371 - Pat O'Connell: Florence Marine X
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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SUPPORT Film star, pro surfer, marketing exec, WSL SVP, and now brand president, Pat O'Connell joins us to discuss why 2021 is a cornerstone year for surfing and how lessons learned from decades past will allow him to implement change with his largest responsibility to date.
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| 0:00.0 | Congratulations to Kevin Hammer for winning the Roger Hines Dreamfish. His name was selected randomly |
| 0:07.5 | amongst our loyal supporters on June 1st. Our network of podcasts is listeners supported. It's only |
| 0:15.0 | five bucks a month and as a thank you, we do these surfboard giveaways. It's usually six times a year, |
| 0:22.1 | so one every other month. |
| 0:26.9 | But guess what? I've already got another one for you. Two months in a row. |
| 0:34.1 | Britt Merrick hand-shaped me a two happy about four months ago. And the team at Channel Islands wants to give one to you. The two boards that we gave away most recently |
| 0:38.6 | were both twin fins, they were alternative shortboards, |
| 0:41.0 | so we figured it was kind of time for a pointy thruster. |
| 0:45.4 | But given that I am nearing 40 years old |
| 0:48.3 | and I am 15 pounds overweight, |
| 0:50.8 | the too happy meets me right where I'm at. The board is based on the happy model, |
| 0:56.6 | but with a couple of subtle adjustments that make it more user-friendly for a broader range of |
| 1:01.6 | surfers and conditions. So this is kind of your every man's shortboard, and it will become |
| 1:07.7 | your go-to shortboard. I'm keeping mine, the one that Brit shaped me |
| 1:12.0 | because Brit shaped it for me and because my name is on it. |
| 1:15.8 | But we will get the winner a brand new too happy |
| 1:18.3 | from Channel Islands in stock dimensions, essentially. |
| 1:21.9 | It won't be a custom, but if you go to their website right now, |
| 1:24.7 | you can open up the drop-down menu on that board and pick any length from |
| 1:29.3 | 4'4 foot 6 to 8 feet in length, inch by inch actually. So the lucky winner can kind of pick |
| 1:35.9 | the best fitting board, and we will have that sent to you. And I have much more to say about |
| 1:41.2 | the Too Happy as a model. I'll give you all that info throughout the month, |
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