Newcastle boardriders top Surfest heats in WSL Challenger Series

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Costa Rican surfer Leilani McGonagle was unable to start her season in the Challenger Series better by winning her heat and advancing to the round of 32 competitors of Newcastle Surfest in Australia.The Challenger Series are the pre-World Tour competition, and this year the first seven competitors of the event will qualify directly to the maximum professional surf circuit on the planet.The native surfer of Pavones achieved a combination of 6.37 …

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Cover photo: WSL/Diz The current world champion John John Florence shared that the competition overwhelms him, but not only when he's in CT but also free surfing in Pipe, reported Tracks magazine that he mastered a fragment of an interview they published in the printed version of the magazine. "It's overwhelming because I feel like I'm competing all the time, like when I take part in competitions, and then I compete when I'm in Pipe with my brot…