Online sleuths with magnifying glasses show Kelly Slater using BeachGrit as a special in-your-pocket encyclopedia!
You don’t have to dig too far into the ol archives to realise that Kelly Slater, greatest athlete of all time with the possible exception of Rickson Gracie, ain’t a fan of your ol pals at BeachGrit.
A few years back a New Zealand reader had a little back and forth with Kelly Slater, described in these pages as the world’s most thin-skinned surfer. When BeachGrit came up he wrote “Fuck those guys.”
Many good times over the years, of course.
The Chinese girlfriend blood feud with a troll, a favourite.
Anyway, online sleuths, have foiled Kelly Slater’s supposed avoidance of all things BeachGrit in an Instagram post by Bob Hurley, the “razor sharp surf magnate”.
It’s an innocuous enough post.
Kelly Slater talks about a surfboard Florida’s Matt Kechele had made for the Typhoon Lagoon wave pool, which is now in his possession. It is five-foot five long and featured on the cover of Surfing in 1988. Subsequently, it was owned by the Malloy brothers and used as a learn-to-surf tool by their kids.
But look a little close and…yes…Kelly is using BeachGrit! Referencing the story, “Revealed: A history of Kelly Slater’s Pool!” which spoke highly of the pool’s technical architect the Jamacian-born Adam Fincham.
An excerpt:
Adam Fincham was a research professor from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Southern California. When Kelly came knocking in 2006, swinging his idea of a barrelling man-made wave.
Fincham had worked mostly in Europe and didn’t know who Slater was. But Fincham “pulled together a team of colleagues and undertook a pilot study in 2007.
They decided that, yes, it was possible.”
Two years later, Fincham was director for science at KSWC, working out of a lab in Culver City, just of out of LA, and using a 1/15th model scale for testing.
Kelly Slater referencing BeachGrit while at his pool? His essential guide to all things surf? Kelly Slater’s portable reference tool?
Readers ask: does this suggest better days ahead for the two spearheads of surfing?
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Now this investigative surf journalism is what we mean by “keep up the work” around here…
Spearhead = Peckerhead?
that would be an insult to Stick!
Kelly” “I give you guys (at BG) an inch and you ride it into miles…and I am a glutton for punishment. You all want a free day at my pool?”
If he throws in a bushel of the OK blanket shirts, Derek and Chas may just have a deal that cannot be ignored…
I’m Kelly slater and so is my dog.
If Ziff whistles we both come running
“KEITHMalloypedoPeople”
Hey Kelly, did you ever get those stickers that I sent?
I know for a fact that Kelly is a very, very part time anonymous Commentator here at BG.
I would LOL so hard if his nic was ben_marcus
To be fair Kelly is not a Man stuck in the past. He’s all about tomorrow. So no chance.
But I did come to this conclusion after Ben was a little to loose in sharing others emails in a group message.
Yeah, I’d imagine all those surf industry figures who once engaged with Ben are now regretting it as he sprays their email addresses all over the internet.
Yeah, Now that I have his email I did consider pitching an idea to Bob Hurley the other week.
Outermind, Outersight & Outerthisworld p/l are taken OK
and Kalani said to say, it’s definitely not me
I always assumed that Bob was Kelly.
And if that’s the case, where the hell are my $later $urf $chool royalty checks, BOB???
https://beachgrit.com/2023/…
The Chinese Girlfriend era….
Fuck, he’s good hey. Kelly Slater – 11 x Trolling World Champion
Not at Typhoon Lagoon in Florida – it was an event in California at the Wild Rivers wave pool in Irvine – extensively covered by many photographers
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Dang, that’s some real surf journalism 🙂 Unless you are KS?
Yeah, that’s impressive. I guessed. The CNN and MSNBC approach.
Why was BeachGrit able to survive for so long?
Derek: We guessed a lot and occasionally got it right.
Thank god that one side of the political media landscape , not mentioned in your comment, always has our best interest at heart. In Oz, especially.
Yeah, I don’t believe Typhoon Lagoon existed yet… This was taken in Tempe, AZ where he finished runner-up to one Rick Kane!
I pray my Google image search history is never made public.
Lets narrow that down to just the to the Wife.
Jesus, bruz, if you saw mine…
Beachgwit
Hey he has the same phone case as my mom! oh wait. fuck!
Maybe he can help you fix that fucked up ad in the middle of the article.
Which one? There’s about a hundred of em.
good for you.
A man’s gotta eat….
Yeah, and pussy ain’t cheap.
Korean BBQ puppy tastes supreme and, much cheaper!
… and, aint Nathan Cleary the new GOAT (for bogans)?