The Sunset Beach Pro will broadcast live through the weekend (Fri - SUn) with 3 days of high surf advisory - don't miss it and tune into: http://sunsetbeachpro.standupworldtour.com/stream.php

Aussies in the Main event are Justin Holland, Davo Muir, Beau Nixon and Keahi de Aboitiz, while in the Trials, we have Jackson Close and Kieren Taylor....make sure to tune in live

some heavy hitters in this one

the trials rd1 heats

And how is Dave Muir drawing Kai and Connor in rd1! Hopefully it is huge and he can show the groms how to do it.

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surf4fun said...
And how is Dave Muir drawing Kai and Connor in rd1! Hopefully it is huge and he can show the groms how to do it.

Wow you right there S4F, tough draw, I'm sure Dave would be thinking the bigger the better so he can throw his weight around, it's not like Kai (in particular) is not used to big swell though.

Interesting to see that a couple of big names in kiting Kai and Airton Cozzolini are so big on SUP as well.
Airton burst onto the kiting scene in 2011 taking out the KSP (kite surfing pro) world championship.

Surprised and stoked to see Japan's Kohei competing. That guy is insane in massive rights. Not sure if he knows how to compete. But fear won't be a problem with him.

Kohei advances...

Nobody knows him... but the dude knows how to get barrelled going right...

Argh, Kohei only caught one wave in his next heat.

Still, check out the guy's website. Fearless...

www.koheisansurf.com/

Dave Muir has just hit the water and taken off on an absolute BOMB!

Thats it for today, Kai takes the heat over Dave, pretty windy but some good sets coming through.

Kai Lenny 15 (6.5, 8.5)
Dave Muir 12.15 (4.25, 7.9)
Conner Baxter 4.4 (1.15, 3.25)
Riggs Napoleon 3 (3)

Keahi ripping!!

Keahi has just nailed two high scoring waves... this heat is looking great for him!

Justin and Beau in a heat at the moment ,pretty challenging conditions in lumpy Sunset

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surfer56 said...
Justin and Beau in a heat at the moment ,pretty challenging conditions in lumpy Sunset

They both just smashed it!!!! Unreal. Some big bombs came their way in that heat and they took them on at full pace. Respect. Nice work fellas.

What's with the heat draw? It seems you keep surfing against the same guys till the finals.

You come first or second in the first round and you are in the same heat in round three, come first or second in that heat and you face each other again in round four. So you potentially surf against the same guy three times.

Just seems odd.

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surf4fun said...
And how is Dave Muir drawing Kai and Connor in rd1! Hopefully it is huge and he can show the groms how to do it.

+ 1. Dave is great on the big waves.

Round 24 will be interesting Dave, Justin & Kai.

Go Dave and Justin.

Yeah agree aus301 the heat draw is a bit weird.

Big Wave Dave just got a bomb to move from 3rd into 1st with a 9.15. (16.65)
Kai 2nd 15.8.

If these two were to go right through to the final it would be the 6th time they would come up against each other.

Contest postponed today channel closing out,may have to do some work afterall

Beau Nixon just made it to the semi's, the last Aussie still in the hunt.

His semi up now, tough draw go Beau!!!