FLORIANOPOLIS, Santa Catarina/Brazil (Sunday, May 23, 2010) – On the final heat of the event, Aritz Aranburu stormed in with two superb waves to claim the Maresia Surf International 2010 in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The Brazilian Rodrigo Dornellesfinished in second place, finalized the 12.67 x 6.67 points in the good waves at Mole Beachon Sunday.
“I’m so happy. It was a very good event for me, we had some pretty hard days and today everything went right to me,” said Aritz Aranburu, who jumped from 60th to the 35th place on the newASP World Rankings. “Unfortunately, we could not get good waves in the final, I did not surf my best, but that was good enough to win. Rodrigo (Dornelles) is a great surfer and was a pleasure to make the final against him. It’s great to win here in Brazil.”
Rodrigo Dornelles decided that he would be surfing theĀ lefthander, while the surfer from the Basque Country opted to stick on the right handers. The first wave was just on the regular range for Aritz Aranburu, who scored 5.67. Dornelles went for broke everything on the waves, but always missing the second maneuver. Aranburu confirming the win in his last wave, when he got a 7.00 pts ride to close the scoring heat in 12.67 x 6.67 points.
“I felt myself lucky during all competition, just lost that feeling now in the final. Even so, I can not complain, but really wish to have won the event,” said Rodrigo Dornelles, which built up from 59th position 76.a for the ASP World Ranking.
“At this heat my opponent was the ocean. I could not do anything else even one turn in any single wave. The only one I could have done better, falling just because I everything in a very strong move and the board took off, so it was not for myself. Okay, I’m happy to make a final heat again,” said Dornelles.
Tags: Artiz Aranburu, ASP World Tour, Surf Info
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