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CONTEST SURFING 101
All you ever wanted to know about Pro Surfing
THE ASP WORLD TOUR
The ASP World Tour is a two tier system made up of the World Qualifying Series (WQS) and the ASP World Tour, aka the Dream Tour.
THE WQS: is a surfer’s ticket onto the ASP World Tour. Events are broken down from 1 – 6 star as well as Prime and Super Series events, these are determined by the number of ratings points and prize money.
THE ASP WORLD TOUR/DREAM TOUR: is the pinnacle of professional surfing, it takes place at approximately 12 pristine breaks around the globe, affording the top 45 surfers in the world and three wild cards substantial amounts of prize money. The winner of the ASP World Tour is crowned world champion.
HOW TO QUALIFY: Surfers must compete at various WQS events around the globe gathering ASP ratings. Only the top 45 male surfers and top 17 female surfers in the world qualify to compete on the World Tour. The top 27 rated ASP World Tour surfers and the top 15 WQS surfers from the previous year, as well as potentially three ASP World Tour surfers who have been awarded injury wildcards will make up the top 45. The Women’s World Tour seed list is made up of the top 10 rated ASP World Tour surfers and the top six rated WQS surfers from the previous year, plus one wildcard.
THE MR PRICE PRO: is one of nine, six star events on the WQS in 2008 and one of the most important events to compete in if you are hoping to qualify. With 2500 ratings points awarded to first place, the winner of this event is likely to climb considerably up the WQS ladder.
WHY SA SURFERS SHOULD ENTER:
• Earn ratings points and prize money without having to travel
• Familiarity of surfing a local break
• Loads of local support
• Everyone speaks English
• You cant get lost!
IN THE JUDGES SEAT
SCORING SCALE:
A surfer’s ride is scored on a scale from 0.2 to 10.
[0.2- 2 Poor]
[2- 4 Fair]
[4 -6 Average]
[6-8 Good]
[8-10 Excellent]
A surfer’s two best waves count towards his overall score at the end of the heat.
Heats are between 20-30 minutes in length, 35 minutes for the final.
JUDGING CRITERIA
Directly from the ASP Rule Book:
“A surfer must perform radical controlled maneuvers in the critical sections of the wave with Speed, Power and Flow to maximize scoring potential.
Innovative/ progressive surfing as well as a variety of Repertoire (maneuvers) will be taken into account when rewarding points for waves ridden. The surfer who executes this criteria with the maximum degree of difficulty and commitment on the waves shall be rewarded with higher scores. “
SPEED, POWER and FLOW
What this basically means is that a surfer needs to generate SPEED on a wave. This he/she will do by moving up and down the face of a wave in order to make his board go faster. He will need to combine speed with POWER, by this we mean big, critical turns that usually elicit buckets of spray and require maximum effort. He/ she also needs to demonstrate a degree of CONTROL in order to impress on the judges, that he/she has completely mastered the particular maneuver. Knitting all of these together is FLOW, if a surfer can demonstrate a flowing transition from one maneuver to the next, he/she is in the money!
MANOEUVRES
RIDING THE BARREL
Generally one of the highest scoring manoeuvres for a surfer in a heat is riding a barrel or the tube. This is when a surfer disappears behind the breaking part of the wave, rides it for a while and then reappears further down the line and continues riding the face of the wave.
AERIAL
Another manoeuvre that is likely to earn big points is an aerial manoeuvre. This is a skateboard influenced surfing maneuver where the rider launches off the crest of the wave, into one of an ever growing number of airborne variations and then lands back on the face of a wave.
RE-ENTRY
This is a maneuver in which the surfer ricochets off the lip of a wave just as it starts to break.
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