KELLY SLATER free-surfing Duranbah Beach, NSW today

GOLD COAST, Queensland/Australia (Wednesday, February 23, 2011) --The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover is just a few short days away from commencing and the opening event of the season will be headlined by none other than reigning 10-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 39.
The iconic natural-footer utilized the off-season to recharge in his adopted homes of Hawaii and California, working on equipment and taking advantage of the winter swell season. Slater (Florida, USA) revealed today he was still not sure if he would complete the entire 2011 ASP World Tour Season but confirmed he was both committed and excited to be competing at the season opener, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast which gets underway on Saturday February 26, 2011.
Slater spoke at the official press conference held at the contest events site at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast today. Also in attendance were Joel Parkinson (AUS), 2 X World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS), 4X ASP World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (Aus) and Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS).
Gilmore (Tweed Heads, NSW) was seated alongside her new team mate fellow Quiksilver rider and 10X ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA) during the Roxy and Quiksilver Pro Press Conference at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast of Australia on Thursday February 24, 2011. Gilmore , who was attacked in an unprovoked incident earlier in the year injuring her right wrist, confirmed she was well enough to compete and was excited to take on the World's Best Female surfers during the upcoming Roxy Pro that gets underway on Saturday Febraury 24, 2011.
The Quiksilver and Roxy Pro's Gold Coast presented by Land Rover, which will take place from February 26 through March 9, 2011 at the world-renowned breaks of southern Queensland. Utilizing the high-performance point-break of Snapper Rocks as the primary venue, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast has the ability to go mobile to several nearby world-class waves, offering the ideal forum for the ASP Top 34 Men and Top 17 Women to open up their respective 2011 ASP World Title campaigns.

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[prmil1]

wow that's racist

[Pigroota]

Who gives a fuck about abos? It's like everywhere they have ever seen is sacred land. That's bullshit. "My ancestor saw snapper rocks while he was chasing kangaroos, that means I own it". What a load of shit

[SudoJudo1]

@shakeamabuckreet Oh i totally agree. I dont agree with any of what happend but it happens . So one must prepare for the worst at all time's, but still live in the light. Life aint all peaches and cream.

[shakeamabuckreet]

@SudoJudo1 I know things like that happen, I'm just saying it's not right and is morally reprehensible that people let it happen - people rob each other but that's not right and is reflected in the law. The treatment of Aboriginal people over the past few hundred years is akin to theft on a grand scale (a more obvious example being the 'stolen generation'). Like you said if they were more active in seeking the rights they deserve they would be closer to getting them - but they do deserve them.

[SudoJudo1]

@shakeamabuckreet Um dont you realize? You do live in a world like that. It happens all the frickin time........ Ive never been mugged, why is that? Because i am not a walk over. Just like the Moari........ I love the Alhoa spirit, but the Hawaiian and Moari wont be walked on. There pride is overpowering. I dont get the same feeling from the Aboriginals's . They need to fight harder for what they want, or they wont get jack shit.

[shakeamabuckreet]

@SudoJudo1 So if I beat you up and steal something from you I deserve to have it because you were weak? I'd love to live in a world like that.

[SudoJudo1]

@shakeamabuckreet Fuck off, if they cant defend it then they loose it.. Same thing happened in Tibet and even the Dalai Lama said if they had a standing army to fight, it would have never happend. The Moari of New Zealand FOUGHT and the poms gave them equal rights from day dot....... The Aboriginals where pushovers.

[whiteyy11]

Do I actually breath the same air as people who write stuff like this ? U can't really be that nasty can u?? On a different not how insane wAs slaters air

[mrsurfer98]

d bah is in Qld not Nsw

[clayton59185]

i was born on earth its all mine fuck the coons fuck the niggers fuck the white cunts ...

[shakeamabuckreet]

You could argue that no one 'owns' land but they have more of a right to it than the Europeans who invaded and killed them.