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Cyclone Vania

Kirra Returns in Classic Form

By SURFER

| posted on January 19, 2011

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scott mcclelland
January 29, 2011 1:10 pm

save this photo to my e-mail

Jocko
January 27, 2011 2:26 am

Half those shots aren’t even Kirra. It’s Coolangatta. Kirra is still a long way off from being it’s best. Everytime it breaks now there’s calls of best ever but people have short memories or maybe weren’t even surfing before the Sand Pumping stuffed it up

Chalkie
January 27, 2011 12:48 am

Kirra

Let’s see more of it!

tom
January 23, 2011 1:09 am

thats not Jay ‘Bottle’ Thompson in the 2nd black and white shot. its that skinny chris ‘ibis’ Bennetts kid from the gold coast. that shot is so sick with the sponges watching him! body boarders shouldnt be out there!

Surf Bedding
January 20, 2011 9:32 am

Great shots, just a good wave!

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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before

They say if you walk in like you own the place, then you’re halfway to where you’re going. Well, Kelly announced his arrival at Cloudbreak this morning by burning some hot laps on his jet ski through the lineup, shooting follow-footage of local surfer Aca Lalabalavu who was heavily piped at the time. Kelly dismounts and paddles straight out for his quarter against Seabass, and that’s when things really start to burn. John John, still dripping wet, catches Kelly’s first perfect 10 and comments, “I don’t know, but from here it kinda looked like a 20.” John John didn’t know how prophetic he was being, because it’s only a matter of minutes later that Kelly draws another wall of Pacific toward him. It’s bigger, foamier and throatier than the first, and tail of his 5’10” quad is doing it’s best to skip out from under him. CJ offers, “Man, that thing was a bull ride!”…and it was another 10. That’s your perfect heat, right there folks, the fifth in pro surfing and Kelly’s second. History made before 10am. The signs for the rest of the day are there early. When Kelly comes in and starts talking about the significance of the feat, he adds the caveat that, “Man, the way the waves are out there today, someone could go real close to getting another one.” And when he says someone, well, you probably know who he means.

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