How the GOAT cheated Father Time, and won the 2022 Billabong Pipeline Pro; an excerpt from Dan Reiter’s book, ‘On a Rising ...

Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI On a bright summer morning in 1990, Kelly Slater, a lean young man from Cocoa Beach, Florida, only a couple of years out of high school, paddled his surfboard into eight ...

Kelly Slater grew up surrounded by the beach, and by five, he began surfing. Coming from a family that owned bait stores, he was raised in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Then, he went on to earn his first ...

“Kelly Slater: A Life of Waves” gives this sense. Composed of photographs from 2010 to the present, we don’t see child prodigy Slater at his local surf break in Cocoa Beach ...

It's difficult to imagine surfing without Kelly ... Slater's legend is carved in history. He's still mobbed by crowds holding camera phones and markers for autographs whenever he hits the beach ...

Cocoa Beach holds a special place in surf, the home of world surfing champion Kelly Slater, it is known as one of the birthplaces of professional surfing on the East Coast. The center of the Cocoa ...