Kelly Slater Slips… Medina Rips. Billabong Pro Tahiti
Finally the warp came to the door and the magical reef at Teahupoo started to get it’s thing on. Kelly Slater up against the two time wild card winner Ricardo Dos Santos started fast and it looked like Ricardo was going to the Kelly Show like pretty much everyone else in these kinds of waves. Bit then amazingly Kelly pulled in and got clipped by the lip on the way out and fell. Cue ooohs ans aaaahs from the box seats. As the score would have put him out of sight. But the clock was against Ricardo in what still was a pulsey swell and could easily go quiet for fifteen minutes. One minute left… Thirty seconds and a medium sized bump popped up Kelly paddled but Ricardo had priority and dropped in… It hit the reef and throated out perfectly as Ricardo sat in deep and the blew out the end after the buzzer. Bam and the Brazilian flexed his muscles in the afternoon sun. And rightly so you join a very short list of people who can take Kelly Slater at this wave. The other big interest came in round 4 with John John up against Gabriel Medina. Just watch it on Heat Anylizer and see why Gabriel Medina is looking really hot for a big finish for the year…
