Jack Freestone Wins Second ASP World Junior Title at Oakley ASP World Junior Championships
IndoSurfLife.com | October 16, 2012 | Keramas, Bali: Jack Freestone (AUS) took out the Oakley ASP World Junior Championships Bali over Hawaiian Ezekiel Lau (HAW) in a battle of the in-form surfers of the event. With the swell dropping and unfavourable winds the surfers were forced of unleash their aerial attacks in the 2 to 3 foot (1.5 meter) punchy surf at Keramas today.
Freestone who also won the ASP World Junior Title in 2012 joins current ASP WCT No.1 Joel Parkinson (AUS) and Pablo Paulino (BRA) in an elite club of three surfers to have claimed multiple men’s junior titles.
“It’s amazing to follow in Joel (Parkinson’s) footsteps,” Freestone said. “He’s my favouite surfer and we’re both from Coolangatta, so it feels amazing right now. He’s on the Men’s ASP World Championship Tour, that’s where I want to be so hopefully this gives me the confidence to know that I can get there.”
This year’s ASP World Junior Champion was decided at a standalone event, the Oakley ASP World Junior Championship Bali as opposed to a series of events. Freestone is truly a deserving winner after battling through a stellar field of the world’s best junior surfers and an array of conditions ranging from shifty beachbreaks at Canggu, big Keramas tubes and windy, rampy Keramas on the Final day.
“When I won the ASP World Junior Title in 2010 it was just luck,” Freestone said. “I was out of the event and had to sit and wait for certain people to win and lose. This event was much different because it’s the only one, but I never put pressure on myself and it must have worked. I wasn’t even going to enter this event a few months ago, but I’m so glad I did! I feel amazing right now.”
Lau, the powerful Hawaiian surfer impressed all who watched throughout the event, but fell short in the last heat of the event. The Final was a chess match, going back and forth with the lead changing and the two surfers with similar powerful and progressive styles battled for the ASP World Junior Title.
“I came here to win not come second,” Lau said. “But Jack (Freestone) was in rhythm and caught the best waves in the Final, so congratulations to him. You just have to move on, I’ve got the Triple Crown coming up soon, so I’ll be back.”
Thus concluded another successful Oakley World Pro Junior Championship in Bali. Congratulations to both World Junior Champions, Jack Freestone and Nikki Van Dijk on their first class performances.
Oakley World Pro Junior Championship Men’s Final Results:
Jack Freestone (AUS) 13.83 def. Ezekiel Lau (HAW) 13.77
Oakley World Pro Junior Championship Men’s Semifinal Results:
SF 1: Ezekiel Lau (HAW) 15.20 def. Andrew Doheny (USA) 7.50
SF 2: Jack Freestone (AUS) 19.53 def. Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR) 2.17
Oakley World Pro Junior Championship Men’s Quarterfinal Results:
QF 1: Ezekiel Lau (HAW) 16.37 def. Wade Carmichael (AUS) 10.26
QF 2: Andrew Doheny (USA) 14.77 def. Cooper Chapman (AUS) 12.67
QF 3: Jack Freestone (AUS) 15.0 def. Conner Coffin (USA) 14.27
QF 4: Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR) 14.00 def. Frederico Morais (PRT) 8.37
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