Behind-the-scenes with Kelly Slater, final day, Tahiti Pro…
As I’ve become fond of saying, is an event really over until Peter King has dropped his final #TourNotes?
Who can miss an episode? It’s disposable pop art that’s perfect for Generation Self; a yowling discharge of all those down days, all that… nothing but everything… that surrounds those two-week waiting periods at contests. It’s peculiar, it’s memorable, it’s a surface with slips but no adjustments.
In this episode, we’re on the boat with Kelly Slater on the final day of the Tahiti Pro. His girlfriend Kalani (hot! hot!) is there in her little Mikoh bikini, John John reveals a sense of humour normally reserved for close pals, Kelly does a very good impersonation of Hawaiian pidgin and we see Kolohe Andino, who says he wants Kelly Slater to win the event, rib the commentator Kaipo Guerrero for his one-time affair with the singer Madonna.
It’s a subtler episode that most, subdued perhaps, because of the gloomy skies and the smallish, if good, waves, but it serves, as it always does, to remind us that the professional surfer is more human than the post-heat interviews reveal.
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Trudpel goin for the the bro hug and kelly just says fuck off!
I do hope we aren’t now lumping the bought and paid for marketing arm of a major surf brand into what was once an independent “media”.
Entertaining, yes. But lets be clear on why it exists.
Sorry, but the occast is maybe the most revealing about slater per the now. Occ doesn’t get much of a word in, but the ones he does hit the spots
peter is fine. without access he and sherm wouldn’t have work.
$3 p/h? That’s the Rip Curl award wage right?
Not if you’re North Korean.
Hard to fine more attention to detail than Rip Curl’s
meticulous, childlike hands.
It’s been stated before but tour notes without Brett is shit!
…why do you have such a damning opinion? I love the things. And, if I might even be so bold to throw an opinion into the wild, I believe Peter King is at the brighter end of the spectrum, media wise…
plus that isla natividad trip with Chuy Reyna was dope
not bad for a Christian , maybe all journalist should be born again and move up to the “brighter end of the spectrum?
Another Alley oop over parker?
Like Sarge?
ha touché , but at least sarge gave more than he took!
so to speak.