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The Worlds Best In WA: Free-Surf Action From Margaret River

Luke Gartside

After a flurry of action saw the Margaret River Pro blaze all the way to the final rounds of both the men’s and women’s comps in just five days, everything’s gone a bit quiet here in WA.

Luckily Margaret River is one of those places where even when the swell and conditions are pretty crap, there’s always fun waves somewhere, and the world’s best have been making sure they stay busy whilst they wait for competition to resume.

Forecasters are predicting a new round of swell to start to fill in from tomorrow, however it is likely to be accompanied by unfavourable winds until the weekend, so odds are they’ll wait until then to get the comp dusted.

Last week we brought you a gallery featuring free surfs from North Point & The Box, so this time around we’ve focused a little more on some of the more playful set ups that litter the coastline around Margies. Dive in the water’s lovely:

Ryan Callihan ducks into a dreamy keg.About as critical as floaters come, as performed with textbook ease by Kelly SlaterMitch Crews tweaks a boost into the wind.Owen Wright is looking on blistering form going into the quarters.Solid main-break, groomed by morning off-shores.Backlit buckets with the GOATLocal boy Jack Robinson snagged all the bombs ones from underneath the worlds best during a morning free-surfKolohe Andino mixes a top turn into the round-house mix at Margies main break.Courtney Conologue mixing it up with the best of them on her backhandConnor Coffin unleashing in the pocketJulian Wilson sets a speed line through a cascading section during a sunrise free surf.Jaon Duru carves a perfect arc into a short punch main-break left hand wall

 

All photos Luke Gartside