FIFTY, PRO SURFING’S NEW F-WORD!
This may be Kelly Slater’s last year on Tour. He’s committed, fired up, and ready. Are you? Because once he’s gone, there will never be another surfer quite like him.
We can’t write an ode to Slater without writing about sport. If you’re watching Kelly surf, you’re witnessing the zenith of competition, an alpha athlete embracing his calling. Yes, even when he’s freesurfing. That’s just how Kelly is built. Canny, calculated, and above all else, competitive.
In the time it has taken King James to lay claim to Jordan’s throne, Hamilton to podium past Schumacher, and Nadal to endure beyond Federer and Djokovic, Robert Kelly Slater has been surfing at an elite level, winning titles, defying age, and building his compelling case for the greatest competitive athlete of all time.
The case strengthens as we delve James have. Schumacher Hamilton. Tiger. Bolt. Tyson. Brady. Phelps. While sports’ greatest personalities, rivalries, and triumphs have unfolded—and a revered line of would-be GOATs have been and gone—King Kelly endures.
