The routine is repeated over and over again, until exhaustion. It seems like a joke that we are already on the fifth event (counting the specials, maybe more) and we continue to see more of the same.

On the right: Belay maneuver 1, belay maneuver 2, perhaps a bit more risky, belay maneuver 3, perhaps a bit more risky, tube. A couple more maneuvers, all without risking too much, and the final section: Tube looking for a miracle or avoiding the tube looking for a miracle.

On the left: Eight maneuvers, same progressive sequence, maybe the third is stronger than the fourth and then either the tube and perform a miracle or avoid the tube and go for a miracle.

What the wave actually offers is a lot more options: Toledo and Medina have already done it, but perhaps to a lesser extent (and this is why they are dominant in the wave). It is taking risks from the start!

You can perfectly fly in the first sections on the right and left, as Toledo did last year when he went from shove it to switch tube, which he didn't get out of but tried to go for the progressive, to see something that the pool is supposed to allow through repetition.

As it happens in Waco.

The reason, which has been discussed more than once, is that unlike the wave gardens and Waco, surfers have few waves to train in Slater's pool, and to surf during the event.

Basically, if you fall twice, you have no chance of making it to the finals. That's why round 1 is extremely boring and the finals are a bit more entertaining, but almost always very conservative.

Many people criticize the event because the wave is predictable and the reality is that those who have failed us are the surfers, having the opportunity to paint that different canvas, except for some strange lighting, we have not stopped seeing more of the same.

And it's incredible because watching the training sessions on the thousands of Instagram live streams they've broadcast these days, everyone is surfing the same way they did five years ago. God forbid!

Hopefully the event that starts tomorrow in Lemoore will bring some fun and not just more of the same as we have been seeing for a few years now.

It's time for surfing to evolve in Slater's pool!

*See below: Italo yesterday, one of the most exciting surfers in the world: Maneuver, maneuver, maneuver, tube, maneuver, maneuver, maneuver, tube, maneuver. Same as five years ago.

 

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