**Priority rules in surfing competitions** help manage who has the right of way on a wave, ensuring fairness and preventing interference. Here’s how priority typically works:
1. **Establishing Priority**: At the start of a heat, no surfer has priority. Priority is first established after the first wave is ridden. 2. **Gaining Priority**: The first surfer to catch a wave will lose priority. The remaining surfers will then have priority based on their order of finishing their rides. If two surfers catch waves simultaneously, the one who gets up and riding first is deemed to have priority. 3. **Maintaining Priority**: The surfer with priority has the unconditional right to catch any wave they choose. Other surfers must yield to the surfer with priority and avoid interfering with their ride. 4. **Losing Priority**: A surfer loses priority once they catch a wave and ride it. The next priority is given to the surfer who has waited the longest since their last ride. 5. **Interference Penalty**: If a surfer without priority interferes with a surfer who has priority, they may be penalized. Penalties can include deductions from their score or having their highest-scoring wave reduced.
That’s lovely, thanks for the write up, will definitely send to a few friends given that we have a lot of surfers competing and hope to win, maybe, a few medals!
Women heats incoming!
Thank you! I’ve been watching all afternoon and I’m learning a lot!
It’s so funny to watch the surfing competition on France Télévision after a day of rugby, swimming etc… everyone is smiling and the commentators are chills. Thank you so much for this little corner of paradise!
Thank you 🙏🏽
When does surfing 🏄 start ?
Beautiful
I was really looking forward to this!!
Been watching for the past hour and Im just gonna give up. I understand its difficult to catch a perfect wave and I wasnt expecting to see anything mind-blowing, but I really havent seen anything that would make me wanna stay on this for another minute. Gave it a chance, but just isnt for me. Good luck to ya all.
Thank you for this. I’d resigned myself to watching it without having a clue what was happening, and just imagining walking ankle high in those crystal waters on a hot day.
I caught the first two heats of the men’s competition, does anyone know when the replay of the rest will be available?
I was looking forward to this but CBC isn’t televising it. Have to watch online. 😒
do you always wait this long for a good wave? we’ve been tuning in in between our countries’ games and we really only saw someone riding a wave two times – both were at the end of the round and seemed to just be “eh, might as well”s. i’m wondering if this is location specific or always/often?
Never realized Tahiti had mountains like that. It’s so beautiful
Never realized Tahiti had mountains like that. It’s so beautiful
It’s cool that they’re able to do this at Teahupoo, but just wondering why it’s not being held in France? I know there’s some world-class surf beaches (Hossegor, Capbreton, etc.) that hold WSL events.
Is it just a bad time of year for surf conditions in France?
I would love to visit Tahiti some day
We loved watching the surfing competition today and my kids are now REALLY big fans of John John Florence!
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# Where to watch:
* USA – Through Peacocks
* Canada – Through CBC
* UK and Europe – Discovery+ & MAX
* France – France TV
* Australia – 9now
* More here: [How to Watch Surfing in the Olympics — A Global Guide (surfline.com)](https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/watch-surfing-olympics-global-guide/205133)
*Written with ChatGPT bellow.*
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# How do priority work?
**Priority rules in surfing competitions** help manage who has the right of way on a wave, ensuring fairness and preventing interference. Here’s how priority typically works:
1. **Establishing Priority**: At the start of a heat, no surfer has priority. Priority is first established after the first wave is ridden.
2. **Gaining Priority**: The first surfer to catch a wave will lose priority. The remaining surfers will then have priority based on their order of finishing their rides. If two surfers catch waves simultaneously, the one who gets up and riding first is deemed to have priority.
3. **Maintaining Priority**: The surfer with priority has the unconditional right to catch any wave they choose. Other surfers must yield to the surfer with priority and avoid interfering with their ride.
4. **Losing Priority**: A surfer loses priority once they catch a wave and ride it. The next priority is given to the surfer who has waited the longest since their last ride.
5. **Interference Penalty**: If a surfer without priority interferes with a surfer who has priority, they may be penalized. Penalties can include deductions from their score or having their highest-scoring wave reduced.
That’s lovely, thanks for the write up, will definitely send to a few friends given that we have a lot of surfers competing and hope to win, maybe, a few medals!
Women heats incoming!
Thank you! I’ve been watching all afternoon and I’m learning a lot!
It’s so funny to watch the surfing competition on France Télévision after a day of rugby, swimming etc… everyone is smiling and the commentators are chills. Thank you so much for this little corner of paradise!
Thank you 🙏🏽
When does surfing 🏄 start ?
Beautiful
I was really looking forward to this!!
Been watching for the past hour and Im just gonna give up. I understand its difficult to catch a perfect wave and I wasnt expecting to see anything mind-blowing, but I really havent seen anything that would make me wanna stay on this for another minute. Gave it a chance, but just isnt for me. Good luck to ya all.
Thank you for this. I’d resigned myself to watching it without having a clue what was happening, and just imagining walking ankle high in those crystal waters on a hot day.
I caught the first two heats of the men’s competition, does anyone know when the replay of the rest will be available?
I was looking forward to this but CBC isn’t televising it. Have to watch online. 😒
do you always wait this long for a good wave? we’ve been tuning in in between our countries’ games and we really only saw someone riding a wave two times – both were at the end of the round and seemed to just be “eh, might as well”s. i’m wondering if this is location specific or always/often?
Never realized Tahiti had mountains like that. It’s so beautiful
Never realized Tahiti had mountains like that. It’s so beautiful
It’s cool that they’re able to do this at Teahupoo, but just wondering why it’s not being held in France? I know there’s some world-class surf beaches (Hossegor, Capbreton, etc.) that hold WSL events.
Is it just a bad time of year for surf conditions in France?
I would love to visit Tahiti some day
We loved watching the surfing competition today and my kids are now REALLY big fans of John John Florence!