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 ...

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED Shop WSL and CT official merchandise at http://www.WSLStore.com On an unforgettable finals day at the 2022 Billabong Pro Pipeline, Kelly Slater, just shy of 50, defeated Seth Moniz ...

Kelly Slater has surfed professionally longer than many of his competition have been alive. And that experience paid off this past week when he won at the Billabong Pro Pipeline in Hawaii – less than ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been almost four years since Robert Kelly Slater, the 11-time world champion and undisputed greatest of all time, won a Championship Tour surfing event. That was the 2022 Billabong Pipeline ...

OAHU, Hawaii (Reuters) - Kelly Slater won his first Pipeline Masters in 1992. It was the year John John Florence was born. Nothing could provide a more graphic illustration of the vast generation gap ...

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 ...