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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...

You could give the development a soaring sea bird motif and call it Shearer’s Shag.

Nick delivers!

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am

I tell you what polebean. I'll see if the crew can get a camera set up at Crescent Head for you. How's that? Then you can check Crescent Head every day of your life!!

You are probably right. The modern surfer wants somewhere safe and cruisy, where you rarely have to duck dive.

I like Crescent. But I reckon the surfcam would rarely inspire anybody to take a long drive there for the waves.

I think this photo from Nick’s Agnes Waters’ article is pretty great.

Good article from Nick about chasing Cyclone Jasper to Agnes Waters.

https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/far- ... ter/192728

Needless to say, it’s not normally that good. A slow, cruisey, longer board type wave. It can be quite hard to get waves with a crusty older crew of regulars. Popular with tradies.

The rot would start with increasingly casual kickouts.

I don’t think realsurf offers to cover airfares.