I know it wasn’t ideal, but they had to run today. You need four days of competition for a WT event and four days is a lot when you’re talking about the East Coast. Thankfully, Hurricane Katia is blessing us with an almost-too-good-to-be-true forecast for waves that should have this thing wrapped up by Friday.
Still, today was far from epic, especially for #teamgivinithell. Gabe, Asher, Balaram and Cory got pitted into Round 2, one after the other. I decided I was not even going to talk to my friends anymore because everyone I talked to would seem to lose. Sure enough, I avoided CJ and he put on one of the performances of the day. Coach Jimmikanga was in a deep valley of despair today.
Waves are on the rise, Bal surfs against Fanning at 7 a.m. sharp Wednesday with Asher following against Owen in Heat 2. Look for #teamgivinithell to bounce back strong and hold it down for the Right Coast. —Jimmicane
Get up and at ‘em tomorrow to watch live as the Quiksilver Pro New York continues into Round 2. The hurricane swell is on its way and could make things very interesting, very soon.
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“East Coasters, as you’ve probably noticed, are a prideful group — so after the first couple days of competition in shit conditions and with people all over the world complaining about the lack of quality waves, we were relieved when the good side of Long Beach finally showed.” —Jimmicane
“Gabe Kling and Balaram, not exactly psyching — but put an East Coaster in a disturbed bathtub and he’ll find a way to rip in it. They’re bred for this mess.”
Gabe Kilings heat score = 3.43
Balaram Stacks heat score = 6.07
Even if the waves are a little overhead (zzzzzz), the $1 million in prize money should be thrown at Teahupo’o events, not some lame NY beach break… Chosen by Quiksilver stock board-members who just want to sell more clothes on the least coast. The glaring injustice of this is more than clear after the Tahitian glory.
not really Mik, we need to get as much attention in NY as possible.
its thinking people like your self that we really don’t need in the game.
we’re looking for some cool youtubers that like EXTREME sports and get them to come out and be tubular and say “cowabunga dude” and “totally awesome”.
our t-shirt approach could be ” I love Kelly and I also love New York.”
so cool being in NY running around with surfboards… tahiti? are you kidding.