{"id":45794,"date":"2014-04-01T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45794"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:52:12","slug":"kelly-slater-changes-his-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45794","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Slater Changes His Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/slater.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/slater.png','popup','width=977,height=273,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/slater-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Slater\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly Slater <\/strong>has left <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> and few are surprised. The most surprising thing to us (aside from the April 1, 2014 roll out) is that news went out in a press release from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/posts\/35202\/slater-splits-with-quiksilver\" target=\"_blank\">ASP<\/a><\/strong>. Why is <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> leaving Quiksilver an ASP news item? Oh yeah, that&#8217;s because Kelly <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">owns<\/span> has extremely close ties to the owners of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Surfing Professionals<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Slater, however, was a true professional with his exit letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is little I can say that would give the credit due or cover the debt of gratitude I feel on a personal and professional level to Quiksilver. As a brand and on a human level, they have been a part of my life, career, and personal relationships for more than 23 years now, well over half my life. They&#8217;ve supported me through good times and bad, personal hardships and competitive triumphs, and never wavered in backing my choices and desires in all that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quiksilver founder <strong>Bob McKnight<\/strong> was equally professional and warm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Kelly has been a part of the Quiksilver family for over 20 years. It\u2019s been an incredible journey watching him grow from a young surfer with great potential, to the 11-time World Champion he is today. We wish Kelly all the best as he enters this next phase of his career.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it went on for a long time (23 years) and they created some iconic images together, but it was just a clothing sponsorship, and Kelly was just a model, and Quiksilver is just a giant clothing company dead set on selling swimsuits to the mall moving masses so we&#8217;re sure they&#8217;ll find cheaper, younger, more handsome men to model their products in the future. And Kelly, well, he&#8217;s moving on up to model for a huge <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kering.com\" target=\"_blank\">French Fashion conglomerate<\/a><\/strong> (that owns <strong>Gucci<\/strong>, <strong>Alexander McQueen<\/strong>, <strong>Puma<\/strong>, and <strong>Volcom\/electric<\/strong>]. Because if you&#8217;re going to model, it might as well be for the French. They invented it.<\/p>\n<p>[Side note: we <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kering.com\/en\/search_content?search_api_views_fulltext=kelly%20slater\" target=\"_blank\">searched Kering&#8217;s site<\/a><\/strong> for &#8220;Kelly Slater&#8221; and the site replied: &#8220;Did you mean &#8216;helly later&#8217;?&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s exactly what we meant.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/posts\/35202\/slater-splits-with-quiksilver\" target=\"_blank\">ASP<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Slater has left Quiksilver and few are surprised. The most surprising thing to us (aside from the April 1, 2014 roll out) is that news went out in a press release from the ASP. Why is Kelly Slater leaving Quiksilver an ASP news item? Oh yeah, that&#8217;s because Kelly owns has extremely close ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45854,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45794\/revisions\/45854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}