Somewhere in 1992

Somewhere in 1992, the year in which he would end up winning his first world title, Kelly Slater was more or less “forced” by his manager and his mother to accept a role in the most popular television series of the time. Between the ages of 20 and 21 and with a great future ahead of him, it was expected that his presence in the series would catapult him to another level of notoriety outside of surfing, something that happened, but not on the scale that was expected. The real result was that the (many) purists in the surfing community considered him a “sold out”, losing some credibility in the medium.
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