"Kelly gave us permission into his world, and I wanted to celebrate those moments by capturing them in a personal and beautiful way.”
It is easy to presume most surfers of age and with a slight bent to nostalgia felt a sense of love when old man Kelly Slater, 54, who had aged since the last time we’d seen him, more belly and ass, classic ageing, thrashed Gabriel Medina at real big, real ugly Teahupoo in August.
“I almost cried,” said Slater. “There are a lot of people doubting me, saying they should have given the wildcard to a local…it pisses me off.”
Well, now, thanks to the photographer Todd Glaser, long an associate of Slater and the shutterbug responsible for the iconic first photos of Slater’s Surf Ranch, fans can experience his glorious Tahiti campaign through the eyes of his two-year-old son Tao Druku, named after the beloved Fijian Ratu Sakiusa Nadruku Lalabalavu aka Chief Druku. The Tavaura chief died in 2015 aged just sixty-three and was close to the 11-time world champ, who has been visiting Tavarua since 1990.
Tao was the first child for Slater and Ms Kalani Miller, the thirty-six-year-old Chinese American girl boss of Mikoh swimwear, although they’ve since birthed a second child, Ms Azumi Moon.
“While we were in Tahiti, you could feel the energy and excitement from Kelly to not only get to compete at one of his favorite waves, but to be there with his family. He’s won the event five times before and, from my point of view, he competes his best when he’s inspired by the potential to catch an amazing wave,” says Glaser.
“My approach in making this film was to show an intimate look at what it’s like to experience surfing at the highest level through the eyes of his son, Tao. We’ve seen Kelly time and time again pushing himself over the ledge and onto the podium. Rarely have we seen an intimate look into the process and life outside of the jersey. Kelly gave us permission into his world, and I wanted to celebrate those moments by capturing them in a personal and beautiful way.”
Many beautiful moments including Daddy Slater, who exhibits an extraordinary degree of vitality even in his sixth decade, and Tao singing The Wheels on the Bus together.
Essential.
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” the wheels on the bus go round round round.
Til the diesel runs out..
Back to sleds and hounds
The wheels on the bus go round round round
Come near us
And I’ll shoot you right down
What about the wheels on the short bus?
Do they go round and round or clunkity clunk?
Please please make him go away.
Gotta partially blame Dirk for funding this joke (pro surfing), called the Wsl
I’ve been logged back into my old account but am unable to comment.
Except for that one ,
Obviously
intro to maurice cole
I come back after enjoying life over the weekend, see a few new features are working, and everyone is more miserable than ever.
The first WSL live thread is gonna be interesting.
need to do a dry run
It really won’t be interesting. The replies are all over the place. Can’t tell who is responding to who.
Replies not nesting correctly is bad. It might be ok with how fast they move but some of the best threads on contest posts have enough replies to break the organization.
There is just no making these whiney little bitches happy…
Bleachgrit seems an appropriate name change at this point
Beachglitch
That’s right !!
Because y’all didn’t want it here is my daily off topic full flagellate diary post.
For those of you who have stringent rules about what can be posted, fuck you I won’t do what you tell me. Bunch of flaccid cocks with herpes blisters you are.
Currently sitting at the collectivo waiting for my 4.5 hour ride home, thinking of all the shit we did this trip. Alot of cool sights. It all went by so fast. I wish I could do it for another month at least.
For now back to the land of firing point breaks and cheap food, but the next adventure is right around the corner.
The road is a life all its own…..
I’ve enjoyed following your trip. Tried to comment a few times but got shut out somehow. Obviously the people that run this site don’t really care about it or the commenters.
Finally got back in but it’s not the same without the whole crew
Isn’t wanderlust in the heart of a surfer? Thank you for sharing your trip.
Amazingly there are surfers who have ventured little and cling to the spot they are at, no matter how shitty it us.
As a matter of fact the shittier the spot, the more they cling to it…
Where are the notifications ? And the reasoning behind the shift ?
I might have to finger my bumhole over at stab at this rate.
Xox
Australia showing the way; by immediately, inadvertently lowering the value of any new property purchases. Commiserations to anyone who bought in the last 6 months; it’ll go back up eventually.
Surfing sux. Spread the word
So now apparently there are rules on here that people want us to follow judging by the comments and upvotes.
No diary entries talking about anything fun or different that maybe happening in your personal life. Definitley no talk of wanking or fingering your bumhole. Politics or religion are also a no no and so is talking about other sports.
Anyone know any good jokes? Oh no that is banned again after all the sheep shagging ones at Raglan. Fuck I’m even stopped from talking to me mate Sofa cuz I’m a sleazy cunt who should be locked up for life.
Seems pretty fucking boring to me after we all used to take the piss out of Stab and Swellnet for being too tightly wound? Anyone know any good poetry to lift the mood before Portugal kicks off? That should be a belter cuz it happens overnight for me and I can’t comment on me phone anyway cuz whenever I press login the page just goes blank so Live Chats are mostly gone for me now too.
Don’y worry cunts I am back to work tomorrow after a long weekend off so yous don’t have to worry about me fucking up all the fun happening down here again for a while
It’s the inertia version of BG
Im doing some DIY on business, because tradesman very expensive but i make it mess
Can you help, but get free session in trade for your service ?
I hope you had a nice long weekend with your daughter!
Oh you are lovely dear Sofa.
Xox
I love your escapades and navigation of life. Don’t change.
Xox
Speak for yourself. I got 8 upvotes for a political post and got one of the 3 horseman to come out of his lair just to prove how hypocritical they really are.
Sweet.
Best thing is for everyone to quit commenting completely. Zero comments. Then hopefully they shut this thing down
Think Taylor is entirely written out of the will at this point?
Definitely not, and a ridiculous thing to speculate on. A few years ago, around the time of her wedding, they were on good terms as there were numerous occasions with multiple photos and Kelly was speaking about her a fair bit.
If you’re asking us to speculate then I’d say that she’s going to get her fair share of her inheritance, if that it’s what she desires. To speculate how much trauma a woman is going through because of abandonment issues is below you. Leave that for some other cunts.
Turpel & the folks in the booth like to say “father of 2” which could imply the eldest is persona non grata
The likelihood of Turps shading Kelly on the live broadcast is zero, and he would not “imply” anything about such a sensitive topic. If Kelly’s daughter is still upset about being abandoned by her famous dad then that’s completely understandable, but the fact that they have been photographed together at major life events (her wedding) indicates that he’s tried to make amends, and has presumably apologised and asked for forgiveness. Presumably.
i find it so strange why people attribute behaviour to her with no evidence whatsoever such as “she must hate him” or “she won’t receive any inheritance”.
Maybe she got her inheritance already. I have an aunt who received her inheritance from my grandfather when he was still alive, as she needed the money for an investment, and the remaining inheritance was divided amongst the remaining children 20 years later when my grandmother passed away.
That’s right ! Leave her outta this …!
Just like he did….for years.
Unless his baby is juggling flaming swords I do not give a fuck
Mate I really miss your contributions down here, just like I do all the other regs that have gone missing since the big “transition”. I didn’t always agree with what you were saying but loved the fact you had interesting things to say and your posts always made me look at things in a different way which is what life should be about.
Starting to really lose interest down here at the moment so please keep posting even if its about shit I feel different about
Thanks Dez that was a really great watch. As a single dad I find Kelly’s parenting tips and advice really helpful and how he keeps his surfing at such a high level with his hands so full and so little time is truly inspirational. We are truly all blessed to have him in our lives
kelly is a douche…
Says his oldest daughter.
How dare you, Kelly is the GOAT of everything and if you asked the cunt he would tell you all about it for hours straight
someone stole the cunt’s phone again
I just really miss Negs, this joint is soooo fucked without him
Mate, if Negs was still moderating you’d still be getting banned and crying to Dez.
Mate I was banned for life for being a sleazy degenerate for making an innocent joke about a female mate on here so that wouldn’t be an issue. As for this crying to Dez shit the man himself has already explained what happened and what didn’t
Reading the comments and looking at the upvotes, that you can’t see anymore so ya cant even see who’s bad mouthing ya maybe that would have been for the best down here? Fucked if I know but I’m getting pretty over being blamed for the debacle this comments platform debacle has been.
Whatever, matey. It’s BG and who gives a shit?
Haha true that and at least Negapet survived the trip over. Thanks sooo much for giving her to me cuz I feel lost without her
Yea, well – rember why I did that?
So you’d rember that Negs was your owner and Less is more.
You are wallowing in persecution and discontent over a discussion forum, spraying it publicly every five minutes. Cup of concrete etc … it’s boring
Why hate the cunt?
It’s not like he is Elon Musk or TRUMP
He just surfs and knows a lot about it?
When people retire from any other form of NFL Footballs and Basketballs people adore the cunts, no matter how many 57 puppies they had to 28 different women….
“THAT’S COOL YO”
But Surfing goes fuckin right up there with no respect given?
He is the GOAT?
He’s not the GOAT. Tom Curren is.
Andy is
I would love to hear his thoughts….
I’m willing to confidently say if Andy were alive today he would be drastically different. I’ve seen kids mellow out the most wild of individuals.
Or lived under a bridge and now a Christian minister
this is exactly right
Tom has more drug moderation.
Imagine Kelly if he went on the drug route mate
BOOM
He already did and the Great Spirit denied him access to the truth.
Can you imagine how much better Kelly would have been if he was on the sauce too?
Different lifestyles man
Bald and bitter.
Was. How is he doing now mate?
If you are gonna bring in his parenting habits, lifestyle choices and other bullshit, what has that got to do with anything?
Who is the better surfer… Now?
I thought you said you didn’t give a flying fuck about their personal lives, just how they surf?
“Who give a fuck about their families etc…”?
Out of all the great surfers I have seen up close due to where I live and so on Andy was head and shoulders above any of em. Fucking heaps more powerful and stylish than Old Baldie for a start and absolutely fucking attacked waves of any size. He will always be my GOAT
over the past few years have dropped thousands of words on this site re mr Slater – he and I are same age, grew up an hour apart in FL, in the 80s he was ripping first peak, I was drifting around second peak and s house wishing I were him , etc , etc , followed him closely for decades, yadda yadda … but at his peak, agree that Andy did seem to have a different gear, like he was in 6th while everyone else stuck in 4th or 5th, although sadly I never got to see him up close in a lineup
He did a carving 360 in my face in the rivermouth once.
ha , nice , actually don’t remember ever seeing any clips of him out there , need to track one down
Nah this guy is the real GOAT.
Always has been, always will be…
I respect Kelly for not being a drugged fucked Fuckwit like every other surfer
Surfing=Fucked up on drugs
At least he is still alive..
And not a cooked cunt like most Ex Pros defending a the grassy knoll or floggin beer
Ego is one hellava drug.
Don’t ya think he deserves it?
He is a total cunt for sure!
But he still put in the hours and dedication over everything, and everyone else in his like.
He is a total shit cunt of a human being…. but he is still the best at what he did!
He kicked Jack Johnson out of the band man.
Bingo
Is surfing the only sport that is so Narcissistic that they worship the fuck ups and denigrate the still living who managed their shit?
I guess it is because we all love our drugs…
Kelly is a cunt but still legend
Andy Irons is a cunt too and “Was” a legend
Haha fuck came across wrong
Surfing= a high just like being fucked up on drugs
but also
After surfing = actual drugs
Round here anyway
Lol. Lmao, even.
He has asian lady wife.
Good for him. White lady too masculine
Superior shelf life compared to Aussie Shaza
We age like fine wine, they age like Sai krok isan.