Kelly Slater and Kai Lenny are the two best teachers in the world!
It appears that Kelly Slater and Kai Lenny can transform any internationally-renowned, multiple-time Formula 1 champion and turn him into a surfer overnight. The best two teachers in the world? Although our sample is limited, I think the answer is a resounding yes!
After getting barreled on his very first trip to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch just a few short weeks ago, the British racer Lewis Hamilton is back at it in the real ocean, this time with Kai Lenny though I think Kelly Slater is there too.
Are the pointers helping?
No doubt. Hamilton looks confident, poised and ready to barrel in the real world. Face forward, shoulders squaring toward the wave, eyes down the line.
The commenters agree that he is surfing extraordinarily.
@shai_3355 writes, “You make it look easy!”
@lesly.stubbs.9 writes, “Cute butt cheeks!”
@giansa_aprilianko adds, “Hello im live in Indonesian please following me”
On it goes, not a bad comment in the bunch and does professional driving not have “grumpy locals?” Did the Father of Modern Professional Surfing accidentally buy the wrong pastime?
More as it develops.
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Style? You mean to tell me there is “Style” in surfing? But yeah,i n all seriousness, it seem a lot of the newer school don’t know or care to know what that is. It bums me out.
The Richard Cram cutback was a fricken beauty!
Cricket is also evidently a haven for adult learners. Delight here as Dale and Isha kook out on what may or may not be soft tops and then conduct a post-surf interview with a hitherto-unseen shortboard with gopro mount.
Why is inertia coming up on BG site?
As a half Brit I think I’m qualified to state that this guy is an absolute grade A twat.
No one likes him due to the fact that he’s now American.
Jamie O’Brien needs to take him to Keiki on an inflatable sofa
Maybe a Mayhem F1 collab, how good were they!? Fuck I’m getting another.
“sebcarr67….teacher’s “
fuck, swoop in apostrophe police, and show no mercy.
If Kai was teaching LH how to foil, why was Kelly there? Kai flipped Kelly’s IG script and foiled Kelly retaining the Jeep Leader’s Yellow Jersey as LH’s coolest new Pro Surfer bestie.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
I think even adult learner Mark Phillokookssis surfs better than me and he has more money and more free time and a better house and goes on better holidays and is fitter and also the shaper I used a couple of times because he was Rasta’s shaper (I know whatever, I found the details on a forum and went for it pre instagram really fucking shit up) anyway this shaper would actually respond to Phillokookssis’ comments on instagram while I’d never be so bold as to ask a question or comment on those posts.
The more important article is: Has instagram made shapers look like a bunch of desperados who cater to adult learners above their core audience? I have stopped following any shapers and surfers on instagram coz it makes them look shit. Instagram makes everyone look shit these days.
Anyhoo I’ve gone back to the shaper I used as a kid and he doesn’t post on instagram.
As a shaper that took a step back from Instagram I couldn’t agree more, it’s turned into a dog and pony show where you can invent and or destroy yourself with a few honest posts.
It must be a double edge sword for shapers like you. I mean, you want to get your shapes out and give the public an opportunity to see what you do but then you don’t want to look over curated and wanky – damned if you do damned if you don’t.
In Lewis they trust
The adult learner has their
Spiritual leader
Cute
I’ve seen some kooks do 360s , get tubed so why not airs ,but I ain’t ever seen a kook do a decent roundhouse cutback ever ! Ever !
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Doesn’t Dan Ricciardo surf? Why isn’t that a bigger story? (Whether he does or doesn’t).
I recall Mark Webber saying he surfed in the off season.
I think Greg Webber surfs too.
Only when he’s not exploiting Asian countries so he can fund his boat wake pool.
He was known to paddleboard for training in the off season. Surfing, I’m not so sure about.
In a brief aside, I met him (MW) once in the UAE resulting in the worst ever photo of myself ever. Like, ‘you fucken lanky, embarassing, fan boy, dork’, was my reaction. My wife was much more direct.
Yeah he went from Mayhem’s to 7S Surfboards.
wait till Jean Girard gets a hold of this.
It makes no sense! This “Shake and Bake”, it’s nonsense!
The pool giveth and the pool taketh away.