Goodbye Kai?
The seemingly unshakeable friendship between Kai Lenny, the daring multi-discipline surfer with skin the colour of buttered cocoa, and Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s fifth richest man and founder of Facebook, appears to’ve floundered after Lenny’s former tow-buddy shared a video of himself training MMA with UFC debutante Kha “The Shadow” Wu, even calling it “the best sport.”
In the video, Zuckerberg, whose foil-boarding escapades along Kauai’s Ne Pali coast with Lenny had become the stuff of legend, rolls easily through the various disciplines of mixed martial arts, kickboxing, wrestling, jiujitsu, and at one point even arm-bars his quarry.
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Two-div UFC king Conor McGregor put aside his usually corrosive manner to write, “Yo!!! Fucking awesome Mark!”
On a podcast with Joe Rogan last week, Zuckerberg explained the pivot away from surfing.
“From the very first session that I did, like five minutes in, I was like, ‘Where has this been my whole life?’ All right. My mom made me do three varsity sports and my life took a wrong turn when I chose to do fencing competitively instead of wrestling in high school or something…
“There’s just something that’s so primal about it… Since then, I’ve just introduced a bunch of my friends to it. That’s been really fun, because now it’s like we train together and wrestle together. There’s a certain intensity to it that I like. Maybe there’s this cultural thing where a lot of people haven’t considered it. I’ve had 100 percent hit rate of introducing friends to it and converting them to people who now train. Every single person who I’ve shown it to is like, ‘This is amazing. This is obviously how I should be training and working out.’”
No word yet from Lenny who must be reconsidering his comments from a Wired interview just eight months ago where he described his former BFF as “super cool, super into water sport, really active. Super fit. Like … strong, strong strong. Physically strong.”