Champ drags gimp foot along for behind-the-scenes romp at the Hurley Pro!
Last month, Kelly Slater hosted ESPN’s Only In LA segment with a behind-the-scenes look at the Hurley Pro, which was held at Lowers, in San Clemente.
Although too smart to achieve the vapidity required of the modern television host, Slater, first, engages in riveting dialogue with the 1988 world-champ-turned-commentator Barton Lynch (Kelly tells Barton he has a photograph of him being beaten up by US marines in Japan).
He then surprises Joe Turpel and Martin Potter in the broadcast booth. Joe’s startled look is a chilling portent of what goes on behind the scenes.
Kelly takes the viewer through the competitors’ locker room where Matt Wilkinson, affixing his contest jersey, appears on the brink of tears.
Ultimately, Kelly delivers his prize – an interview with the iconic photographer Steve Sherman, whose pencil moustache sings of padded booths in dirty bars and drinking Crystal with a sloe-eyed beauty in a tight pink dress.
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How deeply in love with Kelly is Sherman?
Kelly Slater – WSL Ambassador of Scrot and Leecher
What a cunt.
Nineteen ninety-five did have one beautiful moment. https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Seeing Montell Jordan’s suprise performance at the halftime show of a playoff basketball game was definitely my highlight of 2015 as well.
Oil and water man…Surfing and the jock world.
RVCA, still trying to unite us
Totally thought Kells was talking to Joe Biden looking at that top picture.
..but for fans of vapidity, the outro comments from the studio suits are worth waiting for.
Holy fuck, that outro is painful isn’t it.
‘…just strap the board to the Prius’.
What the actual fuck?
W.T.A.F. indeed.