Kelly Slater

health in the body and strangely enough my mom was an EMT and firefighter.

So she went to medical school for some degree of time to learn what she needed.

And so I kind of already had this like maybe this genetic thing in my DNA where I wanted to learn about the anatomy and digestion and all that stuff.

I was traveling in my early days when I first got on Quicksilver.

I was traveling with a guy named Tom Carroll who was two-time world champion.

But Tom was one of the few guys that cross-trained and really talked about diet.

Oh, yeah.

He was doing all sorts of cross-training.

And Tom was like crazy fit, super strong.

Everyone talked about how big his calves were and his thighs were.

And it was actually funny because...

back at that time, he also wore super tiny shorts.

So his like leg muscles would just like- Jacked.

Like, yeah, like explode his like tiny trunk, you know, like almost looked like it would rip him in the side because his legs were so powerful.

And he surfed that way, you know, he surfed with all this power and energy.

He was known for that.

And Tom became like a big brother to me.

And we were, I think I was like 18 years old.

I was in Australia with him.

I kept telling him how I didn't have much energy.