It’s about time they changed the name of this event to the Backdoor Masters cos today was all about Pipe’s twisted little sister. A blessing for the natural foots and a pain in the arse for the goofys as B-Door isn’t as backside friendly as Pipe. Trouble is Backdoor Masters sounds like the name of a bad porn film of the pain in the arse variety… Anyhoose- big things occurred today here’s the goss’ laid out in pictures and words-
(First pic caption) Mick Fanning. Collecting his thoughts before he surfed the second heat of the day (Rd3 Heat 2) What goes through your mind when a World Title is close enough you can almost touch it? Especially when things out front are occurring like this-
That’ll be Ace Buchan about to get a pain in his arse. With Pipe not really doing much in the early heats it was have a go at thumping Backdoor or be damned…
Dean Morrison however as a natural foot looked more comfortable than a man with his feet up in a La-Z-Boy, sporting his favourite slippers, sipping on brandy and smoking a fat Cuban (cigar that is). He breezed through Heat 1 of Rd 3…
Mick didn’t let the fear of a local wildcard rattle him, Torrey Meister didn’t enter the equation- by going through the pressure was all on Parko…
Little John (apparently he doesn’t want to be known as John John anymore… maybe John2… Maths joke sorry) continued his run with another brace of bombing Backdoor barrels. It was like Xmas for him- assuming what he wants for Crimbo is 40-minutes of mind-bendingly perfect Backdoor with only three other fellas out and for 20 of those minutes (assuming you’ve got priority) first dibs on any wave you like…
Adriano De Souza didn’t go through in a closely fought heat with Flynn ‘I don’t go right’ Novak and apparently has a minder escorting him around on the beach in case any of those nasty locals get him. I’m not too sure of the details but he hanging on the steps of the Oakley house afterwards and didn’t seem to be living in fear of imminent violence…
Freddy P broke the backside drought at Backdoor and knocked Wardo out who just couldn’t find the runners. Pity cos Wardo has been on fire…
Hank Gaskell got this 10-point smoker but Kelly was being all Kelly like and posted the highest heat score of the day. Pipe began to turn on around 11 when the swell kicked up a notch hence two 9 somethings at Pipe for the bald one…
Bede quietly kicked ass like usual, not that he could have lost the heat if he was blindfolded and taking off fins first. His opponent Liam McNamara posted a total heat score of 0.33… Did someone swap his wax for soap?
Taj upset the bookies by trouncing Brucey, people tend to forget when blowing smoke up the Iron’s brothers bottoms that Taj is pretty handy in thumping right hand barrels as well…
KP’s 10. No one loves Backdoor and OTW like Kieren the bigger and fuglier the better. He went a few that were just too plain fast to start with but snagged this bomb to finally show his mastery of the place…
Phil Macdonald maybe retiring after this event but he went out with a bang scoring a couple of sweet rides to knock Knox from the event. He’s a gent that will be missed by all on tour…
Shane Backdorian didn’t get a 10 for this keg. No justice… He got a high 9 but couldn’t back it up letting Ceej slip through. Well, hardly slip through as CJ posted a 10 at Pipe…
That’s the first half. Back with the second half of the day in a minute… Cup a tea first.
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