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- From: j_oakes@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
- Newsgroups: alt.surfing
- Subject: Re: New World Champion - Kelly the legend.
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:45:39 +0800
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.204539.1@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
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- >
- > Actually, he didn't opt to stand on the beach and watch the Pipe Masters
- > even though he could have. He wound up winning not only the world title
- > but the Pipeline Masters also. Now that's quite a feat!
-
- Yes that boy Kelly Slater is good alright, watch all the skeptics who said ,
- "yer but he doesnt rip in big waves" eat there words. After winning a three
- meter pipeline contest.Im not normally fond of American pros(no flames thanks),
- besides Curren and now Slater.
- Me and two of my friends from Margaret River West Oz, were checking the surf
- at gas bay after the Margaret River AA contest, when guess who rolls up in the
- carpark , on his own , in his big hire car...Kelly Slater. WOW you say. Well
- next he walks over to us and says, " Yous guys going out thar ", in a broad
- American accent. Seeings how there was nonone else out and it was 3 foot
- and sucking like a school boy on a lollipop, we said, shit yer, with about
- an hour and a half a light left. Kelly replies " good I didnt want to go
- out on my own", now that blew me out, a pro willing to share his waves,
- and friendly too. So the boys paddle out with Kelly...and this no lie,
- he starts giving waves to us and hooting us on to take off on the big ones.
- Now this guy is a pleasure to surf with, didnt snake, didnt dropin, didnt
- care about that shit..he was out there for fun. We sat there watching him
- most of the time from the back of the wave, watching these explosions of
- spray and skegs(fins) fanfaring towards us. He surfs like noone else ive
- ever seen, and Ive seen a few. For the last 30 minutes we went in and watched
- Kelly from the beach out there on his own. Words cant begin to describe the
- critcalness and speed of his moves, just awesome. He came in had a nice
- friendly chat to us, told us how much he liked WA, and went. This from
- a bloke who would be world champion, and who in town the night before
- was nearly raped by 30 young surf chicks. This is the sort of attitude
- that obviously makes champions.....on ya Kelly....
-
-
- Jeff
- UniOfWestOz
-
- ps. So i can say ive surfed with the world champ, even if
- I cant surf like it.
-