The Moment: Slater Officially Awarded 2011 ASP World Title Trophy
Brodie Carr and Renato Hickel award Kelly Slater the ASP World Title trophy.
SAN FRANCISCO, California/USA (Sunday, November 6, 2011) – After a week that will not soon be forgotten by the surfing world, Kelly Slater (USA), 39, officially clinched the 2011 ASP World Title today, besting South American young guns Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, and Miguel Pupo (BRA), 19, in Round 4 of the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco. Following a second impromptu ceremony spawned by Slater’s legions of fans at Ocean Beach, ASP CEO Brodie Carr and Tour Manager Renato Hickel find a quiet moment to apologize to Kelly for the week’s drama, congratulate him on his well-deserved win and officially award him the 2011 ASP World Title Trophy. Understated and classy.
To read about this week’s drama, check out THIS
Congratulations to Kelly.
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Over scored? Not even close. Kelly Slater is the best surfer of all time. End of story. He continually crushes new school and power surfers alike. He has heart, work ethic, and skill matched by no other which is a deadly combination for his competitors.
Kelly simply out-surfed the Brazilian boys. Kelly chose to rip on the biggest, meanest, most challenging waves he could find. In the meantime, the Brazilians surfed their game, taking the smaller waves and successfully performing their tricks and acrobatics. Kelly beat them by putting on a masterful display of power surfing that defines the essence of the sport…not just contest surfing, but “real”, hardcore surfing. He is the Champ, and we’re gonna miss him.
how about now?! still think like that about Medina?! he beat Kelly with no acrobatics…just pure strong surf!
….get it together guys !!!
Kelly knows he lost to medina and pupo …he always gets pushed by the judges and ovescored …
if the asp keep acting like that they will lose a lot of fans..
KELLLY ALWAYS DOES GET WAY OVER SCORED DAN ROSS SURFED WAYY BETTER THAN HIM IN THE THIRD ROUND?!?!! AND MADINA
and at trestles he got an 8 for doing three solid carves (im not saying not very good surfing just compared to shii going down that day not deserving of an 8)
Kelly was overscored again. He got 9 in a crappy wave!! Shame on judges!!
Just a side bar but how about that last wave as time expired? Kelly was so deep in the tubing shore break the cameras had left him for flotsam. He emerges from the foam, still on his board, and the crowd goes nuts. If Kelly had needed that wave score to win the round it would have scored 9.5 or higher. That is the stuff legends are made of.
Great barrel from Kelly in that heat. Amazing…..
Congratulations to Kelly Slater for a amazing year and some amazing surfing.
New York -Taj heat still goes down as one to remember.
Why do ppl hate on even the happiest of occasions?
Congrats Kelly!!
beat it albert, brazillain flick turns over man power turns go pull ya pud a little more eh, SLater is the champ always has been and always will be, once he retires its the last of the tru champion surfers, that will be a sad day but the man deserves to kick back play some golf eat good food and make some mini SLaters
Kelly Slater still braking records, today becomes the 1st surfer to claim 2 world titles in one year. lol
what a joke.. judging was wrong… all wrong… kelly knew it he didn’t look happy at all. I bet this comment doesn’t appear
Your comment appeared so we could all see how much of a tool your are.
Gil and Albert the biggest tools! You both get the “tool box” award!Time to close the lid…C ya!
it´s more like Kelly 21ater!!??
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