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Surf Splendor

379 - Andrew Cotton

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Plumber turned professional big wave surfer Andrew Cotton talks about being rescued by helicopter at Mullaghmore, breaking his back at Nazare, how to build a surf career on humility, and why Southwest England is quietly the best home base for access to epic surf. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back. Two different partnerships have made today's show possible.

0:06.0

Athletic greens.com slash surf and realwatersports.com slash podcast.

0:11.6

We've been talking about athletic greens a lot on the grit and on spit, and you may have even heard Tim Ferriss talking about the company over the years.

0:22.2

I think I first heard about them on his show probably five or seven years ago, somewhere in that range.

0:28.4

Anyways, Athletic Greens is an epic company. Now that I've been able to work with them, I can say

0:34.3

that. Not only an epic product, but the product itself is a whole food sourced powder.

0:39.7

It's an all in one that you simply add to water and you drink it daily. It makes it super simple,

0:45.5

super fast so that you can do it while you're traveling. You can do it at work. I mostly do it at work.

0:51.3

Occasionally I even do it in the car. Just add it to the water bottle, shake it up.

0:56.0

They ship you the powder monthly, so you don't have to worry about remembering to pick it up

1:00.6

at the store, or you don't even have to worry about remembering to reorder it. It's automatic,

1:06.1

which I think is really the key to maintaining any health routine in any way automatic makes you more successful.

1:13.9

And they are now a big supporter of our work. So I'm thrilled with the partnership and it seems

1:19.2

like they're really starting to make inroads into surfing. I've seen their advertisements

1:23.3

during a recent WSL event on the YouTube stream.

1:27.8

So congrats to them, and we would love for you to get in on this.

1:31.5

And you can support us and kind of do one easy and big thing for your ongoing health

1:37.1

by signing up at athletic greens.com slash surf.

1:42.1

That slash surf lets them know that you heard about them here.

1:46.0

So athletic greens.com slash surf.

1:50.0

And then real water sports is our new retail surf shop partner to kick off the partnership.

1:57.0

They are letting you pick any surfboard from their inventory to win for free.

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