The Hurley Pro 2009 is the only World Championship Tour, WCT, event held in North America. It is going on now at lower Trestles. They are currently through round 3 and on hold because the surf is no bueno. You can check out the highlights so far here. Be sure to check out Dane Reynolds in Round 3 Heat 7. Que up your own music because they set it to the cheesiest synthetic background music they could find. The waves were not very impressive, but Dane launched an amazing air to pull in an 8.3 and advance past Ben Dunn. Joel Parkinson was eliminated in Round 3 by Rob Machado so the title race is suddenly a little more interesting.
-You can check it out live here The next call is Friday morning 7:30am Pacific
-The good news is that the Americans are kicking butt. Taylor Knox, Roy Powers, Dane Reynolds, Rob Machado, Kelly Slater, Kekoa Bacalso, Damien Hobgood, and CJ Hobgood are all still in the hunt. Hawaiians are American last I heard.
-The Webcast has been pretty good. Could use Occy.
-The waves have been pretty poor overall. We can hope the final rounds will be held in much better surf.
-The offical website is good, but Hurley needs to do a better job of keeping it updated throughout the event. For example, Round 3 was running for awhile before the list of Round 3 match ups was posted. I eventually found it on the ASP site well before the event site.
The main thing is that the worlds greatest surfers are just down the road. I hope to get down to the event, but if I can not, I will be grateful for the webcast.
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