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Surf Splendor

544 - Kolohe Andino

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In today's show Kolohe Andino chats about the weight of expectation, why satisfaction can threaten ambition, how having children highlights the absurdity of professional surf pursuits, his idea for a restructured Tour, and why groms will always be the fertile core of surfing's soul. Enjoy!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, one final reminder. We are doing a live show this coming Tuesday, January 21st, our first ever live show, in fact. I'm hosting the podcast, and it'll be with Rusty, Jojo Roper, and Taylor Knox on stage. So come on out. It is in Salonah Beach, San Diego, California at the belly up tavern. Rusty is also going to be

0:22.8

giving away a surfboard. And since I last spoke to you here, I also signed Sherman, Steve Sherman,

0:29.6

to document the evening through photographs. So come out, get your photo taken from Sherm.

0:34.5

And then NVS Finns is contributing four sets of fins. So we've got Finns to give away.

0:40.3

Vayer watches sent some watches to give away. So we're just going to be giving stuff away at

0:44.3

random to lucky audience members. Tickets are only 25 bucks. It's going to be an epic community event.

0:51.1

And then for those of you who are nowhere near San Diego, we are filming the

0:55.1

event and we will publish it both as an audio podcast and then a video on YouTube as well.

1:00.1

So you will get to see everything that went down. And then we're mapping out West Coast

1:04.3

States and East Coast states through the rest of the year. So hopefully we will be coming to a town

1:08.3

near you. All right. Get tickets at bellyup.com,

1:12.0

and then we link to them from surf splendorpodcast.com.

1:16.6

Tuesday, January 21st.

1:18.2

Hope to see you.

1:19.0

Thanks. Welcome back. It is safe to say that you already know today's guest, Kaloa Andino.

1:40.3

He was a young prodigy, son of tour surfer Dino and Dino, a record nine-time NSSA champion,

1:48.0

signed to a contract with Bilobong at the age of 12, and saddled with world title expectations.

1:55.0

He was one of only two marquee athletes sponsored by non-indemic brand Target.

2:00.0

He was one of the first on the Nike roster when they entered the surf space,

2:04.6

and he was actually introduced to the team by Wu-Tang Clan's Rizza in a Nike commercial.

2:09.6

Kolohoa and Dino, you got unlimited potential, man.

2:14.6

See, the beat got a flow in a wave like that.

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