Kelly was robbed at bells as was Owen in the infamous "floater gate" incident in brazil

Maybe also get rid of the no loser round 4? To adjust for the longer heats

this was written by a us magazine wow. Slater was amazing no doubt but if you watch the entire heat not the highlight reel mick had slater that F**ked he had to paddle up to rincon to try and get a score. mick completely outsmarted the king. In the instance of floatergate fair enough adriano was on the ropes and a floater won it for him, will it happen again after all the scrutiny? Doubtful. I do think the judges are fair and at .133 of a point to a uni study that may not understand surfing in its entirity well wtf?? to each their own opinion.

heres to a well rounded year of superhuman surfing!

Okay so on a loosely related matter... so the Nike Lowers Pro is on. I don't begrudge the money that Nike puts in, the sponsorships it offers the boys and girls to ride for them, but I'm afraid I can't take their name associated with a Surf event seriously. They have muscled in and thrown stickers on boards but seriously WTF have they got to do with surfing. Rhetorical question I know and I still sleep soundly at night but I just think it's a bit of a farce. Similar thing happened in kiteboarding. LF were just about the only brand promoting boots and wakestyle. Now that it is "cool" every kite brand known to man jumps on the band wagon.

As he steps off of his soap box....