Wildcard Mason Ho secured a win over defending event winner Mick Fanning in their Round 1 match-up today. Ho landed a clean, frontside aerial rotation to take out the defending the three-time World Champion in a close heat.
North Narrabeen Boardriders have won the Isuzu D-MAX Surftag Australian Championships dominating the four-team final on their home break.
Joe Van Dijk and Pauline Ado have claimed the wildcard positions into the Rip Curl Pro today after taking out the Premiers Active April Challenge Trials in great waves at Bells Beach.
“I can’t stop thinking about how fun it's going to be, almost everything I’ve seen for a couple days has looked like a Bell that had to be rung."
Thirty-two teams will contest this week’s Isuzu D-MAX Surftag Australian Championships at North Narrabeen with the host club striving for their sixth Men’s Australian Title.
Confucious say: Get good waves on finals day and all the rest is forgotten.
“This is the best feeling in the world and I’m so happy,” Toledo said. “Only god and my family know how much I’ve been training, both physically and mentally. I’m so happy to win an event and feeling really confident too. "
Long as it breaks they can ride it. Long as they can ride it we can take photos of it.
The day saw its share of upsets with Gabriel Medina, Kelly Slater, John John Florence and Joel Parkinson all being eliminated from competition in Round 3 at the hands of their lower-seeded opponents.
If the surf is rideable it's contestable, and this surf was ridable - just.
