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Feb 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Emotional moment for me...

I've been following @kellyslater since college and yesterday he won his 8th Pipe Masters 6 days shy of his 50th birthday. Only 2 people have won more than 2 & 2nd place has 4!

Greatest competitive athlete. Ever.

Had to make this edit. The true 🐐! 🤙
Some unbelievable stats for Kelly:

- Most World Titles - 11 (2nd place has 4)
- 5 World Titles in a row from '94-'98 (and 6 out of 7)
- Most Championship Tour (CT) wins - 56 (almost 3x second place)
- Most Pipe Masters wins - 8 (2nd most is 4, 3rd has 3, nobody else has > 2)
- Youngest to win a World Title
- Oldest to win a World Title
- Youngest to win a Championship Tour (CT) event
- Oldest to win a CT event
- He won 5 straight titles, 6 out of 7, *retired for 3 years*, then came back and won 5 more from '05-'11
- He won an incredible 21.3% of the 263 CT events he entered
- Won 73.2% of the heats he surfed
- Recorded 31 perfect-10s
- Has the most 20 point perfect heats ever

The longevity, the dominance...it's hard to say "ever", but will we ever see it again in surfing? In any sport?
What an incredible career, and it sounds like he may hang it up soon. But at 50 years old, he still provided me one of the greatest sports moments of my life yesterday.

Cheers to King Kelly - the GOAT of all goats!

Now excuse me while I go wipe away a tear...😭

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