August 27 2011 – CODE RED! – The ASP Billabong Pro was delayed a day by this huge swell, some crazy tow in surfing and wipeouts, it was speechlessly massive and epic…
It was all a Josh Kerr day. The inaugural Quiksilver Pro New York saw a creative aerialist taking over the event. Kerr, 27, reveled in the New York ramps and garnered both of the round’s highest single-wave scores of 9.50 and 9.07 (both out of 10) for monster no-grab air-reverses. The victims were Adriano de Souza and Kai Otton.
“It was like an expression session out there,†Kerr said. “I started getting scores and was enjoying myself out there with those little rip bowl rights. We all had … More
Kelly Slater wants to lay back and relax. Actually, that doesn’t mean he will be less competitive, but the Floridian has told he is trying to kill the perfectionist within. Well, how does it work for him?
“It drives me crazy but I really am,” Slater told AAP in New York. “I was really hard on myself when I was growing up. I put a lot of pressure on myself for good grades at school. My older brother didn’t do great at school and my mum felt a bit let down”.
American ASP Women’s World Tour surfer Courtney Conlogue (Santa Ana, CA), 19, has won her third major ASP 6-Star event of the 2011 season by clinching the SriLankan Airlines Pro over fellow Californian Lakey Peterson (Santa Barbara, CA), 16, while American Longboarder Taylor Jensen (Carlsbad, CA), 27, is now in the running for his first ASP WLT crown with a 2nd place finish at the contest.
Conlogue, who finished 7th on the ASP Women’s World Title Series this year  … More