The Jeffreys Bay Open is only a week away and there's a lot of anticipation around this event after last year's incident involving Mick Fanning and some of the local wildlife.

The first day of the waiting period is next Wednesday so the pros will be reacquainting themselves with Supertubes as we speak. Fortunately for them there's a lot of swell on the cards, especially through Friday and Saturday allowing the pros to get a good warm up in. From Sunday, however, devil winds from the northern quadrant will create poor conditions and it's not until the first day of the waiting period (Wednesday 6th) that winds improve and settle down.

A new long-range and inconsistent SW groundswell is due to fill in on the first day of the waiting period, produced by a favourably positioned polar storm traversing the ice-shelf this weekend.

We're looking at surf in the 3-4ft range wrapping into Jeffreys Bay, easing back through Thursday with favourable offshore winds.

From here we're expecting a few lay days as the Southern Ocean storm track weakens through next week. A stronger storm developing south-east of South America mid-late next week should produce some new larger swell for the following weekend and early that week, but beyond this another blocking pattern looks to develop.

So the early outlook isn't epic for J'Bay - warm up days notwithstanding - but there are waves on the cards. Let's hope something more significant develops for the end of the event waiting period. Check back for running updates in the comments section below.

And now some classic J'Bay lines featuring Tanner Gudauskas, Taylor Knox, and Parker and Conner Coffin.