"When your brain is in the way, it slows you down."
Kelly Slater’s surf bonafides need not one bit of burnishing. Seven-time Pipe Master, one-time Pro Pipeline, eleven world championships, one Eddie and this is not to mention multiple “Surfer of the Year” nominations plus magazine covers. His legion fans are also well aware that the almost 53-year-old is a golf whizz, guitar master and sings like an angel.
Not yet witnessed is Slater’s skill with a gun. Rootin’, tootin’, shootin’. Thankfully, the Special Forces Charitable Foundation put a pistol in his hand and let him rip the range.
Afterward, the father of two opened up about the experience, sharing “(Shooting) is not familial to me, shot when I was a kid but haven’t shot in decades. Have to make it your natural environment in order to compete at 100 percent. When I surf I don’t think, my brains not in the way. With anything else, your brain is in the way and it slows you down.”
Wise words.
But how would you rate your own skills with lock, stock and barrel? Would you beat Kelly Slater in a shoot-off?
Would you gloat?
Rude.
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Not bad for a single day’s training.
Offhand grip got a floaty finger, and locked-out elbows are the stinkbug stance of shooting.
The freak-outs in the comments are well worth the time
Prepping for the Armageddon they seem to want.
*Dork of the Year.
Someone please get that falling down pic and photoshop Kelly’s head on it.
That’s it, I’ve got it. The kids name is gonna be Shooter.
knew a guy a few years ago who took me out to Xe’s base, hit their range with some automatic weapons … was pretty entertaining. But the civilian stuff less so.
Janie got kelly a gun; machine gun kelly; kelly’s heroes; to the dubai prince ‘pull’~ Kelly’s skeet kills birds (and the occasional photog); Kelly issues statement: “I’m joining Tulsi’s war…”
my kid is named after Matt…Warchild!
Kell ‘Em All!
Johnny Rico!
He keeps digging himself a deeper hole every day it seems.
In his old book he says he used to shoot ‘gators whenever there was no surf in Florida
He musta shotta lotta ‘gators…
ahh man you didn’t see that episode of Swamp People?
He looks more like Curren every day.
How dare you…
Last time I went shooting was with my father in law and brother in law. Passionate, responsible gun owners. When we were done I said… wow…. we sure went through a lot of ammo! Brother in law goes yeah that was probably $500 worth. Ammo isn’t cheap! That’s when I sat there, looking off into the distance at the sand hills, beer cans, make shift targets, burned out vehicles and thought to myself… That wasn’t $500 worth of fun.
He’s from Florida. No other explanation needed.
Florida Man don’t need no damn brain. Just gets in the way of being Florida Man.
I’d love to take Kelly to the gun range and we could go through the usual pistols, the AR(Colt of course) while finishing with my favorite:
https://youtu.be/UoFikuoIwLw?si=S6d1EzDvvfal0m0u
Shooting is as boring as bowling. Kinda fun for about ten minutes and that’s it.
Let me add, I suspect there are similarly unathletic types at the bowling alley as there are at the range. But I haven’t been in a bowling alley in 3 plus decades.
You can add shooting pool to that last and might as well throw in darts too.
The more drunk you get, the more fun it gets?
depends who you are hunting….where’s otto when we need him?
we don’t need him.
Can you imagine the colliloquy that takes place in the mirror?
Kelly: “Dad, what do I get for Christmas?”
Kelly: “Anything you want, son”
“I’d like a name please Dad”
“how does Turtle sound kid? Turtle Slater, I like it, you?”
“Nobody listens to Turtle”
Hey! Kelly’s the best Dad he could ever have. He’s the apple of his eye. He spares himself nothing!
Magnum Satoshi Slater it is!
Xox
Rabbit at 16meters with a shitty slug gun. It’s brain got in the way
My son needs a name, but my brain is in the way. Time to surf, shoot, go to UFC, golf, hang with friends, build a new wave pool, endorse candidates, buy some more real estate….
He needs to drop the price on the real estate he already has.
sell the baby!
It’s a pleasant place, at least the red areas. Much caterwauling elsewhere.
“An armed society is a polite society.” Heilein
Sick, hopefully you’ll all stay there and don’t come to Nor Cal. Have fun with your tornadoes and rodeos.
And don’t you be sneaking into the red looking for bio women. Stick to your conviction that Transwomen are real women.
Best comment… spit out the coffee laughing