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Thank you. Hello and welcome back to surf splendor.

This is David Scales.

Can you hear that in the background? Can you hear the sound of waves breaking of jungle animals?

I'm sitting here on the outskirts of the jungle, actually right on the beach, in Costa Rica, recording this intro.

The waves are quite literally six feet and perfect. I've been down here maybe five times or so.

And, man, this is as good as I've ever seen it.

I'm going to post a couple of photos on Instagram at Surf Splendor if you want to see what the waves look like right now.

And down here for a week, having a blast.

So I hope that you're getting good waves wherever you are at.

But I still want to honor our release schedule for Serf Splendor and bring you a brand

new episode.

And good news is I recorded a few before I left.

So today I'm going to bring you an episode, a conversation that I had with Dave Parmenter, a former guest.

It was episode 101 of Surf Splendor, was with Dave Parmenter.

And if you haven't yet caught that episode, I highly encourage you to pause this right now, go back into the archive, find that episode.

Because in that episode, we

detail Dave's biography, basically, his history as a former pro-surfer, surfboard

shaper, a writer, a surf historian, married to the queen of Hawaiian surfing, REL Sun.

So he's got a lot of reverence for Hawaiian culture and Polynesian culture and what they

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