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FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Aloha surfers and beachgoers,
The best winter in recent memory continues to deliver. Expect more ad- visory swells well past the middle of February. What great timing for the 2022 World Championship Tour kick-off! Stop No. 2 is now at the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach. Check Surf News Network for the latest juice.
BY GARY KEWLEY
Kelly Slater Continues His Run With Another Miracle
This means several crite- ria had to be met. One was size. We had surf anywhere from 6 to 12 feet for the en- tire waiting period of Jan. 29 to Feb 10. A second was direction. We had back-to- back-to-back west north- west swells, which are ide- al for the Banzai reef. The third criteria is the period. Swell thickness was 14-16 seconds, again exactly what Pipe likes. The fourth item is winds. For the most part, we had light trades groom- ing the line up with spar- kling barrels, holding those caverns open so the world’s
Hawaii’s Most Trusted Movers Since 1968
champ Kelly Slater some- how managed yet anoth- er miracle and won his eighth WCT Pipe contest at 50 years old. The GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) turned a half-century on Feb. 11.
old — the youngest ever — even to this day.
The Billabong Pro Pipe- line could not have asked for more. I mean this liter- ally. Pipe was king, produc- ing what many call the best Pipeline event ever.
The emotion hits 11-time world champion Kelly Slater (pictured at right with runner-up Seth Moniz of Hawai‘i) following his eighth victory of the men’s final at the Billabong Pro Pipeline. PHOTO COURTESY WSL / BIELMANN.
It’s difficult to express just how astonishing, phe- nomenal and unprecedented his athletic feat was espe- cially at 50. Pipeline is 99% a young man’s/woman’s wave. It is death-defying. Slater won this most pres- tigious event 30 years ago in 1992 when he won his first world title at 20 years
Most surfers of that era finished up their careers before 30. Since Mark Oc- chilupo won his first title at age 30 in 1999 and Sunny Garcia followed up with the same break through in 2000, we sort of broke the 30s decade barrier for pro surfing. I guess some of that quick twitch muscle loses its twitch.
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