"I wonder if we will see a collaboration between Urbnsurf and Slater’s Surf Ranch."
The greatest athlete of all time, as determined by The Outsiders star Rob Lowe, has sent surf fans, conspiracy theorists and online sleuths into overdrive after a surprise visit to the Urbnsurf wavepool in Melbourne, Australia.
Fifty-one-year-old Kelly Slater, along with fluid mechanics engineer Adam Fincham, created Surf Ranch in 2016, a one-off pool near Fresno, California, that has become the go-to for tech millionaire birthday parties and home to the tour’s own Coachella-esque event and festival.
En route to Margaret River, where the 11-time world champ will attempt to keep his spot on tour, Slater visited the two-year-old Wavegarden pool a short taxi ride from Tullamarine airport.
And while the Champ’s jumping and swerving was adored, as always, online gumshoes were quick to point out there may be more to his visit than a simple rinsing after Bells.
“Been there, surfed it, seen others surf it in real life and posted! No one, no one has ever destroyed a wave like that… Kelly your a legend! P.S. don’t think I have ever seen you do that at your surf park, must be a better wave here.”
I wonder if we will see a collaboration between Urbnsurf and Slater’s Surf Ranch. Guaranteed he wasn’t surfing; he was evaluating.”
A psy-op or psychological operation is the use of propaganda, disinformation and other psychological techniques to twist the minds of a target audience’s behaviors.
Think, Operation Mockingbird from the nineteen-fifties when the CIA recruited journalists and editors to spread propaganda and disinformation in support of US government policies or the wonderful MK-Ultra, when the CIA, responding to claims of Commie-brainwashing in Vietnam, used drugs and hypnosis to get into their subjects’ heads, Charles Manson a famous test pilot.
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for mine, Operation Mincemeat was the best psy-ops.
Why so close up? To hide the industrial wasteland surrounding . KS should ride that board in a contest, looked pretty good
But hes not using a firewire surfboard,is he?
Live long and prosper plebs.
congrats to the isa. a stand worth taking.
indefensible war crime action from Russia.
Such a giant mental leap to figure out he was ‘evaluating’. You all are fucking geniuses.
Why’s Kelly suddenly the new trans-shark?
#cocaine shark is trending…Kelly’s seed money lost at sea…
If you worked anywhere landlocked you would surf a pool and fuck a doll!!!
Waves made from water but..
This fella doesn’t surf like he’s 51 years old – more like a frothing grommet.
“Frothing Cocoa Beach grommet” once upon a time that kid dreamt BIG!
hahaha, yep, it’s like saying “that guys bald”!
On another note, this from The Inertia is one of the worst articles I have seen published. They need an editor.
Surf Photographers, It’s 2023: Please Stop Objectifying Women’s Bodies https://www.theinertia.com/… via @the_inertia
Anti Roxy??
fuck at last , he’s found a place where his EPS/GW works !!
How many heat wins did he handicap himself against?
all of them
ridiculous.