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Jeff Rowley Interview 10-20-12 During this January’s landmark paddle session at Peahi on Maui, a mysterious, unsponsored figure fitted in a buoyancy jacket and inflatable wetsuit infiltrated a well-branded cadre of big-wave demigods to stroke his 10’2″ Al Merrick quad (aka “The Magic Carpet”) into several monsters — becoming the first Australian surfer to paddle […]
Shawn Dollar Interview 5-7-13 Shawn Dollar took home two XXL Awards on Friday for the world-record setting 61-foot wave he paddled into at Cortes Bank back in December. It’s the second time in three years that he’s owned the benchmark for the largest paddle-in wave ever caught. Dollar won the XXL Monster Paddle award in […]
Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker Interview 2-6-14 Like the rest of the surf world, I first met Grant “Twiggy” Baker almost exactly eight years ago. He was the Billabong sales rep from Durban who’d gotten enough votes online to snag a wildcard slot into the Maverick’s contest (“Everyone in Santa Cruz was against each other, I had […]
