"We gave him a name for his birth certificate, but, as of now, we don't have a name to call him."
In an uncharacteristically relaxed and candid interview with 1988 world champion Barton Lynch, who clinched his own title at perfect eight-to-twelve-foot Pipeline but is now more famous for his WSL broadcasts, Kelly Slater has revealed his pleasingly non-conformist approach to naming his newborn kid.
Kelly Slater, fifty-three next birthday, just became a daddy for the second time, although it’s the first kid for Ms Kalani Miller, the thirty-six-year-old Chinese American girl boss of Mikoh swimwear.
Slater broke the news his son had been born when he explained why he missed a couple of Olympic heats saying, well, you know, a new kid and all, you sleep a little different.
“We got a little boy and my friends think we’re playing a game with him, because we haven’t said the name,” says Slater.
“Because we actually, we don’t actually don’t call him anything. We gave him a name for his birth certificate, but, as of now, we don’t have a name to call him. So, we’re kind of just, like, letting him figure out what his personality is.”
“When the name pops it pops,” says BL who suggested “Grommet” as a filler name.
“We don’t want to necessarily go off that template, but it took us three months to name our dog…so it might take a year,” says Slater, referring to their twelve-year-old chihuahua Action, who often travels with the pair on their adventures.
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