I arrived at the beach around 9:30am and it was clean conditions, off-shore with some perfect right handers, big barrels and big lips. I had a cool free surf session before my heat and I felt pretty good and a confident on my surf wich was good.
My first heat (quarter-finals) was ok, I ended up in 1st place with some advantage from the other guys in my heat. My second heat (semi-finals) was ok too, I ended up again in 1st place. Then i moved to the finals along with Pedro Correia, Sérgio Rego and Daniel Costa. The waves were pretty bad because of the hight tide, with waves around 1ft (30cm +-), off shore and pretty inconssistent. Pedro ended up winning with a pretty good 1st wave, actually the best wave of the final. I ended up in 2nd place, 3rd place Sérgio Rego and 4th place Daniel Costa. It was a cool start and the next time I really wanna win. This is my 4th time consecutive I end up in 2nd place in a Regional.
Here are some photos by Carlos Duarte, from the free surf session and my first heat of the comp:
More photos to come...
Photos Source: Wave Riders Açores
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