I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We ought to be bragging about Florida!
I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.
I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and share that where I can in certain areas of the mainstream media that doesn't get the surfing attention.
Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.
I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.
'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.
I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.
It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.
Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.
I suck at surfing. I can't pull myself up.