Send us a text I am a fanboy of surfing history. When I have the privilege of conversation with those who were here before us within our surfing ecosystem, and they happen to be heavy hitters of the surfing community as surfers, shapers, historians, producers, innovators, human beings and so on..... I listen, I ask and I listen some more. Such was the case with legendary surfer/shaper and human being, California's Michel Junod. Michel, at 76 years of age has a surfing resume and trajectory that ...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 2025Ep. 1
Send us a text On this episode (recorded on October 24th) South African surfing master and commentator Dylan Mcleod joins me in an informal but substantive conversation of what we perceived and viewed in this years WSL LB Tour. Plenty of LB geek talk and constructive criticism. Congratulations to Taylor Jensen 4x and Rachael Tilly 2x on a monumental win of another World Championship. I want to thank all the people that have followed Longboardarian. Either via the podcast or my social media chann...
Dec 18, 2024•58 min•Season 2024Ep. 4
Send us a text In June of 2024 I finally set a date with Ventura surfing legend and master craftsmen Mr. Dennis Ryder for a quick interview. Fifteen minutes away from my home, Dennis and his wife live in a beautiful property alongside a calm creek. What seems to be a serene and beautiful creek unfortunately has another side to it. A nightmare turned reality due to a series of weather anomalies which included fires, apocalyptical rains and mudslides changed the Ryder's way of living. Though able ...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 2024Ep. 3
Send us a text What do you get when you get together one of the most respected longboarders in the world with one of the most respected longboard shapers in the planet? You get the CI Log from Channel Islands Surfboards. On this episode you will learn the backstory on how the CI Log came to be. Destiny, I'd say, brought Devon Howard to CIS and that in turn brought the otherwise unlikely partnership with Wayne Rich on the CI Log. You will hear Devon, as only he can, articulate the subtleties of t...
Apr 14, 2024•37 min•Season 2024Ep. 2
Send us a text THE COMEBACK EPISODE After almost two years of a sabbatical-esque break, I am back with a BANGER for all of you longboard nerds! Taylor Jensen is one of my and many peoples favorite longboarders to watch. And for good reason. One of his surfing strengths that separate him from other great world class longboarders is his fluidity connecting every maneuver within a ride with grace, speed and power. A three time LB World Champ, now reaching his 4th decade in age, he seeks with ambiti...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 2024Ep. 1
Send us a text February 2022, life takes me to Kauai, HI for a nice vacation stay in the North Shore. Few weeks prior to arrival I do a quick brainstorm session on who might be in the Hawaiian Garden Isle that could be a great guest for my podcast, maybe 15 seconds into my brainstorm session I thought "wait isn't Billy Hamilton from Kauai?!" A quick internet search provided a phone number for Bill. I left a voicemail and 24 hours later I was speaking to the man himself, the legend, The Matador. ...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Send us a text Episode dedicated to the memory, family and friends of Peter Cole and Johnny Fain. RIP As I prepared for the TP interview, I learned some interesting facts about Tommy. One thing in particular caught me by surprise. The man that I had been following for the last few years on Instagram to satisfy my need of consuming beautiful longboarding imagery, was somewhat a newcomer to the art of surfing photography. Based on the incredible and mesmerizing pictures, I would have guessed he ha...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Send us a text WARNING- LOADED EPISODE!!! Arguably, one of the best longboarders in the world of the last few decades, IF... we are judging noseriding as an important component of a longboarders repertoire. During the process of producing this episode I was watching video footage of Mr. Lee to refresh my memory of his insane longboard riding capabilities and boy was I mesmerized of his surfing. Link here- https://vimeo.com/245066103 The technicality and level of difficulty of his noseriding is t...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text I was brought up to respect my elders. Though I am respectful, most of the time ( I fault here and there lol), with everyone, there is an extra layer of admiration that I have for those who have experienced life and its challenges to their senior years. And if someones life experiences involve surfing.... boy, you gotta my attention and ears. In that context, what if ....you are an individual that experienced the evolution of surfing , surf culture and its history by being part of...
Dec 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Send us a text As a young man in my early 20's in Puerto Rico (1990's), before the advent of social media and the internet, I was a passionate and fever-laden longboarder. My only access to longboarding content were VHS videos at my local surf shop and the arrival of Longboard Magazine every three months. That magazine was a bible to me. My excitement in setting up and conducting an interview with the man that had such strong involvement with the mag that influenced the course of my life was.......
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text Originally from Southern California, this shaper/surfer, musician, super Mom and entrepreneur is part of the strong surfing community of Santa Cruz, CA. She has established a strong presence and a positive reputation in the surfboard manufacturing world. She has proactively pursued methods of building surfboards that cause less harm to our planet and environment. Her board designs and shapes are a product of decades of R&D and influences from her favorite shapers. Ashley Lloyd...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text If you are a surf history nerd and are curious and willing to listen to a different perspective on one of the most controversial surfing icons in history, you are in for a treat. The author of The Surf Sting goes by the name of Linda Cuy, she is a native of Southern California and her surfing journey began in 1962. Once upon a day in the sixties, as she was drying up by her car after a surf session Miki "Da Cat" Dora approached her and invited her to a date, the rest of the decade...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text Surfing is very rich in history. It's a fact that the Hobie Surfboards label is a crucial and important part of that history, especially in the context of surfboard building and surf culture. Our guest for this episode was given the honor and responsibility to carry on Hobie Surfboards legacy as their numero 1 shaper (head shaper) of the brand. As of the day of this interview, alongside Gary, Michael Arenal and in special projects Adam Davenport also joins the diminutive lineup of...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text The Waxhead, as he likes to be called is a longtime longboard aficionado from Sydney, Australia. Still a young man ( in his early thirties), I had and have the impression that he speaks with the knowledge of an old surfing soul. Basically, he is one of those people that I like to call a "longboard nerd". What happens when you get 2 longboard nerds to sit down and talk longboarding? A heavy, deep and entertaining interview! Matt is a professional longboarder, business owner, car re...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Send us a text Back in the 90's, when I was in my early twenties I was one hungry longboarder. I am not referring to food hungry....., but hungry to learn more about longboarding and the cast of characters presented to me via videos and magazines. Remember, this is pre internet revolution. When the new issue of Longboard Magazine would show up at my local surf shop, I was the first one in buying one, sometimes the only one lol. Sometimes it was a new surf video arriving at the shop where either ...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Send us a text Belinda Baggs is, in my mind, one of the first female longboard traditional stylists that I have memory of. That does not mean that she was one of the first women traditionalists in the world. Southern California had a few young ladies that had taken that route of longboard surfing before Belinda. Lady loggers like Carla Rowland (now Zamora) and Kassia Meador to name just a few. However, I am pretty confident in saying that Belinda is one of the first Aussies, male or female, to a...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text This episode is one of the most loaded and heavy interviews that I have done up to date. A gem for the surfing history nerd. Born in Australia in 1974, Beau is a two times longboarding world champion, he is a respected musician, a proud father and family man, a surfboard shaper and owner of Beau Young Surfboards and a member of one of the most important surfing families in the world in part thanks to the patriarch of The Young Family, the one and only Nat Young. Beau was very eloq...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text On this episode I travel via cyberspace to Noosa Heads, Australia and sit-down with one of the most dominant forces of longboard surfing of his generation. At 39, his interest and motivation to go back into professional competitive longboarding has been sparked by the recent changes (2019) in the WSL Longboard Tour. Josh has won pretty much every brand of high level longboarding contests that he's entered throughout the world and even an SUP Australian title. In 2006 he won the AS...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text Edouard Delpero was born in Marseilles, France. For the last 16 years he's been a resident and a local in the Basque Country, Biarritz, France where he has set his roots alongside his brother, Antoine and family.They run a successful surf school and are part of one of the most iconic surfing communities in Europe. Edouard has been competing in the highest level of professional longboarding for over a decade. Reaching winning podiums from pretty much every single longboard professi...
Jun 16, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text On this episode we sit down with Señor Stevie Sawyer. Born and raised in majestic Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa, It is there where this World Champ learned to surf and become the man he is today. As usual, I had many questions for this surfer/musician phenom who happens to be the WSL 2018 World Longboard Champion. I was very interested in tapping into his mind with a variety of topics. Stevie has been on the Longboard Tour since 2015. In 2019 there was a major shift in regards to th...
May 08, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text Devon Howard is a San Diego, California native. Born in a community where surfing is a normal and common aspect of daily life. Surfing was encouraged in his family as Devon's Mom was a surfer as well. It makes sense that Devon became an avid surfer. Growing up he discovered longboarding at an early age when most kid surfers were not keen about a "prehistoric" approach to surfing. As a teen he had the privilege in landing a job as "The Shop Rat" with Donald Takayama Surfboards as h...
Apr 18, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text Recently, I had the true pleasure of visiting for the first time the Hawaiian island of Maui, beautiful would be an understatement to describe Maui. I was there for my wife's work related conference. It was the perfect timing for me to connect with Kely Rodrigues from Manuela Shapes. I juggled my time between my lady and friends, surfing (scored good Honolua Bay), an interview with big wave hellman and longboard great Zack Howard and meeting up with Kely Boy. Unfortunately, time w...
Apr 08, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text In early March of 2020 my wife had a work related conference in Maui, Hawaii. Upon knowing this my mind immediately went into brainstorm mode! Who lives in Maui that would be a great interviewee? My friend Puna Moeller from Big Island, Hawaii suggested Zack Howard aside from other suggestions he gave me. I also had friends in the mainland suggesting that I meet up with other local longboarders. For example, Mike Siordia and others suggested Johnny Pitzer and other IG friends sugge...
Mar 19, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text For a while now I had been wanting to do an episode about surf etiquette, the present status of our surf lineups and surf hierarchies (the latter is or should be connected to SE). My friend Laura from IG @saltwatersoulutions recently posted a 1 minute video of some nasty snaking burning from a single session involving the same surfers. That video was my trigger to go ahead and do this episode. I knew Carla was going to be in town and I pitched the idea to her about doing an open c...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text In the relatively young and short history of surfing evolution, let's say in the last 70 years, there has been so much done for surfboard design and innovation. In regards to longboards, this particular type of surfboard had gone away, generally speaking, and comeback for its revival, a resurrection of sorts. We have seen a strong longboard transition in design and surfing approach since its rebirth. In regards to design some would argue that "everything" has been done and tried f...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Send us a text It's been 20 plus years since I remember first seeing pictures, reading articles, and watching videos from the 60's of a surfer named Joyce Hoffman.She may have been one of the first female surfers of her era implementing style in surfing. It's been more than 20 years and her name and the images of that iconic style are still engrained in my memory. Recently, I was interviewing Señor Dick Metz (episode 17), and he mentioned Joyce in the interview. Post interview, I asked if he kne...
Dec 29, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Send us a text Good Day Everyone! On this special episode, Jeff Belzer and myself have a casual but in-depth discussion of what we saw in regards to the 2019 WSL Longboard Tour and their final main event in Taiwan. A lot of changes happened this year within the WSL LB Tour which was spearheaded by new tour director Devon Howard. In my eyes, the most exciting year for professional competitive longboarding. It was a question of time, on when these changes were finally going to be materialized. Cha...
Dec 15, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 18
Send us a text Legend of legends, Mr. Dick Metz. Born in 1929, raised and groomed in Laguna Beach, CA. I am pretty certain that Dick is the oldest active accomplished surf entrepreneur, surf traveler, historian, preservationist and adrenaline junkie out there. At 90 years old, I was impressed with Dick's sharp mind and ability to https://shacc.org his past. Every other sentence he would say something that popped my eyes wide open. This man has a long list of successes and experiences that make h...
Nov 18, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send us a text The coolest and richest in California surf culture, surf competition is called The Hotdogger Championship. The producer of this event is Señor Ed Solt. I had the pleasure in participating in this event in October of 2018. Now, the 2019 edition is around the corner so I thought timing was perfect for this interview. Ed was in Ventura County for a day to promote the event, surf and meet with respected surfboard craftsman Adam Davenport. I suggested an interview to plug THC which he ...
Sep 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us a text In July of 2019 I participated in The Call To The Wall longboarding event at Surfrider Beach in Malibu, California. I thought it was a proper place to get plenty of perspectives from a diverse group of longboard surfers. From the young groms to the middle aged dudes to the young women to the old fellows. I asked everyone the same question. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMPETITIVE PROFESSIONAL LONGBOARDING TO LOOK LIKE? On this episode you will hear a wide array of great...
Aug 30, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 15
