Well I have to commend everyone for stepping up the ante in the UCB race this quarter. I have gotten so many submissions it made picking a winner this week rather challenging. I don’t want to sound like a whinny bitch but if we could try and use surfingruinedmylife.com comments to post future submissions I would be greatly appreciative. You see word press, my server allows me to compile all comments onto one page making it very easy to sort through all of your entries.
It’s a bit more time consuming when I have to check through days of face book comments, emails, myspace, etc. I will still take submissions through those mediums but I definitely prefer it if you post here. Its really easy all you have to do is set up a user name and password. It only takes like a minute of you time and then you can leave lude comments on my blog whenever you like.
This weeks victory goes to Nick the Kook who suggested I write about Slater’s 10th title run. At the time of his posting I was not even considering this topic, but just recently Kelly won the Portugal event of the world tour bringing him within spitting distance of title number 10. His clinching it is almost eminent.
Slater gets a bad rep sometimes in surfing with people claiming they are tired of him winning or that he gets over scored or is a sell out. I have heard everything. Fuck man the guy rips, flat out rips. He has dominated the sport now for over 20 years. The guy is a living legend.
Not to mention he is one of the coolest people to surf with in the water. At the most crowded days at both Rincon and Malibu he never drops in on anyone despite the fact that people will burn him out of spite. Even when such an instance occurs Kelly is still smiling. He is a true testament to the human spirit and that anything really is possible.
Here was a poor kid from a broken home growing up in south Florida surfing the crappiest waves ever. From that he managed to break every record in professional surfing. He misses round one of events cause he is off scoring waves someplace else. He brought surfing into the limelight through his dominance. Everyone knows who Kelly Slater is even people who know very little about surfing at all.
He was once voted one of Time Magazine’s most beautiful people, was on network television, toured in a terrible rock band, dated super models. How can you hate on a guy like that. Kelly is living a dream and if you have a dream too then there is no reason to be angry at a person living his. At 38 years old he has shown us all that its possible to high performance surf well into our later years. Thanks to Slater you don’t have to stop doing airs at thirty.
New School, Old School, Mod col, whatever, Slater has dominated them all. I think we will be hard pressed to see anyone for a long time rip down the dynasty Kelly Slater has built. When he takes the world title for the tenth time no one will be happier for him then me. Every time Im doing something hard and want to give up I always think about Slater and how hard it must have been for him to remain dominant all these years and I put my head down and keep at it. Thank you Slater for giving me something to believe in.
After all these years of winning he is still stoked.
Who says Slater cant keep up with the kids?
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i crunched the numbers and Slater has to get two 17th’s or worse at the next two stops and Jordy has to get a first and a second pretty much to clinch it. Considering Jordy’s track record at in big gaping left barrels like Pipe and Teahupoo, I sincerely doubt that Kelly won’t take the title.
Yeah barring an injury I can pretty much say its in the bag.
yeah if jordy gets a 5th or worse kelly wins even with a 33rd or 25th… whatever the new 33rd is after the cutoff
UCB do aliens exist and have the visited earth?