Kelly Slater delights surf fans with video of son Tao decorating his surfboard

"Happy International Surf Day! Seems appropriate to get a new board for it!"

Kelly Slater, father of two, has sent surf fans into paroxysms of joy after he was filmed decorating his shooter with tiny hand and foot prints from his four-month-old son Tao.

Slater’s Chinese-American bikini mogul girlfriend Kalani Miller posted,

Happy International Surf Day! Seems appropriate to get a new board for it! (This was actually last week for Father’s Day!) We grew up in a house with endless arts and crafts, paints and goop, beads and sewing. It was fun to make a little mess for this Father’s Day present for Kelly. Thank you @jason_miller and @michellejunelee for helping with the paint and hiding the present, @travlee for setting it all up, @dan__mann @slaterdesigns @firewiresurfboards for the magical new dad board.

 

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Tao Slater is the second bebe created by the world’s greatest surfer. His daughter Taylor Slater, a noted photographer, was born twenty nine years ago almost to the day back on June 6, 1996.

Shortly after Tao was born, Slater leveraged his fatherhood into a debate about baby formula that had been roiling the US.

Operation Stork Speed was launched by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the jacked-to-hell seventy-year-old former junkie son of murdered attorney general Robert Kennedy and nephew of murdered president John Fitz Kennedy.

Slater wrote,

“Happy to see this initiative. We recently had a baby and if we weren’t able to breastfeed we were very concerned about HFCS and other questionable ingredients in essentially every baby formula. With the minefield of toxins we have in overall health today (and the physical addiction to sugar most people have and don’t realise), we should all be as informed as possible about every ingredient and potential health impact, short and long term.”