In stunning revelation, surf star Kelly Slater hopes unborn son will mirror his own radical ‘tude

"I'm generally pretty calm in stressful situations..."

The announcement that 11x world surfing champion Kelly Slater and his longtime Chinese girlfriend Kalani Miller delighted the wave-appreciating community like few before it. The best to ever do it shared that he and Miller were expecting, weeks ago, with a very cute photo shoot. While initial theory suggested the child would be a baby girl, it turned out that a son is, in fact, on the way.

Now while it is both rude and ill-mannered to speculate as to what the li’l fella might do with himself, it is also impossible.

Could he be gifted with the preternatural talent that has allowed his father to remain at the peak of professional surfing for forty years? Dominating very scary waves like Teahupo’o and Pipeline along the way?

Or might the apple fall far from the tree, the boy enjoying to stay indoors and read books about Faustian architecture instead?

Well, Slater, placing a tanned finger on the scales, appears to be actively campaigning for the former.

In a stunning revelation to Daily Mail, Slater openly declared:

We are really excited, little unnerving, little scary but that’s part of the excitement and anticipation that comes along with being a parent. I’m generally pretty calm in stressful situations. Kalani’s a lot more organised, more on it with everything she needs to get done. So I hope our child is that way. But it’s fun to like thrills and excitement too so maybe a little bit more of the physical life I like and balance of life she likes.

The balance of opposites, as they say.

RVCA-esque.

But what do you make of that? Natural hopes and dreams of a parent for child or an unnecessary bit of playing god?

Did you harbor secret wishes for your offspring?

Did they come true?

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