One look into those green eyes will mesmerize the soul...
As far as I know, this is the first POV vision released from Kelly’s pool. After such a rough week for the King, it makes sense for him to lighten the mood by releasing such a mesmerizing clip. Some might call it a coping mechanism, but Kelly calls it shark-free fun!
The internal view of this wave, when paired with Kelly’s lackadaisical approach, reaffirms the absolute flawlessness of their design. The lipline is so clean and without blemish that Slater is able to about-face multiple times per ride without fear of reprisal. Dare I say it almost looks… too easy? Like, maybe not even that fun?
However this is probably a stupid thing to say because getting barreled is always fun and as Kanoa Igarashi once told Surfing Magazine, “Honestly, before coming here, I was never really that stoked on wave pools. I really appreciate the unpredictability of the ocean. So I was excited heading to Kelly’s wavepool, but I figured I would get over it after the third wave. But then I was getting barrels where I was freaking out, literally screaming every time, it felt like I was scoring perfect Kirra.”
So this begs the question, when the hell is Beach Grit gonna get an invitation? Oh, never? Yeah that’s probably fair.
Y’know, I’ve wondered before why The King doesn’t put out more edits – or even real video parts. But it occurred to me that the music in them would be so frightfully bad that I wouldn’t be able to bear them anyway.
anyone else notice that slates is losing his hair?
The camera adds 20 pounds too. Either he’s getting better looking with age or he’s spending all of his Firewire cash on post production.
Great–now we have the haves–and the have nots– Slater and the WSL boys can get stuffed anytime they want now–while the average joe suffers through flat spells and crowds and Slater keeps rubbing your face in it. Totally stoked I’ve got the ‘real thing’–salt water and sunsets–flat spells included–the beach life–I love it.. Slater can keep his toy……
There is little doubt Beachgrit will get an invitation. A KS riddle invitation that resembles the infamous Cicada hackers riddle. Kelly antics in the outerist reaches of unknowness.
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What an obnoxious flaw wave pools have. The quiet. THE QUIET! Bloody flawed flawless!
Next piece: baldies better in tube.. it’s science!
You had him on the ropes Michael, how come comments are closed on this post, unusual for his Instagram (very quick check – don’t quote me on this)! A mea culpa would have been cool, a frank admission that he was reacting emotionally to another death, and he spoke rashly, that millions of people wouldn’t be killed at the rates of reunion shark attacks, that there may not be sufficient evidence to call for a serious cull every day. But no, disappointing the champ (and wanna be vegan) has taken his ball and fucked off home! The sad thing is he might be right about reunion needing a bull shark cull, but he is too proud to put his hands up and say that his original post was utter bullshit!
Not to cherry pick this comment, but I do empathize with his mentions of “wanting to be vegan”, as I too feel that, from an environmentally conscious standpoint, veganism is the way to go. But gosh is meat and cheese ever fucking delicious.
Beach Griters seem to be demanding higher standards of Kelly than they demand of themselves. Imagine what the response would be if his post read anything like half the comments here?
Someone died, he was frustrated about it and he had a reasonable solution (the horror!).
I’m all for moral outrage, but moral outrage should at least refrain from bald hypocrisy.
Not sure what this hypocrisy is that you are talking of, please elaborate. Debating the logical merits of an Instagram post hardly qualifies as moral outrage, I’m indignant that you would suggest such a thing!
Hey, hah, happy to explain my view. The hypocrisy is this:
commenters (well, the whole internet) are tearing Slater apart for hyperbole, by using it themselves.
I don’t think its just you by any means, and your words were
no less measured than many others.
To explain the “emotional context”. I like Kelly and don’t
like seeing him getting piled on. It’s turning from, “hey Kelly’s stats are wrong” into two minutes of hate just because he dared to go against the fashionable view that surfers shouldn’t expect avoid the lawyers of the sea.
But, yeah, you’re right, its hard to be high and mighty on this, and I think most of the criticizers are just having fun.
Remember when Kelly was king, winning world titles, worshipped by the surfing world. His views on surfing were always eloquent. He revelled in the limelight
Then he became irrelevant in the title race. Medina, JJF
And now he’s just some old bald guy trolling the internet looking for attention
Raimana on the ski gets me every time. Jesus christ.The pool is for fucking tools.
Hahaha we align here. From Chopes to the fucking kiddie pool. IMO Robbie Maddison would have been the correct man for the job
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Why’s this not on Instagram with #kookoftheday…..
Because if KS is a kook, what does that make everyone else?
After seeing how the wave catches the top of his head from time to time its easy to understand why he is so bald now.
Yeah, if I had this in my back yard on tap I think I’d delete my nonexistent Instagram account!
Nice misdirection by the world’s climate change and shark behavior authority… hey, look at my cool wavepool
Yep lets take the focus off my other recent “calls” – he is the fucking master of deflection – clever as really!!!
the chrome deceptacon is back at it again
hahaha love it
Just a different angle for slates to gloat from. Dernit though if it isn’t a beautiful angle.
What’s the gloat per dollar ratio? Anything more than $10 a wave means jealousy is unwarranted. And getting to the stagnant pond from the beach costs more than that.