Jordy Smith CPT Surf Pro prs. by O’Neill Day 1

Today reminded us of that movie where a young George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg squared off with the ocean. Foolish fisherman attempting to tame the savage beast that was brewing deep in Davey Jones Locker. However, the difference being, that today wasn’t some work of fiction it was the real deal nogals! Oues were out there shredding the gnar in between rogue runners that came from nowhere. Scratch left. Scratch right. It didn’t matter, you couldn’t get a more jumbled sectioning piece of wave pie anywhere else in the country. The Atlantic was alive and kicking, keeping everyone out there on their semi-frozen toes as they longed for the warm embrace of a hot choccie. But this is contest surfing, this ain’t go-fish, you play the cards you dealt and today the conditions dished out a pair of two’s. Non the less the powers that be ensured rounds were played. Nobody was folding today. In Round two heat 1, the Australian Benjamin Hucker got the better of SA’s on form surfer Matthew McGillivray when he bagged two decent wave scores back to back ending with a heat total of 13 to Mattys 11.25. In a similar fashion, Calvin Goor took runner-up in his heat where […]