Game Over - Is Kelly finally done?

Yes they do fart breath! Surfing is one of the most elite sports on earth and Kelly is the Champ and deserves credit. Blacks talk about Jay Z in barbershops and surfers talk about Kelly on SI

 

Those that are queers........

 

They say the biggest homophobes are the biggest homos. Idk, but you make quite an effort.

 

Those x-rays look ominous. I'm just a couple years older than he is and once you are over 40 you just don't heal the same. I'm thinking this will be a long slow recovery and his career just doesn't have much time for that...... May be a long time before he surfs pain free and even longer before he can launch and land airs with any level of confidence. Just my thoughts as an aging surfer.

 

Man that looks like it must hurt like hell. How do you break your foot that badly surfing?

 

Thanks CJ. That's what I meant to say but I ain't as eloquent.

 

After having an injury like that I think it would be very hard to regain the confidence to land a big air. That is a serious injury. Multiple displaced metatarsal. These are the long bones across the top of your foot. I read up a little on the surgery and it can be up to 3 months before the doctor recommends weight bearing. The good news is that its his back foot and it involves the bones that support the two toes closest to the little toe. I would think he's not putting that much pressure on that part of his back foot while surfing. Might make the rock dance at Trestles a painful endevor.

This will probably be a future picture of his foot if the proceedure hasn't already been done:

 

Toonces...There are many ways to get injured while surfing. Consider him fortunate, because it could have gone much worse. Surfborts are unforgiving objects that don't care where your body is once they are set free from the act of standing on them. A matter of physics gone awry.

Everyone be safe, be prepared, wear your helmets and most of all..stay out of the ocean!!!!!!!!!

 

My guess is he will heal up and do a couple contests and if he thinks he can still be a world champ he'll go for it. If not he'll retire. He doesn't seem like the type that would be ok with 2nd place, much less just competing.

I got a similar break snowboarding once, I carved so hard the board flexed and snapped the bone. Only one bone though and didn't have to get screws or anything, but hurt like hell dragging my crap through the airport then flying back cross-country. Never had any problems with it though. Just another broken bone for this wookie.

Last weekend someone asked my wife how many stitches, broken bones, and surgeries I've had and she answered, "You mean since I've known him or all time?".

Anyways, if Kelly can't compete I hope he just retires and doesn't do like Ali and hang around way too long.

 

This gives him the perfect excuse to change the page, and become Champ Emeritus for Life. I think his window for another world title was closing fast before this, with a few of the top young guns getting thicker and more powerful the last couple years.

 

getting hit with a board is my biggest fear in the water.people have died

 

So then I can hope all you morons get bonked on them empty skulls???

 

lol idk grandpa

 

He will surf pipe masters Fiji chopes and jbay for the next 5 years. And Aussy leg of its firing

 

#Aussyleg

 

He aint done yet

 

And you will sob in tears when he does, huh?

 

Robert Kelly Slater - AKA R Kelly is black now and started a sex cult... I guess he has moved on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/r-kelly-buzzfeed-derogatis-cult-fame/533895/

 

He will be around a long, long time. But the level of competitive surfing is started to surpass even his skills. Maybe not in real waves of consequence like Pipe, Chopes, and big Fiji where he can still rule, but at most other "normal" tour stops the level of surfing going on is getting higher and higher every year. I don't see him winning another world title in my opinion.
He's incredibly competitive. At least he and his fans can always say that his broken foot stopped him from a 12th title, instead of others finally catching up and surpassing his skills, which is the reality.