I remember in the early 90 s - he surfed in the final at Bells against then world champion Martin Potter. Slater won decisively , and from that moment it seemed he either won everything he entered, or was in the top 3. In 2016/17 he was still doing the same - against kids less than half his age The guy is epic !!
saw so many of slaters competitions in virgina beach virgina over the years. all the sandcastle art littered the board walk and the surf games would be going on on the beach giant speakers an announcer fuck saw him multiple times over the years around VA beach tearing it up.
@@dft1 Jordan is a household name, people that don’t even watch basketball knows who Jordan is. You could make a case for Lebron, his notoriety is up there with Jordan.
@@Grewupascrewup 1) like i said that’s not many sports, 2) a bunch of those names are often heavily debated, especially basketball, u literally hear this debate anytime u turn on espn. (Also Rodney Mullen is my goat)
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The best to ever surf in the modern era. Once in a forever surfer. No one will come close.
Met him in Barbados surfing Bathsheba. He’s an incredible guy and an unbelievable surfer. He’ll go down in history as the GOAT. Loved and respected by so many it’s to his skill in all conditions but accentuated by coming from odd place like Florida. I respect and admire his longevity. Long live the king. God bless brother.
Without a doubt the GOAT!.. Grew up as a kid as a Curren fanboy.. Posters and all and then was later floored by Slater's mastery.. Thanks for the video! Brings back long ago memories
That sounds sketchy as hell. 🤣 No doubt he a nice guy but damn. Edit: diazepam and oxycodone aka Val's and oxys went hand in hand... Doesn't matter if it's a dude on the street or a Dr. It can all be equally bad. It was common AF back then for Drs to write up those for injuries.
Don’t follow surfing but obviously known who Kelly Slater for my whole life, following his story got me choked up to see him win again as a nearly 50 year old man. real superhero
Had the privilege of sitting in the line up with this dude at Sebastian Inlet when I was just about to finish HS. It was like he was born from the water. He and Frieda Zamba made us E coast FL surfers very proud to have come up with them. Much love to all the EC’s still at it.
Space Coast 80's kid here. My middle school friends and I would sometimes hang out at the beach to see if Kelly or his brothers were out surfing that day; he was a year behind us in school, just up the road in Cocoa Beach, though he lived in my hometown of Indialantic for a while as well. Some of my friends even stopped saying "later" when parting ways with each other and instead began saying "S'later." Dude wasn't even 13 yet and he was practically a god around town.
Late 80's early early 90's we all knew who he was. We all surfed in South/Central/North Florida. We watched him at Sebastian Inlet, Cocoa Beach and New Smyrna. Hated how good he was back then but we were all proud as hell when a Florida boy was dominating the pro circuit.
He dropped in on me at my local break in Northland, New Zealand in 2020. Even though I thought he looked like Slater, I didn't think it was actually him, because why would the goat be at my average little break in the middle of nowhere? So I called him off the wave 😅 It was only the day after that I realised it was him. Would've been great to actually chat to him, rather than yelling at him to get off my wave 🤣
With all this talk, not one mention of Slaters surfboard design prowess in conjunction with Al Merrick and many more shapers that changed how the rest of the surfing world rode waves. That may be his greatest gift to surfing.
Lifelong sports fan of many different sports. It shouldn't even be a question that he is the greatest athlete of all time, in any sport. Surfing is one of the hardest sports to do, and this man dominated for over 30 years. He won the Eddie Aikau in 30 ft surf, he won many times at sloppy beach breaks like Huntington, he won at Pipe and Teahupoo on his backhand, J-Bay, you could go on and on. Youngest and oldest world champ, all in an individual sport, where you can't be bolstered by teammates. Long live the GOAT of all sports, Kelly Slater!
All Sports people do nothing more than be a little bit better at doing the same thing as everybody else... Back in the 70s captain good vibes (cartoon) surfed upside down in the tube and I thought I would see it, I didn't think I'd be the one to do it🙃🙃😁 Great surfer... but never transcended the ordinary !!!
Shut up, no competition in surfing, a sport with a very little number of player and most of them trained in very poor conditions. Just need to be a kid from Hawai to have a place on the worldtour, don't compare this with football, basketball and true extraterrestre like Messi, Cristiano, Lebron
The US has generated prodigious phenomenons in sports, like Tiger Woods, Tommy Caldwell, Serena Williams, and Kelly Slater, that, from a very young age it was obvious they were destined for greatness.
Top shelf quality yet again! There is no way you don't grow leaps and bounds over the next year with this kind of quality output, well done! I didn't really know much about Slater as I don't follow surfing but I do know the name which is a testament to how good the guy is.
2011 Quicksilver Pro Long Beach, NY - I missed my opportunity to meet Kelly Slater. It was the day before the contest and it was just the two of us in the water. I was further out on my longboard but my struggles from both (93’,01’) World Trade Center attacks kept me from paddling over to say hey bro, you’re a legend and I have the deepest respect for you as a surfer and human being. And I would have said dude, I think you’re the best of the best in our lifetime. But, I lost that opportunity. I lost it. Life lesson learned: When opportunity knocks, answer. Your troubles will come and go. Experience knowledge, wisdom. I do have “To meet Kelly Slater” up on our vision board. Close out a karma contract in some way. It’s up to the universe. Peace on earth ❤️
If he had no world titles, but won Pipe 8 times, that's enough to make him the best surfer ever. And all the Pipe contests were in big waves not small ones like other Pipe Masters.
I'm 56 and grew up surfing both coast of Florida. Way back in the day me and some friends we t surfing at the North jetty in Ft. Pierce Florida the day before an ESA(I think?) contest at that same spot. Kelly and his brother Sean were both out practicing for the contest and I was in position for a set wave sitting right next to Kelly. He was just a little kid but was already well known as was his brother. I was deeper and in the perfect spot to catch one of the better waves of the day but instead of taking it....I told Kelly "GO" ! He did...and all I saw from the back was one big spray after another....all the way to the beach. I knew right then he was going to do well on tour....no idea I was witnessing history !
@@matthewwestlake677 You must be from Cali. I've traveled the world surfing. I've surfed in three different oceans in 24 hours (Gulf of Mexico in the early AM... then the Atlantic that afternoon and was surfing Hermosa Beach the following morning. All 3 spots were head high plus. I know what a 1' wave is and granted Florida rarely gets over 3-5' by any surfers standards....it does absolutely go off under the right conditions. Some of the best waves I've ever caught were at a rivermouth in the SW Gulf coast of Florida 8-10 foot ground swell from a hurricane that parked In the middle of the Gulf for 3 days...solid double overhead board breaking barrels over a crushed shell and sand bottom with me a 5 friends. If this same quality of wave was in California there'd be 250 methed out tweekers fighting over every set ! Have fun with that...and I have surfed California back probably before you were born ...the waves were consistently rideable but most spots were soft...at best and everywhere was crowded ...you can have all that nonsense Barney !
Let’s just remember that he is a human being. A very talented one but he went down the path to using his surfing skills to make millions of dollars as he said and he was still in debt. What’s wrong with this picture? I have been a professional level surfer and I used to surf at Lowers and Churches and 54th St in Newport Beach CA and I didn’t kiss up to the photographers at either break. So I was never in a magazine or anything like that. I tried to compete in one WSA contest at Cotton’s Beach near Uppers and came in second. please do not get mad at me for my opinion and my lifestyle. I’ve always wanted to be the best person I could be and to be honest with myself. I’m gay and I got AIDS for choosing to make love with another man. Now I’m 65 and I’m HIV free and I’m ready to go out surfing again in the place where I belong and love. I can’t wait to get back out in the Ocean with a great board and being healthy once again! I’ve had the same partner who loves me and I owe him my life and we’ve been together for 35 years now and no one is going to tell me that I’m less of a person who doesn’t deserve to have unconditional love and respect. My philosophy on my life is treating others as I want to be treated. I never wanted to make money from surfing because I’ve loved the Ocean for my 65 years on this planet! I know that there are many other gay surfers out there who are less worried about their sexual orientation. In my life it was not a choice or preference cuz I was born this way and I’m very happy and proud of myself for overcoming the stigma of being gay and I hope that younger surfers are more open minded about this situation. My first BF was a self made millionaire who wanted me to live with him in Dana Point, CA but I had fallen in love with Hawai’i because of the culture here as well as all of the beauty here. And the community has been welcoming and supportive of me and my health care team took excellent care of me as I dealt with AIDS since I was 40 and I’m happy to report that I’m now HIV free and I’m going to start surfing again as soon as my feet heal from unrelated wounds. And I expect to be able to get the same respect in the water as I did before because I treat people like I want to be treated! Easy words to say but not so easy of a concept to live by! Please treat others as you want to be treated as a person who deserves respect and unconditional love. And please do not get love and sex mixed up. Aloha Kevin ❤🎉😊
I have never told this to anyone else before but I’m getting older (and not really older because I keep my thoughts to looking at age as just a number and the amount of times I’ve been around the Sun on our beautiful Earth and Gaia for those who don’t know what I’m talking about). But when I used to surf at Churches and Lowers it was so crowded that I decided one day to come up with a plan to get the best and most waves regardless of who was out enjoying the surf. I am not bragging but the crowd usually followed me around cuz they wanted to get the same waves. So what I did was to paddle into the channel and then check if the other surfers had followed me. Sure enough they did and my strategy worked perfectly and I would wait until the next set came in and I would watch it for the second or third set waves and choose which one I wanted to take. I would let the first one go by for a couple of reasons. And then I’d paddle as hard as I could to catch the best wave of the set. And then the other surfers would paddle by me and compliment me on how both of my fins would come out of the water! I’m not joking this is my solid truth! Sometimes 6-10 other people who I had never seen before still complimented me and it totally blew me away cuz they didn’t know that I wanted them to get caught inside by the first set wave! Oh I have to laugh about it now and I certainly felt on top of the world when strangers were telling me this! My ego was never going to allow anyone else to judge my surfing except for myself and my friends! And then I got a bonus from the other ones! I love surfing because it makes me feel like I’m on top of the World and I always have used my head to make my own income and not “rape” my waves and have to rely on surfing for money. It just didn’t add up to me being an accounting controller to make myself more stressed out if I missed a wave and all of this time I was gay and I still am happy to say that I have a great partner who I’ve been with for over 35 but he doesn’t surf. Oh well… Life is great for me and I have nothing to complain about! Aloha Kevin 🎉❤🏄♂️
I'm waiting for somebody to do a full length video on Slater's career like we saw for Tom Brady. It'd be great to relive the glory years when he was dominant and also the rivalry with Andy Irons. Except for Pipe in '22, it's been a while since he was at the top of his game.
I watched his whole career being a little older. We were all jaded about Baywatch (especially since it was filmed in our little town). But he deserves all the positive recognition he has gotten. At that time, his surfing was different than anybody else. One thing though, he was surfing these super narrow boards that average surfers couldn't surf, but they all wanted to surf like him. LOL. What an impressive career. RIP Andy Irons, the Legend.
I know that surfers in general don't like brazil much, but we love him. I grow up with his storys... A friend of mine still use internet nickname as Slater
@diegojuridico I don't think that's a correct perception. Sure, there are idiots that put all Brazilians in a box they can manage but, there are many of us that are fascinated with Brazil and would love to live there.
The goat, the king of surfing, the legend... Before, there was the others. Caroll, Curren, Richards... And then, him ! After, there is the others, but nobody will be like him !
As a guy who knows nothing about surfing, Kelly Slater is the only pro surfer i can name. Then again as a snowboarder im sure lots of people could say the same thing about Shaun White and pro snowboarding.
Kelly is the greatest athlete of all time, in ANY sport. No one can really compare with his legacy. After those losses to Andy on his comeback most thought it looked like the twilight of his career but instead it just catapulted him to legendary status. The second half of his career was way more impressive than the first.
As an Aussie and a surfer thank you kelly your contribution to our sport will never be matched and you've our yardstick for so long that no one will be able to match what you actually done to bring the level to what it is today enjoy your retirement and family and don't work yourself into the ground again thank you kelly you are the best ever old mate 😊😊
For 3-4 years I shot all of Kelly’s photos for his company K-Grip back in the day. He’s always been a chill guy and did his own thing. The WSL is terrible so good timing to retire as well. By the way, Kelly can surf all the Pipeline events (there are 3 per season) for the next 10 years and he will probably win 5-7 in that time. Of course he needs an invite and stay healthy but he’s truly a freak of nature, one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Cool video i like his humility sounds like a good person who would have thought the best surfer in the world would be from Florida or Stanley Cup winners God i love my state
Damn right sir ! I will change my opinion of him if he can 'step up' to that challenge . Having come from a broken home I'm patently aware of the importance of having a steady family unit . So far he has clearly failed .
I've never stepped on a surf board, but have been a fan for a long time - and man, that PS2 game was a favorite - wish I still had a system to play it, pretty sure I still have the game in a box somewhere. As for the video, I knew little about Slater other than his professional record, so thanks for this, I really enjoyed it - Cheers!
I reckon this would make a good series "the greatest athletes of all time" First one here with Kelly Slater. Follow it up with Don Bradman, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Phelps, Nolan Ryan, Hubert Opperman, Walter Lindrum, Bo Jackson, Tiger Woods and Jim Thorpe etc. Would especially love a video on Don Bradman and of course special mention for Shane Warne if you can manage to make an interesting video of it. I don't think it'd be much trouble at all and would be an awesome little series. Love the channel mate one of my favourites and only new to it. Can't wait for future videos!
Kinda sucks he didn’t have a lot of good to say about his father because I live at Ventura’s south jetty rivermouth everyday and would see his father yelling at him with megaphone from the beach cussing at him to do better. He was seriously gnarly like motivational dad in a way. Too bad he doesn’t remember that when mentioning him. I was there.
Love your content! Could you possibly do a documentary on Billy Mitchel? I know others have done it but your approach would be better. He was definitely the Rad-est Video Gamer in this era
Love that ❤
I remember in the early 90 s - he surfed in the final at Bells against then world champion Martin Potter. Slater won decisively , and from that moment it seemed he either won everything he entered, or was in the top 3.
In 2016/17 he was still doing the same - against kids less than half his age
The guy is epic !!
humble champions make them legendary
Will always be the goat
When he pulls into that huge barrell at PIPE without grabbing the rail and just owns it... 17:31 just an incredible athlete...
My boy!
0:22 innocence
Surfed with him in the line up a few times in the 80's, he learned a couple moves from me in Barbados 😅 (ya right)
saw so many of slaters competitions in virgina beach virgina over the years. all the sandcastle art littered the board walk and the surf games would be going on on the beach giant speakers an announcer fuck saw him multiple times over the years around VA beach tearing it up.
What an inspiration 🌌💟
Kelly Slater, THE GENTLE BEAST!
I can see the shy in my baby❤
The GOAT for sure 🤙🏻
Great job thank you for this.
He stills slashing the giant waves in Nazaré like he was 18,though!
He's a great bloke and best ever surfer
Golf bug got him lol
I have his game on PS2
IT'S SO NICE!!!
Good work, thanks 🎉
What a beautiful story made me emotional
Great film!
Great video as always! You’re gonna blow up soon
Great vid 👍 ty
There are few sports with an indisputable GOAT, and surfing is one of them. Everybody agrees Kelly is the greatest to ever do it. Great video!
Running=Bolt
Swimming=Phelps
Boxing=Ali
Basketball=Jordan
Gold=Tiger Woods
Skateboarding=Tony Hawk
BMX=Hoffman
@@Grewupascrewup jack nichlous would like a word. many people have kareem over jordan
@@dft1 Jordan is a household name, people that don’t even watch basketball knows who Jordan is. You could make a case for Lebron, his notoriety is up there with Jordan.
@@Grewupascrewup 1) like i said that’s not many sports, 2) a bunch of those names are often heavily debated, especially basketball, u literally hear this debate anytime u turn on espn. (Also Rodney Mullen is my goat)
The best to ever surf in the modern era. Once in a forever surfer. No one will come close.
Living legend ❤
Amazing human KS ✊🏽❤ AI Forever
GOAT.
Met him in Barbados surfing Bathsheba. He’s an incredible guy and an unbelievable surfer. He’ll go down in history as the GOAT. Loved and respected by so many it’s to his skill in all conditions but accentuated by coming from odd place like Florida. I respect and admire his longevity. Long live the king. God bless brother.
Without a doubt the GOAT!.. Grew up as a kid as a Curren fanboy.. Posters and all and then was later floored by Slater's mastery.. Thanks for the video! Brings back long ago memories
i was flying to vietnam in 2004 and he was seated next to me and i had absolutely no idea who he was and he gave me a valium. nice guy.
Yo, that's crazy, how/when did you realize you were taking valis from the GOAT?
That sounds sketchy as hell. 🤣 No doubt he a nice guy but damn.
Edit: diazepam and oxycodone aka Val's and oxys went hand in hand... Doesn't matter if it's a dude on the street or a Dr. It can all be equally bad. It was common AF back then for Drs to write up those for injuries.
Flying to Vietnam? You better have more than a Valium... 😊❤
@@richevans609 you been there? It's actually a nice place.
Not true, at least Kelly giving you valium or the like,…. … on a plane to Vietnam.
18:18 it was the first event of the season, not the last 😂
I was wondering when someone was going to call me out on that 😂
Don’t follow surfing but obviously known who Kelly Slater for my whole life, following his story got me choked up to see him win again as a nearly 50 year old man. real superhero
It's the comeback that is motivational. 10 year gap, stay determined and do your best.
7:00 “A French stalker of psychotic proportions…” slipping in a little humor on this documentary 🤣 👏🏽
Had the privilege of sitting in the line up with this dude at Sebastian Inlet when I was just about to finish HS. It was like he was born from the water. He and Frieda Zamba made us E coast FL surfers very proud to have come up with them. Much love to all the EC’s still at it.
Nice KellyMentary
It was great to follow Kelly during his career, a great inspiration.
Thanks Kelly🙏
Space Coast 80's kid here. My middle school friends and I would sometimes hang out at the beach to see if Kelly or his brothers were out surfing that day; he was a year behind us in school, just up the road in Cocoa Beach, though he lived in my hometown of Indialantic for a while as well. Some of my friends even stopped saying "later" when parting ways with each other and instead began saying "S'later." Dude wasn't even 13 yet and he was practically a god around town.
Late 80's early early 90's we all knew who he was. We all surfed in South/Central/North Florida. We watched him at Sebastian Inlet, Cocoa Beach and New Smyrna. Hated how good he was back then but we were all proud as hell when a Florida boy was dominating the pro circuit.
He dropped in on me at my local break in Northland, New Zealand in 2020.
Even though I thought he looked like Slater, I didn't think it was actually him, because why would the goat be at my average little break in the middle of nowhere? So I called him off the wave 😅
It was only the day after that I realised it was him. Would've been great to actually chat to him, rather than yelling at him to get off my wave 🤣
With all this talk, not one mention of Slaters surfboard design prowess in conjunction with Al Merrick and many more shapers that changed how the rest of the surfing world rode waves. That may be his greatest gift to surfing.
Really enjoying the rad content :)
What an amazing docco! 👌🏼 insta subbed! 👍🏼
Is UCSB alum Jack Johnson narrating?
Great video!
Lifelong sports fan of many different sports. It shouldn't even be a question that he is the greatest athlete of all time, in any sport. Surfing is one of the hardest sports to do, and this man dominated for over 30 years. He won the Eddie Aikau in 30 ft surf, he won many times at sloppy beach breaks like Huntington, he won at Pipe and Teahupoo on his backhand, J-Bay, you could go on and on. Youngest and oldest world champ, all in an individual sport, where you can't be bolstered by teammates. Long live the GOAT of all sports, Kelly Slater!
All Sports people do nothing more than be a little bit better at doing the same thing as everybody else...
Back in the 70s captain good vibes (cartoon) surfed upside down in the tube and I thought I would see it, I didn't think I'd be the one to do it🙃🙃😁
Great surfer... but never transcended the ordinary !!!
@@Inverted.surfer Funny; not really
Shut up, no competition in surfing, a sport with a very little number of player and most of them trained in very poor conditions. Just need to be a kid from Hawai to have a place on the worldtour, don't compare this with football, basketball and true extraterrestre like Messi, Cristiano, Lebron
@@chrissous29 Astoundingly ignorant comment. You have obviously never surfed, or even been around it.
Calm down foo@@chrissous29
Very well made video!
Thank Kelly for all the great moments. U r a beautiful human being
I wonder if he took it?
The US has generated prodigious phenomenons in sports, like Tiger Woods, Tommy Caldwell, Serena Williams, and Kelly Slater, that, from a very young age it was obvious they were destined for greatness.
Best underrated channel on youtube
Top shelf quality yet again! There is no way you don't grow leaps and bounds over the next year with this kind of quality output, well done! I didn't really know much about Slater as I don't follow surfing but I do know the name which is a testament to how good the guy is.
Thanks man, I really appreciate the good vibes 🤜🤛
Set the bar, one of the best ever. Incredible talent.
another banger, you refuse to miss
Thanks bro, glad that one hit the spot. Slater's definitely one of the harder stories ive done so far, the dudes done a lot of rad shit
KELYY SLATER. I never comment but KELLY SLATER. True Waterman
8:12 WT...? Brazzai Pipeline!!? 😂
2011 Quicksilver Pro Long Beach, NY - I missed my opportunity to meet Kelly Slater. It was the day before the contest and it was just the two of us in the water. I was further out on my longboard but my struggles from both (93’,01’) World Trade Center attacks kept me from paddling over to say hey bro, you’re a legend and I have the deepest respect for you as a surfer and human being. And I would have said dude, I think you’re the best of the best in our lifetime. But, I lost that opportunity. I lost it. Life lesson learned: When opportunity knocks, answer. Your troubles will come and go. Experience knowledge, wisdom. I do have “To meet Kelly Slater” up on our vision board. Close out a karma contract in some way. It’s up to the universe. Peace on earth ❤️
If he had no world titles, but won Pipe 8 times, that's enough to make him the best surfer ever. And all the Pipe contests were in big waves not small ones like other Pipe Masters.
I'm 56 and grew up surfing both coast of Florida. Way back in the day me and some friends we t surfing at the North jetty in Ft. Pierce Florida the day before an ESA(I think?) contest at that same spot. Kelly and his brother Sean were both out practicing for the contest and I was in position for a set wave sitting right next to Kelly. He was just a little kid but was already well known as was his brother. I was deeper and in the perfect spot to catch one of the better waves of the day but instead of taking it....I told Kelly "GO" ! He did...and all I saw from the back was one big spray after another....all the way to the beach. I knew right then he was going to do well on tour....no idea I was witnessing history !
Surf in Florida that's a joke.... get real, with your 1 foot waves.... lol
@@matthewwestlake677 You must be from Cali. I've traveled the world surfing. I've surfed in three different oceans in 24 hours (Gulf of Mexico in the early AM... then the Atlantic that afternoon and was surfing Hermosa Beach the following morning. All 3 spots were head high plus. I know what a 1' wave is and granted Florida rarely gets over 3-5' by any surfers standards....it does absolutely go off under the right conditions. Some of the best waves I've ever caught were at a rivermouth in the SW Gulf coast of Florida 8-10 foot ground swell from a hurricane that parked In the middle of the Gulf for 3 days...solid double overhead board breaking barrels over a crushed shell and sand bottom with me a 5 friends. If this same quality of wave was in California there'd be 250 methed out tweekers fighting over every set ! Have fun with that...and I have surfed California back probably before you were born ...the waves were consistently rideable but most spots were soft...at best and everywhere was crowded ...you can have all that nonsense Barney !
Kook@@matthewwestlake677
Let’s just remember that he is a human being. A very talented one but he went down the path to using his surfing skills to make millions of dollars as he said and he was still in debt. What’s wrong with this picture? I have been a professional level surfer and I used to surf at Lowers and Churches and 54th St in Newport Beach CA and I didn’t kiss up to the photographers at either break. So I was never in a magazine or anything like that. I tried to compete in one WSA contest at Cotton’s Beach near Uppers and came in second. please do not get mad at me for my opinion and my lifestyle. I’ve always wanted to be the best person I could be and to be honest with myself. I’m gay and I got AIDS for choosing to make love with another man. Now I’m 65 and I’m HIV free and I’m ready to go out surfing again in the place where I belong and love. I can’t wait to get back out in the Ocean with a great board and being healthy once again! I’ve had the same partner who loves me and I owe him my life and we’ve been together for 35 years now and no one is going to tell me that I’m less of a person who doesn’t deserve to have unconditional love and respect. My philosophy on my life is treating others as I want to be treated. I never wanted to make money from surfing because I’ve loved the Ocean for my 65 years on this planet! I know that there are many other gay surfers out there who are less worried about their sexual orientation. In my life it was not a choice or preference cuz I was born this way and I’m very happy and proud of myself for overcoming the stigma of being gay and I hope that younger surfers are more open minded about this situation. My first BF was a self made millionaire who wanted me to live with him in Dana Point, CA but I had fallen in love with Hawai’i because of the culture here as well as all of the beauty here. And the community has been welcoming and supportive of me and my health care team took excellent care of me as I dealt with AIDS since I was 40 and I’m happy to report that I’m now HIV free and I’m going to start surfing again as soon as my feet heal from unrelated wounds. And I expect to be able to get the same respect in the water as I did before because I treat people like I want to be treated! Easy words to say but not so easy of a concept to live by! Please treat others as you want to be treated as a person who deserves respect and unconditional love. And please do not get love and sex mixed up. Aloha Kevin ❤🎉😊
I have never told this to anyone else before but I’m getting older (and not really older because I keep my thoughts to looking at age as just a number and the amount of times I’ve been around the Sun on our beautiful Earth and Gaia for those who don’t know what I’m talking about). But when I used to surf at Churches and Lowers it was so crowded that I decided one day to come up with a plan to get the best and most waves regardless of who was out enjoying the surf. I am not bragging but the crowd usually followed me around cuz they wanted to get the same waves. So what I did was to paddle into the channel and then check if the other surfers had followed me. Sure enough they did and my strategy worked perfectly and I would wait until the next set came in and I would watch it for the second or third set waves and choose which one I wanted to take. I would let the first one go by for a couple of reasons. And then I’d paddle as hard as I could to catch the best wave of the set. And then the other surfers would paddle by me and compliment me on how both of my fins would come out of the water! I’m not joking this is my solid truth! Sometimes 6-10 other people who I had never seen before still complimented me and it totally blew me away cuz they didn’t know that I wanted them to get caught inside by the first set wave! Oh I have to laugh about it now and I certainly felt on top of the world when strangers were telling me this! My ego was never going to allow anyone else to judge my surfing except for myself and my friends! And then I got a bonus from the other ones! I love surfing because it makes me feel like I’m on top of the World and I always have used my head to make my own income and not “rape” my waves and have to rely on surfing for money. It just didn’t add up to me being an accounting controller to make myself more stressed out if I missed a wave and all of this time I was gay and I still am happy to say that I have a great partner who I’ve been with for over 35 but he doesn’t surf. Oh well… Life is great for me and I have nothing to complain about! Aloha Kevin 🎉❤🏄♂️
I'm waiting for somebody to do a full length video on Slater's career like we saw for Tom Brady. It'd be great to relive the glory years when he was dominant and also the rivalry with Andy Irons. Except for Pipe in '22, it's been a while since he was at the top of his game.
And ESPN can’t even do a small segment for the king of all GOATS
His cousin AC Slater was a hell of a wrestler at Bayside High.
I watched his whole career being a little older. We were all jaded about Baywatch (especially since it was filmed in our little town). But he deserves all the positive recognition he has gotten. At that time, his surfing was different than anybody else. One thing though, he was surfing these super narrow boards that average surfers couldn't surf, but they all wanted to surf like him. LOL. What an impressive career. RIP Andy Irons, the Legend.
I know that surfers in general don't like brazil much, but we love him. I grow up with his storys... A friend of mine still use internet nickname as Slater
Aussie surfer here, the Brazilians shred!
los brasileros son buenas personas. Los surfistas brasileros son muchos y a veces muy agresivos. saludos de ecuador 🇪🇨.
@diegojuridico I don't think that's a correct perception. Sure, there are idiots that put all Brazilians in a box they can manage but, there are many of us that are fascinated with Brazil and would love to live there.
Actually the hawains dont like brazilians
The goat, the king of surfing, the legend... Before, there was the others. Caroll, Curren, Richards... And then, him ! After, there is the others, but nobody will be like him !
During thec 2016 Eddie Waimea bay contest watching Kelly drop in on a 25 foot beast-getting tubed & coming our was next level guts & glory.
What happened to the Dean Potter video you all made?
Reel Rock hit it with a copyright claim bro
@@RealmOfRad well shit, I was kindve excited to finish it : /
I appreciate you nonetheless
Great video, Kelly is the GOAT of surfing!
Utter legend of all sports and games ❤️🙌
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A great to walk the Earth and swim the seas.
Is Kelly Slater is the best in surfing?
As a guy who knows nothing about surfing, Kelly Slater is the only pro surfer i can name. Then again as a snowboarder im sure lots of people could say the same thing about Shaun White and pro snowboarding.
Kelly is the greatest athlete of all time, in ANY sport. No one can really compare with his legacy. After those losses to Andy on his comeback most thought it looked like the twilight of his career but instead it just catapulted him to legendary status. The second half of his career was way more impressive than the first.
I'm an Aussie , and watching the way he carved up heaps of our best surfers over ( many ) decades - woah ......
I was at that Trestles contest. It was so awesome to see in person. I am old, ha.
Do you remember that Indian Summer day? Foggy in the AM, then sunny, glassy, and 6’-8’ perfect left and rights. Llamas did great that day also.
As an Aussie and a surfer thank you kelly your contribution to our sport will never be matched and you've our yardstick for so long that no one will be able to match what you actually done to bring the level to what it is today enjoy your retirement and family and don't work yourself into the ground again thank you kelly you are the best ever old mate 😊😊
Makes me cry.
I use to see him at Foodland a lot . He always seemed like a decent dude . Never had an attitude with me. His gf super petite and great as well.
For 3-4 years I shot all of Kelly’s photos for his company K-Grip back in the day. He’s always been a chill guy and did his own thing. The WSL is terrible so good timing to retire as well. By the way, Kelly can surf all the Pipeline events (there are 3 per season) for the next 10 years and he will probably win 5-7 in that time. Of course he needs an invite and stay healthy but he’s truly a freak of nature, one of the greatest athletes of all time.
@@bonniebob2802 i has ķ grip
4:56 - you're showing clips of surfers that aren't Curren here...Why? There's footage of this heat online
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Hey honey, Realm Of Rad has uploaded, grab me a beer and let's go!!!
Cool video i like his humility sounds like a good person who would have thought the best surfer in the world would be from Florida or Stanley Cup winners God i love my state
If only AI was still around. People would talk different 😢😢😢
Yes, Slater may be the GOAT, but saying he "dominated" surfing for 40 years is a bit of a stretch.
GOAT surfer....as a Dad not so much, which IMHO is a man's true calling once you bring a child into this world.
Damn right sir ! I will change my opinion of him if he can 'step up' to that challenge . Having come from a broken home I'm patently aware of the importance of having a steady family unit . So far he has clearly failed .
How the F would you know?
From what the media tells you about him? Great remote analysis...
A person cannot travel the world continuously and be a present parent, it's not possible nor does it take an advanced degree to figure that out.
His legacy will live on whether he surfs on tour or not. He has put his stamp on surfing that will last for generations in the future.
Es el que mejor ha sobrevivido..
My buddies were there at that last comp in Margaret river. They were so stoked
at 19:11 what is this NTR Shirt he is wearing ?
He is ridiculously good looking
I've never stepped on a surf board, but have been a fan for a long time - and man, that PS2 game was a favorite - wish I still had a system to play it, pretty sure I still have the game in a box somewhere. As for the video, I knew little about Slater other than his professional record, so thanks for this, I really enjoyed it - Cheers!
FLORIDA boy!!! Slates is 🐐
the cat, buttons, gerry lopez....kelly slater...you re part of the row kelly....
I reckon this would make a good series "the greatest athletes of all time"
First one here with Kelly Slater. Follow it up with Don Bradman, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Phelps, Nolan Ryan, Hubert Opperman, Walter Lindrum, Bo Jackson, Tiger Woods and Jim Thorpe etc.
Would especially love a video on Don Bradman and of course special mention for Shane Warne if you can manage to make an interesting video of it. I don't think it'd be much trouble at all and would be an awesome little series.
Love the channel mate one of my favourites and only new to it. Can't wait for future videos!
Thanks bro, super stoked you're enjoying the channel. Some awesome suggestions too, I'll definitely have a look into them
Kinda sucks he didn’t have a lot of good to say about his father because I live at Ventura’s south jetty rivermouth everyday and would see his father yelling at him with megaphone from the beach cussing at him to do better. He was seriously gnarly like motivational dad in a way. Too bad he doesn’t remember that when mentioning him. I was there.
remarkable guy! amazing life and humble also! respect! KE11Y
Love your content! Could you possibly do a documentary on Billy Mitchel? I know others have done it but your approach would be better. He was definitely the Rad-est Video Gamer in this era
40 years, he turned pro in 1993 and even quit 3 years inbetween
Kelly would be resting drinking tea at the end of the day the aussies would be sinking piss
Andy is a legend.
Look up Kelly Slater and one word keeps cropping up. LEGEND