Legends heat at snapper

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Dmuzza95 started the topic in Saturday, 27 Apr 2024 at 8:45pm

I don’t know if it was a nostalgia thing, but I found that heat this afternoon was the best heat I can recall in the last few years from any WSL event. In fairness I don’t watch 90% of the heats ran, usually due to time zones and work. But whenever I do I’m not as encapsulated as I was this arvo. (I might have forgotten about an absolute nail biter r1 heat between jadson Andre and Ian gentil, forgive me please)

A large portion of that could be snapper doing a lot of heavy lifting, as I would argue it’s one of the best waves for a comp, in regards to consistency, quality and variety(tubes and turns). And the tour has had the most unlucky streak of shit conditions I can remember in recent years

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Dmuzza95 Saturday, 27 Apr 2024 at 8:50pm

This does also read more as a statement than a question or point of discussion in hindsight. But I can’t exactly send this to my wife or she’ll ask if I’ve gotten off my arse and done the washing or if I’ve just been on the couch watching the comp and drinking beer all afternoon

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seeds Saturday, 27 Apr 2024 at 8:53pm

Funny Occy dropping in on Joel’s barrel and shutting down the section.

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Dmuzza95 Saturday, 27 Apr 2024 at 10:09pm
seeds wrote:

Funny Occy dropping in on Joel’s barrel and shutting down the section.

Just another day at snapper for occy, respectfully of course

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quadzilla Sunday, 28 Apr 2024 at 6:50am
Dmuzza95 wrote:

I don’t know if it was a nostalgia thing, but I found that heat this afternoon was the best heat I can recall in the last few years from any WSL event. In fairness I don’t watch 90% of the heats ran, usually due to time zones and work. But whenever I do I’m not as encapsulated as I was this arvo. (I might have forgotten about an absolute nail biter r1 heat between jadson Andre and Ian gentil, forgive me please)

Yes, highly enjoyable...I do watch plenty of WSL in Australia and Hawaii, sometimes other places if theres quality waves.

What we saw yesterday was excellent and should be a regular thing(I know Bells does it).

Really looking forward to Snapper being on the CT in the future.

A large portion of that could be snapper doing a lot of heavy lifting, as I would argue it’s one of the best waves for a comp, in regards to consistency, quality and variety(tubes and turns). And the tour has had the most unlucky streak of shit conditions I can remember in recent years

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quadzilla Sunday, 28 Apr 2024 at 6:56am

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 28 Apr 2024 at 8:20am

Yeah that heat was so good, and how good does Mick still surf.

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Solitude Sunday, 28 Apr 2024 at 11:53am

Nostalgia could be a part of it for sure but they surfed it better than any of the CS crew today (maybe Kyuss King excepted).

It all came together didn’t it? Conditions, surfers, crowd, opportunity. A rare thing in surfing, particularly of the professional variety.

My $0.02 - Parko’s lost a bit, Mick looks as good as ever and would win many a’CT heat, Steph will continue to do well in clean rights, Slater looked great and Occy, well he doesn’t do it for me

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Roadkill Sunday, 28 Apr 2024 at 11:59am
Dmuzza95 wrote:

I don’t know if it was a nostalgia thing, but I found that heat this afternoon was the best heat I can recall in the last few years from any WSL event. In fairness I don’t watch 90% of the heats ran, usually due to time zones and work. But whenever I do I’m not as encapsulated as I was this arvo. (I might have forgotten about an absolute nail biter r1 heat between jadson Andre and Ian gentil, forgive me please)

A large portion of that could be snapper doing a lot of heavy lifting, as I would argue it’s one of the best waves for a comp, in regards to consistency, quality and variety(tubes and turns). And the tour has had the most unlucky streak of shit conditions I can remember in recent years

“but I found that heat this afternoon was the best heat I can recall in the last few years from any WSL event.”

It didn’t come close to some of the heats wsl has provided in the last few years.

The heat was entertaining and fun to watch…nothing more than that.