SMILE

You've spent half the day finding a park, have hot-footed to the event, you're unsure what the commentators are saying, don't have a programme, and are wondering what the dickens is going on.

If this is the predicament you've found yourself in, there's a surefire way to work out when the MSF Expression Session is on? Because everyone's wearing a split watermelon smile. The competitors area empties out and everyone's on the happy gas for some godsforsaken reason.

For years, Greville Mitchell, patron saint of all things pro surfing, through his Mitchell Surfing Foundation, has been putting on the MSF Expression Sessions: for two reasons; a chance for the crowd to watch their heroes competing in an unrestrained, non-tactical environment; and a chance for the surfers to loosen the screws and win a bootload of extra cash.

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