Reading the title and the above image of this post, I won’t need to tell you any further what this is about. This series of well designed, incentive laced, online surfing games, where you get to be, surf like, and ultimately get the opportunity to hang out and experience Rob Machado in California, by being the best online surfer, has me hooked already.

It’s a bit like scoring goals on Fifa, to win you’ll need twinkle-fingers that skip their way around the buttons with the slightest of taps at well timed moments to manouvor your best Rob Machado impersenation will get the highest score.

It’s not often you get to take off on a wave that you, theoretically speaking, already have seen, and know you can score a 10 on. Especially at Pipe. And especially as i now surf like Rob Machacho. Which I certainly didn’t do before. It takes a few waves to get the hang of, but soon it’s possible to start making an impossibly long barrel and 3D enhanced version of this double section bomb that took Rob to a victory in the 2000 Pipe  Masters.

Shadowing 3 phases of Rob’s surfing career, from the Momentum era, to soul man and eco-crusader, the competition is run in 3  x 1 month long ‘heats’ – with some kind of scoring algorythm over the phases determining a winner. Practise makes perfect, and perfection means hours spent interacting with my new favourite branded content gaming application.

Well, it would be, if it wouldn’t crash so often. I’ve had one session, and since then, it won’t seem to work. Which is a bit frustrating, considering there’s a good chance I would have worked my fingers down to stubs by now trying it on. Hopefully it’ll be back up soon.