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APRIL 5, 2023
Aloha surfers and beachgoers, Welcome to the new month! Hopeful- ly April will outperform March.
Robinson and Molly Pick- lum. Also participating as a wild card is Australian surfer Owen Wright. At 6-foot-3, he’s the tallest surfer ever to enter the WTC, and he’s retiring af- ter this event.
lection Resort, Waikīkī. This unique big-wave competition was a “con- tent-driven contest” open to women big-wave surfers
$20,000 for putting togeth- er the best reel of big waves and big performances.
Izzi Gómez took the win in the Best Tow category and People’s Choice went to Anne Dos Santos.
So far there’s no serious swells on the forecast mod- els.
Kelly Slater, now 51 years old, is surfing at Bells as well, in heat eight against 25-year-old Jack Robinson. It looks like Slater won’t make the mid-season cut and thus won’t get into the 2024 Olympics.
from around the world. Twenty-five of the sport’s best rode and documented the largest swells to hit Ha- wai‘i over the winter, com- peting for up to $50,000. There were five categories — Overall Champ, Best Ride, Best Tow, Break- through Performance and
The overall trend is for the northwest swells to de- crease in size and consis- tency, while South shores start waking up ... occa- sionally.
Skylar Lickle placed sec- ond and Felicity Palmateer came in third. Lickle also won the Best Ride cate- gory, while Palmateer was Breakthrough Performer.
Mahalo to Red Bull for amazing stoke and passion for big-wave surfing. And mahalo to MidWeek’s Central O‘ahu Voice readers for your stoke and passion, too! Aloha,
Turning to surfing con- test news, the fourth event of the World Tour Cham- pionship kicks off in the southeast corner of Austra- lia, at Bells Beach in Vic- toria.
People’s Choice.
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World Tour Championship Kicks Off In Australia
Speaking of mid-season cuts, after The Margaret River Pro in Western Aus- tralia from April 20 to 30, one-third of the men and women on the World Tour will be eliminated.
Paige Alms is all smiles at the Red Bull Magnitude Awards Ceremony.
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