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Slater, Kelly. Pipe Dreams. Regan Books, 2003.

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When Kelly was staying with the family of Jack Jonson, Jack made a short film entitled "Mr. Slater Goes to Work". In the movie, Kelly surfs on a door to prove how good he is.

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When surfing in France in 1994, Kelly cut open the webbing between his toe. The life guards stitched it up right there with no pain killers. They said "Well, eef we geev you de novocain, it would by five or six pokes you would feel, but dees way you only feel four pokes' cause we do in and out and you have a steech." The next day, Kelly got really sick from the water that got in the open wound.

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Kelly starts his first company. He calls it "K-Grip" and sells grip pads to replace surf wax.

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Kelly wins his first world title in 1992. This makes him the youngest surfer at the time to do so.

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In 1990, Kelly was one of People magazines "50 most beautiful people" However, he didn't like the mainstream media attention and decided not to be in things like that anymore.

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Kelly does a promotional video for quicksilver called "Kelly Slater in Black and White" It was the first surf movie ever made about Kelly.

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Kelly gets sponsored by quicksilver. He gets paid six figures a year for three years. "When I got back to California, Bryan called me out of the blue and said 'You're going to ride for Quicksilver. They made a great offer at the last minute, and you're with them.' The agreement would pay me six figures annually for three years and make me among the five highest paid surfers in the world."

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At this point in the book, Kelly tells about his fathers alcoholism. His parents scream at each other a lot but it never gets physical. Even when Kelly's dad is blackout drunk he claims that hes only had two beers. Kelly is so tired of hearing his parents fight that sometimes he goes out side and sleeps on the concrete driveway.
"My dad drank a lot. He would be blind drunk and still say 'No, I only had two beers.' Any time we asked him how many beers he had, it was always two. 'two beers' come out of his mouth."

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When Kelly's brother turned nine, his dad got him a fiberglass surfboard. After trying it out a few times, Kelly was convinced that he needed one too and later that year he convinced his dad to buy him one.

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When Kelly was eight (1980) he entered his first local surf competition, still riding his body board. He won against four other kids and impressed a local surfer on the verge of turning pro. The surfer thought "I've got to make this kid a surf board". However, he wouldn't get a chance until a couple of years later.

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Within a year of riding his Styrofoam board, Kelly's parents bought him a real body board. He still rode it standing up and learned how to do simple tricks on it like 360s.

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When Kelly was 5 he started riding small waves on a Styrofoam body board that he rode standing up. It was light and flimsy but it started him on the path to greatness

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Kelly's dad loved shooting guns, so he bought some for the whole family and they went shooting together. One time when they all went out to Merritt Island to shoot bottles and skeet with some family friends. After a while, a biker gang showed up and started shooting birds even though it was a bird sanctuary. Kelly's Dad and the other family dad started yelling at them to stop and firing warning shots in the air. When they refused, the whole family had their guns trained on them until the owner of the land showed up and told the bikers to leave.

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When Kelly was 7, the family dog, Hondo died. The family was very sad so they got a second dog and named it HondoII. This was a mistake as the second Hondo could never live up to the real thing, so they renamed it Mo. They got Mo as a gaurd dog but it was to dopey to do his job and one time he jumped on an innocent old lady and broke her hip.

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Growing up, Kelly's house had an attic full of rats. In the room where Kelly and his brother slept there was a closet with an access hatch to the attic so Kelly was always scared to open the closet in fear the the rats had found a way down. One night Kelly worked up enough courage to get a blanket from the closet and right as he opened the door some teens who were cutting through the yard tapped on the window and yelled "Hey kid!" Kelly developed closet phobia after this

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When Kelly was young, he was very accident prone and hurt himself a lot. This led to many people thinking that he was abused. One time while transporting a pile of rocks across the street on his skateboard he was hit by an old lady driving a car. He wasn't hurt but had to go to the hospital anyways. "After my 'accident' Uncle Bobby asked me what happened to my back, and I told him, 'I got wunned ova by a cawa.'

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Kelly is born in Cape Canaveral Hospital on February 11, 1972, under the name Robert Kelly Slater.

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In 1961, Kelly's home town, coco beach, stared attracting tourists due to the new rocket launches at Cape Canaveral.

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Kelly catches his first good contest wave

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Kelly catches his first good contest wave

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Kelly is behind in the pipeline masters and then he catches his first  monster wave and is back in it. It was one of the first big powerful waves that he caught and helped him get more comfortable with big waves.

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Kelly Slater is 19 and already in the quarter finals of the pipeline masters