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Surf Splendor

221 – Donald Brink: Swell With My Soul

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Donald Brink is a lead proponent of asymmetrical surfboard design. A designer since youth, Donald paints, makes plywood fins, and as a surfboard shaper he believes that all board designs can be enhanced with asymmetrical adjustments. On today’s show Donald unveils his new collaboration board with Channel Islands and his new podcast venture, Swell … Continue reading "221 – Donald Brink: Swell With My Soul" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What was the episode? Because it's been a while since you recorded our conversation. Do you remember

0:05.0

the episode name, the number? I think it was number 22. Oh, wow. I'm like, oh, gee. Honestly,

0:15.0

I remember that's five years ago. Well, you know what's rewarding, David, is how many people

0:19.7

I've either got an email from

0:21.2

or run into or when they've ordered a board, be like, yeah, listen to your interview and

0:25.5

serve splendor and made a lot of sense.

0:27.7

And, you know, we're not trying to generate sales overnight, but you don't buy a board

0:32.7

every day either.

0:34.1

And I just hope people start to investigate what they need to be writing and what makes

0:38.9

sense to them and what resonates with them. But, you know, when it comes time to write a board

0:43.3

or buy a board, you know, you might have been doing your homework for years. And so it grows slowly,

0:48.9

but, you know, a lot of people have referenced that particular conversation we had. And so,

0:53.4

once again, it's like a

0:55.2

conversation that we probably don't even remember what we talked about then didn't matter. People

0:58.9

are listening to it today and it's available. So that's exciting. And I'll put a link to it in today's

1:04.7

show notes too. Well, that'll be fun. So people could check that out if they want. And it's funny.

1:08.8

You're right. I don't necessarily remember words that were said,

1:12.3

but the implications of that conversation

1:15.3

definitely influenced all the other conversations that I've had

1:19.8

in the subsequent 200 episodes.

1:22.7

Yeah, I mean, asymmetry.

1:24.2

Yeah, the asymmetry thing started there you know and that's been like i said

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