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Top seeds start strong Day 2 of the Sooruz Lacanau Pro

Tim Boal : photo Aquashot/ASP Europe




Sooruz Lacanau Pro

ASP 6 Star WQS Mens Event
Lacanau-Océan, Gironde France
17 - 23 August 2009

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Excellent Surf Greets Day 2 of Sooruz Lacanau Pro, Top Seeds Start Off Well        > en francais ci-dessous

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 18 August, 2009 : - - Tim Boal (Anglet, FRA), 25, was one of today's top scorers, the event top seed showing his peers he was in good form for his 2009 Sooruz Lacanau pro campaign. Boal was the first winner of Round 2 before the event was called off for the day. Officials will re-assess tomorrow at 7 AM

LACANAU OCEAN - France (Tuesday, August 18, 2009) – Some excellent surf in the three-foot (one meter) range made the second day of the ASP WQS 6-Star Sooruz Lacanau Pro an exciting show of progressive surfing, the good quality sand bank delivering fun launching ramps for today’s competitors.

With Round 1 coming to an end and the first couple of heats of Round 2 being completed by day’s end, it was a day of high performance surfing with reigning ASP World Junior Champion Kai Barger (Maui, HAW), 19, dominating proceedings.

Barger, who won his maiden ASP World Junior title last January in Australia, showed he was more than ready to compete against the world’s best surfers, the Maui resident posting an impressive 17.64 point heat score including a near perfect 9.27 point ride.

“It was a pretty tricky heat and I wasn’t confident when it started,” Barger said. “Then I got a first wave that was good enough, the second was better and the third even better so I had a lot of fun in the end. I got a bit lucky to get the first one and I was super stoked wave after wave so I just tried to stay out of trouble and any interference.”

 


Sunny Garcia : photo Aquashot/ASP Europe

 

Barger, who has been awarded a wildcard by the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) to start in Round 2 of every major ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) events this year thanks to his world crown, was surfing his first heat at Lacanau today and came up with fantastic surfing.

“I was really nervous and I thought I was going to lose actually,” Barger said. “It’s great to have that opportunity to enter the events along with the top seeds and it gives me a year of practice amongst the WQS. With the points I will have at the end of this year I will be able to do the whole tour next year. I haven’t had any good results, actually haven’t made it past Round 3 at any of the big events so far.”

Barger’s performance left all his peers amazed and cheering the Hawaiian on every of his flying maneuvers, taking off in perfect new-school skateboarding-like style to land several air-reverse maneuvers. Following the final heat of Round 1, where Barger and Thiago Camarao (BRA) offered the best show of the thus far, was event top seed Tim Boal (Anglet, FRA), 25, the Frenchman opening Round 2 of competition.

Boal, who is on his rookie year amongst the ASP Top 45 where he sits No. 30 at the moment, answered with the same high performance surfing, the Anglet resident posting a couple of excellent rides including a 9.00 point wave score to win Heat 1 with a promising 17.17 point heat score, ahead of ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior champion Charles Martin (GLP), 18.

“I hadn’t surfed for ten days before today and I am glad I made it through,” Boal said. “The waves were not that good but I got those two rides and I was pretty happy with the scores. It’s good to be surfing in an event with no pressure and to keep up the training. And it was especially a fun heat competing against Charles (Martin) who is a good friend of mine. He told me he was aiming at comboing me, ha ha… He will soon but I’m glad it wasn’t this time, sorry Charly (Laughs)!”

Boal, who placed equal 9th last year in the Sooruz Lacanau Pro, will be looking to better his result and net a bit of confidence before heading to California for the ASP World Tour event in September.

Showing the same talent and impressive skills today to go over the nine-point mark were several competitors including other Hawaiian Sebastian Zeitz as well as Thiago Camarao (BRA), both competitors impressing the ASP judging panel to advance through to the next round.”   Visit aspeurope.com and sooruzlacanaupro.com for results, photos and news of the ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior

 


Nathan Webster : photo Aquashot/ASP Europe

 

SOORUZ LACANAU PRO ROUND 2 RESULTS
Heat 1: Tim Boal (FRA) 17.17 pts, Charles Martin (GLP) 12.60 pts, Richard Christie (NZL) 11.17 pts, Alex Gray (USA) 10.00 pts

SOORUZ LACANAU PRO ROUND 1 RESULTS
Heat 1: Richard Christie (NZL) 15.84 pts, Mark Mathews (AUS) 11.93 pts, Madison Williams (AUS) , Geoffroy Henno
Heat 2: Daniel Redman (ZAF) 11.83 pts, Alex Gray (USA) 9.83 pts, Heath Joske (AUS) 7.64 pts, Jason Harris (USA)
Heat 3: Shaun Ward (USA) 12.90 pts, Nat Young (USA) 11.60 pts, Joaquim Guichard (DEN) 9.76 pts, Joao Guedes
Heat 4: Hodei Collazo (EUK) 16.20 pts, Stuart Kennedy (AUS) 12.30 pts, Gordon Fontaine (FRA), Eneko Acero
Heat 5: Dylan Graves (PRI) 11.20 pts, Vincent Duvignac (FRA) 10.50 pts, Ricardo Lange (DEU) 10.20 pts, Eric Rebiere
Heat 6: Eric Geisleman (USA) 11.27 pts, Che Stang (USA) 9.94 pts, Clancy Dawson (AUS) 8.20 pts, Omer Bar (ISR
Heat 7:Blake Wilson (AUS) 13.34 pts, Damien Chaudoy (REU) 12.27 pts, Alan Stokes (GBR) 8.97 pts, Cheyne Willis
Heat 8: Medi Veminardi (REU) 13.93 pts, Brent Dorrington (AUS) 13.53 pts, Marc Lacomare (FRA) , Gustavo Fernandes
Heat 9: Miguel Pupo (BRA) 15.07 pts, Romain Laulhe (FRA) 14.56 pts, Chad Compton (USA) 10.77 pts, Mason Ho
Heat 10: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 16.67 pts, Brad Ettinger (USA) 13.23 pt, John John Florence (HAW) 6.57 pts, Chase Wilson
Heat 11: Christophe Allary (REU) 14.23 pts, Tonino Benson (Haw) 14.17 pts, Chad Du Toit (ZAF) , Simon Marchand
Heat 12: Dane Gudauskas (USA) 9.60 pts, Rowan Aish (NZL) 8.80 pts, Casey Brown (HAW) 7.50 pts, Micheal Bailey
Heat 13: Alain Riou (REU) 14.10 pts, Nathan Webster (AUS) 13.33 pts, Jean Seb Estienne (BLM) 9.17 pts, Sunny Garcia
heat 14: Granger Larsen (HAW) 13.94 pts, Bruno Rodrigues (USA) 13.90 pts, Charly Brown (BRA), Frederic Robin
Heat 15: Igor Morais (PRT) 16.84 pts, Taylor Lincoln (AUS) 14.27 pts, Dylan Melamed (HAW) 10.00 pts, Diego Rosa
Heat 16: Kiron Jabour (HAW) 12.83 pts, Neco Padaratz (BRA) 11.17 pts, T J Barron (HAW) 9.70 pts, Oliver Kurtz
Heat 17: Jesse-Merle Jones (HAW) 15.63 pts, Rudy Palmboom (ZAF) 14.23 pts, Jano Belo (BRA) 13.66 pts, Jayke Sharp
Heat 18: Txaber Trojaola (EUK) 12.23 pts, Bernardo Miranda (BRA) 12.13 pts, Nathan Carroll (HAW) , Abdel El Harim
Heat 19: Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 14.83 pts, Jorge Spanner (BRA) 14.20 pts, Justin Mujica (PRT) 11.77 pts, Sam Lamiroy
Heat 20: Nicolas Von Rupp (DEU) 14.00 pts, Blake Jones (USA) 10.76 pts, Jack Perry (AUS) 10.54 pts, Anthony Petruso
Heat 21: Sam Page (AUS) 13.34 pts, Jarrad Sullivan (AUS) 13.13 pts, Miguel Ximenez (PRT) 10.17 pts, Matt Pagan (USA)
Heat 22: Nick White (NZL) 14.67 pts, Edouard Fernandes (PRT) 12.53 pts, Russel Winter (GBR) 11.70 pts, Hugo Savalli
Heat 23: Sebastien Zietz (HAW) 16.17 pts, Antonio Bortoletto (ZAF) 15.33 pts, Oli Adams (GBR) 7.90 pts, Ryah Arthur
Heat 24: Kai Barger (HAW) 17.64 pts, Thiago Camarao (BRA) 17.00 pts, Luka Guichard (DEN) 9.50 pts, Rudy Maréchal

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Alain Riou : photo Aquashot/ASP Europe

 

 

francais

DES CONDITIONS EN AMELIORATION POUR LA FIN DU 1ER TOUR DU SOORUZ LACANAU PRO

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 18 August, 2009 : - - Le premier tour du Soöruz Lacanau Pro, unique étape française du championnat du monde de surf professionnel ASP cet été, se présente sous les meilleurs hospices : un niveau exceptionnellement haut et des vagues parfaites qui ne peuvent que s’améliorer, sont les ingrédients de la réussite du French Pro qui fête cette année ses 30 étés sur le spot de Lacanau Océan (33 Gironde).

La compétition reprend ce matin à partir de la série 11 du 1er tour avec des vagues moyennement favorables, conséquence d’une marée trop basse. Dans ces conditions irrégulières et difficiles, le polynésien Alain Riou, vainqueur du Pro junior de Lacanau en 2003, maîtrise sa série face au bouillonnant ancien champion du monde hawaiien, Sunny Garcia, qui ne peut s’exprimer dans ces vagues médiocres, ne comptabilisant qu’un petit 3,83 points sur sa meilleure vague, et cassant sa planche à l’issue d’un petit tube qui aurait pu rapporter gros.

A l’image de son homologue de l’île, Cheyne Willis, qui est passé étrangement à côté de sa série hier, certains hawaiiens suivent le tour professionnel uniquement pour avoir un minimum de points afin de participer à la Triple Couronne hawaiienne (compétitions sur les lieux mythiques de Pipeline et Sunset Beach) qui à leurs yeux vaut tous les titres !

La performance d’Alain Riou reste tout de même honorable, surtout face à Jean-Sébastien Estienne et un ancien pensionnaire du Top 44 Nathan Webster. "Vu les vagues de ce matin, tout se jouait à la chance ; il fallait donc charger, ce que j’ai fait avec ces deux vagues notées 6,67 et 7,43" confie Riou. "face à Sunny j’étais une peu tendu, mais dès que j’ai mis un pied dans l’eau je n’ai pensé qu’à mon surf.

En fait ça fait plus d’une semaine que je n’ai pas surfé ; je me suis fait piquer par une araignée à la jambe et je suis sous anti-bio, donc pas vraiment au meilleur de ma forme. De plus je n’avais que de nouvelles planches, encore jamais testées. Au final je m’en sors bien car j’avais super envie de surfer !". L’expérience de Webster permet à ce dernier de se qualifier également grâce à sa 2ème place. 

Dans la série 16, Néco Padaratz, le finaliste du French Pro en 2001, possède de très bonnes réserves mais il se fait ravir la première place face à la nouvelle garde hawaiienne représentée par Kiron Jabour, sorti en 1/8 du Oakley Pro Junior et dominateur incontestable de cette série. La 19ème série du 1er tour du Soöruz Lacanau Pro s’inscrit en tête de liste des statistiques avec une vague à 9,00 points, résultat de la prestation du brésilien Raoni Monteiro, lui aussi ancien élément du Top 44.

La performance à noter de la journée est celle de l’allemand"outsider" Nico Von Rupp, déjà brillant au Protest Vendée Pro en début d’année, qui réalise une moyenne de 5,31 sur ses 7 vagues surfées, c’est-à-dire qu’il a surfé sans déchet ! Son résultat officiel est 14 points sur 20 grâce à la comptabilité de ses deux meilleures vagues, 6,67 et 7,33 points, système formaté par l’ASP pour l’attribution des points.

Ce soir et demain, fin du premier tour et début du deuxième tour de qualification du Soöruz Lacanau Pro (round of 96) avec l’entrée en lice des meilleurs mondiaux sur des vagues tout aussi parfaites, en attendant la belle poussée de houle en deuxième partie de semaine : spectacle garanti !

Previous reports:
# 1 : Le Sooruz Lacanau Pro 2009: Trente ans de French Pro
# 2 : Sooruz Lacanau Pro kicks off, Collazo & Pupo shine on
# 3 : Coming soon
# 4 : Coming soon  

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