The world’s most recognizable surfer slipped through the beach crowd incognito, his hooded sweater draped over his clean-shaved head, hiding his tanned face. A few heads turned as he passed, their ...

Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater has still got it at 49 - winning his eighth World Surf League title at Pipeline.

Surfing legend Kelly Slater has confirmed he is on the verge of retiring from competition, saying he will end his peerless career “pretty soon”. The 11-time world champion is not just surfing’s ...

Kelly Slater retired, somewhat unofficially, from full-time competitive surfing in 2024. He was axed by the Mid-Season Cut at Margaret River, Western Australia. But since then, although he hasn’t ...

There’s been a palpable buzz, percolating for a handful of years, about an upcoming Kelly Slater Wave Company project coming, vaguely, some time soon to Texas. And while there’s still no official ...

Kelly Slater’s “perfect wave” nearly started as a surfing merry-go-round. Before the 11-time world surfing champ’s famed Surf Ranch became a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, the ...

“The Sydney beach was awash with thousands of Kelly Slater fans. The surf, as is common in March, was awful. Yet the chance to see Kelly in the flesh, surfing even in marginal conditions, remains one ...

STATELINE, Nev. -- Golf and surfing couldn't be more yin and yang, but for surfer Kelly Slater, it's a perfect blend that gives way to the zen that one hopes to achieve when playing sports. Slater ...

Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about the creation of that wave, and the future of manmade wave pools.