...if he makes the team. If not? 4 more years!
Any time Kelly Slater gives an interview it’s stop the presses news. Oh you take them for granted now. You even get angry, inside, thinking, “Enough already…” but there is going to be a day, and that day gets closer with each that passes, when he is no longer here. Of course he’s never going to die but… he’ll theoretically retire and when he does I can’t imagine many more interviews.
So savor when he sits down and talks, cherish when Sports Illustrated asks:
You co-founded your sustainable fashion label, Outerknown. How would you describe your style? What does fashion mean to you?
And when he answers…
Growing up, fashion wasn’t much of anything to me. I was talking recently on my social media about how I didn’t have socks as a teenager. When I was kid, we really didn’t have much money or anything, so if I got a new t-shirt I was happy. At this point, to be able to create and co-found my own brand with Outerknown, and have other people who see that vision and that idea is great.
The poorest people in the entire world have socks, if they want them, so I don’t what Kelly’s on about there but relish.
I mean, “I didn’t have socks as a teenager?” What the hell?
Moving on…
What are your plans Tokyo 2020? With it being the first time surfing is including in the summer games, do you feel a need to compete?
And yeah, Kelly. Do you feel a need to compete?
I haven’t made an official statement but I have said that if I were to make the Olympic team in 2020 I would surf. I would probably make that my official retirement after that.
There we go. A probable retirement announcement!
Dry those tears. Dry them now and enjoy these next two years.