Wet ‘N’ Wild with Rockin’ Fig:

The Nike 6.0 Pier Pressure surf contest finished up last Monday on the south side of the Huntington Pier. The two-day event meant lots of points for the younger U.S. surfers, with a $20,000 prize purse. The surf didn’t really cooperate much, though, being in the one- to three-foot zone, kind of on the inconsistent and weak side with some reforms, although the best juniors in the nation were still ripping it up.

Making it to the finals was Hawaii’s Keanu Asing, who nailed a big vert power slash out the back and reformed that wave into the shore break with a nice lipper there, for the winning score of 7.5. The win netted Asing a $3,500 check and 2,500 valuable ratings points as the top juniors will be invited to the world junior championships in Australia in January.

Second was Malibu’s Dillon Perillo, who also had a wave, with a pretty good outside move and inside too, but didn’t have much of a backup scoring wave that proved costly. In third was Florida’s Evan Thompson, who had some of the best rides of the contest, but not in the final.

Fourth was Newport Beach’s Chase Wilson, making it to his first junior final appearance but just couldn’t keep pace toward the end. Santa Cruz’s Nat Young had a blistering backside attack but lost in the semis, as did Capo’s Luke Davis and Ventura’s hot goofy foot Cory Arrambide and East Coaster Phillip Goold.

Winner of the Nationals last weekend, San Clemente’s Kolohe Andino, went down in the quarterfinals, as did Hawaiian rippers Kai Barger and Kiron Jabour and Floridian speedster Evan Geiselman. Huntington’s Quinn McCrystal and Keetin Devine went through a few heats and bowed out in round three.

The ASP World Tour is in Brazil at the Hang Loose Pro at Santa Catarina. It looks like they’re back to surfing the old format where, if you lost your first heat, you’d get to surf again in the losers round, with winners moving on

Nine-time world champ Kelly Slater, riding on borrowed boards in his first heat, because his boards arrived late , lost to H.B.’s shredding Timmy Reyes in a close one. The ratings leader Aussie Joel “Parko” Parkinson had some great waves and looks pretty psyched, along with fellow Australian Mick Fanning. U.S. surfers advancing were hot goofy footer Bobby Martinez, the Style Master Taylor Knox, “Wardo” Chris Ward, East Coaster C. J. Hobgood, and last year’s U.S. Open winner, Nathaniel Curran. Early upsets were Ventura’s rad man, Dane Reynolds and Hawaii’s Freddy Boy Patacchia.

Stay tuned for results from Brazil and a look at what went down at the Nationals next week. Happy Fourth of July, and keep it safe and sane.

Over and out.

RICK FIGNETTI is a 10-time West Coast champion and a longtime KROQ-FM surfologist. He owns a surf shop on Main Street. You can reach him at (714) 536-1058.