This looked, sounded (and probably smelled) more like NASCAR, where all credit for any success is shared amongst the pit crew — riders, drivers, boardbuilders, trainers, rescuers, doctors, spotters — rather than on the merit of any individual frontman. The year 2020 marks surfing's debut as an official Olympic discipline. Andrew Cotton’s back-breaking 2017 wipe-out is the perfect case in point.
We’ll circle back to Alex’s condition later. In the meantime, if no one else is gonna ask, I might as well:1.Team Australia (Yellow): Axier Muniain (EUK; Regular) & Mick Corbett (AUS; Regular)1. Details remain fuzzy at press time (likely out of respect to his loved ones), but apparently, he lost consciousness after a bad wipeout, inciting a daring if not frantic rescue. La World Surf League (WSL) ha dado la luz verde para la celebración del 'Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge' para este martes 11 de febrero. The World Surf League (WSL) has released its 2020 Championship Tour (CT) schedule. Portugal’s most dangerous wave is set to host the world’s best surfers as they make their yearly pilgrimage to tame the monster swell currently being generated by the destructive Storm Ciara. The world's best male and female surfers will compete against each other in a very special year for the sport. )Then, there was this: “Should the conditions continue to be extraordinary at the completion of the four-hour mark,” the WSL stated, “the Competition Director [Bill Sharp] may have the option of extending the event period in fair increments of 15, 30 or 60 minutes to give all competitors an opportunity to extend the show.”Pretty sure that’s what happened, once Heats 5 and 6 magically appeared on the docket and turned the whole show into an endurance trial, if it wasn’t already. The first time the pros stroked in here (at the Not to say this contest was playful, although you wouldn’t know that by watching Kai Lenny’s aerial wizardry and 60kph jams. The All-New Nazaré Challenge Tow-In Surfing Format. He whipped me into that right just as we were riding back out, that wave just looked like it was going to wedge and it turned out way bigger than I thought it would be.” Vid: WSL Lenny/Chumbo & Co. Eric Rebiere was sent to the beach sucking oxygen before returning for his second heat. Big wave surfer Alex Botelho is said to be "stable and conscious" afetr being knocked unconscious after being caught between a collision of two large waves. The current world record for the biggest wave ever surfed is held by Rodrigo Koxa, who toppled Garrett McNamara’s 2011 record with a With surfers set to enter the water at 7 PM AEDT, February 11th, be sure to catch the action live at (Or more astutely, mist, from the 40-50ft N/NW swell.) Canada's Female-friendly Surf competition is back in 2020 with the 11th annual Queen of the Peak in Tofino BC. “It’s crazy how fast an hour goes by out there,” said Kai Lenny. Not that our thoughts mattered. A rotating heat format and priority system will put five teams in the water at all times. “I wouldn’t have been able to ride this wave without Lucas so it’s as much his award as it is mine,” Lenny said. According to the WSL’s press release, “the Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge will feature 10 teams comprised of two athletes, alternating between surfing and driving the team’s ski. (Unless you count Hawaiians, who historically haven’t considered themselves USA unless it’s related to the Olympics or something. There were some really big waves, maybe not giant, but altogether the conditions were perfect for competition.” Photo: Poullenot/WSLNo Team America, though. In fact, there weren’t any Yanks at all in this contest. Also, a shared pot. Alex Botelho was competing in Tuesday’s Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge in Portugal when he wiped out and was picked up on a jet ski by his partner, Hugo Vau. The famous lighthouse vantage point has made Nazaré one of the greatest viewing platforms in sport, where spectators can get close enough to literally feel the power of the ocean as these giant waves rumble into the cliffs below. And if the commentators in their infinite wisdom and their cutting-edge spyware can’t even tell who’s up and riding — then how can some lowly surf fan who wakes up at 2am EST to watch this, this, this… oh, what’s the word, Sure, you could call it that, this being the League’s first-ever tow event and all.The opening incarnation of the WSL’s new BWP (Big Wave Platform), the This was not that. No elimination. “I was so lucky I had a really nice wave at the beginning of the heat so then we felt pretty comfortable out there,” Dupont said. “It’s really good to see everyone connected.”By the third heat, the mist had burned off and the drone angle significantly helped us see what was going on out there. But the closing scene for the inaugural Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge was so disturbing, it made Mick Fanning’s shark attack look like a sunburn.
Womens shortboard Surf Contest and longboard competitions. Then, with only five minutes remaining in the last heat of the day, the WSL’s luck ran out when Alex Botelho nearly lost his life. Rotating priority system. The results weren’t determined until after the contest, when a nominating panel could properly examine the video evidence to select the biggest waves and best rides as “finalists.” Then, at the awards ceremony, the contestants themselves sat Everyone charged, everyone produced. Surf competitions work a bit differently than your typical sporting event because organizers are at the mercy of the waves, so below we explain how surf competitions work. We’re talking about the type of swell that could see Guinness World Records broken, life-threatening wipe-outs and hectic conditions that will no doubt keep rescue teams on high alert. Francisco Porcella was driven so deep he actually hit bottom, bursting his eardrum and ending his campaign. All the work that we’ve done this past year has really paid off.