Well, we can’t say we’re surprised that Kelly Slater won Oakley’s Wave of the Winter – although he was. “They told me the other day I got the [Clif Bar Overall] performance award,” he said to Surfline. “I was really stoked, so I wasn’t expecting at all to get the Wave of the Winter.”
His Wave of the Winter was a Pipeline bomb that rolled in, feathered on second reef for just a second, then formed into a classic, spitting first reef Pipeline bomb that almost ejected Kelly off his board.