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Surf Splendor

065 – Gary Linden: The Big Wave World Tour

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Humble, ambitious, persistent, and still charging big waves in his early sixties, few people are more qualified to give insight into competitive big-wave surfing than Gary Linden. In today’s episode of Surf Splendor, Gary talks about his early days helping pioneer Todos Santos, spending decades building surfboards, judging on the ASP, and orchestrating the advent … Continue reading "065 – Gary Linden: The Big Wave World Tour" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

hey what's up there, Surf Splendor podcast listeners?

0:42.9

Welcome back to the show.

0:44.5

I'm your host, David Scales.

0:47.9

Siked to bring you today's episode with Gary Linden as our guest.

0:53.0

And hopefully, by the time you're listening to this,

0:57.0

the Bilobong Pipe Master event has started.

1:01.6

Today was day one.

1:03.1

It was a lay day.

1:04.3

And then the swell forecast, though, looks absolutely incredible.

1:08.4

There was waves today, but there're going to be better waves,

1:11.3

basically, coming. And so they put it on hold, and hopefully it's going to go tomorrow.

1:16.6

And you definitely need to be checking that out. It looks like it's going to be an all-time event,

1:21.8

which is why I'm excited to bring you today's episode, because Gabriel Medina is in the

1:26.6

running to win his first world title.

1:28.4

Today's episode is with Gary Linden, who has a lot of strong ties to Brazil and strong opinions

1:35.2

about Gabriel Medina and the Brazilian surf culture. And then additionally, the ASP just greenlit

1:43.9

the Punta Galea Big Wave World Tour event. That's set to go for

1:49.8

Thursday. I think it's December 10th is Thursday. So there's just tons of swell activity right now.

1:56.7

So those are things that are really exciting, but again, particularly relevant to today's

2:02.3

guest, Gary Linden.

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