Greg Long Fights Off Kelly Slater, Wins Another Big Wave Crown
Categories: A Clockwork Orange, Sports
The Billabong video above from last spring chronicles San Clemente's Greg Long catching one
of the greatest big wave paddle-in tubes of all time during the Red Bull Big Wave Africa
contest at Dungeons, Cape Town South Africa. It also earned him Ride of
the Year honors and $50,000 at the 2009 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave
Awards.
Long's winning ways continued Wednesday on the North Shore of Oahu.
The 24-year-old fought off a strong challenge from nine-time world champion Kelly Slater--and the churning surf--to win the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Competition.
In the end, 37-year-old Slater had 313 points on judges' cards to Long's 323.
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