Welcome back to part two of this quarantined in Sydney series. I could do better than that. Maybe

in the queue part two featuring Connor Coffin.

And I was going to say that this is a mini-series, but they're actually turning into full-sized, hour-long episodes.

So listen to the intro in yesterday's Lakey Peterson episode if you want to hear what this series is about,

or how the championship tour got here, not just with nearly all of the athletes

quarantined in a hotel in Australia, but how the tour schedule has shuffled so much and why

there is a wave on tour this year that virtually nobody on tour has surfed and most hadn't

even heard of before. Connor Coffin and I get into that and how to

prepare for something like it. We talk about how to transition out of lifelong relationships with

coaches and with shapers and how to develop new facets of your surfing in those new relationships.

And we also talk about the distraction inherent with bringing a girlfriend on tour for a young man.

All of this and of course much more.

I've got a number of other interview requests out to tour surfers.

So as many has agreed to chat, I will publish over these next 10 days.

Minimal editing, just kind of recording and publishing

as quick as I can turn them around. So this was recorded at 5 p.m. on March 11th, California time.

It is now 6.30. But it was noon March 12th, Sydney time for Connor Coffin. I think Sydney is 19

hours ahead from Los Angeles.

So without further ado, my name is David Scales. This is Surf Splendor, and I hope that you

enjoy my chat with Connor Coffin. Release me.

Release me.

You can keep the furniture.

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