No way Slater isn't in the mix. Surfing is like sex. Unless you've done it, you can't understand. 11 world titles.
Here he is last year at, what, 46 or 47 years old, paddling into huge Cloudbreak, backside.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
