The Tassie lads cleaned up at this year's Oakley/ASL Big wave awards. They also put on a pretty good show that night, making the most of the free champagne.

As the Billabong XXL nominees were announced this week, the lure of another fast-paced adventure was getting the crew a little toey. The boys were checking flights to LA as Zadda was a shoe-in for a wipeout nomination. When his wave failed to appear on the XXL website as a finalist, we started trawling through the entries. In short, it looks like some sort of April Fool's prank. Have a look for yourself, but it's gotta beg the question… what are the criteria? Yeah it's a wipeout and probably not the category anyone aspires to winning, but for surfing's sake – if ya gonna do it, do it properly. So we bring a few awards home and a large percentage of Aussie nominations come from Shippies – not our fault we keep delivering. Maybe next time Kelly surfs a 10 they should knock it back a couple of points because he's done it too many times before.

We can only assume they can't handle the heat… Either the heat of the competition the Tassie boys provide or the sting they bring to the party. The apparent oversight on behalf of the XXL award organisers has led to a few crew discussing the possibility of a rival competition so as they say in the classics… the plate can wait.

RR - interesting post. I have not seen the other entries or the criteria for judging....I respect that video you have shown as a wipeout - I personally never want to come close to featuring in even close to that ! I have seen lots of good wipeouts this year in other vid's that have been doing the rounds as well. But as I have not seen the other entries or the criteria I can not really comment too much. But its certainly not the worst one I have seen but its up there - just my opinion though. I do like the crazy Tassie boys though and hope they continue their dominance going forward.

Great post Riverider. Hard to imagine what the other ones are like if that didn't make the finals, although I was a bit disappointed not to see an arm and leg sticking out of the lip as he came over the falls. You get extra points for that.
I would be 3km inside the Carlton River mouth if the swell was anything like that.

Just for the record those words aren't mine, I just copied the article from one of the sites down here, I haven't seen the other entries either, they are a crazy bunch of bastards !

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wavelength said...
Great post Riverider. Hard to imagine what the other ones are like if that didn't make the finals, although I was a bit disappointed not to see an arm and leg sticking out of the lip as he came over the falls. You get extra points for that.
I would be 3km inside the Carlton River mouth if the swell was anything like that.

What he said...ask him to get his head out of the lip and let out a blood curdling scream when he goes over the falls...if he can mix that up with a semi-conciouse jet ski rescue he might be in with a shot....if he doesn't he a ski some type of broken appendage through skin and wetsuit might suffice