Mundaka madness!!!!

Hey all,

So we're in the Basque town of Mundaka, and famous to the very good left hander ( when it's on). Right now , it's dead flat, not a ripple to even think about surfing but the swell charts are saying a bit of a bump on the weekend, got our fingers crossed!!!!

So I'm into the 3rd event of our 4 event leg through the States and Europe, we're in Spain now, were in France last week and head over to Portugal next week. What most of us have done is leased vehicles from Renault and just drive to each event, the drive was only like 2 hrs from Hossegor but the next drive to Peniche, Portugal , I think will take around 9 hrs, so I've been told...

They've so far run half of round 1, but have used the new format, straight first round elimination , which has obviously seen 8 guys out of the event already with 8 heats being run. It's a really heavy scenario cause this spot is so fickle, and they usually only get half a day to surf when there's swell cause this place does not break on high tide, that they almost have to use the new format. That or send the first round to a below average back up venue and have the 2nd round onwards at mundaka if there's waves. It's pretty much a catch 22, and they aint going to make every one happy. Me personally, don't like the new format, I really don't think it's fair that 16 guys are seeded ahead of the other 32, take any other sport, tennis, golf, F1 , the guys all start at the same round. Period! And especially to lose on day one of the 13 day waiting period with the new format, heavy days... But that's what we have now but there could be a few interesting changes happen in the next few days..........

Besides eating tapas, enjoying the siesta's and trying to surf when we can, been keeping it pretty mellow, and I think the next few days will be the same. So where ever you are, enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.

Peace

Davey