Watch: Nazare Big Wave Challenge Highlights
The day started slow and small, by Nazare standards, and ended not-as-slow and not-as-small.
Westerly swells at Nazare, for those who don't know, miss the canyon refraction that makes Nazare what it is. Yesterday's swell was approx. 285°, so 15° off pure west, and the sideways wedge struggled to get going. The pure size...meaning the open ocean swell size, was also on the underside of proper Nazare.
Clement Roseyro won the Best Men’s Performance with Justine Dupont taking the Women’s Best Performance Award. Roseryo doubled up winning the Best Team Performance Award with Nic Von Rupp.
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If that was all the highlights in 2 mins, I can’t imagine how boring it would of been to watch it live
I watched the whole thing live. Wasn't boring. But can understand not for everyone.
Pretty sure they ran this comp in direct competition of the launch of The Natural Selection surf contest which aired today.
You'll have a hard time convincing me otherwise......
You might be right but it's worth considering that last year at Nazare was the worst season in many years - perhaps even since it's been popularised - yet they got to run the comp in late January.
It's now past mid-Feb and they were running out of time to run this year's version, so my guess is they pulled the trigger out of desperation.
Also worth considering that Red Bull is a major sponsor of both events and they ran concurrently on Red Bull TV, which cannibalised the potential audience.
Point being, it didn't serve Red Bull to run the Naz comp but they did anyway, which brings it back to my hunch about desperation.
Lol, is competitive surfing actually cursed ?
I’d watch hours of the wave pool over that.
Aside from a bad hold down, towing Naz looks like something an intermediate and up could do.
Two thumbs down.
The best part of Nazare is watching ski riders get hammered, sadly there was little of that.
Interviews with Von Rupp don't really thrill me either.
It doesn't matter what is run it is all so overhyped it becomes unbearable. WSL (Jon Jon, Medina, Slater and a couple of others) at Cloudbreak, J Bay, Pipe and Chopes exempt from this of course.
Baffles me that crew would rather watch a wave tub over this.
What have surfers become??
Tow in to a full on burger?
Towing onto fat mush burgers is boring.
Im lucky to witness the heaviest waves in the world regularly down here, and yet i still don't find watching Nazare boring. Not sure how big surf is ever boring.
Each to their own though. Clearly the unpopular opinion here...as usual.
Maybe it's a swellnet thing. Birds of a feather....
Euro trash that never paddled in their lives getting towed into fat burgers while holding redbull cans up at every opportunity , horrible.
The very worst of both big wave and competitive surfing combined ...
Well done wsl
Generally my favourite part is watching the skis getting in and out and doing crazy pickups not sure why they showed nearly none of that
And yep wank SL curse continues for sure.
Maybe if they employed even just one person the check comments for a bit of a vibe check maybe they might see why most crew r becoming less interested in there favourite sport