Kelly Slater Interview

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Kelly Slater’s Surf Style
by Stinson Carter
Maxim, January 2009

Back when he was costarring on Baywatch in the early 1990s, 20-year-old Kelly Slater became the youngest surfer ever to win the world champ ionship. Now at 36––and a record nine pro-surfing titles later––the Quiksilver athlete has this year become the oldest world champion in the his tory of the sport. He’s posed for Versace, jammed with Ben Harper, penned a memoir, and dated Gisele Bündchen and Pamela Anderson. But after 30 years of hanging 10, the kid from Cocoa Beach isn’t about to hang up his neoprene and walk into the sunset… click to continue reading