(Friday, July 9th, 2010) Defending event champion and Billabong surfer, Joel Parkinson (29, Gold Coast, Qld AUS), has officially pulled out of next week’s Billabong Pro at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, after badly slicing his foot while surfing at Snapper Rocks today.
Realized that I am short a couple of pics from the Bong 2009 on jbaysurfcam.com so uploaded them promptly. (Check link at bottom of this post.)
So here's some photos of Day 2 so long. I've had a couple of requests for more pulled back shots of Day 2, since it has been called "one the best wave conditions we ever had on tour" by guys like Kelly Slater, and will be going though the images and get a couple that's uncropped.
You have to understand that I live and surf in J-Bay, and that I often forget how good the swell is because I see it as normal. That little bit of swell we had on day two was not close to the perfect swell we had on the day of the Xcel Supertubes showdown. Day 2 was definitely great conditions, but it wasn't all that consistent all the time and the swell dissipated halfway during the next day. I think everybody was just so amped and fired up to see good swell that they maybe boosted it a little too much. My opinion anyway, and I lift it on my own website.
The short and long is that I will go and get a couple of zoomed out shots and also upload them later on from the shoot. I was so stoked with the supreme image quality the proper camera and optics gave me, that I cropped many of the shots, removing the overall perspective of how big and perfect those waves actually were. The pics of day 2 are here.