Slater on winning or quitting - video
Tuesday 09/06 0
Kelly Slater gives an insight into where his mind is at after a poor start to 2015, along with talk of his first trips to Cloudbreak in the early 90's.
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Kelly cooking with gas in West Oz - video
Tuesday 21/04 17
Kelly Slater threading some nice backlit barrels somewhere in Western Australia.
Geiselman and Coffin eliminate Florence with spectacular barrels at Volcom Pipe Pro
Tuesday 04/02 0
Twenty year-old Floridian Evan Geiselman stole the show at the Volcom Pipe Pro today, eliminating defending event champion John John Florence in solid 10-foot barrels with the highest heat score of the competition.
On the road again...with Phil Jarratt
Monday 20/01 5
In the promotion of surf books, four is not a bad crowd at all, as long as three of them aren’t immediate family. As a general rule of thumb, half the people who turn up at a book promotion will buy the book, particularly if there’s a lot of free beer being provided.
Oh Kelly, if you leave us now...
Monday 16/12 37
In all the drama and emotion of the last day of the Pipe Masters, it was easy to overlook the fact that Robert Kelly Slater once again demonstrated, with an absolutely stupendous three-heat master class, that the day he leaves the tour will be sadder than anyone can imagine.
Missing in Fiji
Fri 13 December 6:34am
“Parko is still checking with his wife.” It was an innocent email from Taylor Steele but it brought a wry smile to the cube monkeys at Swellnet. The contrast was stark: pro surfing's jetsetting elite, who fly to exotic locales on a moments notice...but only after the family matriarch gives the OK.
Missing in Fiji
Fri 13 December 6:34am
“Parko is still checking with his wife.” It was an innocent email from Taylor Steele but it brought a wry smile to the cube monkeys at Swellnet. The contrast was stark: pro surfing's jetsetting elite, who fly to exotic locales on a moments notice...but only after the family matriarch gives the OK.
ASP World Title heats up at Billabong Pipe Masters
Wednesday 11/12 5
The 2013 Billabong Pipe Masters resumed today in six foot barrels and there was no shortage of drama in the ASP World Title race between Mick Fanning and Kelly Slater.
Dion Agius: On hipsters, Krautrock, and cameras
Tuesday 05/11 6
I like shooting with my Polaroid land camera, then taking a photo of the Polaroid with my Rolleiflex. I then develop that film, enlarge it in the darkroom and shoot the print with my 7D, email the file directly to my iPhone 5 via bluetooth, create negative space using Whitagram and upload to my Instagram.
Matt Warshaw: "I'm a fuckin' curator!"
Monday 21/10 3
Matt Warshaw has written a number of big books and he's just finished building an awfully big website - The Encyclopedia of Surfing online. In the EOS, Warshaw applied his prodigious surfing knowledge to a browsable online repository, and in so doing he's become a curator of sorts. Or, as he puts it, "a fuckin' curator!"
Of Pools, Fools and Alternative Realities
Wednesday 19/06 73
The following article was written by blindboy.
Surfing has experienced a 30 year long financial bonanza during which its main corporate sponsors managed, with a head start from Coca Cola, to convince a sizeable market that not only was surfing cool, but that board shorts and a t-shirt were a fashion statement. So miracles happen, but not often, and not forever. The writing is on the wall, as well as in the financial pages, that those days are over.
Kelly Slater & Pro Surfing: Till Death Do Us Part
Friday 14/06 73
In 2004 Kelly Slater held an event at Tavarua called 'Let's See It!', that featured select pro surfers and a bunch of celebrities. Together they spent a week on Tavarua competing in a series of unique contest formats devised by Slater. Whilst it sounds like a bit of fun in the sun - and no doubt the invited celebrities treated it that way - the event had a greater purpose. As Rod Brooks said, "It may have been the beginning of a new vision for him."
Kelly Slater dealt blow as investment company falters
Wednesday 20/03 35
The Kelly Slater Wave Company has been dealt a blow with today's announcement that LM Investments has been placed into voluntary administration. LM Investments is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for multiple breaches of corporation law.