DOWN THE LINE Surf Talk Podcast Scott Bass and David Scales talk about all things surfing; surf travel, culture, history, competition, swells, art, movies, icons, legends, business, local, non-local, longboard, shortboard, boogie board, wait, no boogie board... SUP, whatever. Nothing is off limits and the gloves are off. Show segments include Fact or Fiction, Kook and Duke, Must See Moments and tons of thousands of kilos of weighty issues and topics. IT IS ALL discussed. And then some. We are based in SoCal but talk about the WORLD of surfing.
June 12, 2019 -With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics one year away, and surfing being included for the first time, Mark Johnson offers perspective on the history of doping in sports, how it’s evolved and the relatively new industry and bureaucracy of anti-doping with regard to the Olympic Games.
May 02, 2019 — In the late 1980’s one surfer dominated the USA competitive surfing scene winning three National USA professional titles in ’87, ’88, ’89.
April 16, 2019 -Jim Banks, like most of us, is cut from the opaque cloth of surf idealism; … he competed, yeah…um… okay, competitive success…no doubt… but trophys and competitive accolades lacked fulfillment on a personal level
March 31, 2019 – Clyde Beatty Jr. What I thought I knew: A red hot surfer, the designer of the Rocket Fish surfboard, and one of the first California surfboard builders to go over seas and and help create production facilities in Asia. Learn more…
March 11, 2019 — Steve Brom is a craftsman. Absolutely. He is also the spirited adventurer who respectfully defaced — or rather, editorially embellished — one of the world’s most famous landmarks. Podcast presented by Ridelistapp.com – download it today.