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 ...

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 ...

Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater has still got it at 49 - winning his eighth World Surf League title at Pipeline.

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 ...

Watch: RE-AIR: Pipe 2022 Kelly Slater's "Best Win Ever" Originally posted on WorldSurfLeague.com By World Surf League | Last updated Jan 23, 2026 6:39 PM ET ...

The 25-year-old is now the last Australian standing after compatriot Jack Robinson, the defending champ, lost in a big upset.

Return of the GOAT.

For most people, retirement means peacefully riding off into the sunset. Kelly Slater isn't most people. While he may have surfed his last heat as a full-time Championship Tour competitor last summer ...

Back in 2019, during a pumping day of surf at the Billabong Pipe Masters, I managed to corral John John Florence, Kelly Slater, Gabriel Medina and Owen Wright to talk about tuberiding at Pipeline — ...

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 ...