444 - Felipe Pomar: Part One
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
1965 World Surfing Champion Felipe Pomar joins us to discuss lessons he's learned from 66 years of big wave riding, why he stopped drinking 60 years ago, how he plans to surf till 100, losing a friend at Pipeline, and why it's a bad idea to attempt to surf a tsunami. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year. Welcome back to Surf Splendor for 2023. If optimizing your health is part of your |
| 0:09.3 | ambition for this new year or just part of your ambition for life in general, as it should be, |
| 0:14.6 | then you are listening to the right episode. Felipe Pomer is committed and has lots of experience |
| 0:20.7 | to share in that regard. And I have one |
| 0:23.6 | crucial bit of advice to recommend. You probably already know what it is. It is the simplest, |
| 0:29.6 | best in class, most efficient way to get your daily requirement of vitamins, minerals, and all-round |
| 0:35.2 | nutrition, and that is athletic greens.com slash surf. |
| 0:40.2 | Athletic Greens is not a synthetically engineered supplement. |
| 0:43.9 | It is simply a blend of nine products, whole foods, superfoods, in fact, |
| 0:48.2 | probiotics, prebiotics, vitamin C, zinc, plant-based enzymes which help aid in digestion. All of this is pulverized |
| 0:57.3 | into a powder and a daily dose is just one scoop, which you mix with water. So you take it daily |
| 1:03.0 | and you'll cover your nutritional gaps, you'll promote gut health, and you'll support whole body |
| 1:08.2 | and mind vitality. So go through our portal, athletic greens.com slash surf, to support our work and to receive a one-year supply of vitamin D plus five free travel packs of AG1. |
| 1:21.6 | You'll also get a 60-day money-back guarantee, which is reassuring, but I've never heard of anybody actually using it |
| 1:29.1 | because AG1 just becomes something that you look forward to. So they'll ship your powder monthly |
| 1:34.6 | at athletic greens.com slash surf. Enjoy that, and hopefully you'll find some inspiration here today |
| 1:40.9 | from Felipe Pomer. Enjoy. |
| 1:47.0 | Desbaner, regular foot surfer from Lima, Peru, winner of the 1965 World Surfing |
| 2:08.5 | Championships and one of the 1960s most dependable Big Wave performers. |
| 2:14.1 | This is all directly quoted, by the way, from Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of Surfing. |
| 2:18.3 | So continuing on, quote, |
| 2:20.3 | Felipe Pomer was born in 1943 to a wealthy Lima family and began surfing at age 14. |
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