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Well done guys. This was a lovely, heartwarming story arc that I did not see coming.

Rory Russell was saying at the Pipe event earlier in the season that Pipe has always tended to be on for 45 minutes and then off for 45.

Santa Cruz has a reputation for fairly assertive localism in the lineup. Grooter and alakaboo, have you found this?

I was watching a vid which included JJF waxing his board before going out at Pipe. I noted that he waxed his tail pad.

Do you reckon the covid surfing boom is over and that’s why you are having solo surfs and there is all these good used surfboards, attractively priced, on the internet?

Mikala Jones. The photo was used on the cover of a The Surfer’s Journal issue.

How about Denmark, Finland and Norway?

This is where compulsory national service is needed to instil the values of discipline, responsibility, humility, teamwork and service in the young people of today. Values they are not getting from home or from their devices.

The instagram comments on her Roxy exit post are a grand parade of the big names of surfing.

I hang out with a longboard influencer who never won a title and has a much bigger name. I'd never heard of Kelia. Apparently she has won 2 world championships but my first thought was 'wonder if she's related to the guy who broke his neck in Portugal?' So if someone who hasn't even made the top co...

I didn’t think so. She has to talk to her people in social media land and nobody likes a big pay cut.

Kelia is a special case. She has 728 thousand follows on instagram. She gets a lot of additional exposure thru Justin Bieber’s wife being her best friend. She is beautiful and articulate. Very marketable. I can see her getting some new brand relationships.

Kelia Moniz leaves Roxy after 17 years. Starts with a message of gratitude for the great years. In the final bit she answers, why did you leave Roxy, and she makes that very clear,

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1m_LHHP ... gxcm9rcmtt

Nick has written elsewhere about his interest in what’s happening in classic east coast surf towns in this time of big post-pandemic social change along the coast. Crescent is right in the centre of that.

The Chernin Group has a pretty sweet portfolio. Lacrosse, surfing, anime, cycling, gardening, cooking, Reece Witherspoon’s production company devoted to telling women’s stories, etc
I wish I had a job there.

The Chernin group taking over Surfline has been discussed more than once before on realsurf. Only last year Thud went all attack job on Nick about it.

This is from Tracks 1976 “Kym Thompson Water Cooled Surfboards These boards are basically the same as the ones I used to make at Klemm-Bell. I started getting a big response to them and had the opportunity to make them for myself. Mainly I'm into pintail flyers, generally double flyers, but I'll sha...