Kelly Slater Builds a little house at the Quiksilver pro! March 15, 2011 – Tags:

The first Contest for the year is over, the 2011 Quiksilver pro, another great start to year and in a surfing type of way a typical sort of finish! Kelly Slater on top everyone under him!
I just wanted to touch on something i heard Taj say after he had just lost to the hands of KS10 in the final.
“The waves were so bad, Kelly just built a little house and it worked’
I also noticed a few errors that Taj made, very lineball errors that i may be wrong about, but the Slater tactics are as such, that you start to think each paddle he strokes has a competitive alterior motive, Taj had priority and needed something in the vicinity of a 5 to take the lead, Kelly took off on a wave out the back without priority, looked like it might have turned into something so Taj dropped in to stop another score, two trims later and TB was pulling off, the wave fizzled, whether he thought the wave was going to be good or not he was obviously in Taj’s head, and i really think Kelly won the final right there!
At 39 years of age you would think KS10 would be slowing down? Not likely after seeing him on the Gold Coast over the last couple of weeks looking as fit and sharp as ever! As for Taj he is going like crazy too, i really hope he can bring home the crown this year! Or any Aussie for that matter!