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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1185 - Kelly Slater

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Kelly Slater is a professional surfer. He is the youngest and the oldest to win the World Surf League men's title, which he's won a record 11 times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Four, three, two, one. Kelly Slater, we've been talking about doing this for how long.

0:08.4

A couple of years.

0:09.2

It's been a while, man. Thanks for being here. I'm glad we finally got a chance to do it. What are you in California for? I know you broke your foot, right? I broke my foot real bad. How'd you do that? Well, my girlfriend's from San Clementi and her family lives there and so we kind of live here

0:24.0

when we're not moving around too much.

0:26.0

So I'm just kind of here right now, I'm not competing.

0:29.0

I broke my foot.

0:30.0

I was surfing in South Africa about 15 months ago and I was just on a wave that I wouldn't consider a very big wave.

0:37.5

Nobody would really consider dangerous.

0:40.0

And it all kind of closed out, which is, you know, when it all breaks at once, I just pulled in the thing because I was going to sort of wash in on the rocks right where that was and change boards.

0:48.0

And I was practicing, I had to compete in about two hours from then.

0:53.0

So I was just testing out different boards.

0:55.0

For some reason, I wasn't riding the board.

0:56.0

I was planning on riding competition.

0:58.0

So I was going to come in and change and switch to my normal board.

1:01.0

And I just pulled in this wave and just I kind of hesitated like usually you

1:05.4

either ride those out and stay on your board or you jump off and I was kind of

1:08.2

between the two and I kind of lifted my front foot off my back foot my leg was straight because I was kind of going to I think I was going to jump off and as my foot got my leg got locked back straight the board flipped in.

1:21.2

Oh against the toes and it just broke the top my foot in half oh like

1:26.0

immediate like there was oh my god yeah we're looking at a photograph of the

1:30.4

x-ray right now and it's like every bone it snapped.

1:33.3

Well what you can't see so the do you know are you are you aware of the Liz Frank joint

1:38.0

which is like that's where the first big metatarsal comes together so that first big

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