Roman Navarro Wins
Inaugural Monster Drop 0
CORONA, Calif., (Dec. 10, 2009) – In what was quite possibly the most epic surf competition of all-time, the 25th annual Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, fueled by Monster Energy, an amazing heat battle for the inaugural $10,000 Monster Energy Drop award between Chile’s Ramon Navarro and Californian Greg Long quickly became the stuff of legend in the monstrous surf of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay.
Surfing head-to-head in the third heat of the second and final round, both Long and Navarro made history by putting up the second and third perfect 100-point scores, respectively, in the eight events that have been run in the past quarter century. Long opened with a massive four-story elevator drop, standing on the tail of his 12-foot board all the way through the bottom before getting detonated in a 60-foot wall of white water.
The crowd and announcers were on their feet in amazement. At the time, Long looked to have the Monster Energy Drop award in the bag. Then it was Navarro’s turn in the all-star big wave lineup.
The son of a Chilean fisherman, Navarro dropped down the face of a wave equal to that of Long’s, in an arguably more difficult goofy foot stance (right foot forward) and, avoiding the nuclear explosion at the wave’s base, rode the giant out through the middle of a churning Waimea Bay. So big was the three wave set that encased Navarro, fans on the beach and those on the Live Webcast weren’t able to grasp the scope of what had just happened as Navarro literally disappeared behind another wave in the middle of the bay.
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