The new ASP judging criteria was rolled out at all events in 2005. The changes evolved from a year long monitoring process, primarily overseen and driven by ASP Head Judge Perry Hatchett's desire to both reflect contemporary cutting edge performance surfing and capture the spirit of free surfing that is the essence of performance surfing.

Gleaning valuable data from free-wheeling events such as the Foster's Expression Sessions and Kelly Slater's Fiji experimental event, Perry and other members of ASP's Technical Committee, including WCT surfers, set out to free up the criteria with the dual objectives of further rewarding progressive surfing and introducing a reward system based on demonstrating variety of repetoire and linking maneurvres together, still in the critical sections of the`wave, in a seamless flow of power and speed. The results should be extaordinary, check it out;

"A surfer must perform radical controlled manoeuvres in the critical section of a wave with Speed, Power and Flow to maximize scoring potential. Innovative / Progressive surfing as well as Variety of Repertoire ( manoeuvres ),will be taken into consideration when rewarding points for waves ridden. The surfer who executes this criteria with the maximum Degree of Difficulty and Commitment on the waves shall be rewarded with the higher scores."

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