BTW, why is Middles not in the middle of Uppers and Lowers??
The waves at Trestles are kind of mushy, slopy and slow, yet extremely rippable. Most pros' top turns were cut backs as Bede Durbidge shows in the expression session held on Saturday.
Heitor Alves impressed me a lot with the speed he could generate on those mushy waves.
He made it to the quarter finals where he met Kelly and lost his concentration...
Let's take a break.
Kai Otton.
CJ Hobgood. He surfed pretty good but lost in round 4 to a very inspired Micheal Bourez. I wish I recorded CJ's frustration scream at the end of heat...
One of those things.
The very fun right at Uppers. The swell was from the NW and Uppers was actually working better than Lowers most of the times.
Stay tuned for day three, I got a hell lot of photos.
And stay tuned for the Maui reports too, since the big swell is around the corner. On Wednesday morning the NW buoy already shows 2 feet at 20 seconds from 300. The Waimea buoy shows 1 foot at 22 seconds from the same direction. Wow, you don't see 22 seconds very often!
Longer period forerunners travel faster hence they reach the buoys before the main body of the swell. Soon they will be replaced by shorter period waves (in this case, I guess 14-16 seconds), but way bigger in size.
This directions gets blocked a lot by the West Maui Mountain, but my guess is that the size will be big enough to allow some energy to wrap around. Plus, as usual, towards the end of the swell the waves will come from a less westerly direction, since the generating storm is slowly moving east.
Well, if I haven't confused you enough with this, check what an El Nino year is. Thanks to blog reader Paolo for the link.
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