Owen Wright superstar! September 14, 2011 – Tags:

What a massive few weeks in surfing, Teahupoo fires like never before, Kelly Slater takes home the bacon against Owen Wright, then in the richest surfing contest ever surfed, Owen Check mates Kelly! The rest of the 44 must be wondering what has happened to there year now, it seems it’s the Owen, Kelly show, with Kelly out in front ad Owen following on the ratings for second.
Though there surfing is different the situation here reminds me of a 21 year old Taj Burrow, in 1999 when occy won his maiden world title, after a comeback to rival jesus, Taj Burrow was the title runner up, though it’s probably not true, the surf media basically said that Taj was probably happy to see his hero Occ win as its only a matter of time before he is holding the silverware! Unfortunately that so far was never to be. I hope this doesn’t happen to Owen, I don’t want to jinx him but i don’t think it will, i mean he could still win this year, a full head of steam, the last two finals, and a history making 300 grand prize money in his sky rocket, who wouldn’t fancy themselves for a World Title in the same year!
Above is the video of the waves caught in the final, its hard to think that you are getting roughly 5 times more for a win here than you are at the beast that is Chopes, either way i’m not complaining the more prize money the better and it’s about time i say!