First look: Kelly “Liberace” Slater rides Waco wavepool; “more heavy clips coming soon”!

"I kept asking myself, 'Is this real life?'"

Well, ain’t this just what you’ve all been waiting for, Kelly “Liberace” Slater thumping the keyboard of his battered piano at the BSR cable-park in Waco, Texas.

Kelly, of course, is the maestro behind Surf Ranch in Lemoore, Central California, now majority owned by the World Surf League whose CEO in 2016, Paul Speaker, predicted, “that all stakeholders – athletes, fans, broadcast and corporate partners – will be super energised by the advent of Championship Tour-level competition with man-made waves.”

Not as energised, I think, as from watching Kelly ride, for two days, with pal Shane Dorian and his kid Jackson, at the American Wave Machines-powered pool that has become ground zero for air practice.

Here’s a little taste, with “more heavy clips coming soon” according to a spectator.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwbq51jlYR/

 

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NEGATRON
NEGATRON
6 years ago

Sometimes they don’t return. Things evolve… other voices arise in void created.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
6 years ago

Bex on timeout and Otto must’ve just got sick of arguing and put himself in timeout??
Can’t remember how long I set Bex’s freedom sentence at.
Being morbidly addicted to posting here aint a healthy place to be so I’ll let it roll out to whatever it is. Also I know stage 3 of internet addiction is still reading every comment and I don’t want to give him any false hope.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
6 years ago

So wouldn’t this apply to all top 10 surfers? Are they all able to pull this shit at 50 or is Kelly a special kind of pampered? And he probably was physically put out trying to keep super models happy. Maybe?

@surfads
@surfads
6 years ago

I’m sure Bill Gates uses an iPad

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
6 years ago

Is this real life?
Is this a fantasy?

Party Pete
Party Pete
6 years ago

…
No escape from reality

ricmatic
ricmatic
6 years ago
Reply to  Party Pete

Where’s Bexgrit?

Wilbur
Wilbur
6 years ago

My takeaway from this is some dude named Tom named his son Beach. How lazy!

Bu (Malibu), Rinny (Rincon), Pper (snapper), Gla (gland), Poo (teahupoo), or even Eline (pipeline) would’ve been a lot better. Be better Tom!

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago
Reply to  Wilbur

I don’t want to rag on the kid but sheeeeee-iit.. his olds need a slap..

Wilbur
Wilbur
6 years ago

Top comment WP. I just read on Ashole Goobers website Derek Ho is in a coma and critical.

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago
Reply to  Wilbur

Really? whoa what happened to him

Wilbur
Wilbur
6 years ago

Dunno, there’s an article on stab.

Beef & Beer
Beef & Beer
6 years ago

Whenever I see that a kid has been given any lame as fuck ‘surf oriented’ name by wannabe fuckwit parents a part of me hopes the kid doesn’t want anything to do with it and bails to inland anywhere and becomes a ballet dancer etc…

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago
Reply to  Beef & Beer

haha I like it. and it made me think about a hypothetical against the odds Russian kid surfer whose parents are dancers. His name, Baryshnikov!

Twinnie
Twinnie
6 years ago
Reply to  Beef & Beer

Every town with even the smallest surf community seems to have an 8-12 year old named Taj now. Poor fucking kids.

braziliangayjesus
braziliangayjesus
6 years ago
Reply to  Beef & Beer

…or becoming the ultimate bum

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago

Beach? Someone half named their kid after BG. Beach “Grit” Taylor has a nice ring to it. Poor grom.. His oldies really screwed him out of a nice surf parental Hawaiian name. Kahakai “Grit” Taylor has a better ring.

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

If I was choosing to name myself half after beachgrit…i would go with Grit for sure. That’s a sick name

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
6 years ago
Reply to  Uneducated

Maybe for a Cowboys son.

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

Hey if Matt hoy can call his son Tex, I am proudly taking Grit

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago
Reply to  Uneducated

And he ended up being good at footy.. starter for the Knights!

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

I think of it only in terms of my ability to pick up chick’s, as any measure of success
My surname shares a word with the coolest predatory animal on the planet…put them together, and I cant fail
This has changed my fucking life…thanks beachgrit! Can’t believe its taken me so long

Waterproof Polo
Waterproof Polo
6 years ago
Reply to  Uneducated

Grit White Sharkey – Anti depressive. Slayer of pussy. Seal eating winner at life!

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

Hahahaha, Perfect. I’m employing you as my PR man…you can put up a bunch of fake photos of me on dating sites

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
6 years ago

Dude needs to share who supplies him with his supply of surf viagra pills. Unreal shit for being 50.

Onedimensionalman
Onedimensionalman
6 years ago

We can laugh at Kelly all we want (given we have enough time in the day between wankings) but his jus de vivre is genetics + diet + lifestylez. Give me a frothing cup of guano cafeve and store enough nuts in my poon pouch to last me 9-10 North County winters and I’ll be launching front grip mid length floaters at Beacons with exceptional vigor til the last of you turds succumbs to death by face mask.

astro
astro
6 years ago

Disappointed, Drek.
I thought this was Kelly’s coming out after being reprogrammed by Charlie.
Nup – just shitty old pool surfing again …
Pump, pump – whhheeeeeeeee

Tomas' silky smooth arms
Tomas' silky smooth arms
6 years ago
Reply to  astro

Wouldn’t it be great for surfing if he came out. Also disappointed (again). And the surf is shit this morning. Day drinking planned followed by listening to BG pdcasts. They better be fucken funny.

astro
astro
6 years ago

It would be perfect.

dickie toledo
dickie toledo
6 years ago

is this his tryout for ‘ultimate surfer’? don’t think for a second he doesn’t want to be on that show.

Tom
Tom
6 years ago

More “Heavy” clips coming soon?
Does it go 10ft plus, does he face plant into the concrete bottom sending his jaw into his skull, does a great white jump from the spectator region and take him out??
Or does he fight Iron Mike that be heavy


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