Today's guest needs little introduction because you've probably watched him surf for two decades now. 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, Nathan Hedge lived the pro surf dream during a golden era for professional surfing.

Big contracts plus fame and popularity with the magazines

at their peak of circulation. But those perks aside, Hedge got to surf the best waves in the

world, first on the search as Rip Curl's premier Grom and then on the world tour when he qualified in 2001.

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

result being a seventh place finish in 2004. That year, he finished runner-up at both

Chopu and Jay Bay. In a 2017 interview with Surfing World magazine,

Hedge admitted that, quote, when I was on tour, it was the Foster's ASP World Tour. And everywhere we

went, it was that town's week to shine. If you wanted to party, you could party every week

all year long. The culture on tour

was about how good you could surf after how smashed you got. That's how it was, last man standing.

It was fun for 10 to 15 years, but I wasn't surfing as much. I was always hung over, missing

surfs, and it didn't do me any favors during those close heats.

In the end, that lifestyle took me away from surfing, end quote.

Since retiring in 2019 and going through the process of recovery, Nathan's radically invested

in his whole body health, and he's even re-engaged with competitive surfing.

Most notably in 2022,

when he received a wild card into the Tahiti Pro, and he took out an in-form Jack Robinson in the round of 16 after being comboed with only nine minutes remaining. It was an incredible heat.

We will discuss it today, and he ended up finishing fifth, a quarterfinals finish in that event.

His latest project incorporates not only his cumulative experience of surfing, yoga, and diet,

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