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.
March 30, 2020 — Our guest today is big wave surfing champion, securing the 2011 XXL Ride of the Year Champion
March 18, 2020 — Hank Warner was at the forefront of the transition era 2.0, when performance surfboards went from single fins to twin fins to tri-fins: roughly from say 1977 – 1983.
February 26, 2020 — Louie Hayward has an internal fire that burns very hot. A powerful drive. Louie Hayward often times seems to will situations, without malice or negative impact, into aligning themselves with the desired outcome.
February 11, 2020 — Justin Ternes: Almost anything carbon under Kai Lenny’s, John John Florence’s or Ian Walsh’s feet went through his Dark Arts surfboard production line.
January 30, 2020 — Bing Copeland. Intelligent but with humility; if he hadn’t caught the surf bug at age 14, he’d probably a be an engineer at GM ; or a career State Dept. diplomat in Europe. But luckily, for us and for him, he caught the surf bug. And his life was set.