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The lightning-fast Californian flashed his championship tour form to post a 9.50 out of a possible 10 for a series of high-risk maneuvers including a critical finishing re-entry just moments before shooting the pier.
“Oh man, you definitely don’t want to hit them (the pier pillars) and anything can happen when you get close,” Martinez said. “That wave was one of the bigger ones of the morning and I was just doing hits and not really paying attention to where I was going then it just surprised me.”
Mason Ho (North Shore, HI), who along with Michael Campbell (Port Macquarie, AUS), is one of two trialists left in the main event, continued his aerial antics to advance on through to tomorrow’s Round of 12.
“It’s been really overwhelming,” Ho, 17, said. “I’ve been having so much fun but I’m still trying to keep it on the edge out in the water. I don’t have a game plan. I’m just surfing like I’m skating and skating like I’m surfing – just the basics.”
Mike Losness (San Clemente, CA) eliminated former ASP world champion CJ Hobgood as well as local favorite and current world no. nine Timmy Reyes, when he won his round five heat today.
“Nobody knows this wave better than Timmy (Reyes). Of course he’s always going to surf well and I think today he just didn’t get the right wave, which came in my favor,” Losness said. “It’s good to do well in front of my family and friends since I’m so close to home.”
Advancing from his round five heat along with former Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour surfer, Tim Curran, Losness was the only surfer in the heat without championship tour experience.
“To surf against guys of that caliber…that’s the kind of heat you want to make it out of,” Losness said. “If I lost, fine, but I saw the draw last night and thought ‘oh crap.’ Then I thought about it, and if I want to be surfing with those guys more often, this is where you start. So I might as well go out there and be confident.”
The Honda U.S. Open of Surfing will complete action tomorrow crowning champions in the Lost Pro Junior, O’Neill U.S. Open of Longboarding and the Men’s Honda U.S. Open of Surfing
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