Summary
If you're going to compare them, Ghost Tree isn't a real good quality wave, it's just a big, kinda dangerous, unpredictable wave. It's just sort of this anomaly, it almost shouldn't even break because the bottom's not real good, it's real shallow in spots and real deep in others. Mavericks on the other hand is a pretty shallow shelf, it comes out of really deep water and hits a shallow shelf so it jacks up really fast and it's a really intense wave, that's more similar to how Teahupoo is in Tahiti. You could call it short and sweet, but it's not real sweet- it's short and dangerous. It's quick and it comes out of such deep water, you're going from over 100 feet just outside the reef and it's coming into like 8 or 10 feet of water where it's breaking, and maybe you have a 30-foot wave- just the physics behind that, it's intense- with that much energy exploding in a tiny zone the chance of hitting the reef are pretty good, so generally if you do you're going to get hurt.
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Game Changer
"What's the coolest thing that's happened to you off the board," ESPN Sportcenter's Neil Everett asked Kelly Slater, "because of your celebrity on the board?"
On board, Slater's been the youngest and oldest champion his sport has known, claiming a record-crushing nine world titles and earning him comparisons to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan. As his friend/local surf sage/On the Beach owner Kelly Sorensen says, "There's not too many nine-time world champs out there."Off-board, he's starred on screens big (The Big Bounce) and small (Baywatch), bet shares of stock on golf with Quicksilver CEO Bob McKnight, produced Jack Johnson's September Sessions, been linked to Cameron Diaz, Gisele Bündchen and Pamela Anderson, and played ...See the full content of this document
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