At age 20 he won his first world title and at 26 he won

At age 20 he won his first world title and at 26 he won his sixth and retired from competitive surfing. At the time, retirement in surfing between the ages of 28 and 31 was common and Slater had already conquered everything there was, taking the opportunity to live everything he had not experienced until then. Even so, the news fell like a “bombshell” since he was the great icon of our sport and there wasn't (and never was) a successor up to his height. It wasn't known at the time, but his story was far from ending there and, even today, 23 years after announcing his retirement, he's still on the Championship Tour.
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