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| Chasen Marshall/OC Weekly |
| The long Lowers walls made for an ideal canvas. |
Yesterday's action at the
Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles was a demonstration of why surfing can but never will join the likes of professional football, basketball and baseball. The progression and innovation in surfing creates a constantly evolving (for the better) bit of entertainment, but in the end, who wins and how they do so is still entirely subjective, and at the mercy of the judges.
There's Julian Wilson, using a four-foot Lowers wave face as a launch ramp into an aerial another four-feet above the lip, adding a grab for impact, and then on a later wave he pulls a "sex-change varial," shifting the board around under his feet while in the air. The next generation of surfing.
There's Owen Wright, the No. 2 surfer in the world and another new generation surfer, performing three consecutive snaps at the top of the wave--"three to the beach," an almost old-school approach, regardless of the power and precision--somehow resulting in one of the highest scores of the contest, a 9.7.
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