“For the design of the sandal, Kelly was particularly moved by the mysterious and special relationship between the moon and sea turtle."
Fans, around the world, broke into sobs, yesterday, with the realization that the greatest professional surfer of all-time has, almost certainly, won his last heat. Yes, Kelly Slater will come up against Jack Robinson, whenever J-Bay turns back on, and likely lose. He will then travel to Teahupo’o, a wave he loves very much, but be sitting at the bottom of the draw and lose again. He will not be invited to Lower Trestles, even though the World Surf League loves giving him sneaky wildcards and that will be that.
This morning, though, eyes were dried when the aforementioned fans understood that Slater will continue to dominate, just in other fields.
Let us take design. A “creativity and innovation expert” just posted some life coaching on social media wherein he declared, “This one thing I learned in design school forever changed how I think. I had a course where a professor made us sketch 300 concepts every night. As we hung up our sketches for critique each day, a few things immediately stood out. First, the entire class had similar ideas for the first third of our sketches. Only after that did the interesting ideas start emerging. Second, no matter how amazing you are, your initial ideas are generic and crap.”
He goes on discussing the “flow state” and how to make interesting ideas emerge clearly without realizing that the 11x World Champion had designed a moon sandal inspired by turtles as the very first thing that popped into his head.
Per the press release:
“The first item to hit the market is the sandal, influenced by Slater’s renowned surfing career. Inspired by the relationship between the moon and the ocean, the sandal is made using recycled material, uses BLOOM technology (derived from algae), and provides a high level of cushioning, durability, responsiveness and water resistance.
“For the design of the sandal, Kelly was particularly moved by the mysterious and special relationship between the moon and sea turtle. Turtles have 13 large scales that represent the 13 lunar cycles in each year and 28 smaller scales that represent the days in each cycle. As a tribute to these coexisting forces, Kelly designed the top of the sandal to mirror the moon’s surface while the bottom sole represents the turtle’s scales. Additional styles and sizing are set to release later this year.”
Genius don’t have similar ideas.
Genius likes turtles.
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What should I learn or possibly take away from this thread?
Its easy and brave to belittle someone online when you clearly dont quite know what you are talking about. I didnt offer any predictions to the future so the (questionable existence of) Nostradamus reference didnt exactly hit the mark. Im choosing not to wear shoes today whilst I walk barefooted and soak up some sunshine. Ill leave you with one last thing to consider, which you can insert into any topic you wish. A lie is still a lie even when everyone believes the lie.
I’m turtleheading right now since fuckwit Chaz Smith is sucking the crackpipe once again while using, once again, Kelly Slaters name to get people to read his useless drivel.
Cmon over Chaz for a mouthful of dingleberries fresh from my ass after my turtlehead has dove into the bowl.
Eat shit Sally
Has anyone made a giant slippah-looking board to surf with for comedic porpoises? If not, I claim some fee for the idea if anyone does it.
Waves look pumping boys, first set in the dark on fire.
Kiddy up WSL.
His design of turtle shell is legit.
28 days in a lunar cycle.
28 days in a standard healthy womans menstrual cycle.
28 days in the 13month calendar which was replaced by the current Gregorian calendar to throw off correct timelines. 28 days x 13months equals 364 days.
Our calendar has been perverted. Its right infront of your face but you dont see it.
what is sept usually representing? 7 what is oct usually representing? 8 what is dec usually representing? 10 its all been muddled up to hide true history.
The turtle shell is legit. The numbers dont lie.
It’s endlessly amusing to rib Kelly but if you think Kelly can’t win a couple heats at pumping teahupoo you are wrong
If it’s 10ft and he draws Pip, he wins without doubt
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Everybody likes turtles, some too much.
Doin’ da turtle dance!..
Remember when Lewis caught that second 16 pro having sex with the turtle?
Who was that guy?
That’s how Laird lets off steam after he check’s his Laird creamer stock price.
shoulder high? F 2ft burger world
He also went into his mysto babble with those fucken awful Thommo boards – however it is mildly entertaining!
“Turtles have 13 large scales that represent the 13 lunar cycles in each year and 28 smaller scales that represent the days in each cycle. “
They don’t ‘represent’ a fucking thing. The scales are merely the outcome of evolutionary biochemistry and have no mystical connection to any anthropomorphic ‘meaning’, nor likely to have any basis in the happenstance numerical coincidence of the lunar cycles or our calendar system.
Howabout this:
“The psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung interpreted the turtle as the primordial chaos, the alchemical massa confusa, noting that the Hindi Trimurti has a turtle at the bottom, from which everything else grows through transformation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_turtles
Could be a representation of the current WSL.
So cringe isnt it.
How about: uranus has 11 rings, representing one for each of kellys world titles.
Coincidentally, these rings are visible with the naked eye if you stick your head head up kellys ass.
Proudly BG Tarnished here !
BG tarnished, I’m afraid, Jen.
the 2 heats I caught featured maybe 4 sets total.
I think every surf ‘influencer’ on earth got a pair. Saw Bret barley opening a pair on the obx. Ratio of handouts to actual purchases = 10-1
I won a set of his endor fins on that stupid comp they ran. I think i was the only person stupid enough to enter.
I sent Kelly some stickers back in the day after his Pipe win. You’d think he could send me some weird turtle-ass slippahs.
Sad.
Those sandals look like the orthopedic footwear they give old age pensioners. Apt considering the age profile of most surfers these days!
The more foam the better ha ha.
we old fellas should get em for free with our pension
And only 89.99!
don’t sell ’em. just giving, givin, givin ’em away now. post as loss.
Tbh I generally have an aversion to anybody talking about the concept of flow state
In other news, to the fucking weirdo at the pier this morning: 1) I didn’t want to have to flip you out the back but you were dropping in on me; 2) it was clearly not a left and I was on the peak, I was up and riding well before you started paddling, and did not snake you; 3) fuck you for making me waste my time looking at Surfline rewind footage to confirm I was 100% in the right; and 4) I’m not ever going to hit someone in the lineup, but the next guy you bark at who is twice your size after you act that way over a 2 foot burger might not have the same disposition. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Ya should’ve flipped him, Com.
Fuck them.
oh, he got flipped like a pancake
Good work !
How’s the scarecrow in the foreground
This is lots better than Kelly’s turtle moon.
More as you develop a story…
Trying, so hard, using phones and stuff …
dropped into some deep thoughts on the ELO obit…who else could include Carl Sagan, Mother Teresa, rock n’ roll, and common sense into an original cut & paste. would love your thoughts & prayers…is/was a story developed?
btw, this was hatched (from turtle eggs on the 28th of June) prior to my injury that flashed somewhere between here and Sarah Brady.
As seen in The Sushi’s Journal… issue 420. Vol.3
Cracks are more effective than words
AMEN! Preach it!
Nice. Surfline cams good for something.
This post is the reason we have surfcams. Funny stuff, Com
Brah don’t be posting my secret spot
Hahahahahahahar
Just so much advertising crap. Who out there would believe any of that shit?
It makes our goat look like an idiot… which we know he’s not ….
Oh wait, maybe he is.
Hard to believe that pipe win was just 18 months ago. Went from the mountaintop straight to, well, turtles …
He was fucken lucky to get through a couple those early heats, iirc.
But he’s always been lucky ….
BG comment threads are 28 times mo betta than KS’s. but am looking to replace Fanning’s Rip Curl’s go-aheads (which have carved deep grooves and tracks across my hardwood floors).