THE DAY KELLY SLATER CHANGED SURFING - 1990 BUD TOUR TRESTLES STORIES

[@kylewattssurfing3266]

Superclassic classic, classic storytelling, channel!! Thanks for sharing these awesome and amazing stories about great surfers!!!! HAPPY SURFING FROM VB/VIRGINIA BEACH!!!!! ✌️ 😎 ✌️

[@richnez2721]

Brings back a lot of memories. I surfed with Tom Curran, Dino Andino and other name shredders at trestles many times. I wasn’t in their league, but it was an honor to be out there with them. Slater rules!

[@cra2y01dman]

Holy crap! My 4 year old son and I were there that day. I was a Hospital Corpsman stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time. I took him with to surf the Trestles every chance I could. I was unaware that there was going to be a tournament that day. It was truly a great day!

[@cra2y01dman]

@RealSurfStories Thanks man! Brought back memories of a day that I have no other pictures of except the ones in my head. Thanks!!!

[@pandstar]

The guy was a freak. And 33 years later, still is!

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

A true Florida boy at heart ❤️ has done so much for surfing and even more so here near cocoa and Sebastian inlet

[@MM5150LA]

AND A KING WAS BORN THE REST IS HISTORY….THE BEST SURFER OF ALL TIME….LONG LIVE THE KING…..KS.

[@BootsEditor11]

Very cool! As a child in the Bellflower area, we would walk down with the family and dig little neck clams from the cobbles that make the Trestles reef at low tide. This in the early 60's. We were wary of Marines who sometimes patrolled and kicked peeps off the beach. At the time, we saw guys hauling their huge Bing surfboards, with the monster single fins, down and catching waves amongst the tiny pack of surfers. I later surfed here occasionally, coming up from my then favorite spot, Swamis.

[@Thurston.Howell.the.3rd]

Kelly’s In Black and White video is still the most influential surf film of all time. He deserves a wildcard into any event he chooses for the rest of his life. Period

[@jt3366]

I used to watch that movie everyday when I was in high school mid 90’s.

[@xroadwalker]

No nerves. None. Just aaaamped 🤙

[@javierfernandezurbina]

Free Ride también es una película clásica... 😉

[@RealSurfStories]

@@javierfernandezurbina igualmente transformador sin duda.

[@bert_gimspon]

Wrong, Gidget is.

[@marceloliveira6212]

Amazing little documentary! I grew up to VHS tapes like the KS’s Black & White. 🤙🏼

[@coldseamonster]

Wow this was quick but sick. A true turning point in surfing history. Kelly showed that a mix of airs and turns are key to winning contests in small to medium surf. No one did this before him.

[@Primal391]

IMO, the best video came out around that time, maybe in 91. It had a whole bunch of mother love bone songs on it and him surfing at lowers plus other places. We would watch that over and over again to get pumped up for the next day to go surfing.

[@RealSurfStories]

So many great videos at that time. Mental Surfing and Progression Sessions for progression. Jack McCoy's Billabong videos were masterpieces. But none came close to Black and White in terms of influence.

[@vickryan]

"The billabong challenge" I think was one video title, that I loved. I remember Occy was the star. (Mark Occilupo)

[@RamFly1A1]

We are so lucky to be contemporaries in such incredible part of surf history, Pura Vida Mae🤙🏼🇨🇷 and thank you for always documenting the Real Surf Stories Legendary Master 🤙🏼😎 North Sentinel Board Riders for Life 🤙🏼

[@RealSurfStories]

Buena nota Ramz

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

Kelly the sion king 👑

[@karltaylor2857]

After that Trestles comp and Black n White came out, surfing went bananas and everyone wanted to surf like Kelly and still do.

[@scottmurray3812]

Awesome. You where meant to be bro. Even got the footage. I remember the Merricks.

[@vickryan]

3:35 very well surfed wave. My memory of Slater at Trestles is about 2011, when he tore it up on that perfect wave. it's a great wave, we can all agree on that, I hope. His ripping blew my mind that day, and it's maybe 1 out of maybe 4 or 5 surf contests (only) that I've ever been to, and watched in person. (Normally I watch the contests on my computer at home.) So idk 1990 very well, but 2011 sure spoke to me! Thank you Slater. Giving thanks, happy Thanksgiving.

[@williamhanley7031]

Finally, a narration well done. Thank you for keeping it real bro. Nice job. No billshit and stupid words.

[@RealSkateStories]

Thank you!

[@swites]

Man he was so good. Put that same young man in any surf contest today and he'd most likely clean up!

[@sumatran]

That's still some of the most rippable surf I've seen at Trestles on video to this day. And the surfing Kelly did in those heats would also still win 99% of the heats out there today, or at least it SHOULD.

[@cgreedvisuals]

Awesome history right in my backyard 🙌🏽

[@robertoambrosios.3624]

I remember that contest in the magazines there was no other way to know unless you were close to the place of action. Then black and white video .... The rest is history still being writing. Hope for a long time. Ja ja he is still a kid for some of us.

[@RealSurfStories]

History still being written indeed.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

The boards are HUGE 🖤🍭🙏

[@RealSurfStories]

I know right? however after editing this I was thinking time to order a 6'0" 😂

[@isoulsearch411]

They had the board used in the contest in a little museum next to Ron Jons in Cocoa Beach, I don't know if its still there but it was cool to see

[@Ranger830]

I remember watching a Florida ESA event at Sebastian inlet circa 1986 or 87 and saying to a friend,who is that kid he rips? My boy says ,you don’t know who that is? That is Kelly Slater he’s going to be world champ someday! 😂 little did we know at the time lol He use to kick all of our asses in ESA.. Love from Ft. Pierce Florida everyone 😎🤙

[@natural_law]

Northside Indian River Inlet....respect.

[@macrovigilance]

great edit and story telling!!

[@fedrizzi1991]

I followed surfing magazines at that times. the old new Potter!

[@RealSurfStories]

The leader of the OG new school 🙌

[@javierfernandezurbina]

👍🏻 saludos desde Lima, Perú 🇵🇪

[@RealSurfStories]

Mi estimado compadre, bendiciones 👏

[@jobhiojkp]

Nice fade under the peak at 1:58.

[@gilliamm.5732]

Nice!

[@JammaLamma]

I was there that day surfing in between uppers and lowers it was effing firing, sheet glass clear blue water just a special day. Chris Brown was ripping too but Kelly was unstoppable.

[@RealSurfStories]

Classic.

[@starvideoproduction2045]

GOAT!

[@danfraser2258]

Thanks for the lesson in surfing history. Hadn't seen a lot of early Slater. I have watched a lot of 80's Curren and know he was a Slater influence. Seems Slater added a more vertical style and airs?

[@RealSurfStories]

🎯

[@SurfFender]

Nice to see Chris Brown in the background there. Chris was a great kid.

[@Johnny2Bags47]

oh no haven't you heard... he hits women.

[@wtfftw24]

This surfing style here, these maneuvers would allow him to a final still nowadays

[@GIF_CANCEL]

That performance changed and progressed surfing more than any other that I know. In this video wasn't included the controlled tail slides he did. Being a few years younger than Slater I told other groms that sliding the tail would be the future before knowledge of Kelly doing it was shown. But, we could feel change in the air about surfing. Our big fins and vee equipment didn't allow it to happen yet. Then the sequence shots of Kelly doing that at that contest came out in the magazine.

[@glywnniswells9480]

That board shape is better than any today

[@chrishealton3830]

Boards have gotten way too short and stubby in the last decade. They look funky for anyone halfway competent. Probably a reaction to the trend of these thin, narrow, longer boards being the standard back in the 90s and 2000s.

[@jamesglaskin7510]

Epic

[@wisu3529]

RIP Chris Brown

[@rodgallagher5566]

Tom Current,Kelly Slater,the most influential,greatest competition surfers,!???????

[@RealSurfStories]

Most influential contest surfers? 100%. I would add Lisa. Greatest competitors? No doubt along with Midget, MP, Margo, MR, A.I., Mick, Medina and Toledo.

[@RobertGreedy]

Good times

[@williammartin2842]

We grew up surfing about 100 miles South of Sebastian Inlet where the locals had the best wave in Florida wired. Jeff Crawford, Jeff Clugal?, and a host of 1st peak rippers let young Kelly get his share there. The wave produced much incredible talent, it was that good. Later the North jetty was rebuilt and the refraction, double up, throwing lip wave was no more. It would be cheaper to recreate that old jetty than to build an epic wave pool.

[@cesarequevedo8943]

The GOAT!!!

[@RealSurfStories]

🎯

[@glennwlove]

Not only the greatest surfer in history, also the greatest athlete, who else has been at the top of their game for so long?

[@hewonyew]

Remember it like it was yesterday. That was the future of surfing at the time. Perfect waves...PT losing his mind in the commentary. Also, Bud Llamas' HUGE wave in the final.

[@RealSurfStories]

...Chris Brown...Charlie Kuhn...Rockin' Fig...what a day.

[@meesr]

I surfed down the beach at Churches that day. It was an Indian Summer day, a little foggy, then cleared up, total glass all day. Solid 6’ surf that day.

[@bonsummers2657]

Momentum was the most influential vid of the modern surf era.

[@RealSurfStories]

More than Kelly Slater Black and White? 🫤

[@bonsummers2657]

@@RealSurfStories I think so. Momentum was a vid of the whole movement, not just one dude.

[@RealSurfStories]

​@@bonsummers2657 You may be correct, but I believe the influence of Kelly when Black and White came out was more impactful then that entire group- who were of course led by Kelly.

[@brendangoosen]

Ironic that he still surfs way better than he did in this video.

[@shrimpflea]

Not ironic. Remarkable maybe but that is not irony.

[@RealSurfStories]

With practice and pro active behavior one's surfing will continue to improve until _________? We will let you know when we get there.

[@MrIsomer]

So serious there TR...

[@RealSurfStories]

Should I add some one liners in the next one?

[@richardmason902]

The rest is history

[@William-Bill-Munny]

Not just surfings greatest of all time - athlete of all time. Name any pro in any physical demanding sport who has as many wins bookended from kid to adult - Not Tiger Woods, not Andretti, not James Stewart, not Lance Armstrong, not Giacomo Agostini, 'Sugar' Ray Robinson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Schumacher, Cy Young, Tom Brady etc etc etc. Eventually all athletes give way to younger competition but Kelly has held them off way way WAY longer than every athlete before him.From his first competitive win to his last world title nobody will ever beat this achievement. LOL I remember when people said Mark Richards 4 world titles would never be broken LOL

[@RealSurfStories]

💯

[@Nobodylistenstoturtle-]

Star ⭐️ trunks

[@josephwiard6695]

Whose board was it?

[@cruzortiz9488]

Song is playing during that contest

[@oldwave6106]

Chris “Wrap Around” Brown…

[@RealSurfStories]

"I think that single event I can probably look back and argue that was the most significant event for me, maybe in my life. Because Chris Brown was the next guy really. He was a little older than me. A little more refined; he had already won more events. I think had he won that contest it would have elevated his game quicker." KS

[@oldwave6106]

@@RealSurfStories such a talent that made some bad choices.

[@leecarterreppinjesuschrist7686]

Roundhouse wraparound Mr Pete Townsend

[@TKIII24]

What song is this?

[@justme307]

Song is Awake by Chaser

[@shawnsuave5694]

Ok great.

[@xroadwalker]

Go rip it off ... Past it owtaya bros King kells

[@michaelmantalos3575]

Should show Chris Brown's footage of that heat.

[@RealSurfStories]

Another story which I did not want to detract from this one but, yeah, I should do another vid with that stuff and everyone else that was there ripping those days.

[@yorimoriarty4684]

To be fair , Christian Fletcher changed the world winning the same contest doing airs one year before.

[@RealSurfStories]

Slater did it with the entire package. Rail, combos, throwing tail and made it look beautiful.

[@ddean8395]

that's true but Fletcher will always be one of the surfing pioneers and legends@@RealSurfStories

[@RealSurfStories]

@@ddean8395 agree 100%

[@Ekzit21]

Flecher crawled his way to the air

[@coffeephish]

Possible matt mondragon sighting at 3:05 point? Hmmm....

[@buzz5969]

Not bad for a Gringo from a place of the smallest and shittiest surf in the world, where a good day is equall to one of the worst days in Hawaii or Cali. Cocoa Beach in da house.✌🏻🍻

[@RealSurfStories]

Looking at the list of world champs the last couple decades it is obvious, growing up where the waves suck is almost a requirement to have and maintain the desire to get to and stay at the top of competitive surfing.

[@americanmadejustice2168]

Ahead of his time

[@Ekzit21]

Music song?

[@justme307]

Song is Awake by Chaser

[@Ekzit21]

@@justme307 thank you!! I can’t find it in Spotify! Do you know where can I download it from??

[@justme307]

@@Ekzit21 KZbin deletes my replies no matter how I word the site and album name.

[@justme307]

@@Ekzit21 Let me try to get creative here. Two words, separated by a period.

[@justme307]

chaser

[@haveaday1812]

Wow. You’d think from all the 19 dollar words you threw together that he cured cancer or something. It’s surfing dude. Calm down.

[@RealSurfStories]

Yes, it's surfing. That's what we do here. 19 dollar words and all.

[@Jazzfestn]

When is the TRUTH about ANDY IRONS going to go public? OD, or SUICIDE?

[@srfy287]

If Tommy curren was in it, he would have won the whole thing in my opinion. He is Still, the greatest of all time just depends on what era you come from, I guess

[@chriserickson]

Oh, he used to have hair?

[@wristcandy5451]

Did Slater visit Epsteins Island?

[@natural_law]

chill🤣

[@GIF_CANCEL]

1990 didn't have that type of crap music yet.

[@flasponge]

Without Sebastian Inlet there wouldn't be a Kelly Slater.

[@RealSkateStories]

True. One of the main key's to Kelly's success is the desire and motivation to surf gained growing up in Florida where there is not much surf compared to Hawaii, Oz, Calif, etc.

[@karipaturketo5438]

Im amazed what pasted as music back then. Damn those tracks were crap..🤦‍♂️

[@RealSurfStories]

I agree and yet somehow it fits so well with the footy.

[@martymatfly3578]

Name of band and song

[@RealSurfStories]

@@martymatfly3578 Chaser "Acción"

[@RealSkateStories]

@@justme307 and edited in 2023 🤙perfect 1990 sounding track

[@KurbzGarage]

Christian Fletcher change it not Kelly

[@RealSurfStories]

🍎🍏🍊🍊

[@jbean8493]

He grew up doing what SoCal kids did on head high waves, but on waste high florida swells. The dude was light years ahead. Once you put him on a wave with that much real estate, it was TOO easy for him to destroy the rest

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

If any of my kids want to go pro I would for sure grow them up here until they master the small slop and then from their is nothing, especially since you need to have perfect power and flow to keep solid turns on the slop, Florida boys know

[@johngregory9253]

There are a few people who have a talent level so consistent and so far beyond others ; Kelly Slater, Kai Lenny come to mind. 🫡

[@RealSurfStories]

🎯