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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=http:\\/\\/surfingthemag.com\\/mick-fanning-030208.jpg&gt;&lt;\\/center&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Surf:&lt;\\/b&gt; Three foot semi-Superbank, clean&lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Events Held:&lt;\\/b&gt; Quiksilver Pro round three heats 1-10&lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nature&amp;#8217;s Call:&lt;\\/b&gt; I told you guys it was now or never!&lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Predicted:&lt;\\/b&gt; Small bump in swell for the next day and a half &amp;#8211; just enough.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Been wondering what those grossly cosseted surf superstars have been doing with their time since Christmas? Well let us be the first to tell ya &amp;#8211; they&amp;#8217;ve been TRAINING.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ve been hearing all sorts of appalling rumors. Joel Parkinson seeing a psychologist. Mick Fanning so flexible he&amp;#8217;s able to eat dinner off a plate balanced on the underside of his left foot. Taj Burrow holding his breath underwater longer than a dolphin. And ten heats of the Quik Pro round three today was enough to convince us it&amp;#8217;s all true. Rarely has SURFING magazine seen so many top-gun pros in such good form.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;A floppy two-foot dribble converted through the day into three to four feet of spring-loaded semi-Superbank, and boom! Off they went: Bede Durbidge, Parko, Dean &amp;#8220;Dingo&amp;#8221; Morrison, Jordy Smith, Fanning, Burrow, all hurtling off into supersurfing world, with the judges throwing nines, and the {{{4000}}}-strong crowd &amp;#8211; mostly Brazilians on student visas &amp;#8211; sweating their heads off on the hot summer Gold Coast sands.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;We could just leave it there, really &amp;#8211; post the above, and wander off to drink about a million Sunday afternoon Coronas with the rest of the idiots in the Rainbow Bay Surf Club bar. But no. Let&amp;#8217;s at least have a look at how the wunderkind rookies, Dane Reynolds and Mr. Smith, loaded up in the real deal first time round.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;First up, Dane versus Dingo. Surfing magazine ran into Reynolds at Duranbah yesterday, between surfs with about 400 of our best buddies, and was frankly shocked. Why hadn&amp;#8217;t we been warned about his moustache? Shave it off, we say, THIS INSTANT. Dane looks supremely unconcerned in WCT company as far as talent goes. But as was demonstrated today, he&amp;#8217;s too reliant on that talent, and in this company, talent only goes so far. It made Dane a stalking horse for Dingo, who used the young Californian&amp;#8217;s stellar free-surfing rap to push his own performance up a coupla notches &amp;#8211; while suckering Dane into sub-standard waves.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#8217;s where you see the difference between he and Jordy Smith: contest time, experience, hunger. Jordy started off his heat against Bobby Martinez with a rail-gag behind the foam. Within a minute he&amp;#8217;d caught another wave &amp;#8211; not a great one, but with some good moves &amp;#8211; and your correspondent twigged: he&amp;#8217;s re-setting the computer. Sure enough, wave number three was the best of the day so far, seven different types of turn in a row, none repeated. And his sixth was the best of the event, again so far: surfed from behind the pocket and set just right every time.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Then it was Mick Fanning, showing his buddies just why he&amp;#8217;s world champion, digging way into the variety box and blowing out an 8.5 and 9-plus of his own. Local status on a day like this can cut either way, but for Mick, it only cuts the right way. &amp;#8220;Everyone else is trying to find a wave like this to practice on,&amp;#8221; he reckoned, &amp;#8220;but we don&amp;#8217;t have to go anywhere. Live here; surf; sleep in our own beds. Just cruise, really.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Jeez that top half of the draw is loaded.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Who&amp;#8217;s a threat from the other side? Taj is. Holy crap. Last year, everyone was like &amp;#8220;Yeah, Taj is going for the title&amp;#8221;, and he was smiling and nodding. This year he looks like a surfer who might actually do it &amp;#8211; strong, swift, sharp, not losing his way in flighty yet ultimately doomed lip moves, and squeezing the most out of that little Firey thing under his feet.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Maybe AI is too, and maybe Kelly; but we won&amp;#8217;t know till tomorrow, because a soft 10 minutes during Ace Buchan vs Bruce Irons caused the event to be called for the day, leaving Slater&amp;#8217;s heat, number 12, to be decided. Within five minutes ol&amp;#8217; Baldy was outside the Snapper rock itself, waiting for a set. &amp;#8220;I thought I&amp;#8217;d get a few waves by myself,&amp;#8221; he grinned later, &amp;#8220;but like 30 seconds after I got out, there were seven groms surrounding me.&amp;#8221; And at Snapper, groms don&amp;#8217;t care how many world titles you&amp;#8217;ve won &amp;#8211; they&amp;#8217;ll drop in anyway.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=http:\\/\\/surfingthemag.com\\/joel-parkinson-030208.jpg&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joel Parkinson&lt;\\/b&gt;&lt;\\/center&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMPLETED QUIKSILVER PRO ROUND 3 HEATS:&lt;\\/b&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;(1st advances to Round 4; 2nd finishes =17th)&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #1: Bede Durbidge def. Kieren Perrow&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #2: Ben Dunn def. Tom Whitaker&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #3: Taylor Knox def. Dayyan Neve&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #4: Joel Parkinson def. Roy Powers&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #5: Dean Morrison def. Dane Reynolds&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #6: Jordy Smith def. Bobby Martinez&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #7: Leonardo Neves def. Neco Padaratz&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #8: Mick Fanning def. Julian Wilson&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #9: Taj Burrow def. Mikael Picon&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #10: Adrian Buchan def. Bruce Irons&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;REMAINING ROUND 3 HEATS:&lt;\\/b&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #11: Jeremy Flores v. Jay Thompson&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #12: {{{CJ}}} Hobgood v. Tim Reyes&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #13: Kelly Slater v. Heitor Alves&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #14: Luke Stedman v. Adriano de Souza&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #15: Andy Irons v. Ben Bourgeois&lt;br \\/&gt;Heat #16: Kai Otton v. Luke Munro&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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