#TourNotes: Kiss me with your tongue!

Who does the best French accent on tour? Guess!

There’s a buzz going around that Peter King’s usually excellent #TourNotes has lost some of its edge now it’s part of the WSL.

Is it true?

I think, fatigue might’ve set in a little, that the premise of snatching off-the-cuff moments still works. But how many times can surfers mug for the camera, afterall? King’s great skill is his ability to shoot on his iPhone and edit fast. If it happened, he can get it live in a day.

And a persistence. A persistence to follow what are mostly children around and feign interest in their mostly underwhelming behaviour.

The highlight of this episode, and it comes very late in the piece, is Kelly Slater’s French accent. Kelly, in case you didn’t know, is very good at mimicry, and after a couple of very tiresome minutes of asking different pro surfers what French words they know, in swings Kelly with a command of actorly French. His exchange with Kanoa Igarashi, who is surprisingly well-schooled, entertains enough to wipe away the memory of earlier minutes wasted.

Kelly’s favourite French word?

Pffffffffffffft.

“It sums up my my thoughts of them running our heat today,” he says.

Watch!