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JULY 6, 2022
Aloha surfers and beachgoers, Howzit? Well, if you’ re a surfer you’ re feel- ing a bit of exhaustion but a bunch of happy.
so far this season.
It’s a complicated spot,
a two-turn combo, buzzer beater performance on June 28. Moore is now guaran- teed a spot — based on ac- cumulated points — in the top five finals day event at Trestles California in Sep- tember. Mark your calen- dar — the holding period is Sept. 8-16.
format. It garnered more viewers than any surf cham- pionship event in history.
The World Tour wrapped up event No. 8 down in Brazil at Rio de Janeiro’s famous beach break named Saquarema, pronounced “sock ah ray’mah.”
Only those ranked top five have a chance at the world title and it all goes down on one day. Anyone can take the title on this day. It’s suspense as gnarly as it gets.
“I think this has to be one of my favorite wins of my whole career, and one of the most meaningful ... I felt a lot of love and support here,” Moore says at the awards ceremony.
The combo of what’s probably the rowdiest, most energetic crowd in surfing, plus the sizable peaky, punchy beach break gave pros some of the best barrels and airs of the tour
Well, we have good news for Hawai‘i and Brazil.
Event finalists (from left) Filipe Toledo and Samuel Pupo of Brazil, Johanne Defay of France and Carissa Moore of Hawai‘i stand in front of a crowd at Praia de Itaúna for the Oi Rio Pro. PHOTO COURTESY WSL/DIZ
friends — Johanne Defay in
The next stop is Jeffries Bay, South Africa, for the Corona Open J-Bay July 12-21. I’ m stoked.
gary@surfnewsnetwork.com
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which changes quickly even from heat to heat, tide to tide, swell to swell. Finding your waves is a huge challenge — then there’s the waves them- selves, which are also highly demanding. This makes it so much more impressive to witness just what the world’s best surfers can do.
So, they’ ll likely keep going.
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Our very own five-time reigning world champ Ca- rissa Moore now has 25 World Championship Tour wins to her illustrious ca-
reer. She had the highest She beat France’s phen- combined heat total of the om — and one of her best
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