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Surf Splendor

466 - Harrison Roach

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The current World Longboard Champ joins us to discuss the ecstasy and obligation that comes with achieving your life's goals, the virtue and burden of being "underrated", the value of defying definition as a professional surfer in 2023, and the futile endeavor of applying a judging criteria to surfing. Enjoy! Into music: Allen Toussaint, Southern Nights Outro music: Calexico, Alone Again Or Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Scott Bass and I are headed to Real Water Sports in two weeks.

0:06.9

We're staying at their adjacent Waterman's Retreat and we're learning how to foil.

0:11.6

If you're keen to do a similar experience, go to realwatersports.com and navigate to the

0:16.3

lessons and camps tab.

0:18.7

They have camps for surfing, foiling, kiteboarding, winging. It's a great location

0:23.9

for a summer getaway with the family. It's on the outer banks of North Carolina, down on the

0:28.5

south portion of the outer banks. But if you're nowhere near and not available to get out there,

0:33.7

they're also kicking off a 4th of July sale right now on their website.

0:37.7

So go to realwatersports.com for all of your water sports needs.

0:41.6

They're great partners of the show, great resource for all of us.

0:45.0

Oh, and also while we are there, we're going to be doing a little get together, a meetup

0:49.7

for listeners who want to swing by and hang.

0:52.1

So that's going to be at the Waterman's Bar and Grill on

0:54.3

July 19th, Wednesday, July 19th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. So swing by, have a drink, have dinner,

1:01.9

and we'd love to connect with you. All right. Thanks so much, realwatersports.com.

1:07.6

And Sunbum is with us today. We talk a lot here about protection from the sun, and we actually

1:14.4

may have unfairly vilified the sun. The truth is obvious. We need the sun. Our bodies actually

1:20.3

produce vitamin D naturally when exposed to the sun. Vitamin D helps us build our immune systems. And sunlight is also a mood elevator.

1:30.0

It trips the release of serotonin and endorphin hormones that are associated with happiness.

1:35.5

So doctors even use sunshine therapy to treat depression and anxiety. It's a natural and

1:42.2

free remedy. But all good things in moderation. Ten minutes of sun

1:47.3

exposure, two to three times a week is what the docs recommend. I like getting it as early in

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