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Kelly Slater

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Photos Kelly Slater Birth name: Robert Kelly Slater
Birth date: 1972/02/11 (52 years old)
Birth place : Cocoa Beach (Floride)
Height: 1.79 m

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Biography for Kelly Slater

Robert Kelly Slater was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida of a mother with Irish roots and a father of Syrian ancestors. He has two brothers, Sean, older and Stephen, younger, who are also talented surfers. He learns surfing with his father and a big friend gifted for the back flip I named Ali Elouazzani, and evolves in a musical environment. Indeed, his mother and his father are musicians1 and it is because of his brothers, playing the drums that he carries a scar on his nose.

Ten times world surf champion (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010), he is considered by his peers as the largest surfer in WCT history, World Championship Tour (world surf championship, bringing together the 44 best surfers in the world)

Slater retired in 1999 but returned to the professional circuit in 2003 to recover his title in 2005. This last victory made him the most titled surfing champion in the world, as well as the oldest world champion (record improved In 2006 then in 2008 and finally in 2010), after having been the youngest in 1992. With ten world champion titles and 45 world championship victories (against 33 victory for Tom Curren), Kelly Slater stands out as the greater surfer competing.

The year 2008 was still exceptional: 6 victories on the 11 events, Kelly Slater thus signed his 41st WCT victory and the 53rd of his career, ending largely at the top of the championship for his 9th title. After a more delicate year 2009, in 2010 he won his 10th WCT WCT with 4 victories in the season.

It has been sponsored by the Quiksilver brand and surfs with Al Merrick boards since the early 1990s.

Whether on 30 cm artificial waves (Japan competitions in Japan in indoor swimming pools) or in Jaws (spot of very large waves), pipeline, teahupoo, waimea or maverick's, his style and his mastery stand out from other surfers. It is distinguished in particular by its speed and balance which allowed it to make risky figures without falling or giving an impression of heaviness. His preference for surf backside - back to the wave, a non -natural position - is one of its surfer characteristics. He made figures as a person before him: four -meter Floaters (fall controlled with the board on the lip of the wave), Rollos (Vrilles), 360 ° aerial, waves in Switchfoot. According to his words it is thanks on the one hand to his average, balanced template, his flexibility and his physical training, and on the other hand to his reading of the waves and the movements of the swell, repeated every day of his youth, that he is so comfortable with his surfboard.

His model is Tom Curren, triple world champion known for his style made of fluid and flowing but radical lines.

Kelly Slater is a famous American professional surfer born on February 11, 1972 in Cocoa Beach in Florida. He started surfing at the age of five and won his first world surf championship at the age of twenty in 1992. Since then, he has won eleven surf world championships, which makes them most titled surfer in history.

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  • Creation date: 10/05/2011 by gwennouille

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