A captivating 15-minute interview with Kelly Slater on his martial arts game…
Have you reached the tipping point of too-much-Kelly Slater? Has our inspection of his activities (recent stories: four posts on Kelly’s art show, one post on his social media activities, another on his surfboard company FireWire) made you think a crowbar might be needed to prise us off him?
This interview, however, is too good to ignore. Recorded immediately following Slater’s win at the Teahupoo Pro, it concentrates, entirely, on his jiujitsu game, although Slater’s digressions include talk of his optioning the Peter Maguire book on seventies drug-trafficking Thai Stick and the benefits of food combining.
Both interviewer and interviewee are seated, and it’s in this position that we watch as Slater’s triceps stand out like brown snakes, ready to strike. Readers of a rainbow stripe might feel compelled to knead the smooth brown skin.
Watch here!
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Kelly looks like a Gandhi sans the worms.
Everything else be damned, the McGuire and Ritter book is well worth a read, all sarcasm aside.
And Columbia University Press put it out, same uni that partnered with the WSL’s philanthropic efforts. Coincidence? We’ll see if they start giving World Champs honorary degrees.
haha ‘honorary’ degree haha which cereal box?
Given the number of American state universities and bollocks neoliberal unis in the UK where you don’t have to know how to read to get a business or tourism studies degree, I truly believe that a surf personality will have an honorary degree doled out at some point in the next decade. My money is on Plymouth, San Diego State, or Daytona State printing out an honorary doctorate for the king on 4 oz S-glass while all the home school pros will be rewarded University of Phoenix PhDs for lifetime achievement.
San Diego State and Plymouth! lmao Fuck, that calls for a song!
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Oh shit, can’t wait for Joel Tudor’s take on this.
I was thinking the same thing. Who would have thought colored belts to bring about such frivolity.
tudor will comment for sure, only after danny fuller releases joel from the sleeper hold.
they fight or something?
it’s how/why Joel got into it. But don’t be fooled – Joel would smoke him now.