After more than two dominant decades, Kelly Slater won his most recent world championship at Ocean Beach in San Francisco in 2011, not long before turning 40. Peter 'Joli' Wilson This custom-made ...

The world’s most recognizable surfer slipped through the beach crowd incognito, his hooded sweater draped over his clean-shaved head, hiding his tanned face. A few heads turned as he passed, their ...

The world’s best competitive surfers are gearing up for the World Surf League’s Lexus Pipe Pro, kicking off at the end of the month. Well, most of them. A few won’t be competing in the famed event at ...

COCOA BEACH — Just a couple of days after legendary surfer Kelly Slater was bestowed one of sport's grandest accolades for his incomparable lifetime achievements, several of the "new wave" of Brevard ...

The year was 1990. In theaters, Home Alone was topping the box office. Sinéad O’Connor and her haunting rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was inching up the Billboard charts, ripping apart ...

Excerpt adapted from On a Rising Swell by Dan Reiter. Published by University Press of Florida in April 2025. Used by permission On February 5, 2022, the world’s most recognizable wave––the Banzai ...

Kelly Slater is the undisputed GOAT of surfing. The 53-year-old has won 11 world titles—including being both the youngest and oldest champ ever at 20 and 39, respectively—and has competed regularly on ...

Winston Churchill said Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Or maybe he was talking about Joel Tudor. Einstein said it is mystery that is the fundamental emotion that stands at ...

For 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, it was no day at the beach after he shattered his foot during freesurf at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. Everything was going swimmingly for the 45-year ...

Through decades of dominance in professional surfing, a stint on the lifeguard drama series Baywatch, a relationship with co-star of the show Pamela Anderson, and more, Kelly Slater is undoubtedly the ...