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Surf Splendor

566 - Nathan Hedge

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show Nathan Hedge shares tales from joining his heroes at age 13 on The Search for a month in Indo, Derek Hynd’s highly unusual (and effective) methods to prepare him for life on Tour, how the freedom of a nomadic life distanced him from his self-interest, the moment in Mundaka that triggered a new life trajectory, and why focusing on serving others allows one be kinder to one’s self. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.7

Plucked from his local lineup at Narabin at the age of 13 to join the world's best surfers for an entire month in Indonesia.

1:29.3

Nathan Hedge lived the pro-surf dream during a golden era for professional surfing.

1:36.3

Big contracts plus fame and popularity with the magazines at their peak of circulation.

1:42.3

But those perks aside, Hedge got to surf the best waves in the world,

1:48.6

first on the search as Rip Curl's premier Grom and then on the world tour when he qualified

1:54.5

in 2001.

1:56.4

Over the years, he put in stellar, if inconsistent performances, with his best year-end result being a

2:03.5

seventh place finish in 2004 that year he finished runner-up at both chopu and jay bay in a

2:10.9

2017 interview with surfing world magazine hedge admitted that quote when I was on tour, it was the Foster's ASP

2:18.9

World Tour. And everywhere we went, it was that town's week to shine. If you wanted to party,

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