Kelly Slater's Monumental Road To Victory - 2022 Billabong Pro Pipeline
After an epic week on Oahu's North Shore, Kelly Slater won the Billabong Pro Pipeline. Beating Seth Moniz in a generational clash for the ages, Slater, who was a week away from turning 50 years old, started the 2022 Championship Tour with a huge, statement-making victory.
Winning his first Championship Tour event at Pipe back in 1992, this marks 30 years since Slater first topped the podium. It's the eighth win at Pipe for the 11-time World Champion. Slater's last win at Pipe came in 2013. His last CT win came at the 2016 Billabong Pro Tahiti.
As the epicenter of the surf universe and the birthplace of the sport, it’s only right for Pipeline to kick off the Championship Tour. Everyone enters the season with equal hopes of winning it all. The rookie class is thrown into the fire, the contenders return with one thing on their minds, and the surf world begins to follow the road to the Rip Curl WSL Finals. Pipeline sets the tone.
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Kelly is a living legend. He is what Tom Brady is to football. He makes the Hawaiians proud because he's done so much for the sport. He's living the dream. He's constantly pushing his limits. I commend his discipline, his passion, and the love n grace he shows. Nothing but love n aloha for this braddah. Win or lose. He will always be the big kahuna of surfing.
He makes the Hawaiins proud???
What a great champion, the best of all time, undoubtedly…
Thanks WSL for this edit. Wish I had more time for watching the sport, but don't. These edits that show both the competition highlights and tell a story of the comp are great.
Winning the Billabong Pro Pipeline Event is epic , doing it at 50 years old is unbelievable.
Simply the greatest of all times. The man is a living legend.
No, Kai is the greatest of all Time.
@@didoview Kai is amazing, young and creative and will do many great things, no doubt. But you can't compare no one to Kelly in surfing competition. Aloha.
@@Marauak You are right, Kelly is a Monster in Competition, no doubt. Technically perfect, disciplined, fearless, you name it. But it seems to me that his motor is the will to be the best, to win. Not to explore, to have fun, to play, like Kai is. With technical, mental and physical skills beyond human. And this is what surfing spirit is to me: to find yourself in surfing. To be an explorer like Robby, Laird etc. Kelly seems to find himself in winning.
Keller is thé Best World champion and thats it. Nothing to compare With kai.
Whatever the great Andy has been -- Kelly will remain the greatest... so far... OVATION !
a real man, real heart, real bravado, real sensitivity, everything, what a good brother.
Every ride he’s just…deeper and pulls it out somehow. Dude is amazing in every definition of the word.
will make me tear up, every time. forever. the greatest athlete of my life and most inspiring by a mile. thank you kelly
Kelly is an inspiration to us all! Coming from Floridas mediocre waves to the GOAT! To be not only competitive but to win contests at this time is incredible!🎉🎉🎉
The only time he ever falls off a board is when he’s trying to smash it in half. Legend
So much respect to you. So Inspirational. The Greatest Surfer Of All Time.
Kelly you are the best 🙏 God Bless
The perfect condion for the goat to shine. Even this standard of surfer must still dream of these conditions👏👏👏👏
Everyone should watch Kelly and learn that age is just a number. If you put your heart and mind into some that you enjoy, you can do anything. One of the absolute GOATs of any sports.
Kelly is Kelly ! A singular human in the world sports and a singular human in the world ! Tanks to puting a new level next level a surf contests!!!!
GOOO KELLY, Pipe 2023 Champ.
Kelly just have fun at this point you’re the greatest everyone knows that or just free surf
Well there are perks to surf pipe with just another guy out there. So don’t blame him for keep going to have that privilege.
Some people just wired different. Thrives on competition probably
Great vid! ❤️
Kelly’s quad looks so perfect for Pipe!
Thanks WSL for this edit
Kelly truly is a Pipemaster..and a master at any kind of wave obviously..!
love that guy..
So emotional
Love you Kelly
Un animal, ídolo total Slater, que bestia!
Who's watching this because they are nostalgic of Kelly Slater Pro Surfer (PS2) ?
Maestrooo broliiii🌊🌊😎🤙🤙
Man. I cried.
Depois de 6 anos sem ganhar... 🌊💓✨
💕
Fuck man, dude had ME cryin at the end of that shit.
That first wave OMG ... Air dropping pipe and just sneaking in that bottom turn less than a second before getting hit by the lip and having a potentially life threatening situation, only to make it out a crazy deep barrel. He had every right to be emotional after that one, it was divine intervention at work.
Slater IS the Ocean
Masterful
I don't care what others say. Yes...Surfing may not be as popular worldwide as Football/Soccer...it may not be as popular as Football, Baseball or Basketball in the USA...BUT...no other sport has produced a competitor like Kelly Slater. he's the G.O.A.T. of ALL GOATS!!!
incredible
1:06 So that’s the actual strength of a high performance shortboard?!
He is the GOAT for sure!
Give Thanks for the Good Times
The only other athlete to dominate their sport, without anyone even close, like Kelly has is Tiger. Like Tiger he's won almost everything, has a buttload of records and amazingly after a decade or so they both won the most greatest event on tour. Tiger......The Masters eleven years before and Kelly...Pipeline after nine years. Un-freaking-believable.
Kelly has to understand that he is history and people forget about everybody that makes waves
big love kelly
Emmy Award winning surfing performance and TV Production.
“For 40 somethings all over the world”!
Incrível
Sometimes I don't understand the scoring if a wave clamps down on you at the end of the barrel and you fight your way out and make it even lying down that is much harder to pull off than just coming out clean
the goat
GOAT Period took the touch from Tom and represented longevity
GOAT
If a Aussie can't win Pipe (2023) Go the Hawaiians, and of course Go Kelly 🏄♂️
KSlater "A Real-Life Experience"
What makes a man a man? Not the greatness of his abilities but his commitment to his God, his woman, his family. Kelly needs to commit to God, to Jesus Christ and give all glory to Him. Because it’s all from Him.
Seriously how can there be Slater haters out there???
its weird hearing my name in this constantly. And I'm like bruh that ain't me. I can't do that.
lets get surf viel homme ;)
Mito
With a week to go to 50 this is for the 40 somethings? No, this was for the 50 somethings!
The greatest athlete of all time.
10:30 did he say the best to ever surf pipeline?
OK my question to you is who is currently better or who has ever surfed pipeline better than Kelly? And don't start spitting off locals names that nobody's ever heard of... this man proved himself in 4 decades With 8 wins in competition with the best professionals who have ever surfrd that wave....
@@ericgulizio9801 I'll answer honestly...nobody. We could easily say objective results outweigh subjective opinions. No question there.
I thought Baron won the heat with Kelly
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If Messi can do it you can do it too Kelly
At 4:24 Slater got robbed , majorly .
Your Boards are your problem KS try a board by a guy that you see looking like he and the board are one unit like adriano for instance. if you never played around with so many shapes and designs you would own a few more titles than you have now that's the hard truth I have watched you surf since you appeared on the tour back in the late 80's and I have seen your boards get worse each decade since you left your mentor Al Merrick, go back to him ask him for advice? make you some boards, before it's too late your ability is still there ,but your boards let you down when it counts, not at cloudbreak ofc, there you rule :D
I have a completed Christmas stocking for Kelly!! 2023 January 23, I need an address. Love 💕
Send it to Outerknown
Cause that’s what he was born to do
Change the title, the time Kelly beat all bracil judging panels. The bracil laundry money machine, claim claim claim
😅
GH. No secret 😂
Kelly cares so much about winning contests. Its actually kinda pathetic. Its like this is all he has. Ans how heart breaking was that Andy Irons painting in his house, anyone catch that?
Japan's Igarashi?.....even though he was born in US and was raised in HB? lmao.
Still fighting over that one last Oreo cookie with Sean 😅 He'll always have that fight in him it's just when he's ready to take it easy on himself 🤷 when i dunno. We'll never see an athlete dominate like him again.🙇
yeah , break the surf tables, just to honour the ones who can`t aford one, zzzzzzzz
And that’s when he should of retired in s blaze of glory.
Miguel Pupo tried to cheat
Remember when they made the competitors wear masks during interviews but they could walk around everywhere else without one?? Fucking clownery.
He has no hair
Slater is horrible sportsman ..shame on him! I will never root for the guy again!! Disgusted!
Remember drug testing only come out in World Surfing League after Andy 2010 before that NO drug testing
Formula One are best of the best in the world the reigning champion of History of sport
Maybe in surfing in your own sport
Not even close to Formula One drivers
Kelly, I have the utmost respect for u bro. 🌴🙏🙏🙏🌴 But being older then u. Your number 2 in my eyes. BUTTONS IS NUMBER ONE CAUSE HE CREATED ALL THE INSANE SWITCH STANCE 360 MANUVER'S, AND DIDN'T GET THE RECOGNITION BACK THEN THAT HE RIGHTFULLY DESERVED. STEVO. A GOOD FRIEND AND VERY RESPECTFUL PERSON WHO LOVES BOTH BUTTON'S AND HIRIATA. MISS U BUTTONS. PEACE UP HIRIATA AND LOVE SLATER STYLE TO. RESPECT. 🌴🙏🙏🏄♂️🏄♂️🏄♂️🙏🙏🌴
I am a fan of the CT coverage but WSL, you severely disappoint me with the the overdubbed, over the top commentary on these clips. Jesus gimme a break. The live commentary (I watched these heats) is plenty good enough. Don't get ahead of yourselves and go all ESPN on us - the realness of pro surfing stands on its own when the waves are really good... THATS what y'all should be focused on. Yes, the top surfers are very compelling on their own merit based on both talent and personality, but when the waves really show out - that is when the magic happens. THAT is what the WSL should really work on putting out there as content. I know mother nature is fickle, but that is where the real "star power" lives. Just sayin' as a lifelong surfer
Slater should start riding sharpeyes
Isn't he like 80?