VIDEO: Kelly Slater's First Pipeline Surf of 2024 Isn't What You'd Expect
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Eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater makes surfing look easy.
Even f*ucking around at huge and unruly Pipeline.
Leave it to the GOAT to surf backward. No, not turned around. But somehow catching a wave from shore out towards the lineup, as seen in the video below.
The Instagram user known as @shanti_grace808 posted the clip above and captioned it:
"The real biohack for longevity…Go outside and play! @kellyslater"
Slater reposted the clip on his story and wrote:
"Some fun tonight. My first wave at Pipe this year."
The clip shows Slater armed with a longboard, running down to the water at Pipeline. The waves are huge and the ocean looks rough.
He hits the water and stands up on the board.
He manages to surf over the whitewash of an already broken wave, then keeps going towards another, even bigger wall of whitewash and makes it over, still standing.
He ends the short session catching whitewash back to shore.
In a recent sitdown with his long-time friend and Let's Poddy host, Benji Weatherley, Slater discussed his love for Pipe.
When asked what his favorite career moment was, he answered:
"Winning Pipeline two years ago.
"That was the one that for me was most emotional and for so many people, even people I didn't know around the world."
"It was 30 years since I won the first one at Pipeline and I hadn't won a contest in five years or something.
"Pipe has been my mecca forever."
The contest in question is the 2022 Billabong Pro Pipeline that he won 30 years after his first Pipe win in 1992. Before that, he hadn't won at Pipe since 2013, and his last CT win was in 2016. It's not surprising he cried in Seth Moniz's right after taking the win.
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