Kelly Slater's Quiksilver years become Stab's 'The Long Goodbye'

The first feature-length How Surfers Get Paid documentary arrives December 1, tracing a partnership that grew into a story about surfing's industry.

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Trailer: A Kelly Slater Documentary | 'The Long Goodbye'

Kelly Slater isn't keen on hearing his surfing described in the past tense. That resistance opens Stab: We like to surf's trailer for The Long Goodbye, a documentary that starts with a sponsorship deal and widens into a portrait of competitive ambition, loyalty and the business around the waves.

The channel's only new upload this week, "Trailer: A Kelly Slater Documentary | 'The Long Goodbye'", has reached roughly 71,000 views. Archival footage and interviews follow Slater from early contract negotiations through his Quiksilver years and eventual departure. Dane Reynolds appears, while Stab's description also points to Slater's enduring relationship with longtime confidant Stephen Bell. The feature arrives December 1.

There is a revealing little coda to all that career history: Slater revisits a heat score he believes cost him another world title. Retirement-language objections at the beginning, unfinished competitive business at the end. Viewers are asking about the trailer's backing music and requesting subtitles, with one connecting the film to the How Surfers Get Paid series that preceded it.

Elsewhere, the strongest viewing momentum belongs to "BACKFLIPS + BODY VARIALS in ABU DHABI | A Surf Film Ft Hughie, Eithan, Mikey + Craig Ando". Hughie Vaughan, Eithan Osborne, Mikey Wright and Craig Anderson's wave-pool film is drawing substantially more daily views than the trailer. "Milk & Honey: A Feature-Length Surf Film Starring Steph, Caity, Coco, and Frankie" also keeps moving, bringing Caity Simmers, Stephanie Gilmore, Coco Ho and Frankie Harrer to a typhoon swell in Siargao.

Subscribers held steady over the week, while daily viewing sits close to Stab's usual level. Nearby in size, Surfing With Noz had a much larger week for views. Stab's own week offers two quite different pleasures: airborne surfing in Abu Dhabi and a closer look at the negotiations behind a celebrated career.

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The videos drawing views on Stab: We like to surf right now

BACKFLIPS + BODY VARIALS in ABU DHABI | A Surf Film Ft Hughie, Eithan…221,036 views Milk & Honey: A Feature-Length Surf Film Starring Steph, Caity, Coco,…91,494 views

The numbers

Here is how Stab's viewing and subscriber totals moved this week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Surfing With Noz

6,718,605

FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA

1,827,102

Racing TV

917,305

CYCLINGABOUT

716,053

Stan Sport

692,087

TNT Sports Snooker

581,313

The Rick Shiels Golf Show

424,858

Stab: We like to surf

388,088

Seb On Golf

15,768

subscribers

240,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

113,598,470

views per day

47,357

typical day: 46,007

first-day views of each video posted this week

Trailer: A Kelly Slater Documentary | '…

42,505

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Rick Shiels Golf Show

265,000

CYCLINGABOUT

264,000

Surfing With Noz

260,000

Stan Sport

244,000

Seb On Golf

242,000

Stab: We like to surf

240,000

Racing TV

231,000

FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA

221,000

TNT Sports Snooker

219,000

As of November 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.