Best event of the year every year. Guys are pushing it in the pocket on the rocks right now.
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Looks like the jumping rules have changed. Before they were only counting jumps with a stalled wing, now it looks like most of the guys are doing lofted jumps while powered. Like it or not…
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You have a big wing in your hand. Use it. Cash is doing an amazing mix of powered wave riding and free wing wave riding.
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I agree, but I know some want to keep freestyle and wave disciplines separate. These wave heats don’t look too freestyle to me. Cant wait to watch more of it.
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Thankfully it seems like the airs out on the shoulders aren’t scoring very well. Fading down turns to bottom turns behind the pocket on the true sets scored very high. I think the judges can keep rewarding what they want to see and it’ll keep people actually surfing.
Sounds like a pure prone event will be happening in a couple days too.
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Watched two heats, both times a wing got destroyed, seems unlikely this could work for amateur riders at that rate
Backhand is terrible, poor shoulders of the goofy riders, looks miserable
Nice to see the scoring pushing in the pocket riding, it looks pretty cool. If they had a launcher at the top to get people on foil without the wings it would be world class riding. Would like to see that.
Just watched Cash heat, he is more dynamic, but not 3 points more dynamic. Is that the headline sponsor boost?
Edit: just watched the highlights, probably fair
It does seem like if they are going to punish people for using the wing, and wings get destroyed at such a rate, it would make far more sense to just make it a tow event… even if it is just a marketing thing
I’m wondering how the prone event there will work if it’s going to be bigger in the coming days. I wonder if they’ll just tow guys in.
The wing is a big limiting factor in what you can do on a wave, so that’s why I’m happy to see the rules changed to allow the riders to use the wing for powered tricks. Last year the wing was just a big parachute. Now they can use it for speed and height at least.
Cash is 3 points better than half the field. Not all the field.
There’s no way I would wing that wave. Way to much chance for gear to be destroyed. I would surf it though. 
EDIT: That’s the problem with this line of thought though. Just make it a tow event, they’ll surf the wave better. Well you know how else they’d surf the wave better? On surfboards. So why not just make it a surf event.
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Surfing na Cash could be doing snowboard carve and air style if it was a tow event, the wing is 100% parachute getting in the way.
Riding backhand with a wing should be outright banned, it’s horrific!
Those rocks… incredible that no one has smashed them yet that I’ve seen, but definitely ups the stakes.
As a goofyfoot in LA which is a land of right pointbreaks I commiserate with them. Being a goofyfoot is just a terrible handicap in all things surfing. Several people have ran directly into rocks and had gear ruined in the first few heats of day 2.
I think what we are all really wondering though is. If @TooMuchEpoxy was out there with a Takuma WK wing, how would he do?
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As a Goofyfoot from near Jbay, I commiserate with you too… hateful
The wing does have the benefit of zooting around closeouts and Cash does a nice powerslide, so I’ll give it that
I’d be SHREDDDDDDDING. For real though East Coast USA is goofy footer’s foil paradise. I feel bad for the west coasters.
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