543 - Alo Slebir
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In today's show, the 23 year old who just rode a potential record-breaker at Maverick's talks us through the wave itself, the prep, the media maelstrom that followed, the unique board that Stretch built for him, how 100' surf is only accessible via a team of people, and why he didn't celebrate the historic ride. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back. We have exciting news. If you haven't heard it already, we are doing a live |
| 0:07.5 | show in San Diego. It's Tuesday, January 21st, live at the belly up in Solana Beach. It's going to be |
| 0:16.3 | a talk story event with Rusty and Taylor Knox. And then Jojo Roper is also going to be joining us to |
| 0:22.9 | recap his recent historic run, surfing massive Piahi at Jaws, and then over to compete in the |
| 0:30.0 | eddy, and then the next day landing at 5 a.m. in the airport in San Francisco, and then surfing |
| 0:35.9 | that huge swell at Mavericks. |
| 0:39.4 | So we'll be discussing all of that. |
| 0:40.8 | I will be hosting the evening. |
| 0:47.0 | Chas Smith will actually be there emceeing the event with merch giveaways from our sponsors. |
| 0:50.7 | Devin Howard actually just confirmed that he's going to be bringing his mom. |
| 0:51.8 | So he'll be in the audience. |
| 0:55.6 | A who's who of illustrious friends are coming just as guests that'll be there in the audience. So it'll be a big get together with our extended |
| 1:00.5 | family and an effort to really make what we do here into a community experience. Tickets are |
| 1:05.9 | only 25 bucks. You can get them at surf splendorpodcast.com or get them directly on the bellyups website, |
| 1:12.4 | which is bellyup.com. Based on the potential success of this one event, we're going to be |
| 1:16.9 | mapping out dates for the West Coast and then the East Coast. And then hopefully in 2026, |
| 1:21.4 | we will be going abroad. So we will potentially be coming to you if you're not in San Diego |
| 1:26.7 | on the 21st. |
| 1:27.9 | All right. Thanks for the support and happy new year. |
| 1:37.9 | It is that time of year where health and fitness is on the forefront of everyone's mind. |
| 1:43.3 | I actually started dry January this week |
| 1:45.9 | on the 6th after dragging out the remains of the holiday week. But at the age of 43, I'm finally |
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