King Kelly Slater appeared on CBS' Sunday Morning news yesterday to talk about his achievement's, his lack of street cred thanks to Baywatch, and his wave pool vision, The Kelly Slater Wave co.

Most of the clip consists of background info which we are all very familiar with, having grown up with Kelly in our lives since he began collecting titles some two decades ago. The interesting bits of this piece are about his new wave pool project.

The circular pool provides an endless wave, bending around the inner bank of the pool forever, in theory. So far they have only been able to make the concept work in a scale model providing 2 inch perfection. Problems associated with cost and the inevitable whirlpool effect have kept similar designs on paper in recent years, perhaps these guys have got those issues handled? Their earliest projected date is still a couple years off, so maybe if Kelly quits winning world titles for a few seconds he'll find the time to get to work on bringing us 20 minute barrels inside of a shopping mall.

To date, the most successful and potentially viable wave technology belongs to Wave Garden in Spain. They have successfully proved their concept in a half-scale model (which you have probably seen videos of), and are currently renovating the first pool to create a beefed up version that promises to provide head high tubes of staggering length, and plans to install such pools around the world are already in motion.

You'll have to click here, as CBS does not want their videos embedded for some silly reason.