
just hits that channel and just doesn’t really do much. No, it
just dies out in that deeper water. So, when those waves are
breaking, it’s really shallow just to the left side of the
screen. Kinda like a reef shelf rock shelf out there. and the
waves break around that. Reform on the inside. And depending on what the
swell’s doing and the size. Definitely morphs into
different shapes and we could be seeing some monsters. Yeah.
Later this week. It’s hard to believe that we could be seeing
a full on closeout across this whole bay. Later this week. So
we’re going to try and get the event done over the next couple
of days. I think we’ll be wrapping it up before it gets
to to monstrous out there. Exactly because it’ll be
probably unridable for most of the competitors and it’d be
interesting to see if anyone brought a step up board to be
able to ride these these waves. Cuz they do have red up and
riding. Current heat leader. As she banks it off the right
water there. Couldn’t quite hold onto it. really throwing a lot of
commitment at that turn. Just putting everything into that
turn. Releaning back on it and then just getting caught the
foam ball, fallen, stumbling back a bit. See this replay
because. She set it up really nicely. You can see her looking
at that section. Bang up vertical but just couldn’t
quite get the board back underneath her body. You see
her leaning back on the paddle. Spencer said he clean eyeing it
up, just looking. That’s it. Semi-final heat, you gotta be
throwing everything at it to go make it to the final. As
Marina. Oh, just digging that rail again. Should this problem
in her last heat in the ripper charge? Getting through, just
digging that rail. He’s casting over a bit now.
Getting a little bit. Very chilly. Very chilly. Yeah.
Going through, going through it all today, Bo. On top of the
Wawa? Exactly, the fun bus. Yeah, we’re commentating from
on top of the open deck bus. City sightseeing bus. This bus
is going to move over to the. Whip over. Streak around the
corner, yeah. So, we can. Someone could jump in and drive
off right now. We just take it up. Couple of hundred meters
around the corner to the point. Well, here we are with Marina. They’re staying busy on this
one. Lots of lots of turns in the white water. We’ll see if
she can extend that scoreline. She’s looking for a six point 4
though to move to the lead. So, see if the judges have to say
about that ride. As at the backward priority. Red paddling
Sakura Inowe. He’s looking at this right here. What’s he
going to do? Again, with that big section coming to water.
Yeah, just trying to button. Destroy that boat. She’s just
throwing everything at it. She’ll pull one off. She’ll,
yes, she’s coming. Just putting it all online there. Great to
see the commitment Yeah, proper no fear coming from the
juniors. Oh, I love it. 14 years old. Smacking the lip. I
don’t think I was getting vertical at fourteen. I definitely, definitely. Wow. and just yeah. Pushing the
progression. Really trying things out there as well which
is great to see. You know, not not taking that conservative
approach of, you know, if you do just see that one section
down the line and it, if it’s not really offering much, if it
looks like it’s going to be closing out the rest of the
wave, you might as well just go and hit it. Yeah, it looks like
she had the opportunity to go left there but that left
obviously getting really slow and fat toward the the
shoulder. So, she’s just want to go right and hit the
section. Get a big score So yeah loving that commitment
from Sakura. So good to see. Thanks to our
partners over here in Las Panamas, Grand Canaria. Canaria s. The Grand Canaria
Tourismo, the Grand Canaria, the Instituto in Solar, the
Portes, Maspalomas, Costa Canary in the South. Grand Canaria Municipal
deportes. And of course where we are both the Wawa, the city
sightseeing, double decker bus. Seven island film, Domingo
Alonso Conmertiales, and Puema, Delma the city really welcoming
the APP. Welcoming us back after twenty 19. And twenty
twenty The best in the world putting on a show. Some insane riding from the
juniors. The best stand up paddle boarders. Under 18s on
the planet. And the best sub longboarders as well. He’s
putting on a clinic out here this morning and some some fun
conditions. 3 to 3 to 4 foot. 13 second period. just sitting there waiting. He’s in the final of the junior
boys. He’ll be in the red jersey up against Capone
Fakuda. In the white. Who we saw get an excellent ride in
his last semi-final heat. But Tituan just getting in the
zone. Hasn’t got his beats on. No.
None of that was a hip hop. Definitely not listening to
Hilltop Heads down there. Definitely no, exactly. Just
getting zen though. Just sucking out. Yeah. He could have been listening to
some tunes. I reckon in the athlete. I think so. I think
so. What are we doing in the too much when you’re like kind
of just just before like that for your your time to paddle
out. but obviously, you know, finishing for heat, be chatting
to chat to the team and crew. keeping an eye on the
conditions as well. Exactly. Just making sure that they know
where they’re going to sit. Keep their strategy in place. Just watching how these
conditions are developing through the day with the
changing tide and the wind. We’re in the north of the
island, Las Palmas. the capital of Grand Canaria. As we see the junior boys
paddling out the 5 minute mark. 5 minutes. So coming up next with the
final. The junior under 18 boys. Yeah, as we see, Marina here on
the left She’s still currently looking for that 6 27 to move
into that advancing position. Let’s get into the final.
They’re going to be up against Kader Inowe who won the first
semi-final. Could it be Sakuda in a way? The sister. Younger
sister. Who’s it going to be? We got 4 minutes and 23 seconds
remaining on the clock. Still a bit of time for Marine to see.
Get a higher score. Quick paddle out there. We’ve got a
bit of current taking the competitors back out. You can
see there. Marina sitting in that deeper water. Yeah, she’s
in need of a 6point 27. Marina. Yeah, that’s good. Not not a
massive score. Still in that good range. So, really need to
get probably a couple of turns at least on the outside there
where Sakura is currently sitting. Although we have seen
the inside reform. Being really good at the high tide but it is
dropping out with that tide at the moment. It’s team Japan.
Team Japan. As we see, It’s watching their sister. Sakuro,
yeah, that’s right. Often action. For red, okay? Another one here. Another one.
Back to back. She’s on another wave. What’s she got for us?
Bangs it off the lip again. Just absurd. For that. Just
that section to hit. Pulls that off on that one. But
unfortunately doesn’t open up for on the inside. Should be
trying to get out the back as fast as she can. Join Marina. So, what can she see coming
here? Let’s hope there’s going to be another wave. Two
minutes thirty on the clock. Get out of the way to this one.
It’s a good thing with a smaller board. You kind of get
get under there a little bit, huh? Yeah, that’s right. As you
see, the replay of Sakuro’s wave. Marina, really nice top
turn there. So, she. She ended up with a 3. 7. On that wave,
which just increased her lead slightly. Marina now looking
for a six point three. dominance, large domin Last two minutes here of the
semi-final. Second semi. Gonna see who’s going to be getting
into the final. Joining. Uh junior boys getting into
position out there. See Marina there paddling through the
white water along with Sakura. You can see the different
paddling. You can see it’s how much more speed you get
standing up paddling. So much more. It’s not easy. Crazy.
He’s going to have to dive under that one. Sabrina’s up. Seeing something
coming in here. Might be something out the back here.
You can see that reef shelf on the outside. So competitors
opting to sit on the inside. This one’s not going to be able
to go out of this. Can he go over it? Should try and get
over this one. But coming down 50 seconds remaining on the
clock. Really needs a six point three. Doesn’t look like she’s
going to get another opportunity. It’s caught on the
inside here. So both in that Marina Sakura.
Looks like a bit of a paddle battle. Looks like yeah it
could be. Definitely. Think White has priority at the
moment. Marina could make a turn and go
on this. She definitely wants to go see. Looking for a six
point3. 17 seconds left on the clock. Has she got time?
There’ There’s some waves marching in
here. 10 seconds remaining. You see Red looking. Five.
So, So, there you have it, Ollie.
It’s going to be at All Japan. Final, Sisters. In a way
family. Katie. Well done. Congratulations. I’m going to watch replay of
red. Sakura in a way her best wave. Just carving on that
first turn. really throwing everything at
it. This is that 5point0 that she locked in early in the
heat. Backed off the white water again. So some great
surfing from our young Japanese competitor. And she’ll be joining her
sister In the final. Family affair for the final. If the
junior under eighteens. We’re going to jump into a
commercial break and then we’ll be back with the junior boys
under eighteens final. See? Bonjour madam. ¿Qué es esto?
Esto es nuestra flor autóctona y hay más y mucho más. será por esto y sonreímos
tanto? O ¿Será por esto? porque es un nuevo descubrimiento.
Dale un giro a tu vida. Buenas tardes. Welcome to the
Gran Canaria Pro am. On Oliver I have sude. Thinks
and amazing action. all day from the juniors and we’re
here. We’re going to be crowning a champion. We have
Tituan Pedro in the red. Capona Fukuda in the white. And the level from the juniors
has just been amazing. I wasn’t sure if we were
going to be. Running all the way through with the junior
finals. We’re stoked to see it happen. Got some definitely
some good waves on offer. It’s been about three to five all
day. Yeah, we see Caperna Fakuda here. Looks like he’s
already opened up a small score earlier. He’s going to go
vertical on the inside but just comes unstuck. He’s been
nailing those all day. Maybe a little bit of nerves. Maybe.
Maybe a tighter legs. He’s been surfing a few hits today. and and it’ll be taking taking
its toll for sure being on the stand up. Exactly. We do see
half an hour. Oh. Finals. A drop there. Nice deep drop.
Fifty-two Fifty-two one. Just a quick in
and out there. He’ll still remain with first priority.
Sitting at the back. and half an hour for the final.
Yeah. Plenty of time. Choose the right waves out there. Just
deciding to ditch and get out of doorjob that way. Good idea.
Another set. You can see behind. It’s going to stay in
the water. Ditch that board. Get it away from you. Bear hugs
the paddle. Yeah, grip onto that tight. But then as soon as you get
back up, the speed on which you can just use the paddle get
into the channel and then just try and get straight that wrap
around into the lineup here. Uh, Wasisia. This a competitor from the last
heat. That’s Marino. Unfortunately not making it
through to the final of the junior girls. We put on a great
performance. And that was a third place finish here. She
was surfing amazingly today. Yeah. As we see Tituan in the
red. Switching that paddle over. Nice carve. Back in to
the pocket of this wave. Is he going to be able to get he’s
really jet speed across the paddle. Not going to manage to
get find a reform there. So, that means priority is
going to switch to Capono in the white. Capona with the first score. There’s a five, one, four.
Yeah, they go. Needing a four point four four. to beat Chap.
Yep. But there’s going to be plenty more rides coming in.
Plenty. The final halo. That’s right. So Capone Fakuda. He won the
Japan Sup Surfing Championship. It’s a Japanese champion.
Welcome to Gran Canaria Pro Am 2022
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