Slater’s Invitational Starts this Friday
The fourth annual World Skin Cancer Foundation’s Slater Brothers Invitational takes place Friday through Sunday at Coconuts on the Beach in Florida, featuring nine-time world champion Kelly Slater, the contest’s defending champion.
There will be 36 shortboard competitors and 24 longboard surfers in the two contests, which — if waves are good enough — will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Depending on wave conditions, this event likely will push back the annual Quiksilver King of the Peak contest at Sebastian Inlet to Monday.
“We have a good time,” said Kelly’s older brother, Sean, the chief contest organizer. “Everyone who has surfed in it always tells me how it is the ‘funnest’ event they’ve ever been in. Some are upset they have to miss it.”
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