This blog is in desperate need of a reprieve from an overload of surfing content. I'm just too lazy. And there's surf in the air; autumn's approaching, the winds are blowing, cool temps are dropping in, and hurricane season is on. I'm preoccupied. So, while I devise other ideas worth posting, this short clip of Kelly Slater testing new boards--some of which he shaped at the nearby Channel Islands factory--will have to do. Watching Slater win all the time on the WCT (until this year, anyway) has gotten old, but the guy's free surfing is still stupefying. And motivating. (This vid made rounds on the surf sites a while ago. It ain't fresh!)
Location: queen of the coast, Rincon; Santa Barbara, CA
(As other users have noted, appreciate the class Kelly employs on a longboarder who snaked him at :40 seconds. A simple tap, no flipping out, causing a frackus, just a, "hey man, heads up. thanks." Who knows if this was because he knows cameras are always on him in the water?)
1 comment:
I surfed with Kelly once at Rincon myself. After the paddle in, I saw him on the beach and kooked out a little while my friend VHS vidcammed the whole thing. This must have been 12 years ago or so. Mid to late nineties. Nice guy. Didn't seem to mind me gushing a bit.
I gotta find that tape.
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