I know surfing is a niche sport, but Kelly should be in the conversation of the greatest professional athlete of all time. At least Top10 even Top5! Next to the Michael Jordans, Pelé, Muhammad Ali, Michael Phelps, Wayne Gretzky... In terms of longevity, there's no discussion, Kelly is no1.

As an older person who still skies, mountain bikes and does a lot of long distance backpacking the key is having passion for what you do. I have fractured my skull, broken my back in four places, broken knee but it’s the love of my sports that has kept me focused and training like a dog. Most of my friends are pretty much the same. In the winter I live or ski and the rest of the time I live to ride and hike. I also eat mostly a keto diet. I am well into my 60s and still hitting it hard and have a much younger wife, that also helps. Never stop training and doing what you love. One more thing don’t drink and drug, at least not often.

@buzz5969

5 ай бұрын

He has a passion for money 😅😂

@smelltheglove2038

5 ай бұрын

Agree with the drinking, but I smoke pot regularly. I’m in my mid 40s and still surf and skateboard daily, or at least 4 days of the week. Surfing is really pretty easy on the body. You’d think it’d be rough on your shoulders but my shoulders feel great. Can’t say that about my knees. Skateboarding kinda messed them up. No surgery yet though.

@splash-qi5kn

5 ай бұрын

​@@smelltheglove2038I tore my ACL about 3 weeks ago. This is my first day trying to go back to work. I don't smoke or drink and used to always exercise in some way or another so sitting still has been killing me. I pray my knee holds up today

@smelltheglove2038

5 ай бұрын

@@splash-qi5kn over the year where the world went nuts, my company got shut down. I started playing video games because there was nothing to do in winter. That helped me get through it.

@splash-qi5kn

5 ай бұрын

@@smelltheglove2038 thanks bud I've never been much of a person to be able to sit down and watch my movies or play video games but I've been considering it I've read 4 books in the past 3 weeks just started my 5th. A cool video game I imagine can be a nice escape

I think the key to Kelly’s health is simply loving what he does

@bonsummers2657

3 ай бұрын

Diet and dietary practices are also key.

@charliespaz-way4073

2 ай бұрын

I love to drink and smoke, that should work for me right?

@jozzieification

2 ай бұрын

@@charliespaz-way4073 no because loving what you do when it’s something wholesome will raise your brain’s frequency and impact your physical abilities, whereas if you’re sitting around drinking and smoking you’re just making yourself dull. I don’t think Kelly is a health freak he drinks alcohol and eats junk food but his mind is just on an other level.

@charliespaz-way4073

2 ай бұрын

@@jozzieification probably some truth to that. Kelly is definitely a health freak though. You should check out his Joe Rogan podcast, he does health cleanses a lot.

@theneuropathyguy

4 күн бұрын

@@charliespaz-way4073 as long as you love what you do

Love this. Such great questions. Thanks for just letting Kelly talk. :)

1. He has passion 2. He still rips. 3. Super experienced. People do things long enough and lose interest. Not Kelly. He's an inspiration to everyone around his age. Thankyou Kelly!

Thank you Kelly for telling people what way they need to go. You are what your food is!

What feels good has made my surfing go from around a 7 to 11/10 just cause I’m not thinking about anything else coming up in the water. Thank you Kelly for sharing what’s going on.

I'm an average Joe...lived on the beach in Malibu..including Paradise Cove from the age of 47 till 62...I surfed every day...ate decently, stayed in shape..surfed better at 51 than I did at 41..bigger and stronger and experienced in the water...that's how!

Kelly’s passion for surfing is so inspiring. I’m too old now but oh how I would love to have tried surfing when I was young girl. I know i would have loved it. Thank you @kellyslater for sharing your talent with the world! ❤

Love what you do, and you will be carried to health and athleticism. I am only 35 however had 4 neck surgeries in my mid 20s and became 50lbs overweight during this. I was a good strength athlete and decent runner prior to surgeries. Post surgery went low carb then hiking and got back into running. It brought tears to my eyes when i found out some of my doctors were worried id never be able to work after all the surgeries. I first started walking on trails for 1 mile, then 2 miles, then 3. I remember it was an achievement walking around a 6 mile loop pain free. Now ive run this loop in 46 minutes no issue. Love what you do. The love for what you do will carry you on those days you dont want to do things.... Have a great day.

@Juan-yq3fb

4 ай бұрын

You got this brotha.

@Thepositivitypowerhouse

3 ай бұрын

Good for you!

A legend always !

Florida legend, gotta love Kelly Slater.

when I was young (like KS) I felt invincible. I saw the older guys slowing down and struggling and I said to myself, "they're just not trying hard enough and working hard enough...that's not going to happen to me". Well it doesn't work like that I've learned. Still surfing but it gets harder and harder. So you young below 60 bucks...Cut us old guys some slack.

@truthseeker6410

2 ай бұрын

Steve, I here you...

Nassim Taleb recently said that we need to turn on its head the idea that the older we get, the less we should move. It's the opposite: the older we get, the more we should move to avoid the health problems that come with age.

@2011hwalker

5 ай бұрын

yes but doing so in a smart way For example you cant go around playing pick up basketball at 50 and expect to not be seriously injured.

@davidkennedy8703

3 ай бұрын

It's called anti fragile yoga😂

I learned to surf at 42. The key for me was to go to a physio and learn how to strengthen your core. In the mornings i used to be so sore just getting out of bed. Now i do my physio sanctioned exercises religiously for my core, arms, legs and back takes maybe 6 mins before even getting out of bed. No more pain, more flexibility, recovery is faster and easier and as a bonus my surfing has improved 1000%. I’m also more muscular in my upper body and ive lost all my body fat. My bp has improved as well.

@DGT73

2 ай бұрын

Please share!

@tjvangarden4803

2 ай бұрын

Yeah share please

@aerlial360

Ай бұрын

Ditto on the sharing. I didn't surf for 10 years and am 53 and just got back to it two years ago. I feel like I've been hit by a truck in the morning and far slower to get to my feet than I would like. My surfing is still there once I do get to my feet but I need this exercise.

So good video

A great friend of mine told me you have from 5 - 56 yrs old to make things really happen, YES you can keep doing your passions after 56 till you're 156, but the bottom line is the body really changes and it's just a part of life. Living here in SD CA and surfing for decades 57 yrs old is when I start to see people drop off from surfing, so my friend has defiantly been right. Thee other thing he told me it's just not the physical thing after 56 yrs old, it's the mental thing, he said that crazy over the top discipline most hard cores have starts to slowly fade, again not a bad thing it's just part of life. I'm here to tell you lol he's right that defiantly happened to me. So it'l be interesting when Kelly hits 57, I'm sure he'll be surfing till he's 99 BUT you will notice a difference at 57. Michael Ho is the perfect example, he's still out at Pipeline at age I believe 64 but you can defiantly see the change, so get it in while you can because you will be surprised like I was on the 'change' that will happen. Peace

Inspirational guy !!!

The biggest secret to staying healthy into middle age is being successful enough to do what you want to do when you want to do it. We all know what we need to do to stay in peak performance, but it usually comes at a high cost for the common family man, most of us aren't willing to make those sacrifices.

LEGEND!!!

Kelly sempre será uma inspiração.

I knew this kid was the goat from the time I first saw him surfing back in the late 70’s and for him to keep going at his age will give others inspiration to keep surfing to as we all get older and for him to keep up with the younger crew isn’t his problem it’s the judging system Kelly still rips on waves but now they look at the air they can get in surfing the new way of surfing to me that’s more skateboard moves surfing always been the flow with the waves as Kelly does it the best in my opinion

No alcohol, no weed, no drugs, no drama, no fake food.

@rexxx777

2 ай бұрын

And no experimental injections.

If you dont have to punch a clock and you are doing something you love then thats the secret right there. Zero stress life. Work destroys us.

If you take care of your body and stay active, age doesnt really impact what you can do. People think of 50 and that is an old man. Kelly is a prime example, but there are a tonne of men crushing at elite level late into 40s...

@DingDong-fq2mo

5 ай бұрын

Tony Hawk still ripping at 55. People didn't do it before, because they didn't think it was doable. Now we know it is. To be fair, surgery in general is much less traumatic now, easier to recover from and holds up better. That's part of it.

@surfboarding5058

5 ай бұрын

Kelly is fitter than many 20 year olds

looking after your health if you have that you have everything

I wouldn't put too much emphasis on feelings in your later life, other than the fact that once you realize that you are a gifted athlete especially surfer, you either have it or you don't. We can see this in young surfers who stand out at 4 or 5 years old be the way they have magic feelings.some talents have been manufactured and cultivated, so it's not impossible, but those that are naturally gifted at a young age are revealing a higher connection with all kinds of things. Kelly had it at a young age, like many before and after him. Some people try harder and some just seem to find it effortlessly. That's what Kelly slater was as a kid. Of he ever had moments of failure it was just distractions along the way, and the business world trying to manipulate him.

I love corn or tortillas chips , and love bread 🍞. Trying to cut out the chips , replacing them with banana chips, Maraquitas brand from sofla , not salty at all. Also I don’t add of use much salt . But Olive 🫒 oil and black pepper is part of my diet .

there's a similar approuch by another genius: Eddie Van Halen, who from an early age understood that getting to know everything about the sounds that could come of of a guitar and an amp was as important as learning chords and music theory

@Laurikiwi

5 ай бұрын

Great reference, both Slater and EVH the goats in my opinion 🤙

legend. 🤙

Kelly is a unicorn, he was just born the best surfer. You could emulate literally everything he does, but you won't come close to becoming as great a contest surfer as he is.

LEGEND. ❤️❤️🙏🙏😇😇

legend.

I want to know what brand of sunblock he endorses, if any.

The power of daily brisk walking.

The Goat of Surfing should never retire. You the man Kelly 🤙👍

Sometimes its just small, consistent, better choices

Kelly Slater Health advice: become the greatest surfer in history, and you will be healthy. Me: oh that’s all

@buzz5969

5 ай бұрын

Me: Take your COVID shots fooooo.😅😂

@Hezekiah1

5 ай бұрын

@@buzz5969 me: Covid shots are for fooos

He's a legend

Kelly is the best.

Watch the documentaries The Game Changers , What The Health and You Are What You Eat to see in details how to keep going strong until an older age.

Damn I thought this was about Saved By The Bell

I'm a big fan of Kelly, but in all the interviews on these topics he always misses the question being asked.

@fraserbarnes9607

5 ай бұрын

That’s just Americans on the whole, engage brain before opening mouth.

@johnanderson3731

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes people answer the question they want to answer - esp “media trained people”

Amazing career and athlete but at this point he's still competing because he's got endless wildcards, due to the WSL wantiung to keep him around (draws the fans) Unfortunately he's not actually getting results, recent Pipe (probably his strongest event) being case in point. We love you Kelly but would like to see you retire gracefully, full props for winning the Pipe masters one week shy of 50. That would have been an epic time to announce retirement at the Teahupoo event that year and retire at 50, still kicking ass.

Great surfer but weren’t you retiring the year after Parko or was that just to grab the headlines?

GOAT. Period.

The surfers surfer

@smelltheglove2038

5 ай бұрын

Meh. Hes more the surfer non-surfers know.

Competed for 43 years ! Has anyone done that ever in any sport before?

Because he’s never been a brickies labourer.

Slater is a physics nobel prize winner disguised as a surfer, one of the most inteligent people i ever had the honor of listenning to and leraning from

Hope he carries on competing if he enjoys it...age is a number...he can still will...keep flexible and strong...keep busy with activities...his strategy is already there....fine tuned...best ever. Work on the air game or acrobatics

A 50-year old competitive golfer is only surprising if you make the mistaken assumption that golf has anything at all to do with physical fitness. The reality is, if you can stand and walk a few feet, you can golf.

@cb1623

5 ай бұрын

Yes except this is not about a golfer ;)

@user-gs3tq6bx2u

4 ай бұрын

"if you make the mistaken assumption that golf has anything at all to do with physical fitness." You can sip beer, smoke cigars and ride around in a golf cart while snacking on junk food or carry your own clubs and walk briskly for 18 holes...it's your choice, the latter means you will be healthier, fitter and more content.

4:20 no seed oils

He should have talked more about Baywatch.

😊

I just turned 51 and no way a Kelly Slater but do care for myself and eat clean and long time vegetarian organic food person....but man no matter how young you look and feel your body has a mind of its own. It does deteriorate it really sucks.

fuckkkkkk...I was hoping he'd win this years pipe contest.

2044: How is Kelly Slater still competing at 71?!

Tell us Ur thoughts on vaccines Kelly

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

The most successful medical invention of all time? What’s to tell?

@chilltime4878

5 ай бұрын

@@shacktimeGo get em. Get a few boosters too. I hear the spike protein is awesome.

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

@@chilltime4878 Keep getting your information from morons, dood. It’s a great look. And don’t ever get another tetanus shot. If you ever get bit by a strange animal don’t get the rabies vaccine, either. You’ll obviously be doing the gene pool a favor.

@joethi4981

5 ай бұрын

Exactly. Did Kelly take the "safe" and " effective . " if he is a thinker, then he would not have been so stupid.

@jankolbe2879

4 ай бұрын

Or don't ask a professional surfer for advice on vaccines

Step 1: be fabulously rich

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

Kelly came from poverty and a single parent home.

@petervanmeerem3835

5 ай бұрын

The question was: How is he still competing at 51, not Was Kelly rich before he started surfing. @@shacktime

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

@@petervanmeerem3835 Then you did a shit job of answering the question. His wealth has almost nothing to do with it. Better surfers than Slater, who are also very wealthy and even came from money, dropped off the tour in under a decade. Slater’s mental focus, love of competition, and dedication to health and fitness are the primary factors in his competitive longevity. The money is ancillary.

@petervanmeerem3835

5 ай бұрын

I love Kelly as much as any surfer my man, dont get your knickers in a twist. I was merely humorously responding to the age old question: How do people with lots of money stay so healthy?? In a time where filling my shopping trolley with organic produce means I cant pay the rent, the answer is fairly obvious, mostly. Of course being quite probably the biggest talent in surfing of all time and probably future has a lot more to do with it than organic produce, but in these times clickbaity titles asking how rich people manage to stay so healthy deserve ridicule.@@shacktime

Guy was looking for scoop but Kelly gave him nothing

@migsy3302

5 ай бұрын

BASED 😂

@en5954

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. These super annoying podcast bros want to purport that health is some kind of idiosyncratic formula that requires draconian self discipline. Kelly just said he eats whole foods, exercises, and hangs with friends. It ain’t rocket science 😂

@user-gs3tq6bx2u

4 ай бұрын

@@en5954 Here's the "secret" to health and happiness : moderation. For example, it's ok to drink a few beers or eat fried food if you want to but drinking 6 or 7 cans of beers or eating McDonalds every day is not and it's important to counteract the things that are not great for you with things that are ...like having a sweat each day, eating fresh food most meals, taking the stairs, etc etc. There's 24 hours in each day and all you need to do to look and feel great is to exercise for just one of those 24 hours per day...fast walk, ride a bike, yoga, gym, etc etc and eat good food (and learning how to cook)

@jasoncannon

3 ай бұрын

Agreed this was 100% nothing hahaha

Ok Kelly, we get it, but when you spot competing can you guys us old guys some actual tips on surfing for Longevity?

GOAT's are great every decade. Maybe not the best at that moment, but great. 😎

Pro tip: It ain't the corn that he is allergic to.. its the GMO.. it's the glyphosate. Natural, organic, untouched corn like our ancestors ate would be just fine. Anyone else find his answers quite vague? We know he's into all sorts of health modalities that clearly make a huge difference, but he's not really going into them. Barely touching on them. Being unjabbed also helps a lot doesn't it ;)

@cheynedowsett6381

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't corn itself invented? It can't survive in the wild and the grain it came from, tenosinte, was inedible. You can definitely be allergic to corn, and can be allergic to most natural things.

Interviewer says "you've been healthy for a long time...." Probably needs to research his subject better... Love that Kelly clears his throat as interviewer starts to go down that road. Aside from his feet and the obvious ribs, look into his back too.

@Kevin3310

5 ай бұрын

To be able to be on tour at that age is considered "healthy for a long time". No one else did it. Wear + tear / Injuries are part of doing any sport for a very long period of time.

@projectmaldives

2 ай бұрын

yea apparently he had/has scoliosis. My doctor 20 years ago took a a chest X-ray and seemed to think I has scoliosis as well. In the best shape of my life at 45

Lol that he said he watches a lot of anime

@princecornerkick

2 ай бұрын

MMA.

Need a bit more enthusiasm in this-so monotone energy draining-do you actually watch your interviews before you release them? 😳

My health secret is LSD and ecstasy

It not the corn Kelly, its the pesticides

He has retained his equity over time. Americans hate you if you stay healthy like this. It's weird because everyone your age becomes fat and useless, and they get bitter. Your spouse will hate you too if he or shit gets fat and sick, they'll resent you. Then people pretend to want to work and be healthy too, and they'll ask you to show them but that's just to pretend and then tell you that it doesn't work. They're looking for a parent. They work their parents like that playing a victim. An example is this is golfers journal like golfers are in shape. They should be interviewing. John Daley.

Move like water my man

Yea Kelly is healthy and makes good choices but according to another interview he is in pain 24/7 because of his back and other injuries

Low carb yes…he will be largely a carnivore. It’s our evolutionarily consistent diet. Meat meat fat only makes you feel beyond amazing

Maybe you should think of and write down your questions before you ask the GOAT…

Kelly Slater how much you bench press, it's all you do.

As if his foot didnt stop him!

Same way Novak Djokovic lost tfe happy slam 2024? Australian Open AO 2024??

maybe cause he doesn't have a real job

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

Try surfing Pipe and Teahupo’o at size, let alone the way he does, and tell me that’s not a real job, kook.

@eamonsherry2185

5 ай бұрын

Its not a job, all pros work in advertising. People surf those waves for free kook.

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

@@eamonsherry2185 Every single person who surfs Pipe and Teahupo’o the way the top guys do are getting paid to surf, barney.

Golf trying to be less gay.

his desire to be the center of the attention is what drives him

For one he didn't get the jab, so he will live a longer life than any of the masked jabbers

Im guessing he still needs money, perhaps due to his failed bizness adventures. He is caught up in the surfing comp grind where others younger than him like Rob Machado gave it up and Retired long ago. Surfing is a freedom of expression sport, not a competitive sport for the true surf riders.😊

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

Failed? FireWire is still chugging along. Outerknown continues to grow, albeit slowly, year on year. Slater Designs is doing fine. Buzz off, troll.

@ryancuda45

5 ай бұрын

he got wsl to buy his wave pool for a profit proly so i wouldnt call it a failure. even though the wave is small and in a bad location

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

@@ryancuda45 The wave isn’t nearly as small as you think; my man. Almost all my friends have surfed it and a good friend of mine works there. It’s a bigger, heavier, and trickier wave to surf than it looks.

@ryancuda45

5 ай бұрын

@@shacktime i paddle into 15 ft chopes and cloudbreak the thunder and greenbush lances right and stuff. that wave is pinner to me. but thats just my opinion and carries no weight or value haha. im about to catch a flight to pipe/ gotta catch em all

@shacktime

5 ай бұрын

@@ryancuda45 Now you’re just being stupid.

surprisingly uninsightful

Not working a real job and surfing his whole life. simple.

u can have KS, his surfing looks robotic to me & militant. I don’t watch UFC & I don’t want to watch UFC LOOKING FOOLS surf. Derek Ho was still shredding Pipeline at 55. Derek all day on a board. Derek called KS the greatest & an even greater person. That’s humble pie. KS is flash. Derek Ho is riding a wave. Derek’s take offs are THE SICKEST. KS, Shaun Tomson, they’re like hyper NFL linebacker out there visual noise.

Yup. It's time to retire. Just sit around and fish

Correction, he's now completing at 52

How stupidly age-ist is that title? What has anyone’s age got to with anything. I’m 73 and still surfing. Kelly is still only a puppy compared to some of us out in the waves. 🏄‍♂️🦘

@guitardivesmall

4 ай бұрын

Yeah but you're not competing at an international level with late teens, early twenty each olds. It's one thing to surf until the day you die and another to keep yourself in good enough shape to compete with the best until the day you die.

@Ziggyc54

4 ай бұрын

@@guitardivesmall You are missing the point. A 51 year old or older is capable of competing at any sport if his or her body stays healthy. It’s the stupid societal belief that when you get to a certain age you should just roll over and die. Each individual is different, and if you are capable of competing in your chosen passion, go for it, whatever your age.

@nx9537

4 ай бұрын

Fcuk Yeah! Joe Biden is 113 and surfs everydaaaaaaaaay 🤙

@AuRowe

2 ай бұрын

Agist?😂

@guitardivesmall

2 ай бұрын

So your physical fitness/fatness hasn't fluctuated at all from early 20s to late 50s? It's fairly well documented that the human body degrades after 30.

Cause he doesn t work hard as a normal uman to get what he needs to live.