A fine documentary made by and starring Kelly Slater…
Think about it. How often do you see Kelly Slater really loosen up? How often do you hear him unholster his thoughts without a feeling that it’s all part of a bigger game?
In part one of a two-part documentary called Continuance, we find Kelly, who has just turned forty-five, warming up for the first event of the tour at Snapper.
Cut to his Palm Beach apartment where he keeps a stash of world title and, curiously, 2012-2013 runner-up trophies.
“Fricken Parko and Fanning, gotta have ’em on the Gold Coast, right?” says Kelly.
Cut to a shaping bay with the Lennox Head surfboard shaper Daniel Thomson talking board design.
“Everybody’s got a fucking opinion,” says Kelly.
Cut to new vision from the Surf Ranch.
“I wanted to make a wave that mixed Teahupoo with Kirra.”
Cut to talk about trying very hard to win a farewell world title this year.
Cut to Slater, post-heat, and a forensic examination of how his board looked.
The documentary was produced by Kelly, his OuterKnown biz partner John Moore and Jeremy Groff, and made by Alek Parker and Group Films.
I found it thoroughly compelling.
Ummm yeah from the WSL’s Saquarema PR this morning:
“Kelly Slater (USA), 11x WSL Champion, has withdrawn from the event due to a back injury. He has been replaced by Bino Lopes (BRA), second injury replacement from the 2016 QS rankings.
“I have been working through some injuries the past several seasons and, unfortunately, I need to take some time off to mend my body,” Slater said. “I won’t be in Rio and I don’t know how long I’ll need. My lower back has been in constant pain for the last three years and although I’ve been able to fight through it with short stints of rehab, it hasn’t fixed the problem. If I don’t do this now, at some point, I’ll ruin my body. I’m spending the next five weeks rehabilitating with WSL Doctors in Australia and we’ll see how I feel after that. I’m hopeful that I will be in top form again this season at some point. Thanks everyone for the support.”
“Everyone has a opinion, but,I have a personal wave pool, go fuck yourself.”
It’s fucken heavy. think P-pass with no escape end section. btw he got Kelly too! charged him a full week for three days.
so when will joel tudor choke out kelly for disagreeing with him?
I can’t wait for the next episode. This shit is good.
I got knocked off my board there sailing through there in the 90’s.
by a shark, pre daly
Well he didnt win but hes managed to own a home in Australia which is a win in itself, at hurly beds no less
he had to one – up jjf and hire a real production crew for this piece. no crappy iphone tournotes for the former king. heck of job by alek parker.
I enjoyed. I might disagree with his opinions, but at least he has some.
He’ll never be asked to play the part of Zach Weisberg in your upcoming stage production.
Neither will u handsome
Continuance.. To be continued. Felt redundant.
Albeit unrelated to this article but I just have to commend the Herculean with a dash of Hannibal elephantry effort that the BG family put forth in the oh so wagons are circled display of visceral inertia toward fun development in the last article. JP Currie must be hate fucking the shit out of the knot in his bed post after that collective bombardment of contempt. It was beautiful. Fucking beautiful!
Research has already begun on acquiring a silicon face mask of Zach Weisberg. Intel gathered has suggested we look to digital mugshot conversion to 3D imagery that can then be 3D printed providing ample accuracy of the protagonist. I believe with little effort from each, we can accomplish much collectively. Throw in a JP Currie masked character confined in some Indo style cage chained by the neck to the wrist of Zach and BG could drop one hell of an edit.
What odds does everyone give Kelly winning another world title?
Looking pretty dismal as of yet…it would be so awesome to see him go out on top tho.. You gotta root for that leatherback! He has scoliosis like me.
he can win fiji and chopes, get 13th and 9th at rio and lowers, a quarters and/or semi in europe, and maybe take it home with a W at pipe. could it be enough?
forgot J Bay. he’ll get an equal 2nd when jaws returns
Winning Fiji, Chopes and Pipe of course. Big effort winning all three same year tho
Big question mark is about matching his competitors in high performance surfing in shitty or average waves
Hope he proves me wrong
same odds as martians coming to Earth and establishing a world government
Is that a Trump reference?
Jesus that tube ride in the Caribbean was unbelievable!
Did Slater give you a beanie to throw shade on his secret surfing locale, or do you actually think/know this is in the Caribe? My mind was certainly elsewhere…
That or P Pass. It’s a front on angle–I’m not a Surfing magazine surf scientist. Just what came to mind.
P-Pass ain’t that long
I wish I could tell you I knew that from experience. Wherever it is, it’s out of hand/Slater is God
I’m not saying this is… it… but I’ve always longed for a vacation on this last slice of earthly paradise.
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I’d love a beanie though…I know you’re reading KS!!
A lot of people will say Best in Show or maybe Spinal Tap, but this is undoubtedly Christopher Guest’s finest work.
Just watched this. Can’t help thinking that Derek Hynd (I think) was very prescient when he said when asked about a young Kelly Slater being on tour; “I think it’s great. He’s bringing back the baldies”.
Back then, he was talking about pre-pubescent girls, now it explains the surf rage in SoCal.
If this isn’t part of a bigger game, then why is Slater’s entire investment portfolio listed as the source?
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Expertly skewered by own employee. So post-modern!
Mike’s turning into a bit of a weapon below the line.
We all know Kelly is the master of self promotion. Say you are definitely going for a world title and not retiring get all the cameras on you and create more buzz than normal and promote your products. I really enjoyed it and if it sells more product then good on him. I think the scepticism creeps in because he doesn’t do this kind of thing very often.
Agree. The only guy on wsl that doesnt go grabbin his hat n sunnies before post heat interviws. Happy for him to plug his companies, only one to actually have skin in the game n put his money into OK.
People ridicule him, but crack a fat, go on like a schoolgirl on bieber heat, when craig n dane bring out something similar.
1 request Kelly. Sponsor Clay Marzo n give him a wildcard into Fiji.
I’d love to see Marzo at Fiji or Chopes
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