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Pre-dawn Teahupo’o is a step back in time. The air is still. The only sounds are three-wave sets of crowing roosters every 10 to 15 seconds. The first hints of the new day slowly creep behind the mountains in the southeast. 
Remember that last report on “flat” Teahupo’o, how it’s better than your home break and blah blah blah? Scratch it. It’s probably still better (the Jurassic scenery alone is enough to keep you inspired), but the last two days here have been flat flat. Like, unrideable flat, prompting many to wonder whether this year’s event will become the “Small Pass” open. 
For the second morning in a row, the second official day of the Billabong Pro Tahiti waiting period, you could have surfed a two-hour session with no one else but the tour’s most diligent dawn-patroller, Nathan Hedge and Rip Curl “pit boss” Matt Griggs. 
Should Slater win this weeks Billabong Pro Tahiti at Teahupoo he will have conquered the last milestone still standing before him – the record for the all time number of event wins currently standing at 33 and held by three times world champion Tom Curren 
In a déjà vu victory over six-time world champion Layne Beachley , Melanie Redman-Carr has claimed her second title on the 2006 Association of Surfing Professionals Women’s World Tour calendar, the US$78,300 Roxy Pro in Fiji. 
Two-time defending event champion Sofia Mulanovich (PER) made her intentions to remain atop the Roxy Pro podium crystal clear when she reached the quarter-finals of the US$78,300 event today. 
Kelly Slater has just claimed victory in what was an amazing climax to the Rip Curl Pro. In eight to 10 feet plus waves Slater unleashed a flurry of turns to take down Joel Parkinson. What a day folks, what a day! Afull report and images will follow shortly. 
Started with a bang, ended with a whimper. That’s the second to last day of the Rip Curl Pro. The day began with Joel Parkinson and Danny Wills smashing perfect sunny walls, and finished with Andy Irons and Bobby Martinez scratching their heads in a cold flat lineup. 
The second event on the Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour was held in spectacular one to two metre (three to six feet) waves at Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia and Burrow had the huge crowd in attendance on their feet for the full 30 minutes of his heat. 
With the famous Bells Beach Bowl firing in consistent one to 1.5 metre (three to four foot) swells throughout the day, spectators were treated to some spectacular surfing as the rookies and wildcards dominated round two of the Rip Curl Pro. 
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