“This could be Kelly Slater's Michael Jackson-baby-dangle-off-the-balcony moment.”
Hot on the news that Kelly Slater has been gifted a lifeline to a twelfth world title, is footage of the champ apparently giving an infant the gift of barrel-riding.
Kelly Slater, who is fifty-two, is filmed wearing a harness called a BabyBjörn, a type of baby carrier designed to carry infants and young children.
(As readers of this site who are parents will attest, the BabyBjörn harness is indispensable as it allows parents to carry their babies in various positions, including facing inward, facing outward, and on their back, as they grow. I have so many fond memories of babies asleep on my chest as I strolled the beaches examining the state of sandbanks and the tides.)
And, in the case of Kelly Slater, whose second child is due, well, the exact date hasn’t been publicly disclosed, however, the announcement was made in March 2024, so, considering the average human gestation period, it’s likely that the baby is due sometime in the summer of 2024, the device is used to carry a baby while he surfs.
In the short reel hosted on Red Bull producer Johnny Decesare’s Instagram account, Kelly Slater coolly takes the child on a first-hand tour of his famous made-made wave, Surf Ranch, riding the barrel and, at the wave’s end, even introducing him, or her, or they, it, to the never-gets-old pleasures of a throwaway air.
“Could be Kelly’s Michael Jackson’s-baby-dangle-off-the-balcony-moment coming up,” writes one commenter although, I think, as one commenter correctly puts it, “some might say it’s a doll.”
Do you think child alive or plastic?
If plastic, why?
If real, why not!
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Get your ass to Mars
Get your ass to Mars
can’t unsee that
I actually think I’ve paid for something like that on the dust.
Disgraceful behaviour
Late mid-life crisis never looked so good. Let’s hope for hair transplant next.
Heart of stone
Reminds me of a ticket my dad got courtesy of Santa Barbara county sheriff’s in 66 when I was five. Seems like putting a child on the tank of a Honda 350 then tying a rope around rider and passenger was illegal. All I remember was a loose helmet and the wind in my face. Mom was pissed. Worth it. R.I.P. pops 🤘
I saw a mom do that in a sand wash a year or two ago, without the rope. Just put her little kid on the tank in front of her and cranked back on the throttle. You had to haul ass to float in the sand, and you couldn’t slow down without laying the bike over.
She was a really good dirt bike rider, and there was less traffic around than in a city, but it was probably no safer.
In 66 you could probably have had a pickup truck bed full of kids all smoking cigarettes and lighting firecrackers without being pulled over by the cops.
How did your dad get you home?
We were only about two blocks from the house. I remember about the same time riding in the back of a pickup to goleta beach. The funny part is the lady driving was the wife of a chp officer.
Jesus Christ lol, of course The Great Baldini goes for an air at the end— what a fuck.
His daughter must love this.
Slater is such a dork.
Wonder if Shane Dorian will be charging for that experience not soon enough..
Wait, that wasn’t Shane strapped to Roberts chest?
I took a walking tour of Berlin on Saturday and we met the guide at The Adlon.
I had no idea that was the location of the Blanket dangling incident.
“Baby got back…problems!”
it’s the Steve Irwin dangling young Bob at a crocodile moment..
There’s a reason why every new parent gets gifted a used baby bjorn from friends. It’s a massive pain in the ass (and back) once the baby is over about 3 months old. It’s just too fucken heavy and you never use it again.
But then you can just duct tape the baby to an EUC and it’ll get around on its own.
If its real its now got about 6 snapped vertabrae
I couldn’t believe he went for the air at the end. He knows he never lands those.
Disappointing he wasn’t wearing his Outerknown jeans. Really seal the deal
FLORIDA MAN SEEKS ATTENTION
So good..
Triple over-head Lemoore baby death slabs!!!!
Cats Piss approved 💧
I dunno, those baby nuts would be pretty small….
Was it Darwin Florence??
We know Kelly could get away with taking him for a paddle
ask CB about his cat for me? he was distressing over him the other day; plus cat sounded like a champ. fellowship.
also, really can’t say how meaningful your moves were even tho we have an ocean between us. you’re my champ rinaw, T.
Will do mate!!
He’s a good bloke – and good sounding board for me as going through some fucked scenario of my own!!
its what we should do bro – i am sure he do same for me
its pity i dont have a bed myself spare
Im not sure why but i always picture CB as Fat Freddy freak brother, who also has a cat.
Freddy Freekowtski is most likely to be preoccupied with food. He is moderately overweight, with curly yellow hair and a mustache. His compulsion to eat is the subject of several of the adventures of the group. Fat Freddy frequently gets “burned” during drug transactions; when he does “score” he typically contrives to lose the drugs in various ways, such as by dumping them out of a shopping bag in front of a cooling fan, which then blows them out the window onto a police car.
I love fat freddy.
FF always means well when he fucks stuff up, so relatable!
Longest comment in Bex history!