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Kelly Slater : "This was some of the best Pipe I’ve ever surfed in my life"
jeudi 6 février 2014 –
Slater ended the event with five of the top 10 wave scores of the competition, including a perfect 10 (10, 9.83, 9.77, 9.73 and 9.53). He also owned the top heat score of the event - 19.77 out of 20, posted in the Round of 32 this-morning. As the most decorated surfer at this most famous of all surfing locations, it’s events like these that allow Slater uncrowded "Pipe time" to finesse his performance. Unlike other professional athletes, surfers can never get private time at a competition venue ; this is as close as it gets.
Clearly, Slater’s multiple hands-free late drops and torquing bottom turns into the barrel were a step up from what we even saw here in December, when he won the Pipe Masters. His trajectory of improvement in this sport continues to climb as he pushes his own limits from session to session.
"This was some of the best Pipe I’ve ever surfed in my life," said Slater. "There were some really gnarly, intense, kind of vicious waves this morning. It was really doubling up, a new swell, it was a little bit wonky.
"There were a couple waves that I got right in that little sweet spot where you can just barely make the wave. It did feel like there was definitely some room out there to work on things and the opportunity was there because when the wave gets really intense, you’ve got to just totally commit, and you can see if a guys committed or not, and you can choose to be like that."
Reflecting back on his relationship with Pipeline :
"I remember coming here when I was 12 years old, I met Joey Buran on the trail the morning after he won the Pipe Masters in 1984. I think back on that time... I came down here to watch and the first wave I saw just barreled and spat and I felt like this big door... this whole other world just opened up to me on that day. I fell in love with Pipeline that moment and it’s been my favorite wave ever since. And the challenge never ends. There were definitely waves out there today that I wish I had gotten and I couldn’t figure out how to do it."
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RESULTS :
- 1st. Kelly Slater, USA - 15.7 (9.53, 6.17) $20,000 + 2000 ratings points
- 2nd. Wiggolly Dantas, Brazil - 13.77 (8.27, 5.5) $10,000 + 1500 ratings points
- 3rd. Mason Ho, Hawaii - 11.5 (7.7, 3.8) $6,500 + 1125 ratings points
- 4th. Adriano De Souza, Brazil - 10.7 (8.43, 2.27) $5,500 + 984 ratings points
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