| Last year's J-Bay Champ, Taj Burrow came up short in the semis to Fanning. "I'm pretty disappointed," Burrow said. "Mick just wave-selected me to death basically. He picked the absolute best waves and must have surfed them pretty well because he got a 9.00. I got really crap waves and tried my guts out to try to do some turns and throw airs but it was just really choppy and hard. I needed to be more patient really." Photo: ASP/Covered Images/Kirstin |