Jamie O' is the Pipeline Pro Champ!
Posted by: Cropley | Monday, February 12, 2007 0 comments
- Photos: ASP
Following Jamie O'Brien's recent surf mag hat trick--getting the cover of all three major American surf mags (Surfing, Surfer and TransWorld Surf), plus a couple international ones in the last month--he won his second Monster Energy Pipeline Pro in his own backyard. etnies teammate Mark Mathews placed second.
In his Quarter Final heat, Jamie out-scored the likes of Rob Machado as he racked up an 18.25 score--the highest two-wave heat score of the event--highlighted by a 9.5 point ride through the green room.
Jamie pulled into the first set of the Final and emerged from the pit with an 8.0 that would stand as the top score of the Final. Two waves later a 7.25 would be plenty to take the win over Gavin Gillette, etnies teammate Mark Mathews and Rob Machado.
Mark was killing it! In the Final he caught the two biggest and heaviest Backdoor rights of the day and it almost payed off... those waves were almost a pair of 10's, but were reduced to a 6.25 and a 4 for second place when they pinched shut down the line. But it didn't matter...Mark reached legend status with his epic surfing in earlier heats, including a 10 pointer!
Congrats to both Mark and Jamie!