Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
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Andy Irons, 2006
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Andy Irons (right), 2006
![Bruce Irons, Pipeline, 2000](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/77483d19f04af8255ddaa891226c9d3e8ca489b5-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Bruce Irons, Pipeline, 2000
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CJ Hobgood, 2000. Photo: Tom Servais
![Mick Fanning, 2009](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/71d717cc016f7f5c40e4f2e4b60ea472a8ac56ec-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Mick Fanning, 2009
![Kelly Slater, 2010. Photo: Rowland](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/ef57e0792a6392b1594f9a74e1390a89dc053c53-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Kelly Slater, 2010. Photo: Rowland
Irons won a third title in 2004, while Slater failed to win a single event. Surfing magazine at that point ran a cover story titled “Generation Now,” illustrated with a portrait of Irons and seven other top pros—with Slater conspicuously missing. It was exactly what Kelly needed.
After three years of voluntary semi-retirement, Kelly Slater found that life outside the pro tour could be a little rough. His band recorded a CD with T-Bone Burnett as producer, but the album bombed. Pamela Andersen dumped him for ex-husband Tommy Lee, then came back for Round Two, and dumped him again for a Calvin Klein underwear model—with Slater himself getting the news, along with everybody e...
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