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024 – Chris Taloa on Localism at Lunada Bay & Surf News with Scott Bass for Feb 4th, 2014

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2014

⏱️ 112 minutes

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As a follow up to the discussion in our last episode about the localism at Lunada Bay, we begin today’s episode with an interview with Chris Taloa, aka, Chris Won. Chris has spearheaded the movement to free Lunada Bay from the ugly and sometimes violent localism that has plagued one of Southern California’s greatest surf … Continue reading "024 – Chris Taloa on Localism at Lunada Bay & Surf News with Scott Bass for Feb 4th, 2014" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They fucking surrounded him in the fog, and I was he screaming his head off.

0:33.6

Hey, what the fuck?

0:34.8

No, the day we had the protest.

0:36.2

Oh, really?

0:37.0

So gnarly. They surround him in the fog, and we're trying to stabbing the board,

0:39.8

fucking scream to Adam, he's fucking crunching him so he had no place to move.

0:44.2

That's Chris Toloa, also known as Chris Wan, talking about Lunata Bay.

0:50.1

Welcome to Surf Splendor.

0:51.7

I'm your host, David Scales. This episode is filled with expletives,

0:56.9

so you've been warned. But before we get into our normal format, I just wanted to continue this

1:02.7

discussion about localism at Lunata Bay. The conversation started in our last episode of

1:08.4

Surf News when we discussed a recent protest that took place at

1:13.4

Lunada Bay and the social media frenzy that surrounded it on the inertia and Reddit.

1:20.3

Lunata Bay is located in a very affluent area of Los Angeles, for those of you who didn't

1:25.6

hear that episode or aren't from Southern

1:28.1

California. It's only accessible from a real narrow walking path down a steep cliff,

1:34.8

and it's known for just being the most localized surf spot in California. There have been

1:40.3

numerous stories of violence, arrests, and even lawsuits filed against the locals,

1:45.4

the non-locals, and even the city. More on that in a moment. But back to Chris Toloa. I grew up

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