On February 5, 2022, the world’s most recognizable wave––the Banzai Pipeline––was sucking in long, liquid breaths and exhaling 10-foot sapphire cylinders over the shallow reef, and the world’s most ...

Four months ago, Kelly Slater was lying on a couch somewhere, recovering from hip surgery; today, he’s in Hawaii, competing for his ninth win at Pipeline. The 11-time world champion, and surfing’s ...

In an unforgettable finals day at the 2022 Billabong Pro Pipeline, Kelly Slater, just shy of 50, defeated Seth Moniz in an intense showdown to secure his eighth win at Pipe. Reflecting on his "best ...

Kelly, 47, an 11-time former world champion surfer, appeared to fall off his board inside a barrel wave at the Pipeline Masters in Oahu, and what happened next will go down as surfing legend. He ...

The world’s best competitive surfers are gearing up for the World Surf League’s Lexus Pipe Pro, kicking off at the end of the month. Well, most of them. A few won’t be competing in the famed event at ...

There are a handful of people who have cemented themselves as the best to ever do it at Pipeline. Gerry Lopez, of course, but ...

11-time World Surf League champion Kelly Slater knows a thing or two about the best places to catch waves in Oahu—but there's also a world of things to see and do when you're not tethered to your ...

Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater was awarded one of the World Surf League’s season wild cards following a mid-year cut from the World Tour last week – meaning he’s not out of the hunt for ...

Eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater makes surfing look easy. Even f*ucking around at huge and unruly Pipeline. Leave it to the GOAT to surf backward. No, not turned around. But somehow catching a ...

Excerpt adapted from On a Rising Swell by Dan Reiter. Published by University Press of Florida in April 2025. Used by permission On February 5, 2022, the world’s most recognizable wave––the Banzai ...