SURF -"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPORT"

SURF - "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPORT"











Thursday, December 20, 2012

TOP SURFERS 2013 - ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS

TOP SURFERS 2013 WORLD TOUR - ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS

TOP 22  from 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals WCT Rankings

1. Joel Parkinson (AUS)
2. Kelly Slater (USA)
3. Mick Fanning(AUS)
4. John John Florence(HAW)
5. Adriano de Souza (BRA)
6. Taj Burrow(AUS)
7. Gabriel Medina(BRA)
8. Josh Kerr(AUS)
9. Julian Wilson (AUS)
10. Owen Wright (AUS)
11. Jeremy Flores(FRA)
12. Jordy Smith (SAF)
13. CJ Hobgood(USA)
14. Adrian Buchan(AUS)
15. Michel Bourez(TAH)
16. Damien Hobgood(USA)
17. Miguel Pupo (BRA)
18. Alejo Muniz (BRA)
19. Kieren Perrow(AUS)
20. Bede Durbidge(AUS)
21. Travis Logie(SAF)
22. Kai Otton(AUS)

TOP 10 from 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals World Rankings(barring double qualifiers)

1. Sebastien Zietz(HAW)
2 .Kolohe Andino (USA)
3. Matt Wilkinson (AUS)
4. Glenn Hall (IRL)
5. Brett Simpson(USA)
6. Adam Melling (AUS)
7. Nat Young (USA)
8. Fredrick Patacchia(HAW)
9. Travis Logie(SAF)
10. Tiago Pires(POR)

two ASP Wild Cards
1. Dusty Payne(HAW)
2. Raoni Monteiro(BRA)

ASP WCT Replacement(in the event of athlete withdrawl)
1. Patrick Gudauskas(USA) next on ASP World Ranking
2. Yadin Nicol(AUS) next on ASP/WCT
3.William Cardoso(BRA) second on ASP World Ranking
4. Heitor Alves(BRA) second on ASP /WCT

BILLABONG RIO PRO 2012 - THE BEST

BILLABONG RIO PRO 2011 - the first in Rio







2011
The WCT was transferred to Rio de Janeiro -Barra da Tijuca and Arpoador beaches in 2011 and I came to the most important surfing event in Brazil. I took a flight by Azul from Porto Alegre RS to Rio de Janeiro, Santos Dumont Airport. However that time I was a quite lost in this huge city where the beaches are far away from downtown. The championship was "off" because there were not waves ; the sea was flat with no waves. But I took many pictures from the event structure in Barra da Tijuca Posto 4 close to Sheraton Hotel and Arpoador Beach. I also took pictures of some top surfers as Bede Durbidge, Owen Whight, Jean da Silva, Leandro Bastos, Simão Romão, Igor Morais e Adriano de Souza, who was the champion of  Billabong Rio Pro 2011. The women's event was "on"  and Carissa Moore was the champion. I saw the trials for the competition, the weather changed and started raining directly so I decided to come back do Porto Alegre and follow the championship by Internet on live, and prepare better my next trip for this surfing competition in 2012.

BILLABONG  RIO PRO 2012 the best






May 9th 2012 - Wednesday
I bought my airplane ticket and a new cell with camera Nokia 500 with 5Mb resolution and made a banner of my blog surfworldtour.blogspot.com to place in the Barra da Tijuca and Arpoador beaches. This championship I stayed in a simple hotel in Rio de Janeiro downtown close to Tiradentes Square.I left POA on May 9th at 6:46 am to Sao Paulo   Unfortunately my plane connection delayed in Guarulhos SP  by operational problems and I landed in Rio de Janeiro just in afternoon so I could not go to the first day of competition in Arpoador beach. Unfortunately I missed the Men's and Women's   Round 1 in Arpoador Beach.
                                 Guarulhos SP


May 9th - Arpoador beach -The Championship is "on"
Waves - two-to four foot(1.0 metre)
Men's - Round 1
Women's-Round 1



                               

May 10th Arpoador beach
Waves - One-to-three foot(.5 metre)
Men's - Lay Day
Women's- Round 2


                                


May 10th Thursday
I woke up early at 5.00 am  and caught the bus 308 in Presidente Vargas Avenue to Barra da Tijuca  and got off in America Avenue and I walked way to posto 4 but I became frustrated because threre was not event in post 4 close to Sheraton Hotel as in last year 2011. So I asked some guys and they told me the event was in Posto 2 -Postinho in front of "Pepe Point" and SK8. So I walked there so fast and fortunatelly I saw the Billabong Rio Pro 2012 structure, but the event was "day off" in Barra da Tijuca. Soon the top surfer Alejo Muniz(BRA) showed up to free surfing session and told me the event was "on" in Arpoador beach just for the girls. I took some pictures and caught a bus to Arpoador beach. The bus was to Copacabana beach but I got off in Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue close to Arpoador. The Women's competition was "on"  in Round 2. I placed my banner on the shore and took some pictures. It was nice however at my opinion the waterpatrol should ask to some people get away off the competition area because some guys were so close to the surfers. There were not good waves so competition stopped.









May 11th Friday - No competition
Waves - One-to-two foot (.5 metre)
Men's - Lay day
Women's - Lay day
I woke up at 5.00 am again took a shower and got my stuff, camera, banner , sunglasses and left the hotel.  This time I got the bus 309 to Barra da Tijuca and got off close to postinho "Pepe point" but unfortunatelly the sea was flat . There were not  waves and I asked the event coordinator and he told me the day would be off for Men's and Women's competition.
I took more pictures and decided to visit Recreio do Bandeirantes beach and the famous "Prainha" beach. I took the bus 316 and got off in Recreio beach. Recreio is far away and I felt was cooler than Barra. There I took some pictures of Pontal and Macumba beaches. And after I decided to go walking to "Prainha" beach because there was no bus to get there. I took half an hour to get there walking but it's worth a lot. Prainha has nice waves and is so beautiful. There is a national park there. Gabriel Medina(BRA) and Michael Ho(HAW) and other top surfers were in a free surfing session. I knew two girls from São Sebastião (SP) that knew Gabriel Medina(BRA) from Maresias beach. I gave my blog's name to them and they said that will post some photos on my blog. They told me Gabriel Medina free surf will take more than two hours on water. So I decided go back walking to Recreio dos Bandeirantes beach. After almost one hour walking and taking pictures  I arrived in Recreio beach, drunk  a mineral water and rested for a while.Than I caught the bus 315 that went by "linha Amarela" and took a long time, but everything was ok.








Recreio do Bandeirantes beach




Prainha beach




May 12th Saturday
 Waves - One-to-two foot (.5 metre)
Women's - Round 3 Quarterfinals
Men's - Lay Day

I woke up early again. I caught the bus 309 and arrived in the event .The competition in Barra da Tijuca was just for the girls.The competition was in round 3 and finished in Quarterfinals. The classified to semifinals were:
Coco Ho (HAW)
Alessa Quizon(HAW)
Sally Fitzgibbons(AUS)
Carissa Moore(AUS)







May 13th - Sunday
Waves -One-to-three foot (.5 metre)
Women's - Final

I woke up later and took the bus 309 to Barra da Tijuca to follow up the women's semifinals and final. I took a nice picture of Coco Ho(HAW) with Derek Ho(HAW) before the final. I  think that both top surfers had a nice performance but Sally always happy and simpatic surfed very well and the fans loved her. The women's competition was finished.

Final
Sally Fitzgibbons(AUS) 14.10 x 14.03 Coco Ho(HAW)

Sally Fitzgibbons(AUS) Champion Billabong Rio Pro 2012









May 14th - Monday
Waves - Four-to-six(1.5 to 2.0 metre)
Men's - Round 2 completed
Round 3 heat 2

I woke up early and caught the bus to Barra da Tijuca but unfortunatelly I missed the first heat of Round 2 between two Brazilian top surfers.
Gabriel Medina(BRA)7.17 x 10.83 Peterson Crisanto(BRA)
The weather changed a lot and started raining and windy with big waves. In the heat 2 of the Round 3 the rain and wind became strong, kind of a storm so the event coordination decided and announced to stop the competition in the second heat of round 3.





May 15th - Tuesday
Waves - Two-to-four( 1.0 metre)
Men's - Round 3 - from heat 3
             Round 4
             Round 5

I woke up early again and caught the bus 309 to Barra da Tijuca. This day the waves were around 1.0 metre. The competition were from heat 3 Round 3 , Round 4 and Round 5. So the classified to quarterfinals were:
Tiago Pires(POR)
Joel Parkinson(AUS)
Alejo Muniz(BRA)
Mick Fanning(AUS)
John John Florence(HAW)
Julian Wilson(AUS)
Josh Ker(AUS) and
Adriano de Souza(BRA)





May 16th - Wednesday
Waves- three-to-four foot(
Men's - Quarterfinals
              Semifinals
              Final       Joel Parkinson(AUS) 11.44 x  16.37 John John Florence(HAW)

I woke up early again and caught the bus to Barrra to the last day of competition.I would like to thank all guys of Billabong, coordinators, waterpatrol for the attention and nice treatment with the people that work in the event, and with the funs of the most beautiful sport "the surf".
I agree with Billabong that the Posto 2 - Postinho "Pepe" point is a better place to the most important surfing event in Brazil.


John John Florence(HAW) champion Billabong Rio  Pro 2012



















FINAL RANKING COMPETITION WORLD TOUR 2012 - ASP

 FINAL RANKING COMPETITION WORLD TOUR 2012 -ASP

TOP SURFER          COUNTRY                         POINTS
1.Joel Parkinson        Australia                           58,700
2.Kelly Slater            United States of America  55,450
3.Mick Fanning         Australia                            47,000
4.John John Florence Hawaii                               44,350
5.Adriano de Souza   Brazil                                 42,350

2012 WORLD CHAMPION - WCT - Association of Surfing Professionals

2012 WORLD CHAMPION - WCT - Association of Surfing Professionals

JOEL PARKINSON (AUS) 58,700 points


CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BEST SURFER IN 2012 - ASP

1OTH STOP -HAWAII BILLABONG PIPE MASTERS

10TH STOP - HAWAII BILLABONG PIPE MASTERS -  PIPELINE OAHU -December 8th/20th

The Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons started on December 08th with waves of six-to-eight foot(2 metre)

ROUND 1
heat
1. Kieren Perrow(AUS) 15.00  x 9.50 Evan Valiere(HAW)
2.Kolohe Andino(USA) 6.50 x 6.26 Tyler Newton (HAW)
3.Kalani Chapman(HAW) 15.83 x 5..70 Tiago Pires(POR)
4.Yadin Nicol(AUS) 15.33 x 9.76 Flynn Novak (HAW)
5.Fredrick Patacchia(HAW) 8.43 x 5.93 Tanner Hendrickson(HAW)
6.Billy Kemper(HAW) 11.00 x 10.17 Taylor Knox(USA)
7.Adam Melling(AUS) 11.66 x 7.73 Bruce Irons(HAW)
8.Jamie O'Brien (HAW) 16.34 x 9.94 Jadson Andre(BRA)
9.Shane Dorian (HAW)14.50 x 9.83 Patrick Gudauskas(USA)
10.Ricardo dos Santos(BRA)14.73 x 7.84 Dusty Pane(HAW)
11.Dane Reynolds(USA) 11.34 x 3.10 Granger Larsen (HAW)
12.Sebastien Zietz(HAW) 14.27 x 10.77 Glenn Hall(IRL)

ROUND 2
heat
1.Kalani Chapman(HAW) 13.84 x 10.60 Adrian Buchan (AUS)
2.Billy Kemper(HAW) 9.33 x 5.04 Michel Bourez(TAH)
3.CJ Hobgood(USA) 15.17 x 13.57 Jamie O'Brien(HAW)

December 09th - waves five-to-eight foot(2-2.5 metre)
4.Alejo Muniz(BRA)  11.10   x  10.60  Shane Dorian(HAW)
5.Bede Durbidge(AUS)  14.60 x 12.76  Ricardo dos Santos(BRA)
6.Travis Logie(SAF)   12.17    x   12.73  Sebastien Zietz(HAW)
7.Kai Otton(AUS)       13.26    x    17.00 Dane Reynolds(USA)
8.Miguel Pupo(BRA)   15.6    x   9.90    Adam Melling(AUS)
9.Damien Hobgood(USA)        x          Fredrick Patacchia(HAW)
10.Matt Wilkinson(AUS)   12.17  x  14.17 Yadin Nicol(AUS)
11.Brett Simpson(USA)    3.83     x  9.47    Kolohe Andino(USA)
12.Heitor Alves(BRA)      7.12     x  16.33   Kieren Perrow(AUS)

ROUND 3
heat
1.John John Florence(HAW) 7.83 x 15.00 Sebastien Zietz(HAW)
2.Owen Wright(AUS) 10.83  x  16.10  Damien Hobgood(USA)
3.Adriano de Souza(BRA) 10.66 x 17.83 Dane Reynolds(USA)
4.Julian Wilson(AUS) 13.17 x 14.16 kieren Perrow(AUS)
5.Jordy Smith(SAF) 8.87 x 11.60 CJ Hobgood(USA)
6.Joel Parkinson(AUS) 16.17 x 13.50 Kalani Chapman(HAW)
7.Gabriel Medina(BRA) 18.50 x 14.06 Kolohe Andino(USA)
8.Josh Kerr(AUS) 18.13 x 17.13 Bede Durbidge(AUS)
9.Kelly Slater(USA) 18.63 x 15.50 Billy Kemper(HAW)
10.Taj Burrow(AUS) 11.66 x 12.83 Yadin Nicol(AUS)
11.Jeremy Flores(FRA) 10.10 x 11.83 Miguel Pupo(BRA)
12.Mick Fanning(AUS) 15.07 x 15.67 Shane Dorian (HAW)

ROUND 4
heat
1.Sebastien Zietz(HAW) 16.40 x Damien Hobgood(USA)14.17 x Dane Reynolds(USA)9.96
2.Kieren Perrow(AUS) 5.83 x CJ Hobgood(USA) 6.20 x Joel Parkinson(AUS) 18.10

December 14th - Waves six-to-eight foot(2.0 metre)
3.Gabriel Medina(BRA) 14.10 x Josh Kerr(AUS) 14.57 x Kelly Slater(USA) 8.10
4.Yadin Nicol(AUS) 4.23 x Miguel Pupo(BRA) 5.83 x Shane Dorian(HAW) 6.53


ROUND 5
heat
1.Damien Hobgood(USA) 8.23 x 3.26 Kieren Perrow(AUS)
2.CJ Hobgood(USA) 13.94 x 8.00 Dane Reynolds(USA)
3.Gabriel Medina(BRA) 12.00 x 13.00 Yadin Nicol(AUS)
4.Miguel Pupo(BRA) 10.66 x 19.27 Kelly Slater(USA)

QUARTERFINALS
1.Sebastien Zietz(HAW) 9.17 x 9.83 Damien Hobgood(USA)
2.Joel Parkinson(AUS) 12.50 x 9.40 CJ Hobgood(USA)
3.Josh Kerr(AUS) 15.00 x 12.17 Yadin Nicol(AUS)
4.Shane Dorian (HAW) 18.20 x 18.73 Kelly Slater(USA)

SEMIFINALS
1.Damien Hobgood(USA) 14.63 x 17.30 Joel Parkinson
2.Josh Kerr (AUS) 11.13 x 4.90 Kelly Slater(USA)

FINAL
Joel Parkinson(AUS) 17.17 x 14.83 Josh Kerr (AUS)

Joel Parkinson(AUS) Champion Billabong  Pipe Masters Pipeline Oahu - Hawaii

Friday, December 14, 2012

2013 BLOG PLANS

2013 BLOG PLANS



OFFICE / EDITION

I STILL DETICKET / HOTEL RESERVATION TO RIO DE JANEIRO MAY

CAMERA ZOOM OPTICO 50X SONY

TRIP TO PIPELINE HAWAII

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

2013 -WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE -ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS

2013-WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE -  ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSSIONALS

DATE                                   SITE                               EVENT
March 2 / 13                       Gold Coast Australia   Quiksilver Pro
March 27 April 7               Bells Beach Australia  Rip Curl Pro
May 8 / 19                           Rio de Janeiro Brazil   Billabong Rio Pro
June 2 / 14                          Fiji                                 Volcom Pro
August 15 / 26                   Teahupoo                       Billabong Pro
September 15 / 21             Trestles CA U.S.A.        Hurley
September 27 October 7  France                           Quiksilver Pro
October 9 / 20                    Portugal                        Rip Curl Pro
December 8 / 20                 Hawaii                           Billabong Pipe Masters    


SURFING WORLD CHAMPION 2012 -ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS

SURFING WORLD CHAMPION 2012 - ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS

The 2012 schedule is arriving to the 10th stop the last and the most famous surfing event in Pipeline - Hawaii and we still do not know who will be the surfing world champion this year. Three top surfers can be the champion of the 2012 tour.

Joel Parkinson(AUS) 53.900 points




Kelly Slater(USA) 50.700 points





Mick Fanning(AUS) 47.000 points