{"id":5951,"date":"2023-01-24T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:14:25","slug":"2023-usher-cup-son-of-world-champ-makes-bold-call-after-painful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/2023-usher-cup-son-of-world-champ-makes-bold-call-after-painful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Usher Cup: Son of World Champ makes bold call after \u2018painful\u2019 year"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The son of a world champion surfer has made a bold call on his career after a \u2018painful\u2019 last year. Read all the news from the 2023 Usher Cup.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Snapper Rocks surfer and \u2018future world number one\u2019 Jaggar Bartholomew may have narrowly missed out on an Usher Cup finals berth, but his eyes remain firmly on an Olympic medal and World Title.<\/p>

The 21-year-old son of World Champion and surfing icon Wayne \u2018Rabbit\u2019 Bartholomew narrowly missed out on a quarterfinals place after falling short in his heat with a score of 14.76 \u2013 a total higher than several other heat\u2019s top surfers.<\/p>

But Bartholomew, who took out third in 2022 and second in 2021, said the goal remained the same after going through a mental journey after battling with injury.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019ve been going backwards but now I\u2019m in a new place in my life and I\u2019ve got a bulletproof mindset on what I want to achieve in this life and especially this year, and I\u2019m here to conquer,\u201d Bartholomew said.<\/p>

\u201c(The journey to this new mindset has involved) a lot of pain really, pain and being stoic in the moment and being in the present.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m willing to do whatever I have to do to get to that world title, to get to that number one in the world, to get millions of dollars, to get all the good life for myself and everyone around me.<\/p>

\u201cI want to win the Olympic gold and a world title in the same year, I\u2019d be the first one to ever do it.<\/p>

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In the men\u2019s final, Merewether\u2019s Morgan Cibilic claimed the Usher Cup men\u2019s championship with a score of 16.37 in stunning conditions.<\/p>

Cibilic, who narrowly missed out on qualification on the Championship Tour, lead the heat from the get-go against competitors in Noosa\u2019s Ben Lorentson, North Shore\u2019s Alister Reginato and Snapper Rock\u2019s Sheldon Simkus.<\/p>

\u201cI just want to feel it a little bit more this year, and attack it,\u201d Cibilic said.<\/p>

\u201cThis year was a hard year for me, I felt like I wasn’t connecting with my turns for six months straight and it wasn\u2019t good for the confident, which plummeted down.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s good to come here and get a win under the belt.<\/p>

\u201cThis year I\u2019ve been training my butt off. But lately I\u2019ve been taking my foot off the pedal and relaxing, having a bit more fun.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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North Shore surfer Dimity Stoyle took home the women\u2019s trophy in a last-minute set that nearly didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>

The 31-year-old surfer and part-time DJ said she was \u201cfrothing\u201d to get the win after sitting in fourth position for the majority of the heat, behind Nora Liotta, Ellie J Brooks and Freya Prumm.<\/p>

\u201cThe conditions were so tricky, I was catching the worst waves and then the Snapper ocean waves delivered and gave me a set,\u201d Stoyle said.<\/p>

\u201cI was so lucky to get that one and I surfed it as best as I could because I knew I needed a big score.<\/p>

\u201cThe last couple of minutes were pretty nerve racking, I was so hoping the ocean would give me a flat set and it did.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m frothing.\u201d<\/p>

Stoyle said windy conditions meant she would need to be patient, but her experiences at the past three Cups kept her level-headed.<\/p>

\u201cThe first year I got second, I got beaten in the last minute, and this year I needed a score the whole heat and the last two minutes I go a really good set and I got an 8.17 and I went straight into the lead.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The son of a world champion surfer has made a bold call on his career after a \u2018painful\u2019 last year. Read all the news from the 2023 Usher Cup. Snapper Rocks surfer and \u2018future world number one\u2019 Jaggar Bartholomew may have narrowly missed out on an Usher Cup finals berth, but his eyes remain firmly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushercup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}