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Surf Splendor

325 - Billy Hamilton: Part One

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Billy Hamilton joins David to discuss growing up in Laguna before the ocean was poisoned by detergents from civilization's expansion, his early travels to Kauai in the 60's, meeting Laird and his mother on the beach at Rocky Point, surfing Pipeline naked, and living (partying) with Bunker Spreckles when he inherited $100 million dollars. Part one of two. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.

0:04.0

When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.

0:08.0

Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:12.0

It's why you lace up at dawn.

0:15.0

Why little rain doesn't stop you.

0:17.0

Why one run turns into a habit.

0:20.0

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high. why one run turns into a habit.

0:24.3

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.

0:28.1

Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com.

0:33.3

Today's show is presented by NVS fins.

0:35.5

I've been talking about NVS periodically,

0:40.3

telling you about their ability to make custom fins without big minimum orders, and the fact that they use G10 fiberglass to make the fins, so they're stronger and still less expensive than what you're used to paying for fins.

0:48.3

Well, I've been writing their Mankind thrusters and a set of the keels for about a year and a half now, maybe a little bit more, actually.

0:55.2

And then they recently just sent me a set of their C-Drive fins, and they are a complete game-changer.

1:01.6

I worry that a lot of surfers underestimate their own ability to recognize the benefits of better

1:07.1

fins. And certainly, if something looks distinctlyly different it kind of scares people away

1:12.8

certainly when they don't feel confident in their own understanding of the design and the technology

1:17.0

or whatever or even using the word technology but the only key detail that I want to convey to you

1:22.2

about the C drive fins is that they work better you don't need to change your surfing you don't

1:27.2

need to change your approach you You don't need to change your approach.

1:29.1

You just swap these out with wherever you would ride thruster fins

1:33.4

and you will notice an improvement in all ways with no deficits.

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