00:00As we see Miguel Pupo vs. Baron Mamiya, Goofy vs. Regular, Brazil vs. Hawaii.
00:05Miguel with so many reps around the world into his tenth start here at Bells.
00:09Just his second quarterfinal appearance.
00:11His pet events will be towards the back end of the year.
00:14Baron now up. Snap gets a little sticky.
00:17We'll see if he hangs in there. The wall opens up.
00:20Throws down the open face hook and looking for a big major to clean this one up.
00:25It's a solid snap with the tail blow.
00:28Let's have a look at what happened here.
00:30He drives up into the lip and the nose almost pokes.
00:33Does a good job at staying with this one.
00:35For me, if I single out one moment, that was my favourite.
00:38It's got to be this last manoeuvre.
00:39Releases the fins and kind of grinds across the top of the lip.
00:42Obviously we've had the cockpit wink here.
00:44We'll get back to that because his brother's up.
00:47Miguel setting up a little snap and then decides to fade it.
00:50Trying to find more of the tempo of this insider.
00:53He'll just get a score on the board and feel out the start of this heat.
00:56And we keep off. 3.5 start for Miguel.
00:59Compared to the 4.5 for Baron.
01:01So Pupo swings again.
01:02Quick to the lip on this one.
01:04Right off the top again for just a two turn combo.
01:06So we'll see Miguel take the lead.
01:09Yeah, Miguel there just staying pretty busy under priority.
01:12And look, he's going to improve on obviously this situation.
01:15You know, it'll be in the sort of lower range, but just applying pressure.
01:18I mean, and the other thing is this.
01:20But yeah, it's going to be a sick one.
01:22I mean, she's a reigning world champ for a reason.
01:23She's absolutely on fire.
01:25We're DHT team riders too.
01:27And you know, he makes the best boards for around here.
01:28So I don't know.
01:29I'm just excited.
01:30I'm in a really good headspace.
01:31I'm going to go home, have an early, early night, early dinner,
01:33and just like be ready for hopefully back-to-back heat tomorrow.
01:36And one last question before I let you go.
01:37Everyone keeps talking about mum power.
01:38Obviously, Carissa Moore coming back.
01:40You, however, have some auntie power.
01:42You've just become an auntie.
01:43Thank you so much, Volley Shoes.
01:44They're incredibly comfortable, by the way, as we get right into live action.
01:48Miguel Pupo creating some space.
01:52Really leans into that backhand snap, throws some water off the tail.
01:56End section approaching and shuts it down.
01:58Yeah, this is cool.
01:59Just staying so busy under priority here.
02:02Nice little up and to lift the first one.
02:03And then he just gets so much speed and whip out of all these turns on the inside.
02:08Baron Mamiya looking to get involved here.
02:10This will be his second scoring ride.
02:12Throws down the wrap.
02:14Pushes back on the cutback.
02:16He's hoping for a vertical wall.
02:19Opens up with an ice off the top and hits the lip line and steps off.
02:24He's had a lot of different types of waves here at Winky Pop.
02:26He did a combination of errors yesterday.
02:29Alley-oop to...
02:30He's pushing.
02:31And then behind him, Baron.
02:32I mean, he's just got the one way.
02:33So this right now, anything he gets is going to better his position.
02:37Yeah, a little bit sleepy through this section, but he does connect here on the inside.
02:41He kind of chooses not to keep going though.
02:44Just trying to get back out the back there.
02:46It's still pretty close as we see Miguel taking off in a better looking wave.
02:48Look at this wall for Pupo.
02:50Going right into an arc in the pocket.
02:53Throwing another cutback.
02:55Keeping him from just jamming down the line.
02:57It kind of sloped out a little bit and he lost some wave size.
03:00And then the end wedge came up and he was able to hack it.
03:04And these are really crucial numbers.
03:05This wave started off to...
03:07It had some size to it when he took off.
03:08So I was thinking, okay, this thing's going to start reeling down the Winky Reef.
03:11But kind of hit a funny section.
03:13Almost like little sort of split in two.
03:14Just lost the back of the wave.
03:15He takes the low road.
03:16Still finds the finish.
03:18Renato Hickel in company and the Surfer's Reps that we are going on hold after this seat.
03:23Rider in motion.
03:24Baron Mamiya tags the lip line.
03:26Throws down the wrap in the pocket.
03:29Filling in the time with those wrapping cutbacks.
03:32Attacking the end section for Miguel.
03:35For priority as we watch his wave again.
03:37Yeah, I like this from Baron.
03:38He gets the release there out of the top.
03:40And you can already see that he's pretty stoked with this wave.
03:42And it's some nice clean face to it.
03:43And a really like ruler edge line to it.
03:46And just so well to fit that last maneuver in really.
03:49And now it's Miguel's turn.
03:53Trying to just S's way into a good section of bottom turn.
03:57And he will right away firing himself up as you see his coach.
04:01He had no business doing that.
04:03And then this one of Miguel.
04:04I love this.
04:05It was really, really explosive out of the top.
04:07A lot of points are going to come from that first maneuver.
04:10And then you could see how hard he was.
04:12He was just waiting and biding his time on that last bottom turn.
04:14Miguel paddles.
04:15Forces Baron to use priority.
04:17Mavia needs a 6.01.
04:19Gets the slice in to start.
04:20Air section.
04:21Ends up just being a nice little tail walk reverse.
04:26Britt Merrick likes it.
04:28And this is when Baron probably would have liked to add his priority.
04:31To choose one of these waves.
04:32If it's a couple of options, he's going to force Miguel to use it on the first one.
04:37Rapid cutback for Pupo.
04:38Look at a better of 5.5.
04:40He's already distracted to see what Baron might be doing.
04:43That was a really good heat win.
04:45I mean, it was tricky out there.
04:46And you know what?
04:47To your point, Joe.
04:47Totally different strategy to yesterday.
04:49Yesterday he did the sit and wait and wave selection.
04:51He was working on the other side.
04:51You can see those with the item or his wife, William.
04:51Professor, when he came to his wife and the other side, we will move on.
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