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Slater claimed that after the two wins in the opening events he had found new momentum and after a rib injury held him out of the Globe WCT in Fiji, he began to muster for an all out assault.
“I was almost going to retire this year,” said Slater. “And then I won on the Gold Coast and then at Bells and kept going. I tore a rib cartilage at Bells, and then I hit the same spot with my board in Tahiti. That meant that I missed Fiji, which probably kept my motivation going into the next event in Mexico. That made me more focused, and I had the advantage of competing in one less event than the other guys but still had the ratings lead, so I could afford to relax and take things as they came.”
Yet again Slater has displayed that he is most definitely the greatest competitive surfer of all time.
While many of his much younger rivals consistently lift the performance bar year in year out, Slater continues to match the new school and out do the old.
To follow are the basic stats of Kelly Slater. More can be found on www.aspworldtour.com in the surfer profiles section.
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