This morning looked promising on the forecasts for a start to proceedings at the IBA Box Pro, the second event on this year's revamped GSS World Tour. The swell had risen, but due to the swell's 20 second period, waves were very few and far between. A few of the boys were sent out early in the morning to do a mock 35 minute heat, just to see how many waves would get ridden. It just so happened that the guys who were sent out there were Emerald team riders Mark McCarthy & Jared Houston, alongside 2 x World Champ Jeff Hubbard and TV's Underbelly star Diarmid Heidenreich, who also rides for us here at Emerald! In the end it turned out that the waves were not quite consistent enough to run the event.
Below are the shots released by the IBA press team of the morning's action. Thanks to Sacha Specker for doing the photo work for us!
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| Jared Houston launches a tight ARS during today's Box free-surf |
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| Jeff Hubbard sitting deep on one of the day's bigger waves |
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| Diarmid Heidenreich snavels a fun one from the big names |
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| Mark McCarthy soops into the biggest wave of the morning before the event was called off this morning |
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| Hubb describes conditions to fellow competitor Ryan Hardy, and tour manager Terry McKenna |
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| Jerry eyes off the oncoming section as Jeff Hubbard cheers him on |
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| Ryan Hardy and defending World Champ Amaury Laverhne discuss the conditions with Tour Manager Terry McKenna |
Conditions look good for a start to the competition tomorrow morning, so keep an eye open, the call will be made at 7am Perth time (9am EST). You can watch the action on www.ibaworldtour.com/live or on the RedbullTV website, or also you can catch the event live on Fuel TV on Foxtel/Austar. This should be a great event full of throaty barrels and big airs, so make sure you can tune in at some stage to catch the action.
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