Kelly started competing full time back in 1989 as an 18-year-old but had started surfing at the age of three at Florida’s Cocoa Beach, encouraged by his father – a fishing-tackle shop owner of Syrian descent – and his older brother, Sean. He had always seen surfing as a preordained calling. “I remember one day when I was in kindergarten thinking, ‘Oh, well, I guess I’m a surfer now,’” he once told me back when he had just won his 11th World Title as a spritely 39-year-old. That feat meant he became the oldest ever surfing World Champion, 18 years after he became the youngest in 1992.
这种改善的弧线,看似向上的循环,但最终可能达到了平稳地点。在复活节在贝尔斯(Bells)的复活节,他在四分之一决赛中,他很容易被淘汰,他的童话般的奔跑被缩短了。在今年的第一场比赛中,他在黄金海岸上的Quik Pro,他遭受了两次早期失败,并且是36人菲尔德(36 Man Field)的前四场冲浪者之一。
一个典型的例子是在阿德里亚诺·德·苏扎(Adriano de Souza)在2015年赢得世界冠军之后的第二天。那天早上,凯利(KellyInstagram帐户。现在,人造海浪以前已经存在,但是没有一个人接近他和他的支持者在加利福尼亚州莱莫尔的一个旧沃特斯基湖中创造的版本的长度和完美。德索扎(De Souza)的胜利很快被遗忘了,因为有史以来最伟大的冲浪者再次撕毁了冲浪时间连续体的结构。
几个月前,当被问及去新西兰斯莱特的高尔夫之旅时,当时是矛盾的。“There is a chance I could retire at the end of this year, at least from full-time competition, but if it looks like, or if I feel like I’m going to make the Olympics, I’ll probably end up trying to do that next year,’’ he told the New Zealand Herald, before adding more cryptically, “I’ll make that decision the day I do. So I’m not sure.”
斯莱特(Slater)在贝尔(Bells)和巴厘岛(Bali)的冲浪提供了旧的光彩,在老虎·伍兹(Tiger Woods)在奥古斯塔(Augusta)取得了非凡的胜利之后不久,很容易让想象力被带走。The fact that Slater, at the time of publishing, currently sits at seventh in the WSL rankings, ahead of Gabriel Medina who alongside John John Florence and Filipe Toledo is cited as someone who could one day take up the ‘greatest of all time’ mantle , shows how far he’s recovered from 2019′ early disappointments.
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