15 year old surfer Jasset Umbel Wins First Ever East Coast Surfing America Prime Event in Montauk, NY in 2009. The mens highest heat score held however, only until the Girls U18 division hit the water. A visibly determined PacSun USA Team member, Jasset Umbel, had a plan. USA Team Coach, Coach Ian Cairns told her, "Go outside, wait for sets and make sure you get two bombs and tear them up". She listened and she executed. She made her way outside and spun and paddled on a way overhead set. With the offshore winds, she hung momentarily at the top of the wave but made the drop, squared off the bottom, and then carved off the top. As the wave softened she finished with a big roundhouse cutback and made her way back outside. The judges rewarded her with a 9.33. She was barely visible on the outside when a macking set came through. She passed on the first couple of waves and went on one of the biggest sets of the day and proceeded to rip the bag out of it. The judges rewarded her with 10′s across the board giving her the win, the high wave score, and the highest heat score of the event. Contest observer "Jasset Umbel dropped into two bombs. The first was easily 3 feet overhead and she put together 2 or 3 big cutbacks and kicked out and was back in the lineup in 20-30 seconds. About 10 minutes later the set of the day rolled through and she was slightly out of position for the first three waves of the set. The fourth wave however........... damn close to double overhead and she made very late drop. I know you've heard it before but there really was a collective gasp on the beach when everybody realize that she had gone for it. There were also a couple of audible "oh shits" as well. When she was again visible out of the whitewater, she proceeded to carve the daylights out of the wave. Bottom turns, cutbacks, top turns and again a kick out the back to return to lineup without a long difficult paddle. That wave was the high wave of the contest with a 10.0."

• published: 09 Dec 2013
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