The following seven shot sequence is of Kelly Slater's last
wave in the finals which he scored a perfect 10!
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Sequence 7. His final scores for his top three waves in the
final included this perfect 10, a 9.9 and a 9.0 totalling 28.9
- the highest scoring heat of the event.
Kelly Slater takes the stage for winning his 5th Pipeline
Masters Championship.
From left to right: Shane Wehner (2nd), Kelly Slater (1st),
Mark Occhilupo (Occy) and Sunny Garcia (equal 3rd).
Needing an 8.51 to beat Occy in their man-on-man semi final
heat Kelly pulls into this Backdoor barrell with just 15 seconds
left..,
After getting spit out of the deep tube Kelly signs off with
an insane roundhouse cutty earning him a perfect 10 score
and winning the heat. Sorry Occy!
Triple Crown winner Sunny Garcia (yellow) shakes hands with
Gerry Lopez as the 1999 ASP World Champ Occy (red) looks on.
Runner up Shane Wehner took down some heavies along the way
including Damien Hardmen, Shea Lopez, Matt Hoy and Sunny.
Ironically Shane will not be competing on tour next year.
Sunny Garcia won his 4th Triple Crown title by getting an
equal third at the Mountain Dew/Gerry Lopez Pipe Masters.
Mark Occhilupo, 1999 ASP World Champion charging Pipe.
Kelly's been telling him for years to go right. In the Slater
vs. Machado man-on-man first heat of the final day Rob took
his advice and scored a perfect 10 - but still fell short
of victory against Slatz.
Andy Irons scored a perfect 10 in the last heat against Luke
Egan by ripping apart a 2nd reef set wave and getting barrelled
on the inside. His momentum was halted in the man-on-man quarters
against Sunny Garica.
CJ Hobgood finished an equal 9th getting knocked out by Occy
in the round before the quarters. In his previous heat CJ
defeated Pat O'Connell who was on a high from his earlier
win against Slater and Dorian in the first round of the Main
Event.
Florida's Bryan Hewitson finished a respectable equal 9th
at the Pipe Masters surfing with an injured ankle.
The kids had a field day collecting autographs of the top
pro's. Bryan Hewitson (Hewy) signs the back of a groms shirt.
Kelly Slater went looney landing a 540 Air Spin in his heat
against Machado. Check our profile page for the rest of the
images to this futuristic move and hear Kelly's remarks regarding
how the judges should be scoring these manuevers.
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