On may 4th, 2018 a historical event will be held at Surf Ranch in Lemoore California. This event will be the first ever WSL (World Surf League) Founders Cup Competition. Twenty five of the best surfers will come from all around the world to compete. There are five teams of with five surfers on each team. The five surfers will compete to have the best score to represent their country. Teams will come from Australia, Brazil, Europe (France, Portugal, Italy, and Germany), the United States, and the world team which includes the best surfers from polynesia, japan, south africa, and australia.

The competition will solely be based upon the skill of each surfer and their ability to stay up. This is able to happen because of the man made wave. Each wave made will be the exact same, every drop of water will be in the same place at the same time. This wave will help the judges of the founders cup judge the surfer. There won’t be any bad waves or so called good waves, each wave will be perfect therefore making it as fair as possible.

The perfect wave took all trial and error until it was right, it took many years to build the wave. This wave feels and looks like real wave that you’d find in the ocean but isn’t. The wave is created by a system that give the water a perfect push to give the right amount of force a wave needs. The process to create this wave took almost ten years for Kelly Slater and the World Surf League to work together to make the Surf Ranch happen.

The first ever Founders Cup will show exactly what each professional surfer can accomplish. All surfers were picked based on their rank in their competitions as well as experience. The surfers will be given many chances to redeem themselves over the three days that the competition will be going on. Since this is the very first founders cup, nobody will know what to expect throughout the weekend.

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The WSL Founders Cup was one to remember for everybody who attended or watched. All the surfers were eager to compete and be some of the first to surf in the newest wave pool. All weekend long the surf event had many events for people to attend-ranging from the main surf competition and 70 yard swimming pool to concerts and interviews during and after the days heats. The first Founders Cup event was definitely worth going for everyone who did, people of all ages were lined up outside the Surf Ranch gates to wait and see what results the surfers would bring. The energy in the the crowd was fired up and pumped after every heat the surfers competed in.

The founders cup of surfing was named after the kings and founders of pro surfing. Most didn’t think that anything would come out of being a pro surfer or even make surfing such a big part of people’s lives throughout the world. The so called kings of surfing have come so far in the surfing world and no competitions would have been possible without them. The Founders Cup especially dedicated to some of the world’s most famous surfers and champions.

The first day that was filled with so many new experiences for so many people but finally came to an end, the USA team pushed themselves and they ended up in the lead over Brazil by about three points. The  surfers that helped with ending up in the lead who had some of the highest scores was carissa moore john john florence and lakey peterson. The team captain on the world team was Kelly Slater and he made the right decisions of who he put into the wave pool during the first competition day.

The second day of the first ever Cup brought surprises and excitement to many. The Brazil team came in first at the very end of the competition, this left all the fans and whole team stoked. The captain of team Brazil was wise in choosing which surfers the placed in the pool amd when they were placed. The team earned every point that they were given. the point system was based on only the ability and technique of the surfer. The WSL Founders Cup will forever be a part of surfing history.