How did 2010 predictions about the future of surfing pan out?

She’s won seven world titles in her career.(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Townend predicted that at age 48, Slater would be granted a wildcard to the WCT Billabong Pipeline Masters and would reach the finals, losing to Huntington Beach surfer Kanoa Igarashi. It was a wild notion a decade ago that Slater would still be ...