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
Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
Kelly Slater, 1992. Photo: Jeff Divine
Slater and Machado, '95 Masters. Photo: John Callahan
Kelly Slater, 1992. Photo: Art Brewer
Kelly Slater (right) on Baywatch, 1993
Kelly Slater, Pipeline, 1993. Photo: John Callahan
With four world titles to her credit and a billion-dollar industry built largely in her image, Lisa Andersen by all rights should have been the definitive Floridian surfer. It didn’t work out that way. In 1985, the same year Andersen ran away from Ormond Beach to restart her life in California, a cupid-faced 13-year-old named Kelly Slater was darting like a hummingbird across the weak central Flor...
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