| Jeff Hubbard crowned at the 2012 Port Macquarie Festival of Bodyboarding |
| Sunday, 22 April 2012 13:41 |
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Jeff Hubbard has traveled from Hawaii to claim the largest ever Port Macquarie Festival of Bodyboarding, in front of a spectator-packed consistent 3-4 foot surf at New South Wales famous Break Wall surfbreak.
Local youngster Charlie Holt got second, Andrew Lester took third and 2011 World Champion Pierre-Louis Costes kept in fourth place. Watch the final highlights of the Port Macquarie Festival of Bodyboarding 2012. After Hubbard launched a lofty air reverse about half way through the final and was rewarded 9.25 out of 10, Holt and Lester were searching for near perfect scores and Costes found himself in a combination situation. Taking out the WWT Grand Slam event was an in form Isabela Sousa from Brazil. Sousa defeated Mayumi Tone, from Japan, Enate Aguirre and Karla Costa-Taylor. The Brazilian 2010 World Champion is now in a commanding lead on the WWT with two wins out of first three events of 2012. Sousa took charge early on in the final, racking up a pair of midrange scores with clean spins-roll combos, but really established dominance when she launched a big invert on a set wave closeout to take out the final. King looked unstoppable in his semifinal heat, scoring a perfect 10 point ride for a deep barrel backed up bay a flurry of frontside turns, but was unable to find his rhythm in the final. Interestingly, all three winners were also winners at the 2012 IBA Pipeline Challenge. |











