Gather round pro-ho’s Kelly Slater and the rest of the Quiksilver crew have arrived on the Gold coast for this years Quiksilver Pro. It looks like Kelly has been busy in the shaping bay again and it is going to be hard to beat him on these boards. This is Belly’s Blog Episode 1.
Here is some more footage from Quiksilvers Kelly Slater “Mind and Body” promo piece. He talks a bit about his switchfoot barrel in Indo and his win at Mundaka.
This is the first part of a 10 minute video created by Quiksilver that delves into the psyche of 9x ASP World Champion Kelly Slater.
An interesting interview with 9 times world champ Kelly Slater.
WoodShed films has made Chris Malloy’s “One Track Mind” available for the next 24 hours. Watch it now, tomorrow it will be gone. NOTE: the Kyte player doesn’t scale well if you want to watch it bigger got to facebook.com/film
Slater adds another Boost Mobile Pro trophy to the case, beating Taj in the final seconds of their final heat yesterday. I already miss the Hurley team commentary. I know the contest is over but could we get Rob and Pat to just talk about surfing all day on the radio anyway?
Kelly Slater taking apart Lower Trestles from Black&White. This was Kelly’s first major contest win, look for him to be blowing up again next week for 2008 The Boost Mobile Pro. Tubeguide clubhouse
Behind the scenes at the 2006 Billabong Pro Mundaka. Down The Barrel Webisode 3.
So even the guys that can actually surf like I mind surf mind surf. What the hell does their mind surf look like?
Mid bottom turn switch front side barrel in a heat on an 8 foot wave at Uluwatu Padang Padang , ridiculous. kelly is in his own world this year. I read at Surfline that this was his first surf there? Some go out, first wave is a 10 ride, second wave he got 9.17.
Kelly Slater (b. Robert Kelly Slater February 11, 1972, Cocoa Beach, Florida) is a successful professional surfer. Slater is an eight time world champion and has been sponsored by Quiksilver since 1990. He competed in the X-Games in 2003 and 2004. In May 2005 in the final of the Billabong Tahiti Pro contest at Teahupoo, Slater became the first to score two perfect rides for a total 20 out of 20 ASP two-wave scoring system (the corresponding honour under the previous three-wave system belongs to Shane Beschen from 1996). In 2006 Slater tied Tom Curren for most career tour victories, 34, at the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, then in September of 2007 he passed Tom Curren by winning the Boost Mobile Pro at Trestles.