KSP Mauritius days 3 and 4

Day 3 KSP One Eye pro.

Mens :

Jesse Richman (Hawaii), Patri McLaughlin (Hawaii/North) and Sky Solbach (USA/North), all riding strapless, scored in the 14- to 16-point range, exhibiting a high degree of speed, power and control with top to bottom surfing.

Jesse Richman By John Bilderback

But today , Marc Ramseier (Switzerland) scored 18.04, the highest score of the 1st round in awesome sailing conditions : 8 to 12  feet faces waves and a solid wind.

The  Men’s Round 2 kicked off, featuring head-to-head competition between riders who didn’t advance from Round 1. Of the five heats completed (out of 8), Jeremy Eloy (France/North), 2010 Kite Surf World Champion Guilly Brandao (Brazil), Juan Pabloo Diban (Chile), 2008 World Champion Mitu Monteiro (Cabo Verde) and Bruno Bordowsky (Brazil) advanced. Eloy, Monteiro and Brandao, all riding strapped, were the standouts with scores in the 14.2 to 16.3 range. Brandao attacked the lip with his patented backhand snaps while Eloy opted to keep busy, picking off as many set waves as possible. Monteiro found one of the few cover-ups of the day through the inside bowl on his forehand.

Jérémie Eloy by John Bilderback.

Womens :

Women’s Round 1 came next. Murdering 12 waves during her 15-minute heat, local wave slayer Ninja Bichler (Germany) scored a remarkable 18.1 for seamlessly linking big arching turns, big hits under the lip, long rides and even some switchstance surfing. Earning 16.06, the second highest score of Women’s Round 1, Ines Correira (Portugal) destroyed her fair share of waves as well.

Melissa Gil, Muriel Vandenbempt, Suzanne Kuiper, Elsa Saintville, Erika Lindberg, Maayke Tadema, Marie Gautron ( strapless), Kelly Wren are also qualified for the second round  day 4.

A summary of the day 3 of this contest.

Day 4  KSP One Eye pro.

Mens :

Diban, Bordowski, Monteiro and Solbach won the head to head in the round 3 and are qualified to round 5.

Womens :

Steph Bridge, Ines Correia, Marie Gautron, Ninja Bichler and Suzanne Kuiper are qualified for tomorow the day 5.

Here’s a shot of Marie Gautron with straps today :

Here’s the video of the day 4

Tomorow, day 5

It could be a big tuesday, check out the forecast in Le Morne

Remember you can follow the  contest in live at : http://www.kspworldtour.com/live …. it’s not HD vid but it’s live.

Other pic  shot by John Bilderback here : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150298815430885.337436.114626690884&l=323a4be14f

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