Perfect ... Thanks for the laughs .
longboarding defiantly is a skill on its own .
i have also had so many memorable wipe outs myself on them .

those last three photos ,is that Kenny Rogers .?

It was a good fun day, despite the wipeouts .

It is probably worth mentioning that, even though the wind dropped slowly during the contest, it was a howling (and cold) offshore in many of the heats, making takeoffs particularly difficult on a 10 foot board. You can see the wind whipping the tops off the waves and the chop coming up the wave face in a number of the photos.

...and thanks to Chris Clarke for taking photos while nursing injured ribs (occasioned from big waves the day before the contest).

Great stuff. Lets keep the ball rolling.
here is Tassies
www.facebook.com/pg/WhatSupBoards/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1370190629762223

I posted these a couple of months ago.
This is just as the nose of the board was making contact with the reef:



The nose of the board came off second best: