558 - Shaun Tomson
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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In today's show 1977 World Champ Shaun Tomson explains the source of his resilience, how he improved his surfing up until age 63, why connectivity will cure the plague of modern society, how attitude is your fundamental choice in life, and how surfing breeds hope and purpose. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a couple of updates for you for these live shows that we're doing next month. |
| 0:04.0 | Our sponsors have loaded us up with gear to give away. |
| 0:08.0 | We have a Channel Islands February fish to give away in Charleston. |
| 0:12.0 | It'll actually be a custom made to your specs. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll have one there on stage for you to check out, but then whoever wins it, we will build one to your specs or channel islands will anyways nvs |
| 0:22.2 | fens is sending multiple sets of fins for both of our shows real water sports has sent care packages |
| 0:28.6 | of beach towels and a bunch of other stuff um and then marshware recently added to our list of |
| 0:35.0 | sponsors as well they are a charlesteston-based clothing company and we'll be |
| 0:40.1 | giving out some of their gear. Marshware has actually grown into a national brand in these |
| 0:44.0 | recent years, but it was all started with routes in surfing and fishing right there in Charleston. |
| 0:49.9 | So we are proud to partner with them. And this will be Wednesday, June 11th in Jackson |
| 0:55.6 | Boe Beach, Florida with Justin Quintal joining us on stage. And then the following night, |
| 1:00.4 | Thursday, June 12th in Charleston, South Carolina with Cam Richards and his father Kelly joining |
| 1:06.3 | us on stage. Trivia, prizes, stories, reviewing footage, and the boards with the boys, and tons of |
| 1:13.2 | free gear for you. Chas Smith and I will be hosting both nights. We would love to meet you. Tickets are |
| 1:18.4 | 25 bucks each night, and then you can find the link to those on surf splendorpodcast.com |
| 1:24.3 | or on my Instagram account at Surf Splendor in the BioLine. |
| 1:27.9 | I really hope to see you guys there. |
| 1:30.1 | Cannot wait. A true icon in the surfing world is our guest today. |
| 2:03.5 | I was lucky enough to be seated right next to him at a dinner last month where we got to reconnect |
| 2:08.9 | for the first time in about a decade. |
| 2:11.7 | People will often introduce him as the 1977 world champ. |
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