Sunday, May 9, 2010

St. Augustine's Gabe Kling takes 6.0 Lowers Pro title!

GrindTV - Newswire: VIA ASP - SANCLEMENTE, Calif., May 8, 2010 - Gabe Kling (St. Augustine, FL), 29, won the ASP PRIME 6.0Lowers Pro over ASP Dream Tour No. 13 Chris Davidson (AUS), 33, in two-to-fourfoot surf at the famed cobblestone pointbreak of Lower Trestles after theworld's finest surfers pushed the performance barriers of competitive surfingthroughout the entire week of competition while reveling in the firing southswell. Andrew Doheny (Newport Beach, CA), 17, clinched the biggest win of hiscareer by winning the ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior.
Kling quietly navigated his way through the early rounds of competition beforegaining momentum in the final day of action. The Floridian talent unleashed afurious backhand attack on the Lowers lefthanders and combined his heats with arepertoire of powerful carves and rail gouges on his forehand to eliminatecurrent ASP Dream Tour No. 2 Jordy Smith (ZAF), 22, in their Quarterfinalsbout, and former three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons (Hanalei, HI), 31, inthe Semifinals before taking out the 6.0 Lowers Pro title over Davidson. The Floridian regular-footer's 6.0 Lowers Pro win will help to catapult Klingto the higher rung of the ASP One World Ratings, substantially helping hischances of qualification for next year's ASP Dream Tour.
Read more about the 6.0 Lowers Pro at www.grindtv.com/surf/blog/

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