Kelly Slater. He of surfing kings and a perfect tan.
All the world’s surfers (well, I assume it’s all of them) were in Portugal for the Moche Rip Curl Pro last week. During a period of downtime, aka a “lay day” (I don’t speak surfer), Kelly took to the waves and out of the blue did an incredible one and a half turns on his board. Which is 360 + 180 = 540 degrees.
Of course, people had to go and get all technical, and are arguing whether it’s a 540 or a 720.
In extreme sports like snowboarding and skateboarding, the maneuver would be considered a 720: you launch off the lip of the halfpipe and spin twice, landing in the same direction in which you began the trick. But some surfers are arguing that Slater’s move was a 540 because you move across a wave in surfing, not up it like you would a halfpipe.
Either way it’s freaking awesome, and the first time it has ever been done on a surfboard.
Check out The Huffington Post
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