The title World Surfing Champion is given to those surfers who get the most points annually in the Association of Surfing Professionals competitions. This is a video piece about the man who has won more world titles than anyone, ever, double the amount as it goes.
Kelly Slater, an American from Florida, is the undisputed Tiger Woods of surfing. He’s the man who has dominated the pro surfing scene since his first world title in 1992 to his most recent win last year. Slater has been world champion 8 times, the closest anyone else has come to achieving this is Australian Mark Richards with 4 title wins but these days he’s mostly just known as “that guy whose record Slater beat".
When asked for the secret of his success Kelly replied “It’s all about where your mind’s at”.
Coincidentally, the incumbent Women’s World Surfing Champion, Layne Beachley, is also the greatest surfer in women’s surfing history having won the title 7 times to her nearest rivals 4.
For those that like those little gems of trivia; the first ever World Surfing Champ (1964) was the wonderfully named Midget Farrelly from Sydney, Aus.
Teehupoo is one of the greatest ASP tournament venues. Located just off the south-east of Tahiti it’s a reef break and known for it’s heavy, glassy waves that often reach 3 metres and higher. Traditionally the surfer's lifestyle is as important as the surf ...
The song Surfin was written in the autumn of 1961 by cousins Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
They thought long and hard and came up with a name for their band; The Pendletones. Obviously The Pendletones were chuffed to get their first record deal and it was only when the Surfin single had been cut and pressed and they were unwrapping it from the boxes that they learned their name had been changed to The Beach Boys. A record promotions worker called Russ Regan is widely credited with the name that stuck, he’s said that he thought it was a good idea to link to the other surf bands of the times by association.
Surfin got all the way to # 75 in the US Top 100 by early 1962 and it was the song they performed on their first TV performance, though this clip is from is a later live performance.
2 comments:
If everyone had an ocean,file, they would be sailing to sadder shores.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hGWaCBb0Q
And the tears would be pouring and we'd all be screaming from beneath the waves.
great music mimi, but if I had an ocean I'd surf the happy shores
the Tahiti waves look rad don't they?
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