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Surf's Up

Surf's Up

Date: 2016-09-09
The world's best surfers are anticipating some very rippable surf at this year's Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles. According to the latest Surfline forecast a fresh pulse of swell should start filling in Wednesday, September 7, the first day of the competition waiting period for both the Hurley Pro and the Swatch Women's Pro.

"There's some potential for day one," says WSL Commissioner Kieren Perrow, who is monitoring the forecast around the clock at this stage. "But it's really filling in Thursday through Saturday, with overhead sets and good conditions. It will be an exciting run of swell, giving the athletes perfect Lowers to showcase their high performance surfing."

From Surfline's Official Forecast: A long run of very rippable and favorably angled SW swell builds the first couple days of the waiting period, showing the most size the 8th-11th of September.

An ongoing storm system, moving out from under New Zealand into the Central South Pacific over the last several days, has set up a long run of SW swell due to build in over the first couple days of the event waiting period. This swell will be from a good to great swell direction for Lowers, with a mid to long swell period which is also very favorable.

With a huge title race serving as the backdrop to this year's event, the stakes couldn't be higher. John John Florence, Matt Wilkinson, and Gabriel Medina are clustered tightly together atop the Jeep Leaderboard, ranked No. 1, 2, and 3 respectively. But with more than 40,000 points left to divvy out between now and the final event of the season, there are several long-shot threats lurking: Adriano de Souza, Julian Wilson, Ace Buchan, Jordy Smith, and Kelly Slater are among them.