Occy vs Curren at J-Bay today
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Live webcast of legends battle at Billabong Pro.
At 11:00am GMT today, Billabong are hosting a live webcast of Mark Occhilupo and Tom Curren going head to head for the first time in over two decades.
Yesterday the first round of their two round clash went Curren's way, and with the event producing almost perfect conditions and consistently high standards.
The rivalry between Mark Occhilupo and Tom Curren produced the most exciting competitive clashes in the history of surfing. For the first decade of surfing's ASP pro circuit they dominated the world stage with their dueling performances.
Each has won 8 of their 16 previous encounters and the Clash of the Icons will provide yet another chapter in their 26 year rivalry.
"I saw Occy before he became a household name, when he was first breaking out, it was at Jeffreys," said Curren. "He had so much energy, just pushing every turn with so much speed and power. I watched his footage over and over and seeing him for the first time I remember thinking his anticipation going into every turn was something great; something amazing."
"I first saw Tom surf when I was really young in Cronulla, it was at Wanda Beach," said Occhilupo. "He was staying at Jim Bank's house, I walked over the hill to the beach after school and it was like solid 6-8ft and he was the only one out. Tom was already schooling guys when I came on tour and he was in some serious form, no one could touch him. I couldn't get close to Tom, I had to scratch and work to get to that level."
Stay tuned to billabongpro.com from July 9-19 to witness one of surfing's most historic duels ever at one of the planet's premier high performance point breaks.
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Occy vs Curren at J-Bay today (text) by Steph Pomphrey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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