Hi all,

Make sure you tune into the Stand Up World Series Final this weekend.

Live stream will be on their site, http://watermanleague.com/stand-up-world-series

Forecast is looking amazing!

Saturday is Long Distance 18km with solid swell 20knots downwind.

Sunday is Sprints with 10ft plus on the forecast.

Cheers me on as I aim to get my World Title! There is only a tiny 2000 point spearating myself and Lina. Who ever wins here will win the Title for 2014.

Jake is aiming to win here and he can move up into 2nd for the year.

Hope you all can watch the action from home.

X Angie

Best of luck Ange I am sure you can do it!
Hopefully jake claims 2nd overall for the year!
Hopefully Jacko gets some luck for once and smokes them all

Downwinder sounds fun!!
Shortcourse sounds like it will be full on! Will be great that it's streamed live!
Been a great series to follow all year I've enjoyed it

Somebody needs to tell Jacko his leggie is on the wrong foot

best of luck angie,jacko and jake

make sure you remove your handles!!!

What times in OZ can we watch both days?

Coming in through pipe would be the easy part!! Getting out will be the fun part.

paul.j said..
Coming in through pipe would be the easy part!! Getting out will be the fun part.

you forgot to set your phone to southern hemisphere mode

teatrea said...
what time is the race on?

Starts here at 1pm

husq2100 said..
any results from Sat?

Not yet... Hawaii is 20 hours behind us (Qld time) so they'll be doing the check in and briefing for the long distance race about now and race is set to start at:

7am West Coast
9am Queensland
9:30am Adelaide
10am NSW, ACT & Vicco

Sprits to start half hour earlier than this tomorrow

Live video feed starting soon at:

http://watermanleague.com/events/2014-world-series-finals-at-turtle-bay-oahu

Best of luck to all the Aussies...

Angie will be battling hard against Lina and looking to secure her World Series title.
Jake looking to split the 'big two' on the podium to finish runner up for the year.
Jacko will be wanting a strong finish for the year & to have the most fun in the big surf that could be on offer.
Ke'ale will be looking to cause another shake up in the Sprints against the more established girls.
And Pete Dorries showing that the old guys can still do it!

(Sorry if I've missed any other Aussies who are there too?)

The feed sucked , I think Kai , riggs , mo , jake?

First time they've attempted live feed from a distance race, but not sure they'll be doing it again after that. Pretty much no mention of the girls or anyone outside the top few guys until the finish and then didn't wait for the other girls to finish.
They've done a good job with the pre-race talk and interviews for the women's showndown leading into the event but kind of fell off the bandwagon with the race coverage - especially when the men's title was already decided and the women's title is on the line!

Fiona 1st, Angie 2nd & Sonni 3rd
Not sure yet where Lina finished or how close points will be between her and Angie heading into tomorrow.

(BTW Waterman League have put an apology on their facebook page about some problems with the live feed. From watching, or trying to watch, it we all saw it wasn't great, but at least they're trying something new and not leaving it to 3rd party coverage like BOP. Can only improve from here.)

Tough race with what looked like it was going to be a unreal DW but it didnt really end up like that and ended up being alot harder than it was ment to be.

Jake lead for most of the way but not taking any water really hurt him at the last part, it was a tough call to take water or not as if it was as good as it looked you would not need it but when it turn in to a tough grind in parts it really took its toll.

Ang lead right up to the last 1km up wind part and i think she is the first to admit she sucks upwind and Fiona got past her the best part for Ang is Lina ended up in 6th giving and a good buffer for tomorrow.

I was going pretty good sitting with Kai and just behind Jake and riggs for quite a way then it just seemed to get hard and i dropped of the pace when i finished i realized my board was full of water guess thats what happens when i trust Jake to fix it i think i limped it 12th.

All learned lessons and now getting ready for a big day of sprinting tomorrow which should be super fun in some good sized waves.

husq2100 said..
bloody hell mate, you can't catch a trick.

haha my own fault for not really checking the repair work which wasn't done by jake by the way!! for me it does not really make a difference as i'm way down the rankings this year anyway.

teatrea said...
Your lucks gotta change Jacko! And Jake might get some brains

Nar its not a lack of brains. Young blokes think the're invincible