Never Watched Competitive Surfing? Here s Your Guide to One of the Newest Olympic Events
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Surfing will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer, so if you want to feel like an expert while watching the Games, now is the perfect time to learn how the competition is structured and scored. Fortunately, you don t need to take any surf lessons to find answers we ve got you covered with a complete guide to how Olympic judges score these impressive stunts.
How Is Surfing Scored?
In order to encompass all the different elements of the sport, a panel of judges scores surfers based on several different components, similar to sports like gymnastics or figure skating. According to the Olympic Channel, surfing is scored based on five criteria:
Coffin pulled out the victory with a 13.83-11.03 decision.
Coffin’s advancement to the final follows the 27-year-old’s fifth-place finish at the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup presented by Corona.
Securing second place at Narrabeen puts Coffin in the elite top five on the 2021 World Surf League Men’s Championship Tour, and marks only the second time he has made his way to a final since his rookie year on the tour in 2016 in Portugal.
His rise through the ranks of nearly 40 of the world’s top surfers serves as proof that, despite the year’s delayed starts in contest scheduling and COVID-related quarantines, his focus and commitment are paying off.
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One Down, Three To Go: WSL 1, Cynicism 0
At the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup, it was just about the surfing and it wasn’t just that.
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Yeah, the competition was hot.
Italo, all passion and flair, turning into the Iceman in the last few minutes of the final, closing it down with all the executioner’s cool of his opponent. Literally playing with Gabriel Medina.
Here, have this wave if ya like, you won’t get the score. Who does that? To Gabriel? Italo Ferreira, that’s who.
Carissa, of all these great women on tour right now, surely the über-great. Isabella Nichols ran all the way to their final, rookie-on-fire style, then just sat there and watched while Ms Moore tore it to pieces, effortlessly, like Slater getting loose on some poor bastard back in the ‘90s.