Kelly Slater 9th World Title Interview

The day started with torrential downpours, hails storms and a peaking northwest swell. With that patent unflappable determination in his eyes, Kelly Slater arrived to the contest site 30 minutes before his heat. Already wearing his wetsuit and with board under arm, he snuck through the contest site, whistled at a little dog that was standing out in the rain, and proceeded to scurry down the

Who is the best Tiger Woods or Kelly Slater?

All year the commentators have compared Kelly Slater to Tiger Woods. I think Kelly is sick of it, as he is apparently good at both sports.I think when Slater retires from surfing he will go for the PGA at which point he will throw down the challenge to Tiger Woods, to strap on a leggie and hit the WQS, to see who is really the best.

Kelly Slater Claims 9th World Title in Mundaka

Well it is official, Kelly has won his 9th World title. Perhaps because we all knew it would happen today, maybe because it is his 9th title, who knows, but this win as monumental as it is, seemed a little lack luster.That said, Kelly has done something amazing, he has surfed the best competitive year of surfing on record and done it at a time when he should be on his way out of the top seeded

Slater set to claim 9th world title in Mundaka

ASP World Tour ratings leader Kelly Slater (USA) was 7.31 points away from clinching his ninth ASP World Title when he was beaten by Australia's Adrian Buchan in their French final bout yesterday. Slater now has to secure an equal 9th finish at next week's Billabong Pro Mundaka to clinch crown No.9.“I was one wave away [from the title],” Slater said. “One wave away is a lot closer than two heats

Ask A Dude: Kelly Slater

Kinda a quirkybut pretty cool, enjoy Kelly giving his take on what it takes to become a pro surfer in modern times, Surfing Naked and Bull fighting on acid!

The Boost Mobile Pro Final Taj Burrows vs Kelly Slater

Hell I dont know what to say, this was probably the greatest heat I have ever seen.Taj threw down a 9.0 and a 9.63 within the first 10 minutes of the 35min final at trestles today, scores like that are 99% of the time deal closers in heats.Kelly was so deep in combo land that it was almost time to tune out and go to sleep! But it's Kelly Slater, probably the only surf in the top 44 to love combo

Kelly Slater vs Sunny Garcia round 3 at Trestles

What an awesome heat, there was so much buzz about this heat you would think it was the final! It was awesome to see the man Garcia back in a WCT event, looking super fit and focused. Garcia is currently in a great position on the WQS to re qualify for the world cup tour in 09`.Kelly opened up the exchange with a great inside wave, the wave was pretty average, but Kelly is Kelly right? He looked

Trestles turns it on for the Boost Mobile Pro!

The Boost Mobile Pro presented by Hurley scored perfect 3-5 foot waves for the duration of round one and the first two heats of round two. Lower Trestles in Southern California hosted the worlds top 46 surfers for the seventh stop on the World Championship Tour of Surfing. The perfect A-frame peak produced world class waves and long rip-able walls for the best in the business to let loose and

Could Kelly take the title at Trestles?

The upcoming Boost Mobile Pro presented by Hurley may be the closest thing eight-time ASP World Champion and ratings leader Kelly Slater (USA) has to a home court advantage on the ASP World Tour.Held at Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California from September 7-13, 2008, the 7th of 11 events on this year's ASP World Tour is the only elite tour stop in the continental U.S.A. Slater hails from

Kelly Slater - A Tribute

Kelly Slater Goes down in round 3!

With perfect left hand indo barrels, the worlds top 4 surfers have steped up to the plate at this years Rip Curl Pro Search. This year the boys and girls at Rip Curl have taken us to `Somewhere in Indo` and so far it has been a hell of a show.Today`s huge upset came in the form of 8x world champ, Kelly Slater losing in round 3 to avery inform Tiago Pires. While Kelly was running the heat from the

Kelly Slater takes J-Bay, That's 4!

JEFFREYS BAY, South Africa (Thursday, July 17, 2008) – He’s done it again. Eight-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA) beat reigning ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS) today to win the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay, earn his 38th ASP World Tour victory and claim the fourth event on the 2008 ASP World Tour.“I didn’t realize I was going to be overwhelmed by it, but I haven’t been in this

The top 5 seeds are out of the Billabong Pro Teahupoo

An amazing day of competition in 4-6ft hollow Teahupoo. The Irons brothers cruised into round 4 today looking so relaxed and at home in conditions which saw many of the worlds best look challenged. Parko took victory over rookie Tiago with an interference call that cost Tiago valuable points.But the big news was the elimination in rounds 2 and 3 of the current top 5 ratings leaders.Mick Fanning

Kelly Slater vs Jamie O'Brien round 2 heat Teahupoo

Both surfers opened up with a deep shack, but kelly through a nice roundhouse and a floater to come up trumps from the exchange, throwing down a 9.0 to O'briens 7.33.The next exchange went to Jamie with a nice short barrel taken under Kelly's priority to post a 6.57. Kelly stroked into a weird monster next that slammed him in a foam cave scoring a 1.5 for his trouble and loosing his

Greatest Moments in Surfing 1950-Now

Well it is official, YOUR LOCAL has reached it's 50th posting! So to celebrate in a cliche way I have decided to do a greatest moments in surfing post! Theses are my top 10 greatest surfing moments between 1950 and today:1953- Woody Brown, Buzzy Trent and George Downing, make the drop on a massive (for the time) 15ft+ wall at Makaha and make the cover of the newspapers in california and around

Kelly Rings his 3rd Bell, at the Rip Curl Pro, Bells Beach Australia

The heat opened up with Bede Durbidge taking a quick in and out for a 0.5 only to have Kelly Slater boom the next wave in the set and take it to the sand to log a 7.33.Not to out done, Bede came back firing with a sick wave, throwing half his board over the lip, bombing a nice floater and finishing it all of with his trademark layback snap in the closeout beachie, dropping a bomby 8.83. and then

Bells Beach serves up 6-8ft swells for the Rip Curl/ASP pro

Bells Beach – ASP World No. 1 Kelly Slater (USA) came to the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach to surf big waves. He took advantage of the eight foot (three metre) conditions on offer today to post the highest heat total and single wave score of the day. Event officials ran 20 heats of competition to take advantage of the swell.Slater, 8X ASP World Champion, left competitors Adriano de Souza (BRA) and

Kelly Slater is going Bells

WORLD surfing's glamour boy Kelly Slater has confirmed he will compete in this week's Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach.The eight-time world champion had threatened to skip Bells after revealing he had "lost energy" for the sport during the season-opener on the Gold Coast last week.But Rip Curl Pro media manager Dane Sharp yesterday claimed that the 36-year-old American was again on board for this

Is Kelly going to Bells, 9th world title or is he done?

Well, What do you all think?We have seen Kelly Lay this out before right?"I am not sure if I am into the whole WCT scene" but is he for real or is this just another psych out routine by the master?I have heard the take on it from the likes of Martin Potter, Bede Durbridge and Mick fanning, who all say Kelly will run for the title, personally I think he will, but only time will tell. What are your

Josh Kerr quitting the WCT, "it's holding me back"

You all remember that insane rail grab flip thingy that Josh Kerr pulled off in the final at the Gold coast Quiksilver pro against Mick Fanning. I remember watching that final thinking damn Mick is in form, and when he had Kerr combo'd was like there is no way in hell anything Kerr does is going to pull this out of the bag for him, and I was right. But then he pulled that move, probably the