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Better with Age: The incomparable Kelly Slater just turned 51, and he shows no signs of slowing down

Jake Howard by Jake Howard
February 16, 2023 3:40AM
in SC SURF, Surf Headlines
Better with Age: The incomparable Kelly Slater just turned 51, and he shows no signs of slowing down

Famed surfer Kelly Slater celebrated his 51st birthday this week, which comes as he’s launched into another season competing on the WSL Championship Tour. Photo: Courtesy of Kelly Cestari/WSL

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This week, Kelly Slater—occasional San Clemente resident and undisputed most dominant competitive surfer of all time—turned a spry 51 years old. He’s also recently kicked off yet another year on the WSL’s Championship Tour. For Slater, age truly is just a number.

In 1990, the Florida native landed on the cobblestones of Lower Trestles for the Body Glove Surfbout, where, on the beach, he inked pro surfing’s biggest contract at the time, a reported $1 million deal with Quiksilver.

The Richard Woolcot film, Kelly Slater in Black and White, detailed the moment.

“It’s the morning of the Final,” mumbles a groggy teenage Slater.

The rest, as they say, is history. Slater won his first world title and his first Pipe Masters in 1992. For some perspective, “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-a-Lot was on the Billboard charts, A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson was in theaters, and Taylor Steele’s Momentum was lighting up VCRs.

Beating world champs Sunny Garcia and Barton Lynch, as well as Pipe specialist Liam McNamara in the final, Slater had arrived.

Owning the ’90s, Slater won title after title, appeared on the hit TV show Baywatch, alongside his then-girlfriend Pamela Anderson, graced magazine covers around the world and took the sport of surfing to never-before-seen heights. Along the way, he earned a record seven Pipe Masters wins.

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Jake Howard is a local surfer and freelance writer who lives in San Clemente. A former editor at Surfer Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal and ESPN, today he writes for a number of publications, including Picket Fence Media, Surfline and the World Surf League. He also works with philanthropic organizations such as the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center and the Positive Vibe Warriors Foundation.

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