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Surf Splendor

372 - Garrett McNamara

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Big wave surfer, 8x Guinness Record holder Garrett McNamara is our guest today. He's also the star of the new HBO docu-series "100 Foot Wave". Today we talk about finding a pro surf career in his 40s, pioneering Nazare, the politics behind XXL award winners, and the importance of setting intention. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show. It has been about a month since my chat with Pat O'Connell.

0:06.2

And in that time, I've built two new features on our website, surf splendorpodcast.com.

0:13.0

The first is a film vault. And I've thought about doing this in the past, but there was other people

0:18.5

that I felt like were just doing it well. Surfline was my go to about a decade ago for kind of an aggregate of whatever was published around the web.

0:27.6

Stab magazine does something fairly similar now, but the videos are kind of layered between their articles and their premium content.

0:36.6

And it also doesn't seem to be

0:38.3

very curated. There's a lot of, I think, mediocre videos on their site that, again, is just kind

0:45.3

of interspersed with other content. So I'm not planning to post everything that exists in webland,

0:52.1

only what I think is worthy to watch. The four videos that I've posted

0:56.3

thus far are Dana Brown's latest film about his father. It's called Bruce Brown, A Life of Endless

1:03.9

Summers, that has been tragically underviewed, and I've almost heard nobody talking about it,

1:09.9

so you definitely need to go watch that.

1:12.4

It's a full-length feature documentary, and it's just really, really well done.

1:17.5

I've also posted the latest Torn Martin film, which hopefully you've already seen.

1:21.4

It's Lost Track Atlantic, Episode 2.

1:24.0

I've watched that twice in its entirety and certain sections repeatedly.

1:30.2

Russell Beerke's Mine Melter Vantage Points is on our site. And then, of course, Dan Scott's

1:35.8

25-minute, all-female film called Surfing. You can easily find all of that on our website.

1:41.1

Just navigate to films in the menu bar on surfsplendorpodcast.com.

1:45.8

I will not bombard you with mediocre content. I get sent pretty much everything that exists

1:51.5

in surfing on the web, but I'll sift through all of it and then just post the good stuff there.

1:55.8

Another thing, a more important thing I think, that I've been doing this past month, is building

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