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Kelly Slater

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“Better and better how to understand and comprehend something and be able to share it with somebody, not from a place of righteousness, but a place of like you've lived it.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, in all honesty, there's some work to do there, but somebody who has the desire and is willing to say, hey, this is what I want to do, all the best to those people, you know. It sounds like somebody like that's willing to work and to be humble. And when you're humble, you're teachable. You're able to learn. It's like, you know, even someone in my position who's won a lot of contests and all that stuff. And I still lot of times I need to just sit back and be willing to learn and be humble and not think I know something and or know it better than somebody. And a lot of times just they say teaching is the best way to learn because, you know, going back to that theme, we started with early on with that 2003 when I lost that world title. When you teach, you mess up, you know, and you learn something from that. And you learn.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All this stuff that I've learned with younger guys, if they want to ask me, you know, I think maybe sometimes people are intimidated to ask me or don't think I'll want to talk about it or something, but I'm really happy to kind of share any of those things I can with younger surfers who are hungry for it. And I thought it was cool that he kind of had the balls to just say, hey, can you help me out here? And so I gave him a nice long rundown, do all these things, go all these places. don't fake it put your heart into it and give it your best try. And if it works out great. But, you know, there's a long road ahead to get to that point. I don't totally know how good this particular kid is. I saw a couple clips of him and.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Looking forward to that. And I think more personal growth surfing has become real crowded and you almost have to become spiritual to enjoy it sometimes because there's so many people in the water. So, you know, learning to enjoy what I have and to be able to share it. A kid that I surfed with yesterday wrote me a message today online. And he said, hey, you know, I really want to. Like be a pro surfer, I really want to get as good as I can and try to be a pro and make a career. And he's like, any advice? And he's like, sorry for buggy. And I was like, no, like it's probably strange how much I enjoy sharing.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You could have a Be the home, and then well, and you know, too many countries I like to be in. I think just taking some time after being on this whirlwind for 30 plus years nearly 30 years on tour, but another 10 years on top of that chasing waves from when I was a young kid. Just scaling it back Who I like to surf with and what else I want to include in my life or take out of it? Just looking forward to enjoying the next 40 years of life and 50 years, 80 years, I don't know, how long can we live at that point?”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wanting to make money from when I was a kid so I could buy a house to then buying homes in different parts of the world and now I'm Sort of looking forward to either living on a boat one day or living in a van that I can just live anywhere. Making it kind of simple. The only problem is I have too many surf wars and too many golf clubs.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Obviously, this period of time with the COVID thing has been a, I hope it's been a time of reflection for everybody. I think it's a time for all of us to sit back and think about our health, think about what's important, put some money away. You know, I think about all the people who lost their jobs and who live on credit and who don't save her rainy day and people who are in far worse situations of that that don't have a roof over their head. I think it's one of those times to really think about kind of everything that's important in your life. Strangely enough, if you look at my YouTube feed, I would say half of the stuff that I watch is converting vans to a home. I have this sort of after all these years of like.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's renowned for people dropping their cameras that have filmed good sessions. There's like kind of this mystique around this place. And like a whole bunch of people, my friends that have been down there and filmed and stuff, like my friends that live down there and they've dropped cameras in the water after a whole day of filming and somehow somebody erased the footage. Like all these things have happened. So like the footage of this place has never really gotten out. And then the tsunami hit and ruined the sandbar. that had built up for, you know, who knows how long decades. So it's kind of funny. It sort of hit itself. And although I wanted to see that footage, we didn't have it.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go through the hard drives and stuff. So I go down, I go and see him the next day, and I said, All right, well, what's going on? And he goes, there's no footage. I go, what do you mean there's no footage? Like, you miss some waves? Or like, he goes, no, there's no footage at all. And I was like, what do you mean? And he goes, There's just there's no footage. Like, he goes, I think when we were going out on the jet ski, something came loose from the hard drive to the camera and it just never even got one frame of footage. We don't have any footage at all of that whole day. I was equally like upset and thought it was funny. Way I'm kind of glad that it didn't happen because. This place was so magical, and I felt cheap filming it and showing it to the world.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Went on a trip down to Central America one time, and there's this really great wave that was happening years ago. Funny enough, strangely enough, it got ruined by the 2011 tsunami, which wasn't huge when it hit there, but it was really powerful and small, and it changed this break in particular that we were surfing. But we went down there and I brought my friend to shoot like thousand frames a second on a phantom camera, like the best footage you could ever get at the time. And we shot the best day I've ever seen at this place like a day you get very few times in your life. Maybe the best day of surf I ever had. And he filmed the whole thing and we flew from there to Tahiti and we got to Tahiti and I said, hey, let me know when I can see that footage. And like the next day I called him and I said, have you looked at it yet? He's like, there might be a problem with it or something, but I'll let you know later. I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, I don't know. I just like try.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was telling you, I was working with Tom Carroll the other day, and Tom Foyle's almost every morning, and he says, as soon as I'm done foiling, I got to get back on a surfboard so I don't forget that feeling or else my surfing goes downhill.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so cool looking like the amount of speed you can get. And what I was saying about Florida being like Cocoa Beach being the small reef capital of the world, I'm just starting to think that Florida might be a good destination again for people that want to go foiling because we have these really shallow offshore shoals off of Cape Canaveral, basically where NASA Space Center is. My friends have been getting mile long rides out there. You can just catch these open ocean swells and they don't break and you just can go so fast back and forth on the things and so cool looking. It's completely silent. And there's just no wake. And I don't know. It looks like nothing else in the world. I kind of want to get into it, but I'm scared once I do it's going to mess my surfing up. So I'm kind of waiting.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In foiling, when you lean to the right, if you lean to the right and then put your energy down to the right, the foil kicks the board back up against you and you kind of fold in half. So when you lean right, you almost got to put equal amount of pressure on the left at the same time. It's hard to explain because I am such analysis. So there's a little bit of counterintuitive. It's almost like if you're riding a bike and you're turning right. Have to turn the steering wheel left a little bit to go right. It's the weirdest sensation.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You'd lean into a rail and do a turn, you're pushing all your energy and weight down into that rail, and you're getting a lift back from that rail. When you push on one side, wherever you put your force, it lifts back against you in a way that kind of throws the board the opposite way you think it might. So if I'm surfing and I lean my right rail down in the water, that rail goes down. Of course, I'm getting a pushback against it, but”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you're riding under the water and you're riding like it's probably the closest thing you can imagine to flying but being in the water. Just think of all the America's cup boats now, the ones that lift off or those ferries, the super high speed ferries that ride on a foil and all the energy, all the weight lifts up off the water. So there's just so little resistance. And the bigger the foil, the more lift you have. So the faster you're going, the less foil size you need. I can't really speak to it because I'm a complete kook and novice. I've done it like three times. I've done the E foil once. And I think the EFOIL is a little goofy. I'm just going to throw it out there. I think it's really good for learning. It's kind of training wheels for foiling, in my eyes. You do it to kind of get the feel of being lifting up off the water and not relying on your board edges and stuff to create the turns. And it's foiling's a little counterintuitive. When we surf,”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the best guys in the world are surfers, so yeah, it connects. When I was a little kid, there used to be this sort of slogan, Coco Beach, the small wave world capital of the world, for whatever reason. There was like, you know, a big emphasis of surfing in Cocoa Beach, and it was probably a slogan from Ranjan Surf Shop or something, but somehow it became known as like a small wave capital. And then in the last 20, 30 years, Cocoa Beach is not on the surfing radar at all. No one comes to Cocoa Beach to go surfing from anywhere else in the world. They do from like Orlando, and they might from down South Florida, but they don't, it's not like a destination from people from other places in the world. You're going to go to Hawaii or Indo or Cahiti or France, for that matter, Portugal”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But if I'm at the contest, sorry to jump in there, if I'm at a contest, we usually have massage therapists there. So each day I'll get a little bit of something during contest days.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'd like to get something done every week. But, you know, sometimes I'll get it a couple times a week if I'm in one place and I got somebody I like to work with. I'll go two or three times in a week sometimes, and then I might not go for a month once in a while. If I'm competing, though, I like to try to get something at least once a week.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But bending forward, I'm stiffer because I spend my whole life with my shoulders back and my back arched. You know, blend for me is just if I feel like something's out, if my back goes out or something, I got to get adjusted, let it relax. It's an anti inflammatories once in a while because the stressor on contest if your body's out of whack is annoying too. And then, yeah, just get that body work, get those muscles worked out that are in balance. You know, if you're a little too tight there and a little too weak there, the ones that are built up too much, you got to kind of like stretch out.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've been disciplined for many years. I spent over 30 years being pretty disciplined with my body and what I put into it and all that kind of stuff. But in doing that, I'm never too obsessive about any one thing. I'll go through like binge periods where I'm really obsessive about my diet, but I don't love to work out. So I like to kind of consistently get some body work. I like to surf enough because surfing's fun. You know, I just love to surf. So it keeps me fit. And if I surf enough, I'm at a level that's pretty good for my cardio and for my strength. But I generally always need a little bit of extra. You know, I should spend more time stretching, especially my hips and my hamstrings. If you can picture a surfer paddling, we got our back arch the whole time so I can actually bend backwards. Amazing. I can put my feet on my head and that kind of thing.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's different than Break and Rib. It's just more annoying. You could still kind of surf through the adrenaline, but it is annoying. The way I usually do it, it kind of pinches something in my neck so I can't turn to the left. I feel like Zulander Can't turn left. I really like time massage because it's deep. It's almost like lazy man's yoga in a in a way.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've gone through most everyone you can imagine from Shiatsu to Thai Massars, Swedish deep tissue, biosync. I mean all sorts of different, you know, I've tried everything, all the chiropractics and osteopaths and all that kind of stuff. But in general, I do need a little bit of adjusting some chiropractics because I have scoliosis. I have a pretty big curve in my back. And from that, my muscles get really imbalanced. So I kind of need to blend. I mean, my neck will go out and my lower back will go out. So I need to get adjusted and kind of put that back. I sometimes throw a rib out.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With a gymnast who understands flips and rotate and spinning and that kind of stuff and landing back on your feet, if you're really going to dive into it all, you can't discount your diet, you can't discount body work, you can't just count doing yoga or pilates and staying supple, getting some extra strength and bone density, but not getting too big from using weights. So there's always this kind of balance for surfing. You don't want to be a giant, strong dude, but you don't want to be a little weakling either. You just kind of need this nice balance and blend between all those things.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're starting to get more and more. There's like John John Florence and there's Gabriel Medina and there's Jordie Smith and there's quite a few guys now. But when I was on tour and when I got on tour, when I got on tour, I would say there's nobody. And as I was on tour, there were very few over the years that were good at all those different aspects. I mean, my mind almost draws a blank until just this modern era now who have been able to understand there's a real difference in the approach of doing those maneuvers, the base of power surfing where you just carving up and the air stuff where you kind of have to be more horizontal and lateral and stay over your board unless you're doing grabs. And then when you start doing grabs and rotations and inverting stuff, then it's the air thing goes to a little different level. And you have to be schooled in some other skill set, you know, like skating or gym, you know, gym work if you were to go work with a gymnast specifically.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I would probably just say go skate a lot. Get on a skate, go get on a skateboard because you can go carve and you can do airs. Those are the two things you need in surfing. You need to really understand and differentiate the two. You're either in surfing, most guys are either power surfer or an air maneuver trick surfer. And it's almost rare to see somebody who's really great at both.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, totally. I mean, because in the ocean, you might search all my years. I've thought about certain waves that look good for a certain maneuver. And I might go and surf that wave once every few years. And it might have that section I'm looking for only once every couple times I go there. And I might get that wave even less frequent than that. So the point is that the sections we need with the right speed and size and all that thing to do certain maneuvers is so rare to find in the ocean. And now we can start to design those into man-made waves so that if you ever have that situation, That you're not unfamiliar with.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And how much better he got in that amount of time? There's a real crossover now between skate and surf. So you see all the guys who are really good at airs, I would say 90% of them anyways are good skaters. And so they understand the rotations and the grabs and that kind of thing. And when we were kids, we didn't really have access to skate parks and ramps and stuff. And now there's a skate park in every city. Almost all these guys have a bunch of friends who are great skaters or pro skaters or even someone in their family. It's a great skater. There's a real solid crossover there. It's just more access, more time on the mat, you know?”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Destinations for people, and it's just like a supplement to your surfing, just like a vitamins would be to your diet. It's just another way to get your fix of getting in the water and getting something done. But now you see people advancing, evolving, they're surfing a lot quicker. And that's going to be the case. That's going to be the thing. Like my godson, Jackson, I'll probably just keep talking about him. But he's 13. He's one of the best aerialists his age in the world, if not the best at his age in the world right now. And he's really only been surfing about four years. And, you know, I've grown men all the time just going, oh my God, how's Jackson? He's unbelievable. You know, people watch his edits and see the things he's doing, but he spent a lot of time in these different wave pools already practicing the errors over and over again. And Shane was saying how he's like, man, the first time we went, it was crazy to see Jackson's evolution over the course of like two days or three days”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going into Florida, if not two, there's one in England, there's one in us down in Melbourne, Australia, and I think another being built on the Gold Coast right now. And then potentially we're building one on the Sunshine Coast as well. So five years from now, I don't think there's going to be a time where surfers are completely stumped for waves. You're always going to have somewhere within your access. You can go get a wave on any given day. The wave full enough that they have in Australia right now is down in Melbourne. And I was talking to a friend recently. He goes, oh, yeah, like a bunch of my buddies have gotten a flight from Byron Bay, flown all the way to Melbourne in the morning, surf two sessions at the pool and get home by dark or get home just for a late dinner. And that's a two-hour flight each way. And he said, they're happy to do it again next month or in two months or whatever. So these things are becoming...”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Init Kind of wonder, you know, I think this last five years was really a fast evolution in wave pool technology, man-made wave technologies. I think it might, I don't know if it's going to speed up or slow down right now. I feel like it's going to slow down a little bit because there's a number of different technologies and now it's about perfecting them, just innovating on what is already there and then having surfers ride them and give feedback to what else they would like to see. But there's quite a lot of good waves being made by machines at this time. There's, I want to say three distinct different technologies with different kinds of waves. Five years from now, I just expect there will be more of these made. You know, there's probably six or eight around the world that have become sort of destinations for people to go ride. There's one in Abu Dhabi or Dubai. There was two in Texas. Now there's one, but I think the other one's going to be rebuilt. There's one going in at least one.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, all aspects of water safety. And it's really like a passion play by the surfers who do it. Everyone's kind of looking out for each other. And, you know, I've had a number of friends drown and not make it. And I've had a number of friends drown and be saved. And a lot of those who were saved were because all these kind of techniques that everyone's been learning from divers and lifeguards and all sorts of water safety people. In fact, one friend of mine who drowned and was saved. And then about, I don't know, a couple years later, he actually did CPR and another friend of ours who drowned and saved him. So there's a real tight fraternity community in the surf world, especially in the big wave world. And guys are looking out for each other because they know it's a life and death thing all the time.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, there's these courses, they're really good for young guys to go to. Actually, they'd be good for, they could translate to anybody, even people who don't surf, you know, but they're kind of built specifically for being able to be comfortable in big gnarly situations and also go save people in the middle of, you know, the surf.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That young kids who have any fear of big waves right now must be just no understanding of what they could do to get to that level. Geyser surfing regularly surfing 60, 70, 80 foot waves. And, you know, you need to do a lot of preparing for that ahead of time. A lot of putting yourself in unsafe, not unsafe, unfamiliar territory, you know, pool work, underwater work, breathing. breath holds you know water safety classes big they they have these classes called uh big wave rescue there's an acronym for it b-w-r-a-g anyways it's all about big waves and practicing and practicing all the water safety”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Said to a few people in the last few years, last five or ten years that I would hate to be a young surfer right now because the levels you got to go to, whether it's going to be Like just small wave performance and technique. Or it's going to, if you're going to be a big wave guy, like the stuff guys are doing now is so crazy.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you just trust that and use it. And so in the simplicity, there's a mastery. And I think that's what I've picked up from the times I've spent around Hickson.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That footage of him knowing that the level he got to with his breathing and his stomach, you know, his muscle movements and his mastery of jiu-jitsu and his arts. Amount of time it took to get there. And he obviously had something special, you know, he had a certain way to look at it that no one else did. And that's why he was the greatest. So it's taking all the best techniques, all aspects, you know, from diet to breathing to understanding his body, understanding his opponents and what they're good and bad at and using all that, it becomes an equation that you, you know, when you get to the highest levels, you don't think of the equation. It just you understand that you know the answer.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Funny enough, probably one of the simplest things is the first thing that swings to mind, and that is efficiency, because anytime he's given me a jiu-jitsu lesson, he's given me a few privates and he did the same thing for my little brother one day with me. And it was all about efficiency of movement. You know, he said, look, you know, I can fight a guy. I'm like 170 or whatever, 175. He's like, I can fight a guy who's 250 pounds and I'm stronger than him. Not because I have more strength, but because I understand leverage. I understand how the body moves and the efficiency of trapping someone's joint and using leverage instead of just energy, you know, instead of just wasting my energy and using strength. I'm using superior method and technique. One thing I really have always respected about Hickson is how disciplined he was, especially like seeing that.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or I'm not right there. But if you're enjoying it and you love it and it's your passion and surfing's a different thing, you know, kind of like, what would I compare it to, strangely enough, golf, they're both sports you can do till you're old. You know, you can do way up and late into your life. You're not going to be doing that with football and baseball or basketball so much, not hardcore anyways”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that can be a respectable and respectful way too. And I've always kind of welcomed that in my later years here on Tor. I've sort of welcomed, I want to see the level be what my mind imagined when I was 15, 20 years old, not somewhere behind me. I wanted to just keep going and I want to be part of that evolution to push that. At 48 years old, I know nobody takes me lightly in a heat when they compete against me. And, you know, that's... Think that's an honor in itself, you know, that they still, you know, the best guys in the world, they're still worried when they get in the heat with me. And I'm not dumb. No, I know where my level is. You know, there's certain times that I can be the best guy and there's other times where I got to work on it.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's the right time? And if you go out at the peak or shortly after it. And, you know, it's a weird thing because it depends on your purpose. It depends on what message you're sending. And that message can change too. And I feel like mine has, but that message, that doesn't have to be so centered around your ego. That can be an evolution. And people who say, like, guys, people need to go out on top. Why? So, I mean, yeah, that's great too, but obviously if you're at the top of your game, you're still beating people. You're still beating everyone. And passing the torch sometimes, somebody's got to take you out.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or three more world titles in that time, and I said, you know, if I listen to you, I wouldn't have this many, you know. If I listen to you, I would only have eight. And now I got 11. And he's like, oh, man, you're right. You're right. There is always that question for athletes like when do you stop”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gave me a few one on one sessions, and I sort of sponsored him for surfboards and would pay for his surfboards and like an informal kind of, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. But I always had this huge admiration for him and I was just really, you know, happy to know him and get to pick his brain sometimes. But in about 2008, he was about 2008 came to the Surford factory where I was sponsored by. We were up in Santa Barbara. And he goes, he's like, you know, man, I think you should stop now. I think you should quit. And I said, why? And he goes, no, you're going to give all these young guys a chance to beat you and you're not going to be as sharp. You're going to lose your desire. You're going to get it complacent. And then guys who shouldn't beat you are going to beat you. And when you look back, you're going to be upset about it. And about three years later, I saw him and I had won two.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember back watching Choke, and that was before I knew Hickson and watching him go into like basically a ice cold temperature water in Japan and Trinity. And I had heard that Hickson could move every muscle in his body independent of any other muscle. He had such control. And for people who don't know jiu-jitsu, you know, the Gracies are learning Jiu-Jitsu by the time they're two years old in that family. You know, kids wrestle. All boys wrestle, but they were wrestling at a young age, tiny kids with technique and learning the skills and learning how not to hurt each other. It was as natural as breathing or anything for them. And I always had real admiration from afar for Hickson before meeting him. And then we became friends. I'm not quite sure the first time I met him. I met him at Rington, surfing, I think it was the early 2000s or late 90s, met him one day in the car park, and then a few years later, a couple years later, I got invited over to this house to go do a private session with him and taught me and my friend Travis in jiu-jitsu. And then I kind of think he”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So funny because remember years ago everyone was doing that ice bucket challenge. You pour some cold water on your head, and that's like a big thing.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sorts of things around, you know, obviously the title is sexuality too. So it dives into that kind of thing too. But just using everything in your life in a healthy way. And I don't know. It's one of those books I just, I had to travel with it for years. I just would always keep it. It was like, just in case I need to read something, I'll have it with me. It was always in the bottom of my bag for a long time I probably recommended that book literally at this point to tens of thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands or millions even.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And Shannon and I were traveling around the tour together that era, and I became kind of like the chef for both of us. He just told me, just tell me what to eat because he knew I was super into diet. And so we got really into our diets. And I felt like he was helping me be a guinea pig to see if this thing worked. And I found myself asleep in like six hours a night and feeling like I was totally rested. My body just felt much more relaxed and energetic. And, you know, there's other things in the book that were helpful too. There's a lot of breathing techniques that I tried to incorporate myself. Didn't really do them practicing with anyone else. And it gets into...”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Didn't start practicing, but I was reading a lot about them and reading about Hickson, who I later became friends with. And they talk about a diet, a food combining diet where you don't mix proteins and carbs together and meals. And you don't mix fruits with either. And you could have greens with sort of anything. That's essentially what food combining is. I had read a book in the mid, around 96 or 97 called Fit for Life, which was kind of the same thing. And I think I'd been inspired by the Gracies to read that. And then I don't remember who gave me the Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity, but I started reading that and got really, really into the diet aspect of it, getting into the food combining thing and started following it kind of religiously. I think I read it in 98 originally, and I kept, I sort of kept it with me for about 10 years is what it was. And in 98, I was traveling with Shane Dorian. That's whose son is my God.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I started reading that book in the early 2000s, maybe 2003, 4005, somewhere in there. And I just found a lot of Well, if I were to rewind a little bit, in the late 90s, I started to learn a lot about the Gracies Jiu-Jitsu.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You might just open to some aspect of life that you're questioning or whatever and you read, you know, they say all the great things are simple things. And that book really kind of is a cliff note to life in simple way. But I just felt it really was a really inspiring book. And it didn't take a lot of effort to get something from it.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's so weird. He just brought that up. One of my best friends is named Khalil. And I met him about eight years ago, seven or eight years ago, and he's just become such a big part of my life. And he's an ex-drug addict who was nearly dead and homeless and penniless and got himself together. Now he's more or less a health food addict and owns a bunch of smoothie stores in LA called Sunlife Organics. He just really like this guy's a success story in his life, you know. But the book, And I'd never known a Khalil before, but I just flashed on that because my mom gave me that book, The Prophet. And I think, I want to say I was in my early 20s, maybe late teens to early 20s, and she gave me this book. And I don't know how she knew about it. It was, I don't know. It just seemed like an extraordinary book. To me, it became like my Bible because I felt like I could read a little piece of it and it would hold me over for a month, you know, maybe one or two pages.”
2020-09-08 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #461: Kelly Slater — The Surfing Legend on Routine, Rickson Gracie, Favorite Books, and Overcoming Setbacks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT