We watched it! We stayed up 3 whole nights, in a row, to watch it but we managed to get through the late nights, the slow Internet, the lack of space in Deon's bedroom and the stress of watching you friends competing and falling out.
Yup, that was the version of the 2012 Pipline Contest that seems to repeat every year here in South Africa. It was totally worth it though! Pipe locals such as Kinoa McGee stated that this is the best waves hes seen at Pipe in 15years, which takes us back to the year of our Lord 1997. The 2012 Pipline contest was truly an amazing contest. Some of the highlights for me were watching the Saffa crew dominate. Josh Kleve showing that he is really an amazing rider by mopping the floor with former world champ Damien King among others. We saw Jared Houston making the Quater Finals, narrowly getting knocked out by Ben Player in the dying seconds of that heat. Amaury Laverne, what a boss! he busted 3 perfect flips on his last wave in a heat with Pierre Louis Costes the current world champ.
In the end it was Jeff Hubbard who took the 1st place position by going all out in the finals of the contest. Jeff, accompanied by his vast locals knowledge and freak like skills on a bodyboard, secured him the winners trophy for the second year in a row. Jeff absolutely tore the heats apart from the word go and held nothing back. His eyes were on the prize and no one, not even his brother Dave, could get in his way. This most definitely payed off.
The next IBA event on the Bodyboarding calendar is the Box contest taking place in Australia which means more late nights. for more Info go to IBAworltour.com
Yup, that was the version of the 2012 Pipline Contest that seems to repeat every year here in South Africa. It was totally worth it though! Pipe locals such as Kinoa McGee stated that this is the best waves hes seen at Pipe in 15years, which takes us back to the year of our Lord 1997. The 2012 Pipline contest was truly an amazing contest. Some of the highlights for me were watching the Saffa crew dominate. Josh Kleve showing that he is really an amazing rider by mopping the floor with former world champ Damien King among others. We saw Jared Houston making the Quater Finals, narrowly getting knocked out by Ben Player in the dying seconds of that heat. Amaury Laverne, what a boss! he busted 3 perfect flips on his last wave in a heat with Pierre Louis Costes the current world champ.
In the end it was Jeff Hubbard who took the 1st place position by going all out in the finals of the contest. Jeff, accompanied by his vast locals knowledge and freak like skills on a bodyboard, secured him the winners trophy for the second year in a row. Jeff absolutely tore the heats apart from the word go and held nothing back. His eyes were on the prize and no one, not even his brother Dave, could get in his way. This most definitely payed off.
The next IBA event on the Bodyboarding calendar is the Box contest taking place in Australia which means more late nights. for more Info go to IBAworltour.com
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