Kelly Slater, nine-time World Champion, has claimed the 2009 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro over home town hero Adriano de Souza, in clean three-to-four foot waves at the main site of Praia Vila.
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You may have read various reports that Taj was being sued by Creatures for not having their logo on his boards, or saying he wasn’t going to honour his contract...
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Brazil is on the opposite side of the world from Australia, that makes staying awake for the webcast pretty hard. It also doesn’t help that the Hang Loose Pro has been moved from summer to winter, that means the few female spectators that are on the beach are wearing much more clothing than we’re use to.
Two weeks ago, you may have heard about Jetstar flight making an emergency landing in Guam after a fire in the cockpit. Gold Coast shaper Woody Jack was on that flight with his partner Roxanne and their baby son, Miles, and, after getting over the fact they’d just cheated death, he realised how lucky he was to be one of the only people on the flight who had surfboards with him...
Hey everybody, this is Bede dialing in from South America. I’ve been here in Brazil for a few days now. It’s a real mission for we Australians to get here flight-wise and I wanted to be as adjusted as possible ahead of defending my title here.
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