Dominating the line-up, getting more than his fair share of waves, in Hawaii none the less, and all this while getting close to 50 years old. Absolutely the GOAT. No athlete in any sport has consistently stayed at the top/elite level of his sport for as long as Kelly has.
@@jaydickey1049 Close...but no.Tom was average/ slightly above average in college, was a late round pick, was the backup until the starter got injured. Kelly was the youngest WC ever in surfing, and he was the oldest ever. Tom was well into his 20's before you knew who he was, Kelly was already being considered one of the best ever before he hit 20. He dominated the junior east coast tour, and continued his domination into the ASP. Only recently has he started showing his age in smaller surf where air's are a huge part of a surfers tool box, but in waves on consequence he is still a threat to win, Pipe/Backdoor, Teahupo'o, Cloudbreak. Dont get me wrong though, Tom plays a much more violent sport, and his longevity is nothing short of miraculous....in fact he looks better/younger this year than he has the last several years.
See: George Foreman. and in a MUCH tougher sport. won golden gloves and olympic gold in hw division as a teenager. won heavyweight title at nearly 46 years old---and defended it at 48. slater last won his world title at 39. Foreman's career record: 76-5 (with 68 knockouts). defended his world championship titles at least 30 times. each title defense, mind you, is essentially like winning the title anew. anyhow, he's one i thought of
His read on the walls is so impeccable, and that hanging pumping at the top of the wall is reminiscent of Jeff Hackman videos of the 70's...amazing. Crowded.
Kelly will always be my Hero! I once met him and Rob Machado in Huntington Beach, after to O.P.Pro. surfed together, and just a genuine super nice guy! I will never forget that day.
what’s crazy to think is how many people he is also factoring in dodging while factoring in the wave itself. insanity how good he is. it’s hard to explain how hard what he is doing is if u don’t surf.
Got to love that straight up the face 90s lip Bash at the end of the video, you rarely see that anymore. Still one of my favorite moves. My top Inspirational film will always be Curren, Slater, Andy Irons and now Mason ho when hes carving.🤙🏼
Now dats da Bestest from kellyman humble let his surfing be his artistic progress flow you surfers know what I mean im Johnny 5from oahu best place on da planet
I respect him so much more now from this vid where he actively manoeuvres to avoid people duck diving. Some places around the world these days the good guys seem to be thinking “well hey if you’re a kook and get caught inside on set wave I’m surfing my line and if you’re in the way I’m running you over”
Absolutely nothing wrong with running over kooks. As long as it's the end of the wave. If someone can't figure out "paddle around the break, not through it" after it being printed online for decades and posted at every beginner spot, it might be nice just to cancel their surf career before it really starts. There's already enough lames everywhere.
This is just one of those waves like Tavarua, Soup Bowl, Pipe, etc, that Kelly just has a special connection with. He surfs it like it was his home break growing up and just dominates when he paddles out. It's like the wave was tailor made for him.
That’s the ‘caves’ section in most of the videos. There are several different sections to the wave from ‘subs’, ‘coconuts’, ‘the point’ before you get to the caves and then a few more after. On some swells the sections are all or mostly fractionated. But when it’s working they all line up and it’s the ride of a lifetime. The caves is brutal. I got stuffed by a guy right there and had to straighten out. It sends you into this little pocket in the cliff. Like a tiny cove. The bottom there is composed of huge smooth stones the size of small boulders that get gradually smaller towards shore. And when it’s big those 100 lb stones are moving around like pebbles around your ankles as you’re trying to walk in. It sounds like an earthquake when a wave rushes in and tosses thousands of massive stones on top of each other. You get stuffed here and you’re pretty much done. It’s truly frightening. That was the only time I ever ‘paddled’ in there. I was forced to straighten out and there is no way you’re getting back out through the caves when it’s big. And it was 7-8 ft that day. Easily 15 ft faces. Although I guess you could try and ride the whitewater at the edge of the bay til it lets you out. But when it’s big, that whitewater is like an exploding bomb at the caves. The video makes it look like it’s breaking way out in open water, but right at the bottom edge of the video the shoreline of the caves section starts. What’s great about Honolua is that the outside sections, Subs and coconuts, are more gradual. The drop is less critical as the water is fairly deep with a gradual slope of these massive rock ledges that lie on an incline. So it’s not like the wave is abruptly hitting a reef ledge and jacking, but rather a more gradual incline making for an easier drop on a more inclined wave face. A lot of longboarders will sit on those two sections. So you can set yourself up for the caves section fairly easily because you have time to see the barrel coming and it’s super predictable. As opposed to a place like pipe. Which is admittedly out of my league at this point as you have to tuck in on a vertical face right from the get go where the wave is sucking up amazingly fast and seems like it’s driving you back up the face while you’re just trying to get down the face. But that line up was unusually sparse in this shot. When Honolua is breaking, the whole island knows about it by the end of the day everyone converges on it by the afternoon. We actually would surf it on southwest swells during the big El Niño of 96. I know it doesn’t look like it but it could catch a southwest swell and break fairly decently although Northwest swells are it’s bread and butter. But the southwest swells were kinda sneaker swells. No one is thinking of checking the Bay during the summer. We only knew about it because we could see part of the Bay from the Ritz where we worked. In the summer the Bay is so calm it’s a pretty good snorkel spot. Except for the tigers that cruise the ledges looking for turtles. Yep, I’ve seen em. So we’d get to surf Honolua uncrowded for almost a full day before a few stragglers would fill in. Was awesome. Truly. A world class wave with less than a dozen guys out. And believe me, the lineup has tons of room with dozens of take off spots. But on a NW swell in the winter, forget about it. It’s a madhouse. Guys fly in from Oahu, the big island and Kauai just to surf that wave when it’s on. It looks like Rincon when it’s on as far as the crowd. There’s like 10 surfers every ten square feet from subs til the very last scraps of the the wave. Reach out and touch someone. And it’s a long fucking wave.
Nice write up of the spot. I only surfed it on head high day and it was a blast. I can see why people get hooked to this spot for a lifetime. That cave looks spooky. I think it would be quite intimidating on days like this video to make the barrel or possibly die getting stuffed in there.
The cave kicked my ass as a kid 20 years ago, i loved the wave, so much more umph to it than any of the other breaks in the bay keiki bowls was damn near my next favorite, when it was just right, it was a perfect little wave throwing a decent barrel those are the days i get tired of the lineup out there
@@motorizedjunk6666 absolutely-you know A lot of guys thought the whole point of the waves was the Caves- it was a photo op cuz every photographer basically just zeroes in on the Caves. So I would see guys drop in right before and pull out immediately after. We called em photo sluts- made me sick- taking the best of the wave then tossing the rest away
And that was just Kelly kind of farting around. Having fun per say. Kelly Slater having fun and relaxing = you or I having the best day we've ever had in our entire life xs 10.
Kelly is truly like a video game when he surfs, he makes the impossible possible and always looks so smooth and full charging at every moment. Best surfer in history…prove me wrong ☕️😉🏄🏽♂️
Kelly doesn’t need sunscreen as he spent most of his time in the barrel .
The Chuck Norris of tube riders!
I love how kelly fades on a wave. So stylish
Dominating the line-up, getting more than his fair share of waves, in Hawaii none the less, and all this while getting close to 50 years old. Absolutely the GOAT. No athlete in any sport has consistently stayed at the top/elite level of his sport for as long as Kelly has.
Tom Brady.
@@jaydickey1049 Close...but no.Tom was average/ slightly above average in college, was a late round pick, was the backup until the starter got injured. Kelly was the youngest WC ever in surfing, and he was the oldest ever. Tom was well into his 20's before you knew who he was, Kelly was already being considered one of the best ever before he hit 20.
He dominated the junior east coast tour, and continued his domination into the ASP. Only recently has he started showing his age in smaller surf where air's are a huge part of a surfers tool box, but in waves on consequence he is still a threat to win, Pipe/Backdoor, Teahupo'o, Cloudbreak.
Dont get me wrong though, Tom plays a much more violent sport, and his longevity is nothing short of miraculous....in fact he looks better/younger this year than he has the last several years.
@@67Aquaholic The real stats are who's feet are bigger if ya know what I'm sayin?
See: George Foreman. and in a MUCH tougher sport. won golden gloves and olympic gold in hw division as a teenager. won heavyweight title at nearly 46 years old---and defended it at 48. slater last won his world title at 39. Foreman's career record: 76-5 (with 68 knockouts). defended his world championship titles at least 30 times. each title defense, mind you, is essentially like winning the title anew. anyhow, he's one i thought of
Don Bradman
His read on the walls is so impeccable, and that hanging pumping at the top of the wall is reminiscent of Jeff Hackman videos of the 70's...amazing. Crowded.
Kelly will always be my Hero! I once met him and Rob Machado in Huntington Beach, after to O.P.Pro. surfed together, and just a genuine super nice guy! I will never forget that day.
Slater... al you can do is smile, and enjoy. The man is 49, Humble Legend. Salutations bro.
That little 360 flic at the end seals it
! Best wave ever! Reef and Ryder!
Kelly is so incredibly good. Just rips giant waves that most surfers would be terrified of. GOAT
Kelly makes surfing any conditions look so effortless. Amazing talent.
what’s crazy to think is how many people he is also factoring in dodging while factoring in the wave itself. insanity how good he is. it’s hard to explain how hard what he is doing is if u don’t surf.
totally agree.
That’s what stood out to be almost the most, bonkers.
yeah surfing is extremely hard to learn even on the lowest levels
That floater at the end was flipping sick!!!
Oh I miss Maui
Some of if not the best surfing I’ve ever seen on video. Very nice.
Toying with Honolua. Amazing…
There may be other surfers who spend almost more time in the air than actually on the wave face but Slater has the style, nous and instinct.
Got to love that straight up the face 90s lip Bash at the end of the video, you rarely see that anymore. Still one of my favorite moves. My top Inspirational film will always be Curren, Slater, Andy Irons and now Mason ho when hes carving.🤙🏼
You could include John John Florence in that group. I'd like to see him surfing at Honolua when it's that good.
Was nice to see that floater. I mean flooooooaaaaterrrrr.
Unbelievable.....what else can you say!
Kelly is so smooth...
Great clip. Watching Kelly is a treat for the eyes.
It is PACKED out there! Wow!
GOAT...Simply put!.
You're welcome.
Look at that wave!! Slater still killing it!
I’ve seen kellyboy back in da day out at threes sorry cant tell da spot anywho kelly surfed it like no other its was amazing!!! Aloha bruddah kelly
He's so good because this is just like a typical day in cocoa Beach
🤣
Cocoa Beach is intense! I broke a rib there...because we got drunk one night and were wrestling on the beach. 🤪
Still the man in the line up. He’s insane!
Now dats da Bestest from kellyman humble let his surfing be his artistic progress flow you surfers know what I mean im Johnny 5from oahu best place on da planet
He doesn’t need to do all flashy flips and cocky moves like the typical modern surfer. Poise, elegance, respects the wave and glides gracefully
I was surfing there on a wave last week in Honokeana Bay 2 miles down from him!!! Epic!! Crazy!!!
Slater is AMAZING!!!
An absolute beast. The GOAT
Up & down back to front. Inside going outside. THE GOAT THE BEST
Legend, for being able to dodge all the guys paddling out and still hit the critical sections, damn, he's amazing. Greatest Athlete in the World.
There's nothing better than sitting up on hill watching you bad boys surf! Love to photograph you guys! ❤ 🤙
He's amazing to watch. Back in my day it was BK !
I used to have an f53 parking pass to park there, still have one on an old suitcase, 😂 lol, that was in 1978
The East Coast Goat! Greatest of all time!
Nice crowd
Anyone who can surf this much in their life will get that good.. let’s keep it together y’all
SO nice to watch him at his craft.....like no other.
I respect him so much more now from this vid where he actively manoeuvres to avoid people duck diving. Some places around the world these days the good guys seem to be thinking “well hey if you’re a kook and get caught inside on set wave I’m surfing my line and if you’re in the way I’m running you over”
Absolutely nothing wrong with running over kooks. As long as it's the end of the wave. If someone can't figure out "paddle around the break, not through it" after it being printed online for decades and posted at every beginner spot, it might be nice just to cancel their surf career before it really starts. There's already enough lames everywhere.
@@seancallahan1312 you seem like a fun guy :) who hurt you?
@@seancallahan1312 never a good idea ever, if for no other reason selfishly considering ending your own stellar career;). Be safe kids.
@@seancallahan1312 poor life you may have, I feel bad for you.
Pretty good to watch Kelly !!! Always a legend and dominating the line up!!!!
Marvelous. The Ocean loves him.
No words for that. 🤯
Best ever...
Bahhhhh. 🐐
Low key Bay. Epic footage.
This is just one of those waves like Tavarua, Soup Bowl, Pipe, etc, that Kelly just has a special connection with. He surfs it like it was his home break growing up and just dominates when he paddles out. It's like the wave was tailor made for him.
That’s the ‘caves’ section in most of the videos.
There are several different sections to the wave from ‘subs’, ‘coconuts’, ‘the point’ before you get to the caves and then a few more after. On some swells the sections are all or mostly fractionated.
But when it’s working they all line up and it’s the ride of a lifetime.
The caves is brutal. I got stuffed by a guy right there and had to straighten out.
It sends you into this little pocket in the cliff. Like a tiny cove.
The bottom there is composed of huge smooth stones the size of small boulders that get gradually smaller towards shore.
And when it’s big those 100 lb stones are moving around like pebbles around your ankles as you’re trying to walk in. It sounds like an earthquake when a wave rushes in and tosses thousands of massive stones on top of each other. You get stuffed here and you’re pretty much done. It’s truly frightening. That was the only time I ever ‘paddled’ in there. I was forced to straighten out and there is no way you’re getting back out through the caves when it’s big. And it was 7-8 ft that day. Easily 15 ft faces.
Although I guess you could try and ride the whitewater at the edge of the bay til it lets you out. But when it’s big, that whitewater is like an exploding bomb at the caves.
The video makes it look like it’s breaking way out in open water, but right at the bottom edge of the video the shoreline of the caves section starts.
What’s great about Honolua is that the outside sections, Subs and coconuts, are more gradual. The drop is less critical as the water is fairly deep with a gradual slope of these massive rock ledges that lie on an incline. So it’s not like the wave is abruptly hitting a reef ledge and jacking, but rather a more gradual incline making for an easier drop on a more inclined wave face. A lot of longboarders will sit on those two sections.
So you can set yourself up for the caves section fairly easily because you have time to see the barrel coming and it’s super predictable.
As opposed to a place like pipe. Which is admittedly out of my league at this point as you have to tuck in on a vertical face right from the get go where the wave is sucking up amazingly fast and seems like it’s driving you back up the face while you’re just trying to get down the face.
But that line up was unusually sparse in this shot. When Honolua is breaking, the whole island knows about it by the end of the day everyone converges on it by the afternoon.
We actually would surf it on southwest swells during the big El Niño of 96. I know it doesn’t look like it but it could catch a southwest swell and break fairly decently although Northwest swells are it’s bread and butter.
But the southwest swells were kinda sneaker swells. No one is thinking of checking the Bay during the summer.
We only knew about it because we could see part of the Bay from the Ritz where we worked.
In the summer the Bay is so calm it’s a pretty good snorkel spot. Except for the tigers that cruise the ledges looking for turtles. Yep, I’ve seen em.
So we’d get to surf Honolua uncrowded for almost a full day before a few stragglers would fill in.
Was awesome. Truly. A world class wave with less than a dozen guys out. And believe me, the lineup has tons of room with dozens of take off spots.
But on a NW swell in the winter, forget about it. It’s a madhouse. Guys fly in from Oahu, the big island and Kauai just to surf that wave when it’s on. It looks like Rincon when it’s on as far as the crowd. There’s like 10 surfers every ten square feet from subs til the very last scraps of the the wave. Reach out and touch someone. And it’s a long fucking wave.
Nice write up of the spot. I only surfed it on head high day and it was a blast. I can see why people get hooked to this spot for a lifetime. That cave looks spooky. I think it would be quite intimidating on days like this video to make the barrel or possibly die getting stuffed in there.
Damn, fun story thanks for sharing. May be the longest comment I’ve read and I truly enjoyed it. The giant rocks sound scary, crazy!
The cave kicked my ass as a kid 20 years ago, i loved the wave, so much more umph to it than any of the other breaks in the bay
keiki bowls was damn near my next favorite, when it was just right, it was a perfect little wave throwing a decent barrel
those are the days i get tired of the lineup out there
@@motorizedjunk6666 absolutely-you know
A lot of guys thought the whole point of the waves was the Caves-
it was a photo op cuz every photographer basically just zeroes in on the Caves.
So I would see guys drop in right before and pull out immediately after.
We called em photo sluts- made me sick- taking the best of the wave then tossing the rest away
His angle of attack was spot on. GOATED.
The GOAT doing GOAT like things.
The wave & the man, enough said!
And that was just Kelly kind of farting around. Having fun per say. Kelly Slater having fun and relaxing = you or I having the best day we've ever had in our entire life xs 10.
Wonderful.
Kelly is truly like a video game when he surfs, he makes the impossible possible and always looks so smooth and full charging at every moment. Best surfer in history…prove me wrong ☕️😉🏄🏽♂️
👍👍👍
Best surfing footage on Honolua Bay lve seen..
That first wave!?!?!? Deeeep
That is sensational surfing, I've never seen someone get bashed by the lip and stand up to let us mere mortals on you tube have it... ❤️
A pro surfer always finds a way to enjoy surf even when there's lot of surfers around.
Epic. That was the longest floater I’ve ever seen while I was watching it the first time I thought the video glitched.
Awesome! 🤙
Seventeen dudes went home that day bragging “I got ran over by Kelly Slater!”. 🤣
Thanks for posting ..Kelly loose and ripping on a great wave
That is art
Amazing
The seas part for the GOAT.
Unreal. Clean. GOAT.
The guy really is phenomenal!
Took brass gonads to pull off that floater in big surf!
Talent, amazing surf on the wave
Pretty nice life he’s got!!!
*SO GOOD*
Man on fire. Looked a bit like setting up for barrel at Padang Padang only frontside obviously 👽🤘
Amazing! Kelly is a God of the Ocean.
Flat AWESOME__Go Kelly!!!
Master!
The OG GOAT 🐐
Awesome GOAT footage!
Wow he never had to paddle into one wave. Every take off he magically appeared on the wave.
The G.O.A.T.
That 50 year old sure knows how to work a surfboard.
Kelly still is the GOAT,don’t doubt me.
For me it's between Kelly and Andy. The nod goes to Kelly for longevity.
@@patrickgarvey146 is that a sick joke ?
I've got t-shirt from with a print of 0:26 got it in memory of a killer session earlier this year just after my dog died
And the Goat won't hav the Death Jab...
shut up!
MONSTRO!!!11
Always do your best every day!!! 👌👍While you can!!! From 777 🙏For everyone!!! 😻
I promise you my 💖if you never give up on your dreams😇from HYPERSONIC-777 Never ever give up 💕!!!
That was well worth watching 👍
DOMINATING!
The wave is really good
Kelly was just getting warmed up at the end
GOAT
The Best !
The master
Brilliant
uncle kelly still a showman
Euuuuuuure! 🤙🏾
Cool 😎
Not a single "Favela" spin....surfed the waves with power, style and grace...Just as a wave like this should be surfed!! Go the Goat!!
LEGEND
He rules.
Beautiful
Kelly debe ser la persona más feliz del mundo. Se nota q lo disfruta a mil el surfeo. Pará mí es y será el 1 forever
10!
Well played!
Killah footage braddah, mahalos for sharing
Nice.