Kelly is clearly the best surfer ever but best athlete ever is far to subjective, like I wouldn't put Jerry Rice or any baseball player in my top 50 but that would be due to my lake of understanding and not their athletic ability.
Here is my top ten surfers list of all times.
1) Kelly Slater
2) Tom Curren
3) Duke Kahanamoku
4) Tom Carroll
5) Mark Richards
6) Nat Young
7) Laird Hamilton
8) Mark Occhilupo
9) Martin Potter
10) Layne Beachley
Layne I put in for the way she has changed woman's surfing, so many more hot chicks in the waves theses days
