Poet laureate.
Hours ago, inspired by the great Amanda Gorman, I begged for surfing to have a poet laureate though was woefully forgettable of the truly epic voices we already have amongst us. The one and only @Eddie_Haiku, Bex Vidina who may, or may not, be Australian, and the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater.
Forgettable-ing the latter is my profound personal shame for he took to Instagram not four hours ago to pen a tribute to the incomparable Kobe Bryant who tragically died in a helicopter accident last year on this very day.
Per @kellyslater:
One year ago today on my flight home from San Francisco ! took this picture for some reason. It’s the morning sunrise over the low clouds (cloud emoji) over Calabasas. It would be Kobe Bryant’s last sunrise. Hours after I took this picture Kobe’s helicopter would crash in this exact spot due to these clouds and poor visibility. It was a sad day indeed. Make every day count boys cause you don’t know when it’s your last.
Truer, more poetic, words never penned and it may be the greatest Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, social media post ever sent live.
The muses inspiring the world’s greatest surfer to pick up us his phone and shoot a cloud formation that he has, no doubt, had seen hundreds (thousands) of times but on that very day.
National Football League quarterback Tom Brady may be headed back to the Super Bowl for and unprecedented run but the GOAT belongs to us.
Belongs to surfing.
Make every day count.
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‘Make Every Day Count’?
Hmmm, okie~dokie:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
“Everybody gotta die sometime”…
In reality he’s a merman.
Yup. And I love it. The freak of freaks, the goat of goats. All of us wrapped around his Pam Ando finger wishing that finger would finger us.
JUST a tall ship, and also a star? that seems a lot to ask, even for a Britisher
I have looked for that 15:30 sequence before to show to someone. Saw it days ago and couldn’t find it again. Hands down some of the best ‘alt craft’ riding I have ever seen.
Robert Kelly Slater is a citizen of the world. for tax purposes its count von kelly of Lichtenstein.
Does anyone recall the time long ago, when it wasn’t all about him?… Was there maybe an ESA contest back in the 80’s at Sebastian, or maybe the championships at Hatteras, when possibly, he did not jump into someone else’s spotlight?… geez….
He must have first caught the bug jumping into his brother’s spotlight.
I know Kelly is the guy that takes photos with oblunder. Who is kobe bryant?
That wave you got past the pier was sick but wtf are you saying
Hope he is triple or quadruple masking on that plane
Kellstradamus rides again…
shit Kelly Slater killed Kobe….you can see the chem trail from his phone going into the clouds, and disrupting Kobes Helicopter….fuck call the conspiracy police!!
Hate to break it to ya mate but pretty people are often dumb and Ke11y is the Forrest Gump of surfing.
Does that make Julian Wilson Simple Jack?
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Kelly thinks he’s rain man.
Rain main wasn’t wealthy and Gump ruined the running and shrimp industries however I can see Ke11y being super into The Peoples Court Judge Wapner Judge Wapner so you have a point there.
You know darn well Kelly thinks he can count a 6-deck shuffle.
Good point about Judge Wapner. He delivered swift justice.
Nah man its “Make every day count boys”. You’re forcing every day to count boys. How many boys do YOU have?
That folks, is a great example of the work of a true master… of narcissism.
It’s hard to believe at times.
Though I commend his commitment.
What’s Kelly gonna be like when he’s 70 years old?
Narcissism led him to Ke11y and now.
But narcissism can’t let him just relax and enjoy his success.
Rips for a 50 year old tho
Nobody can be sure of the outcome, but check out Greg Norman
#KellyPulledAnAshtonGoggans
Geez Kelly, stop acting like you saw the killer before he made his move. The helicopter pilot was not instrument rated and had no business flying in those conditions. He could have flown an alternative route to Kobe’s Mamba Camp. The tragedy was 100% avoidable.
Zobayan was a licensed instrument pilot, meaning that he was trained on the safety and navigational tools needed to fly under poor weather conditions. According to Gregor at the FAA, he added an instrument rating to his private pilot license on October 20, 2007.Jan 27, 2020
You talk a lot of shit on this site and most of it is fucking rubbish.
I was going from memory of the incident. It was the company he was flying for, not him. Kobe’s widow is currently suing the company under the argument that the pilot was not rated to fly under those conditions bc the company is not rated to fly under those conditions. According to the FAA, she’ll prevail.
“Speaking generally, a pilot has to observe any limitations on the company he or she works for, regardless of the pilot’s personal ratings,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. “If a company is not authorized to conduct flights in bad-weather conditions, the pilot while flying for that company can only conduct flights in visual conditions.”
If he was so experienced then why did he fly into a fucking mountain?
He was a kid (*)ucker with orders
count makes every day and make every count day and day make every cunt