After losing to Aritz Aranburu in Round 3 of the Rip Curl Pro last year, believing himself to be out of the title race, Slater unleashed a savage attack on his Al Merrick as he made his way back to the competitor’s area, smashing it into three separate pieces. In an inverse echo of his premature world title celebrations in 2011, he was soon after informed he could still catch Medina after all. “It was unusual,” said Mick Fanning. “I’ve been at every event with him for over a decade and never seen him break a board.”
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