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Airs vs Turns
- Thread starter Brawwp
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I haven’t watched a contest in probably over 5 years, are airs really being underscored? I seem to remember the opposite.
Nah I think underappreciated would have been the better term. Underscored in the eyes of the people not necessarily the judges
Airs are getting scored pretty high. They give tens to backside inverted full rotations, landed cleanly. Huge alley-oops like John did at Bells gets tens but he did turns after landing cleanly. Italo’s airs were high but his spin was flat and not inverted or tweaked and some of his landings weren’t very clean. Still got 7’s and 8’s for a single maneuver.
I enjoy reading the comments on IG annd YT about John being over scored for his big hack. Or his other scoring waves. Take the hack out of the equation. John did five, six more turns down the line. A couple were soft cutbacks to stay in the pocket. But he did snaps that blew fins over and ended strong. If he was just scored on that he’d get a high 2 to mid 3. Italo got a 4.6 on a wave he blew tail bogged then hit some vert snaps down the line for reference. So basically the judges gave John a 6-7 for the big hack.
The last wave in John first heat. John did an air reverse to start and did his usual snappy surfing to finish. The air wasn’t very high but was in the beginning of the wave with the most risk. Got 4 the rest of the turns made up the rest of his score. His nose pick on his second scoring wave after the 9.7 looked more critical than the reverse and scored a little higher.
I understand being so invested in your favorite surfer to win. Especially with the sports betting happening but it’s not a conspiracy against Brazil. Geez they’ve pretty much got a lock on men’s pro surfing. Look at the Challenger series. Half the top ten are Brazzos. And Brazil owns 7 of the last ten titles.
I enjoy reading the comments on IG annd YT about John being over scored for his big hack. Or his other scoring waves. Take the hack out of the equation. John did five, six more turns down the line. A couple were soft cutbacks to stay in the pocket. But he did snaps that blew fins over and ended strong. If he was just scored on that he’d get a high 2 to mid 3. Italo got a 4.6 on a wave he blew tail bogged then hit some vert snaps down the line for reference. So basically the judges gave John a 6-7 for the big hack.
The last wave in John first heat. John did an air reverse to start and did his usual snappy surfing to finish. The air wasn’t very high but was in the beginning of the wave with the most risk. Got 4 the rest of the turns made up the rest of his score. His nose pick on his second scoring wave after the 9.7 looked more critical than the reverse and scored a little higher.
I understand being so invested in your favorite surfer to win. Especially with the sports betting happening but it’s not a conspiracy against Brazil. Geez they’ve pretty much got a lock on men’s pro surfing. Look at the Challenger series. Half the top ten are Brazzos. And Brazil owns 7 of the last ten titles.
Which kids are you referring to? Because from what I’ve seen, the generation that grew up with airs as standard is as diverse as any generation before it. Some kids today have ugly style, and some are smooth as silk. when they learned to do airs is irrelevant.
The fact that kids learn reverses before a proper carve is more a function of size and strength than anything else. In the past kids got roasted for having flicky turns. Now old men roast them for doing flicky airs.
Its all just sour grapes from a prior generation that’s left dealing with its newfound irrelevance.
No. You’ve got a serious problem w selective hearing-reading.
Relevant? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_k4PGpOZvg/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I'm still struggling to understand why Griff didn't do airs......he has then in his repertoire and it was obvious judges were paying them.
That was a huge strategic fail imo.
Trying to beat Italo with cutbacks was always going to fail.
That was a huge strategic fail imo.
Trying to beat Italo with cutbacks was always going to fail.
It’s the struggle of competing isn’ it.
I thought Caity was too controlled in the first heat but then rebounded. Griff didn’t have that chance. I assume the thought was he probably can’t beat Italo in the air so beat him with power.
He surfed safe and lost.
Last year he surfed safe and lost.
You'd think he'd bring more noise and at least go out on his sword.
He had nothing to lose and everything to gain by going big.
I reckon he surfed at 70% of his capacity and that's a major fail on Finals Day against a guy putting in 100%.
only a nerd would pose a question like 'airs v turns''
If the dude shreds, he shreds - nothing else to it.
If the dude shreds, he shreds - nothing else to it.
Griff safety surfed the fuck out of his heat. In the practice session he was killing it.