Sally Fitzgibbons takes the Subaru Pro Women's ASP

The glorious Mount Taranaki

Event winner Sally Fitzgibbons

Well I would've had these shots out a couple of days ago but I was waiting for a response back from a website and unknown to me the main person is on holiday. It puts me in the spot of do I put them out myself or wait. I think i've waited long enough so here we are, some shots from the Subaru Pro in my backyard of Taranaki. I've tried to put a shot of everyone in here, my apologies to Sally for missing 2 of her heats and not getting the best shot of her.
   Sally Fitzgibbons took her 2nd win in a row and deservedly so. Showing she was serious about wanting this event scoring an impressive 18.45 in the 1st round, continuing onto a score of 19 in round 3 getting a near perfect 9.75 in the process. The dropping tide on the Saturday gave for extremly testing conditions creating a horrendous rip just as Kiwi and Taranaki local Paige Hareb entered the water for her quarter final against Coco Ho. The rip so bad no waves were had in the first half of the heat causing the judges to call for a restart. Unfortunately for the local supporters Paige did not proceed any further but she definately did put up a good fight in the frustrating rip. Coco then got knocked out in her semi by event winner Sally Fitzgibbons.
  Carissa Moore who was leading the ASP rankings up to this event came up against Fitzgibbons in the final, unfortunatley for Moore the waves just did not come her way. This event has set the stage for the rest of the season with only 50 points seperating Fitzgibbons and Moore. It was a fantastic event, the waves were a bit small but the surfing more than made up for it, hey at least it wasn't howling onshore and pissing down!
  Here's my results...
 -Tube of the comp went to Tyler Wright for her pre-comp barrel on a smoking right

Best floater - Paige Hareb on a bit of a sucky wave, I'm pretty sure she had a big grin after she made it

Best wave - Carrisa Moore taking apart a near 6ft wave

Best tail slide - Kiwi Sarah Mason for really pulling the tail around on nearly every turn

Cutback - Chelsea Hedges for a beautiful fluid cutback

Verticle hit goes to Stephanie Gilmore

Best Karate kick - Alana Blanchard during a warm up with good mate Laura Enever

Brightest wetsuit - the outrageous pink/orange suit of Laura Enever's

And last but not least, biggest smile goes to of course Sally Fitzgibbons

Alana Blanchard

Carissa Moore

Claire Bevilacqua

Coco Ho

Courtney Conlogue

Jessi Miley-Dyer

Melanie Bartels

Paige Hareb

Pauline Ado

Rebecca Woods

Rebecca Woods

Silvana Lima

Sofia Mulanovich

Tyler Wright

  Cheers girls for an entertaining few days, it was an absolute pleasure and honor in photographing everyone. Good luck with the rest of the season and I hope yas score some pumping waves.

thanks
Aaron

The TSB Subaru womens pro NZ

It was a windy day but the women surfed really well considering the conditions. A bit on the small side and cross offshore. Paige was surfing with dedication really ripping it apart, it showed in her scores as well, going on to win her heat. I wasn't expecting much seen it was so wwindy but I tell you what it was really entertaining surfing. It was great to watch and the spectactors lining the hill and beach were cheering and clapping them on. Everyone was getting sandblasted but no one seemed to care, we were all stoked to watch some quality surfing. I would write some more but i'm off to the pub...

Paige surfing with aggression

Silvana Lima

Rebecca Woods

Sarah Mason

Jessi Miley-Dyer

Pauline Ado

Claire Bevilacqua

Pipe hosts first womens event

Steph

First time in history a womens event was held during the Pipe masters, there wasn't a lot of waves had but when they did come through World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), Hawaiian Coco Ho (HAW), and 2011 ASP Women’s World Tour qualifiers Tyler Wright (AUS), and Alana Blanchard (HAW) made the most of it. Tucking into barrels at every chance and going for gold. The battle for the Vans Duel for the Jewel was courageous and entertaining with Steph taking the honors and the Womens triple crown. Tyler Wright got an epic tube that could've contested for the win, unfortunately for her it was after the hooter. Just a quick note as i'm heading out on the beer now, so will post up tomorrow what happened with the mens.
  Once again big congrats to all the girls in the event who did the rest of the crew proud and big congrats to Steph, well done.

Wahines of Hawaii

The photo above tells a story of it's on. The young lady was out ripping it up, surfing really good, picking off waves as they came to her and making them. It's seems a lot of the guys here have some sorta point to prove. I saw blatant snaking, taking off on waves that weren't even there's. Then they would try to pop an air or rediculace maneuver and not even try to make it, they just try to get as high as possible then kick the board away without even attempting to land it. This guy ended up head butting his board, result i guess...
  So todays shots are dedicated to the Wahines on Hawaii keeping it real

Kim Diggs

Gabby's girlfriend

Gabby

Quincy Davis

Quincy Davis

Coco Ho