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Surf Splendor

245 – Donald Brink

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Surfboard shaper Donald Brink has been a recurring guest on this show. Donny sustained a significant injury while surfing recently and it’s inspired him reexamine life’s pieces. In today’s show, I chat with Donny about the setback, how it’s propelling him forward, and he takes us along to South Africa to track down the person … Continue reading "245 – Donald Brink" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show.

0:25.5

I am recording this intro in an echoey and old room on beautiful and cold Nantucket Island,

0:35.9

a really surreal place.

0:37.8

I'm in the Northeast to visit friends and board builders whom I've met through this podcast.

0:43.5

Slurpy wave photographer Jonathan Nimmerfro lives on Nantucket and we connected a couple years back.

0:49.9

Right when his images of those slurpy waves went viral, he went from modest Nantucket

0:56.0

surf photographer to Good Morning America, and now he sells his works through galleries.

1:02.3

Anyway, he's been giving me an incredible tour of Nantucket, and I'll definitely be back here

1:06.6

when there are waves and when the ocean is warmer than 45 degrees.

1:11.3

Incredible little island and surf culture here in the Northeast.

1:15.3

So lots more to explore and lots of kind of podcast opportunities out here.

1:20.3

Anyways, shout out to Jonathan.

1:21.7

Follow him on Instagram.

1:23.8

JDN Photography is his Instagram handle.

1:26.8

You wouldn't believe some of the images he's captured on Nantucket Island and how insane the waves can get.

1:32.5

So check all that out.

1:34.0

Anyway, surfboard shaper Donald Brink has been a recurring guest on this show.

1:38.5

He launched his own podcast six months ago.

1:40.9

We produced three episodes and then went dormant.

1:44.6

Today, we launched the fourth.

1:46.6

Donnie sustained a significant injury while surfing recently, and it's forced to shift in his

1:51.3

perspective and focus, but it's also freed up sometime to reinvest in his own kind of

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