------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "1,000th" POST OF SURFWORLDTOUR.BLOGSPOT.COM- by Paulo Piqueres
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When I begun to work with surfing in 2008 -read the post
"SURF "the most beautiful sport" 2008/2119"- on the blog-, I did not imagine what will going on. I started in 2008, in Vila beach, Imbituba, Santa Catarina, with a Celular Nokia 6225i, with minimum resolution, and filming only 25 seconds. After this event I created a simple blog of surfing by Geocities of Yahoo, that later on was desativated.
So in March of 2010, I creaded the blog surfworldtour.blogspot.com by google, about the professional surfing -WCT - World Championship Tour, and after 10 years on the line, the blog reached its 1,000th post.
Let's remind the first post of the blog in March of 2010:
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Sa
turday, March
06, 2010
1st stop - QUIKSILVER PRO 2010
- Gold Coast - Australia - Feb 27 / Mar 10
Round 4
1. Adriano de Souza(BRA) 14.86 x Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.50
2. Taj Burrow (AUS) 16.53 x Chris Davidson (AUS) 10.60
3. Bobby Martinez (USA) 16.06 x Damien Hobgood (USA) 12.43
4. Kai Otton (AUS) 15.76 x Mick Fanning (AUS) 15.57
5. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 15.44 x Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 14.23
6. Dane Reynolds (USA) 12.63 x Daniel Ross (AUS) 10.33
7. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 15.97 x Kieren Perrow (AUS) 9.17
8. Jordy Smith (SAF) 16.10 x Kelly Slater (USA) 13.17
Quarter-finals
1. Taj Burrow (AUS) 17.70 x Adriano de Souza (BRA) 14.40
2. Bobby Martinez (USA) 16.66 x Kai Otton (AUS) 10.64
3. Dane Reynolds (USA) 19.20 x Joel Parkinson (AUS) 17.47
4. Jordy Smith (SAF) 14.10 x Bede Durbidge (AUS) 13.77
Semi-finals
1. Taj Burrow (AUS) 15.67 x Bobby Martinez (USA) 13.00
2. Dane Reynolds (USA) 8.96 x Jordy Smith (SAF) 16.30
Final
Jordy Smith (SAF) 12.56 x Taj Burrow (AUS) 15.57
Taj Burrow Champion Quiksilver Pro 2010 Gold Coast - Australia
Competition
2010 - world tour - top surfers country - points
association of surfing professionals
1. Taj Burrow Australia 10.000
2. Jordy Smith South Africa 8.000
3. Bobby Martinez USA 6.500
4. Dane Reynolds USA 6.500
5. Joel Parkinson Australia 5.250
6. Bede Durbidge Australia 5.250
7. Adriano de Souza Brazil 5.250
8. Kai Otton Australia 5.250
9. Adrian Buchan Australia 3.750
10.Chris Davidson Australia 3.750
11.Damien Hobgood USA 3.750
12.Mick Fanning Australia 3.750
13.Fredrick Patacchia Hawaii 3.750
14.Daniel Ross Australia 3.750
15.Kieren Perrow Australia 3.750
16.Kelly Slater USA 3.750
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The Picture of the first post in 2010 was taken, when I was 2009 WCT, in Vila Beach, in Imbituba, SC. It was a "day off"(no competitions), and I was awating some surf sessions of professional surfers, when I looked to the shore and Taj Burrow(AUS) was approaching to the channel, so I went running and ask him for the photo, he stopped by,and I took the picture. Read the post about
Tribute to the great surfer Taj Burrow -May 6th,2017 -, he won the WCT three in times in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro-1999; Saquarema-2002; Florianópolis-2004)
So I came back to the structure of the event, the company Skol, was on of the sponsors, and a Skol girl, so beautiful asked to see the photo. She said :
It is so nice, but you should have a camera with more resolution.
The Champion of this event was Kelly Slater(USA)11 times World Champion of Surfing, exactly on my birthday, July 3rd, so at the end of event, I told to the Skol girl:
-Today is my birthday!!!
She said: Really???
I showed her my ID, and she smiled and congratulated me!!!
She was a model in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, and unfortunatelly I never see her again.
In 2010 I bought a Motorola Cel with 1.3 Mb of resolution, and in 2012 another Nokia with 5Mb.
In 2016, finally I bought my dreamed
Sony camera, Full Hd, with 60x optic zoom, and I can film for hours only replaced the card. The debut of my câmera was on the blue turquoise waters of Grumari, filming
Gabriel Medina(BRA) the two time World Champion(2014/18).
The posts of the blog along this period:
year total month with more posts and nr of posts
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2010: 20 March 8
2011: 30 May 12
2012: 36 December 8
2013: 45 May 10
2014: 75 May 12
2015: 178 December 72
2016: 132 May 28
2017: 240 October 55
2018: 182 May 42
2019: ......
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We may observe that in 2017 the blog has more posts, 240, because the CT was so disputed, and Gabriel Medina(BRA)reached nice results in second part of the year, and almost became the Champion in Pipeline.
John John Florence(HAW)was the Champion by second time.
By the way the months with more visualizations were:
Month visualizations
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1. Dec. 2016 8,169
2. May 2017 4,153
The posts with more visualizations were:
date post Nr
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Oct. 24th, 2016 10/POR - Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal - 694
Mar. 20th,2013 Top Surfers Profiles ASP - 542
Association of Surfing Professionals
Dec. 27th, 2016 Schedule-Men's Samsung Galaxy - 514
Championship Tour -WSL World Surf League
Dec 14th, 2016 Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory - 504
of
Andy Irons
Dec. 23rd, 2016 Top surfers Women's Samsung Galaxy - 503
Championship Tour - WSL
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These 10 years of surfing, only gave me joy and happiness, that will never disappear from my heart, because were deep events as the waters of the oceans.
When the WCT was in Imbituba, SC, I used to catch the bus in Porto Alegre, and after 6 hours of travelling reached
Garopaba, a surfing town, where I have friends and liked to stay.
In 2011 the WCT moved to Rio de Janeiro, to Arpoador and Barra da Tijuca beaches, so I came to Rio by Azul Airlines,and arrived in Santos Dumont airport, in downtown, and I did not know any directions, but soon I asked information to the locals -"cariocas"- that always were so nice with me.
After this first trip to Rio, I already have come around 20 times, and now I living here. The surf has much more media in Rio de Janeiro like newspapers, magazines, channels, sites, blogs, surf companies, surf schools, surf events, in and so on. And is close of Saquarema, where is the event of CT -Championship Tour since 2017, promoted by WSL - World Surf League.
Finally, I would like to thank everybody the any form help me on my blog, site and channel during this period of 10 years, on the shore; the Estacio University, where I do my posts; to bus companies, that I catch to go the events, as the line 309 - Downtown to Alvorada terminal-that I used years to go to Barra da Tijuca; 1001 bus company that I use to go to Saquarema since 2017; to the hotel in downtown where I used to stay since 2012; the locals of Rosa and Vila beaches, Garopaba in Santa Catarina; Arpoador, Barra da Tijuca, Grumari and from Saquarema in Rio de Janeiro; the promoters of the events, as WSL -World Surf League; the surf Rescue; the brands and sponsors of "
the most beautiful sport": SURF; and finally the surfers, that since my first event in Rosa beach, a qualyfing event to Men's Petrobras surfing, were so nice with me.
Thanks "
SURF", by its huge source of energy and positive vibe for my life.
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