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We just sent three new boards down to South Africa as Kelly prepares for the Billabong Pro at Jefferies Bay. Kelly’s at it again? J Bay Quiver Experimentation. What do you think? Leave a comment here. And yes, in case you were wondering, that is the nose. Check out more photos.

The next question is, what do you call it? The Shrimp Fork? The Pickle Fork? Mangent? The Missing Puzzle Piece? You tell us.
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Super Young Surfers posting Massive scores on Day 2 at the Billabong Occy Grom Comp

An exciting day of surfing at the Billabong Occy Grom Comp on day 2 at Duranbah Beach with some amazing displays by relatively unknown emerging young surfers.

The international surfers are always a bit of a mystery coming into the event and 11 year old Californian Huntington Beach surfer Kanoa Igarashi quickly caught everyone’s attention today with possibly the most impressive heat ever seen in the 12 year division of this prestigious event.

Kanoa waited until mid heat to reveal his true style when he unleashed on three consecutive waves scoring 9.33, 9.77 and finally a 9.90 to take a massive round two heat win and he has put all of Australia’s top 12 year and under surfers on notice that he is the guy to beat in this division!
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BALLITO, KwaZulu-Natal (Sunday, July 5, 2009) – Just hours after celebrating both his 21st birthday and American Independence Day (both on 4 July), Tanner Gudauskas (California, USA) celebrated the biggest victory of his professional surfing career, taking out the ASP WQS 6-Star Mr Price Pro Ballito today.

Gudauskas defeated Australian James “Taipan” Wood (Aus), rocketing to World No. 6 on the ASP World Qualifying Series and pocketing R159 000 (US$20 000) as well as 2500 ASP WQS ratings points.

“I just can’t believe it, this is a personal best for me!” said Gudauskas. “Every night this week I’ve been going to bed dreaming about winning this contest and putting myself up there where Pat (Tanner’s brother and ASP WQS No. 10 Patrick Gudauskas) was at, and it came through today so I’m fired up!”
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IMBITUBA, Santa Catarina (Friday, July 3, 2009) – Kelly Slater (USA), 37, reigning nine-time ASP World Champion, has claimed the 2009 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro over an in-form Adriano de Souza (BRA), 22, in clean three-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at the main site of Praia Vila.

Event No. 4 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Hang Loose culminated in a dramatic finale with perennial ASP World Title threats all pushing one other towards the finish line.

Despite the Brazilian smashing his way out to an early lead, Slater found his form mid-heat with a 9.27 out of a possible 10 for a series of high-risk maneuvers, exhibiting a near-perfect variety of repertoire. Not satisfied with only one high score, Slater nailed the coffin shut with an 8.67 in a dying minutes to secure his 41st ASP World Tour victory.
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Kelly is nominated for Best Male Action Sports Athlete in the 2009 ESPY Awards! Cast your vote on ESPYS Website.

So I heard when Kelly was scrambling around cause his boards didn’t show up he saw Timmy Reyes board and wanted to borrow it cause it was a tangent but when he asked Timmy what heat he was in he said yours!! Oh well, Kelly lost that first round to Timmy who was riding a CI Tangent and using Kelly’s fins.. we will see if Kelly gives him some pay back in the future rounds? Nathaniel was also riding a tangent, that he pulled that one straight off the rack here at the shop (it was a stock board). He said it felt really solid and fast. That’s true testament that stock boards perform at the highest level .

Walter Munk was never much of a surfer, but that hasn’t kept him from becoming a legend in the sport. An oceanographer by training, Munk has spent 67 years studying how waves form, how they travel and how they break when they hit the beach. In the second world war, he saved countless lives by helping the Allied military determine when troops could make amphibious landings without being swamped by big surf hundreds of metres from a hostile shore. After the war, Munk’s methods helped surfers find the biggest waves. Today, anyone who checks out a surf forecast on the internet is drawing on his pioneering research.

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