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Kelly Slater Rebounds to Claim Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro Over De Souza

Jeff Johannson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:53:34 +0000

Event No. 4 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Hang Loose culminated in a dramatic finale with perennial ASP World Title threats all pushing one other towards the finish line.

Despite the Brazilian smashing his way out to an early lead, Slater found his form mid-heat with a 9.27 out of a possible 10 for a series of high-risk maneuvers, exhibiting a near-perfect variety of repertoire. Not satisfied with only one high score, Slater nailed the coffin shut with an 8.67 in a dying minutes to secure his 41st ASP World Tour victory.

Another Paradise

Roga — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:10:12 +0000

At the end always everything gets good. After getting crazy in Leon waiting to get my Logbuch back, since plans in Nicaragua change every minute, I just decided on Friday afternoon to go back to Hotel Chancletas by myself. For going to playa guascate (popoyo) time was running out. So I decided to go Jiquilejo [...]

Walk through Leon – markets and churches

Roga — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:20:56 +0000

I am still in leon and will get in the afternoon back to Hotel Chancletas, because I forgeot my travel diary (Logbuch) there and there are to many memories in there to just forget about it. But I leave most of my stuff here in Leon, stay a night at hancletas and tomorrow a wanna [...]

a day longer

Roga — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:39:08 +0000

Today we had a good morning session after breakfast. I got some waves but the drops are very deep, so it is not that easy.
The view from the beach is nice with the Hotel just on the Hill. The Hotel is called Chancletas (= Flip Flops)

Beside that, nothing changed, life is good, the sun is [...]

Beautiful Sunrise

Roga — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:24 +0000

I woke up early. I felt all my muscles. The matress was quite hard (or the mattress was soft so I lay basically on the wooden board below).
But the sunrise was so nice:

On this picture you see that San Christobal is not smoking, as I thought yesterday but on the picture yesterday, it was just [...]

Les asseradores Outer Reef

Roga — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:50:51 +0000

Today the swell arrived. Yesterday I met an austrian guy (Josef) and a dutch guy (Phim) both living in Nicaragua and we planned to take a boat to the outside point, cause the beach will be to shallow. We got up early at 4:45 walked 30 min. just to wait for ages for our boat [...]