"It was reminiscent of a heat I had out here against Sunny Garcia in 2000," Slater said. "I needed to come out of a second barrel to get through the heat and fell. Sunny went on to win the event and the World Title. Which is pretty dooming I suppose. I didn't see too much of Owen (Wright) surfing in the heat, but he did one big turn in front of me and I'll have to watch the video later."