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"\"&lt;p&gt;A week in Puerto Escondido is like the movie \\u201cGroundhog Day.\\u201d  Every day is the same.  The morning cool offshores blow down from the {{{Sierra}}} Madre mountains, opening the blue-green tubes.  Then, around 11am, the land heats up, forcing the wind to switch direction. That\\u2019s when it starts to bake, then the bugs come, then the beers, then the margaritas and then\\u2026well\\u2026you feel a lot better when you force yourself to go to bed early so you can actually enjoy those 4 hours of magic in the morning.  &lt;br clear=\\\"all\\\"&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;br clear=\\\"all\\\"&gt;Pancho Sullivan\\u2019s been here for a week with his family since the epic Rip Curl Search event a couple hours south, ended.  He\\u2019s been getting small barrels and ripping the guts out of unsuspecting Zicatela faces, getting ready for the start of the X-Games here.  \\u201cAt first I wanted to go straight to South Africa and get ready for J-Bay,\\u201d he says.  \\u201cBut the format sounds really interesting and I\\u2019ve always wanted to surf for a team so I\\u2019m pumped for this thing to get started.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Unlike last year, where a 4-6 foot swell made the inaugural Mexican Game a tube riding duel, this year\\u2019s event will likely be held on Monday or Tuesday in performance oriented 3-4 foot peaks, and that suits aerialist Dane Reynolds just fine.  \\u201cI wasn\\u2019t that into it last year because it wasn\\u2019t giant shacks, but it wasn\\u2019t right for maneuvers either \\u2013 it was something in between and I think it should be one or the other,\\u201d says Dane.  \\u201cI don\\u2019t think guys getting small to medium size barrels is all that exciting on TV, but guys doing giant punts would be cool.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;He\\u2019s surfing here again to try and erase the sting from a malicious editing job ESPN did to him last year.  \\u201cI\\u2019m watching the show on TV,\\u201d says Dane.  \\u201cAnd I see the seconds ticking away, and the announcer goes \\u2018The West Coast team needs one more wave and here comes one for Dane Reynolds.\\u2019 Then they cut to me falling on a floater, but that wave was actually from the middle of the quarter and not the end. Then they cut to everyone on my team looking super bummed. The way they edited it made it look like I totally choked. Anyway, I saw Gerr in the water yesterday and he agreed that they blew it on the edit.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Overall, this 3rd year of the event feels more low key than most because big names Slater, AI and the Hobgoods aren\\u2019t here.  The novelty factor of surfing being a part of the X-Games also feels like it\\u2019s worn off. Still with Machado, Knox, Reyes, Jamie O and the aforementioned Panch and Dane in attendance, and a more stacked and hungry West Coast team looking to win its first Game, it should be interesting.  The best part &amp;#8211; it\\u2019s summer and we\\u2019re in Puerto, not HB, so at least we know it\\u2019s not going to go flat.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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