“We need 10,000 signatures!” says champ.
While it might’ve been a little difficult to include para-surfing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which is being held at a wave so difficult to master even world champions, or at least one, is given pause, the push to include para-surfers at LA in four years is gathering steam.
And, Kelly Slater, the world’s greatest surfer who narrowly avoided becoming the child of billionaires when his parents knocked back an offer to buy half of Telluride, investing instead in Cocoa Beach, Florida, has come out swinging on behalf of para-surfers.
In a piece to camera posted on Instagram, Slater appears alongside five-times para-surfing world champ Victoria Feige, the gorgeous smiling face of para-surfing who would up in a chair when she busted her back after a snowboard jump went real bad.
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The pair are at the 44th Annual Da Hui Paddle Race, which Slater had just won.
And, as Feige explains how parasurfing has been accepted by the ISA and the paralympics as worthy of inclusion into the Games, Kelly, wound up like a spring, jumps in,“We need 10 000 signatures, only two thousand now, right?”
Yeah, says Feige,
“We need 10,000 signatures. Help us push para-surfing in the Paralympics.”
As the beach commentator booms, Slater Slater continues,
“We’re trying to overpower the speaking back there, but if you guys could support the para-surfing at the Olympics in Los Angeles, it would be great… We just need a few signatures to get you guys in the water.”
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The adaptive surfing event run by Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart in Byron Bay recently was beyond inspirational 🙂
This makes sense. Most of us cunts in the lineup, our surfing looks proudly handicap. Brilliant segue and well played. We see you Selly Klater, we know what youre up too dont think we are underknow.
Have seen a few para surfing comps ran by the isa.
These people are fucking core. A punch in the face of adversity. Much respect.
Given the range of disabilities, there’s also a wide array of categories to ensure fair competition. Must be a nightmare to run and to judge. Good luck.
#Kelly #Slater #KellySlater #@KellySlater #Never going away! #Don’t read my daughters posts
One thing a disabled competitor getting into a sport and becoming a champ, but a competitor becoming disabled and then winning the disabled version , not quite as inspirational.
Bit like the tranny thing all over again
and where do boogieboarders even fit in?
complicated
Tbf I have not heard of anyone disabling themselves on purpose, much less anyone who is a competitor and one season arbitrarily “identifies” as disabled to break a bunch of disabled records. And anyone who did would be run out of town by an angry crowd, and rightly so.
Physical disabilities*
Got my signature!
Looks like a gold for Bethany…
Dude… calling kneesurfers “disabled” is pretty uncool.
Kneed to rethink…
“kneesurfer”
Kneesurfer / kneeboarder
Whatever.
Da kine.
né Surfer
How bad is your hip Derek? Going to give it a shot? Or have you had the carpenter in to fix it?
Fresh hinge installed! Feels like riding on old Citroen D4 air shocks.
Ah, good for you. Man reborn etc.
whatever this cockhead has done in the past to piss me off , I’m with him on this. Should be a given
Cockhead should back a para event instead of only backing CTs where he gets a fucken wildcard. Cockheads cant change their shitheadedness.
Virtue signalling cockheads are exactly that.
Agreed, good call Kelly ya kunt
3, 2, 1 before tranny’s start hacking limbs off to get a spot