Drug Aware Pro Margaret River webcast
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BOOM WE ARE LIVE!!!
Conditions are red hot!
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Look... I realize that the smaller we call the size of a wave, the bigger our cocks are.... I've always understood that..... But the non surfing community who try to get a grasp of our sport just shake their heads...... And Ben, you and i both get a bit irate at BOM with their coastal warnings for the general public.... But if us surfers were in charge of this, how many novice rock fisherman would die with you and me saying that the waves are 4 foot today? "Cool", says the rock fisherman...... "That's tiny...... 4 foot...."...... Hours later, a wave with an 8 foot face swamps him and his kid.......
We are a funny mob, us surfers.....
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Just switched on and will be ineteresting to see how the commentary addresses the move made by Kelly.
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@Doggy.
Fkn right we're a weird bunch... Its different break to break http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_scale
I'd Call today 6ft going by the webcast. remember also how bloody far out the wave is.
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Jeez, there were waves galore before the start of the heat and now hardly a set!
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Ah, always happens, bring on an add and you're bound to miss some action and a set.
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Didn't say you called it 4 foot, ben.... Was just painting a hypothetical about "surf size"in general.... Possibly worth a forum on it's own.....
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Or when you're surfing and a set comes just as you start to have a piss;)
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Well that's right, Ben.... So how does a non surfer make any sense of this?. Name another sport that has this much confusion about the main facet of the sport.........
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Wow surfline massive overcall even if you half it....
Did I hear correctly the ad was Coastalwatch the official forecaster for the 2014 ASP World Tour?
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Has Jordy got bigger?
There's some shit coming out of those commentators trying to fill the lulls
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I'm 20mins behind watching webcast - but have the commentators addressed the big elephant in the room - Kelly's stickerless board??
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Haha, and then the interview with Kelly was great, obviously still really raw for Kelly and showed.
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Surfs turned crap. Wrap it up for today, I wanna see Mr Wright on some clean faces.
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took a while to catch up. Pretty emotional for Kelly. Be great to have the inside story. Guess that will be good details for a book one day!
Best day of the contest period ACB they will milk it right through to the ladies
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and as soon as JJF does 1 good manoeuvre, the drivel about hawaiian's being the best because of their backyard begins.
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I am transfixed by that desk. Do you think they flew it there from the gold coast like a hover craft? Looks like it came the set of THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO with those jet propulsion units at each end. Come to think of it so do the commentators. Maybe Zosea could get the old puppets and use SIRI as a voice over to save money on this part of it? Couldn't resist when I saw poor Pete Mel with a blank look on his face.
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No mem, it's inflatable! Never any shortage of hot air. Joe can blow it up easily, I think he uses circular breathing.
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Yes that's it! The rubber ducky of desks with Joe hooked up to it to maintain its tautness . Maybe they could hook up an outboard and take it out to the surf and commentate from there. He could talk in an iron lung so out in the surf wouldn't be a problem.
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looks like there is no waves at all at the moment!!
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thermalben wrote:Interesting to read the 'official' forecast - this was taken from the ASP website this morning (linked off the homepage). 1-3ft with sideshore winds?
You must have gotten the "old" official forecast Ben, as CW updated it yesterday morning to call 4-6ft for yesterday. Must have been a close range storm off Margs Tuesday night that made the forecast change so significantly!!!! ;)
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Also, what model are they getting 15kt N'ly winds on Saturday night from, no model I've checked even comes close to forecasting this..
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lets go to the box.. this is so inconstant.
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ACB__ wrote:lets go to the box.. this is so inconstant.
Exactly. Guys are getting pitted over at the box while the girls are just sitting around. Get to the Box!
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http://www.aspworldtour.com/posts/36478/official-assessment-margaret-riv...
"We're looking for power, we're looking for unique lines and of course innovation where opportunity presents itself." Rich Porta
Isn't this a given when you're having a comp and how is this relevant to the Official Assessment Margaret River?
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My feed is shithouse this morning jumping in and out. its got Kelly and hedge's heads on the screen with a live feed showing girls surfing. But display is saying Broadcast is off. Next call following womens round two. Got the fastest broadband too.
Given they measure in wave face MSW should be in line with Surfline.
haha frickin classic - I saw the official forecast too for yesterday and it was forecasted for small in morning
Only Southerlys on seabreeze too for the weekend Craig. No northerlies there. Though there are northerlies forecasted for Perth.
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The forecast the had up on the ASP site that you posted Ben was done last Wednesday they didn't update until yesterday. They were updating every few days on the CW main page just not updating the ASP page
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mick-free wrote:My feed is shithouse this morning jumping in and out. its got Kelly and hedge's heads on the screen with a live feed showing girls surfing. But display is saying Broadcast is off. Next call following womens round two. Got the fastest broadband too.
Same it's really shitting me I wanna know the individual scores not just the total...
My feed isn't too bad though.
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waves are getting better. Was going to put Fuel on but its not even on Fuel TV....
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thermalben wrote:matt123 wrote:The forecast the had up on the ASP site that you posted Ben was done last Wednesday they didn't update until yesterday. They were updating every few days on the CW main page just not updating the ASP page
If we were the 'official forecasters' and the 'official forecast' at the top of the ASP homepage was so wrong and so out of date, I would have been demanding the ASP update the content (the screengrab I showed was taken on Wednesday morning around 7am). Most of the ASP audience is non-Australian so they would have assumed that this was the latest information.
In any case, forecasting four consecutive days generally under 3ft in Margs in April is a big risk (especially at long range).
Basic forecasting principles would - in the absence of any other data - maintain at least a climatalogical average for long range (which is probably somewhere in the 4ft range at this time of year).
And for reference - Craig's written forecast for Margaret River - 9 days in advance (March 24th) and two days before CW's 1-3ft easing to 1-2ft call was:
"A stronger polar frontal progression right on the edge of our southern swell window, south-southwest of the state (pictured right) will kick up a moderate to large S/SW groundswell for next Tuesday and Wednesday that at this stage looks to reach 5-6ft in the South West, 1-2ft in Perth and 3-4ft up at Gero under favourable offshore E/SE winds."
https://www.swellnet.com/forums/swellnet-forecast-notes/101636
I really couldn't care less, all I was saying is that the forecast on the ASP site was a week old and they were updating on the CW site.. and if I remember correctly they had 5ft Margies in the Friday update, Not sticking up for them tho.
Just about to kick off in a few minutes. Looks like our model forecast has nailed it: I'm seeing good 4-6ft sets on our Margs surfcam with E/SE winds.
https://www.swellnet.com/reports/australia/western-australia/margaret-ri...
Here's a couple of grabs from the surfcam (actually seen bigger bombs than this but wasn't quick enough to capture 'em!).