Today's guest is a professional surfer whom I idolized and who is really at the height of his powers when I discovered surfing in my early teens.

Of course, Matt Warshaw puts it better and more succinctly than I can by saying,

quote, Margo developed a wave riding style that was as smooth and fluid as it was explosive.

He had a spectacular win in the 1996, Nias, Indonesia Pro, but his career was built almost exclusively on sponsor-paid visits to exotic surfing ports of call around the world.

Professional free surfers have been a part of the sport since the mid-80s, but Margeson, a birdwatcher and home gardener during his non-surfing

hours, defined the role. Superhuman in the water, always grateful for the job, and an easy-going

travel companion. Margeson's style was, to a large degree, copied and turbocharged by fellow

Bilobong team rider and future world tour champion

Joel Parkinson.

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Despite seeing Margo in most issues of most magazines for a solid decade through the 90s,

I personally felt like I never quite got to see enough of his surfing on film.

And then magazines went away, and Margo all but disappeared from my awareness.

This was until about three years ago when through the reach of social media he reappeared and he was surfing no less.

Surfing so well in fact that he had accrued a couple of sponsors and then found

himself on a surf trip to California, which is where I was fortunate enough to connect with him

and also to hear about how this whole new chapter of his surf career has developed.

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