Finally - some hilights and most of the final on Monday.

A lot of the best surfing was in the final and although not every wave was caught on film, the best ones were.




Final results:

1st - Ben Apps (Southern Sydney) YELLOW
2nd - Andrew "Casso" Cassidy BLUE
3rd - Beau Nixon (Central Coast) GREEN
4th - Matt Fleming (Northern Beaches) WHITE (?)
5th - Roger "Tha Dogman" Saunders (Far North Coast) ORANGE
6th - Steve Beaumont (Northern Beaches) - RED (?)

(?) Unsure who's who?

Its a full 10 mins long so sit back and enjoy!

It's PUMPING out there right now so enough of staring at my Video Editor - I'm OUTAHERE!

Andrew.A

PS: Where would you place DOGMAN in the final?

champcrow said...

I don't know much about judging by i thought the Dog should of been in the top 3

Yeah hard to tell with out watching every single wave but agree with that.

Was it best 2 or 3 waves?

Ben was a deserved winner though by the looks.

I think the judges did a good job I had Casso in front until the end but Ben just pipped him.

I think they surfed really well considering the conditions , Casso my man you rip on that 8-10 and so did Ben what was he on ?

WINDSURFnSNOW said...

Go a bit easy on the judging as the paid judges were super keen to work towards the current criteria SUP events are being judged on. Also after being part of judging the final on the weekend there is a hell of a lot to track during a 6 man final. Often 3-4 guys surfing 200m apart at exactly the same time doesn't make for 100% prefect vision.

Well said Sam.

Judging is a very difficult task at the best of times, but when you have six guys in the water with very similar abilities, 200m apart, sun glaring off the water and judging a discipline you are not totally across - it must have been a nightmare.

All six finalists must have been VERY close in their total scores as I picked the outcome quite different (with me not placing nearly as high).

With Sam in the judging tower and the head judge coming over to us before the final to get some 'criteria' advice I think they did a great job overall. Rounds one and two saw a few of the longboard styles rewarded handsomely but in the final they really focussed on the proper SUP performance criteria:

"A surfer must perform radical controlled manoeuvres, using the paddle as a key tool, in the critical sections of a wave with speed, power and flow to maximize scoring potential. Innovative / progressive surfing as well as variety of repertoire [manoeuvres], wave negotiation and use of the paddle to increase the intensity of the manoeuvres, will all be taken into account when awarding points for SUP surfing. The SUP surfer who executes these criteria with the maximum degree of difficulty and commitment on the waves will be rewarded with the higher scores."
- International Surfers Association Rule Book

on what on seen
Dogman 1st ( He got his board right on to its rail in his turns rather than pushing his tail around looked better to me.


beau 2nd

casso 3rd

I'm not saying the judges were wrong but from the vid that's how i see it.

Jacko

boylos said...



Great video AA ,HOW DID YOU GO?

Boylos

Not good mate! I never made it down to the food and wine festival!

AA

PS: I am not the competitive type (cough cough)! Naaah not my gig I actually enjoy just 'hanging out'!

AA said...

Finally - some hilights and most of the final on Monday.

A lot of the best surfing was in the final and although not every wave was caught on film, the best ones were.




Final results:

1st - Ben Apps (Southern Sydney) YELLOW
2nd - Andrew "Casso" Cassidy BLUE
3rd - Beau Nixon (Central Coast) GREEN
4th - Matt Fleming (Northern Beaches) WHITE (?)
5th - Roger "Tha Dogman" Saunders (Far North Coast) ORANGE
6th - Steve Beaumont (Northern Beaches) - RED (?)

(?) Unsure who's who?

Its a full 10 mins long so sit back and enjoy!

It's PUMPING out there right now so enough of staring at my Video Editor - I'm OUTAHERE!

Andrew.A

PS: Where would you place DOGMAN in the final?

i say give the dogman a dc 8 10 bone. dog+dc would be incredible

You RIP Appsy! Welcome to the Breeze!

AA

appsy said...

Hi Casso, its my first time on here. All I know about my sup is that its 9ft 4 or 5. I have no idea about the rest of it because I leave it all upto Tully. As for my paddle i leave that up to Woogie hahaha. Im not very good at knowing all of that stuff. I prefer to ride whatever they want me to ride.

That was my first real sup event and had heaps of fun, no hassling and no ego. I hope to see all of the finalist again at some future SUP comps. Just as long as they dont judge longboarding stuff as I cant longboard for sh..! hahaha

Cheers mate Appsy

Appssssssssy, good to see you here mate. Thanks for all that good info on the Laguna Bay.

It WAS a fun event, hey? Your SUP record is pretty good so far!

PS welcome to the breeze Appsy,and congrates again,
Robbo

Casso said...

appsy said...

Hi Casso, its my first time on here. All I know about my sup is that its 9ft 4 or 5. I have no idea about the rest of it because I leave it all upto Tully. As for my paddle i leave that up to Woogie hahaha. Im not very good at knowing all of that stuff. I prefer to ride whatever they want me to ride.

That was my first real sup event and had heaps of fun, no hassling and no ego. I hope to see all of the finalist again at some future SUP comps. Just as long as they dont judge longboarding stuff as I cant longboard for sh..! hahaha

Cheers mate Appsy

Appssssssssy, good to see you here mate. Thanks for all that good info on the Laguna Bay.

It WAS a fun event, hey? Your SUP record is pretty good so far!

Hahah... yeah Im still pretty happy with the result. Mate it was a really fun event. I think I did more talking to you guys then anything. It was good to see the varity of surfing. Like we were talking about I cant longboard to save my life. Mate being from the south coast if you have anything happening up your way let me know.Im heading up to surf wuth woogie and tully in three weeks, I hear all of the sunny coast guys surf really well on SUP's. So hopefully ill get a few pointers.

Cheers mate, Appsy

ianr64 said...

PS welcome to the breeze Appsy,and congrates again,
Robbo

Thanks Robbo, much appreciated. I was wrapped, but there was some luck too. I stayed on the little right hander with DOGMAN and CASSO. We just talked the whole final. It was like a tea party for a bit hahahaha. I hope we get more events up and running. We just need to pull our fingers out.I heard a rumour that in some beaches in Us and Hawaii they are thinking about banning SUP's. That will be a big blow for us if that happens.

Cheers mate appsy

goatman said...

Hey appsy, you should come up for the inugural Sydney SUP club contest on August 8th. Well done on your Snowy result!

You would think the Vice President of the club would get the date right - Goaty meant to say 9 August (not 8) - or maybe he's advertising the wrong date so he has a better chance of winning the inaugural comp.

I can't remember Appsy, are you from Cronulla area, the 'Gong or further?

Check out www.spsc.com.au for the dates and locations of our upcoming events.

The Aussie SUP Titles are on 23 August at Port Macquarie - by winning the Snowy you'd think you'd have a pretty good chance of making it onto the NSW team. But nobody knows how they are making the selections yet (no official NSW State SUP Titles).

A good start would be for Surfing Australia to include SUP in there judging accreditation course that way the judges are trained in what to look for. No need to re-invent the wheel, ISA have done all the hard work SA should just adopt it....but like the aussie titles all you get is a brick wall when you ask the question?

greenliner said...

hi guys, loved the vid AA but gez can someone correct whos who on the vid please.
The last thing i need is to think its Casso when its actually The Dogman........love to get it right!!

Sure, GREENLINER.

In the final (after the little intermission) -

1st - Ben Apps (Southern Sydney) YELLOW (orange Laguna Bay)
2nd - Andrew "Casso" Cassidy BLUE (White DC- always has his GREEN Targe't boardies on))
3rd - Beau Nixon (Central Coast) GREEN (white Laird)
4th - Matt Fleming (Northern Beaches) WHITE (Starboard)
5th - Roger "Tha Dogman" Saunders (Far North Coast) ORANGE (red helmet, as always)
6th - Steve Beaumont (Northern Beaches) - RED ( starboard)


AA

yo dudes

just for the record i'm rapped with 5th place

and was just stoked to be in the water with a few crew on sup's

...lol... "the best tea party yet" next time i'll bake some scones guys...lol...

thanks AA for the video of the event

just waiting for the footage that casso's personal film crew took

big congrats go to appsy on taking out the sup surfing final

and sam for 3km paddle

and congrats to casso for beating me again in the surfing and the paddle race(f@rrrkkkk!!!!)

and congrats to newcastle sup for completing the 3km paddle on "the cracker sub-marine sub-vector" you must have past a heap of crew on the way back from the bower dude going off!!!

and biggest thanks to the manly longboard club for putting on a great comp

and making some cool trophies for all the finalists