He loves us, he really loves us!
Many months ago, the world’s greatest surfer took on Elon Musk in a battle over cryptocurrency investment strategies. Slater was angry that Musk for disallowing the popular Bitcoin to be used for purchasing his Teslas. As dutiful surf journalist, I felt it important to understand Slater’s various positions more deeply and dove feet first into the bubbling fount of his Instagram stories.
The first thing I noted, was a reference to “paper handed investors” or those blown here or there by the winds of change versus “diamond handed investors” who bravely hold a position.
Slater obviously with diamond hands.
For a series of stories, thereafter, the 11x World Champion was referred to, here, as “Diamond Handed Bitcoin Investor Kelly Slater.”
Now, in a subtle signal of love to BeachGrit’s one-of-a-kind community, an “irreverent online publication,” Slater has included a diamond emoji and a hand emoji in his Instagram biography.
A clear nod to the place, and people, who adore him like no other.
Does it make you feel happy that Slater is joining along? Laughing as we go?
It does me.
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jeeze I cant wait to watch Elo “surfers story 10 hour mini series on this” or will it be hidden behind the wall of positive noise.
this years title is going have too have two ** and a ?
Potting around!
Or The front foot …..Had a beauty in France in the late 90s ….after descending tail first into the flats , Backhand , the front foot slipped and found myself doing the splits , ouch and then…. the fucken lip exploded on my back , triple OUCH …. FLAT BAGS ! end of session , out of the water for 2 weeks and walked , gingerly , around town , like a bandy legged cowboy much to the amusement of the entire village .I suppose in retrospect , I got lucky .
Sounds like you got lucky a lot.
Just a daft punk …
She’s up all night ’til the sun
I’m up all night to get some
She’s up all night for good fun
I’m up all night to get lucky….
You Lucky, lucky bastard ..!
After breaking my foot and tearing all the ligaments in my ankle from a mountain biking crash in 83, attempting a floater on a big hollow wave didn’t appeal to me.
Martin Potter did 3 floaters on every wave the year he eclipsed the rest of the field winning 6 events , in ……take it away Joe ? 89
Nah, good call though.
fuck disqus
Kelly *stareyes emoji* Slater.
kelly all Elo gots left…they will wheel him out in a wheelchair and ensure the judges push him thu
I guess John John isn’t surfing the last two events.
Hmmm, Kelly and Bitcoin … smells a bit fishy to me.
Ol diamond hands needs his eyesight checked.
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Looks like a job for Ke11Y Je11Y …..
I made an IG account concerning our lord and saviour if you’re into that sort of thing. It won’t all be derogatory. How could one not love the man after the journey he’s taken us on?
@kellyslatermemes
Probably will get a cease and desist from the WSL
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My diamond hands are getting smooth from lack of work
Pretty soon I won’t need a rubber glove anymore for solo fun.
Surf Splendour podcast with David and Kelly next week?
Listened to Kelly and Brad Gerlach talk about all the different kinds of floaters there are and who did the best floater ever for a half hour live yesterday. I Like Gerlach but a weird topic to talk about.
Surely Kanoa was like four of top five?
They said Mark Sainsbury, RIP did the best floaters ever. Was more of a thing back then. Slater said that people are going to start doing floaters on ten foot pipe waves soon, lol. Strange discussion.
Sanga.. Indeed he did. Legend.
*Edit* I think one of my earliest memories of watching comps was my old man taking me to the Mattara comp here at home. Sanga won it that year maybe like 84? I was knee high I reckon.
Also.. Who’d float the boat on a 10ft’r for chissake!!! and at Pipe.. Was Slatz high?
I thought that was before your time probably. He didn’t say who was gonna do a floater at ten foot pipe but he thought it was only a matter of time haha. He said if skaters can jump down a flight of fifteen stairs then somebody could do a floater at pipe and land in the flats. Never heard so much detail about floaters in my life. Slater said he could pump down the line while on the roof a wave.
Only just my time by a couple laps around haha
Seems surreal to discuss floaters for so long though. I’m keen to hear it actually. Just for fun!
It was live on IG so I don’t know if there’s any way to replay it.
That makes it even more surreal
He won the juniors in the 84 Mattara Comp , I surfed against him in a 6 man heat in round 1 of that event , got through in 3rd on Saturday morning , before getting knocked out in Rnd 3 on Sunday , and got a Ronnie Coote early Monday morning ….fuck I love surf contests , before he went on to win the 85 Pro Junior v Dooma in the final in January , Bugger I almost made the main event , and then he won the world amateurs in 86
Fuck yeah for this whole comment JB.
What’s the odds on the Coote coming from either the Jolly Rodger, the Star or maybe the beaches after a lovely legs comp? The 80’s must have been a rad time to be young/legal.
I was but a wee grom..
The funniest thing is , I still made it to work on time at 7am in Sydney a few hours later …. Makes me tired now just thinking about it .
Funnily enough I just needed a weeks rest after a recent 3 week surf holiday with the Family in France …. The surfing is no problem but recuperating takes a hell of a lot longer …..
I have a few memories of that event …. The return of Parko’s Uncle to competition and future Channel 9 big wig Dave Gyngell’s layback and nearly getting run over by a wild hairy youngish Nick Carroll in an early morning free surf as he came out of a decent tube somewhere behind the rocks at Merewether .
Gold
Adriano?
There are floaters and FLOATERS , from the ones on soft cotton wool foamy sections get to the next section , fun to do , but no risk involved , to death defying flying on the lip over ball crushing sections of consequence , where failure to complete will probably land you in hospital ….
Like the one that ended Shea Lopez’s career at backdoor?
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if you sit next to sarlo at 1st pt, you can scoop up floaters and toss em at tudor.
Haha.
Remember that toy from childhood, Stretch Armstrong? This reminds me of that.
No, I think he’s dead serious. *Ayahuasca emoji*
Strider would “nod”, but he has a crack pipe and Hunter’s ____ in his mouth.