| The Box Pro delivers full power waves |
| Monday, 18 April 2011 13:57 |
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Broken boards, blood and emotions were flowing down the wave lines of The Box Pro, in Margaret River, Australia, as the contest reaches the quarter finals. Guilherme Tâmega was one of the standouts of day, after eliminating Mitch Rawlins in the last seconds of the heat. Rwalins was not fortunate, but that's bodyboarding life. Next time, he'll be luckier. "I was just waiting for the heat to be over," said Tamega. "This little wave came to me and I thought, ‘Oh, I might as well catch this one’. It formed on the inside and gave me the biggest ramp ever and I thought, ‘Whoa!’ I just went for it and it worked, I didn’t think the judges would give it me though, I heard the score and it was just too good to be true." Damien King, former two-time world bodyboarding champion, has hit the reef. The result is blood. "It (the wave) came through in the first five or 10 seconds of the heat and I could see it was hitting wide, but I thought it could be a good one so I thought ‘I’ll go for it’," explained King. "I backdoored it and I hit my face on the bottom faster than you can blink. I just got smashed, I hit real hard. I’m just lucky I didn’t hit my teeth. I knew I needed to win that heat to stay in the comp so I just kept my focus and stayed out there". South African bodyboarder Jared Houston found himself in a unique situation. The 21 year-old had his board split apart after an aerial attempt gone awry. Houston punched a huge air-forward off a wedging Box end-section and came down hard over the front of his board. It caved in beneath him, buckling under the pressure, and folded straight down the middle. “I saw that section and just went for it,” he explained. “I came down so hard my arms hit under water, I was still holding onto my board so I knew straight away it had snapped. I tried to ride out of it, but there was no way that was happening.” Upcoming Quarter Finals: QF1: Ryan Hardy (WA, AUS) v Dallas Singer (NSW, AUS) |
