Thursday, July 2, 2009 11:16am PDT

Mr. Price Pro Scores Perfect Bellito Bay

By: Chris Mauro, GrindTV.com

Mr. Price Pro
There's a bit of role reversal happening on the ASP world stage this week. While the ASP World Tour is underway in Brazil in clean-ish 4-to-6 foot mush burgers, the WQS has morphed into the actual Dream Tour, if only for a day, as the 6-Star Mr. Price Pro is scoring absolutely flawless Ballito Bay in South Africa.

Usually, the Mr. Price Pro takes place in Durban, which typically dishes out 2-to3 foot slop. But this year officials wisely decided to move the event 20 miles north in the hopes of scoring better surf, a decision that has proven to be a great one as the event got underway just in time to catch one of the best swells of the year.

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