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Kohl Christensen Interview Kohl Christensen is 33; he’s been a professional surfer since he was 31, which is unusual in surfing today. Traditionally, young surfers dreaming about going pro would do something more like this: start surfing at age 5, and for 20 more years continue a regimented routine of surf, compete, travel, until they […]
Laird Hamilton Interview 5-20-16 “I think there are a certain percentage of us that in the interests of mankind have a mechanism that allows us to go against all of our cautiousness. We’re using that same mechanism that was a human condition for the evolution of our species.” The man behind the words is Laird […]
Andrew Cotton Interview 7-29-16 In 2010 big wave surfer Andrew Cotton caught sight of a wave a long way out to sea off the west coast of Ireland. Five years later he came back for it. Cotty risked his whole season to explore this unknown and isolated area of the Atlantic in pursuit of the […]
Lucas Chianca Chumbo Interview 3-25-17 Lucas Chianca Chumbo profile and interview. He has been ridding at all big waves spots around the world such as Nazaré in Portugal, Hawaii, California, México and Brasil. This interview was compose from original footage and WSL Big Wave Awards footage. Produced and Filmed by Marcelo Mattos mattosmediafilms.com
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 […]
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