Good friend Rusty Lindsey performing at Cold Spring Tavern [Santa Ynez, CA] http://rustylindsey.com/
(Source: nickpresniakov.com)
Dane Reynolds made a statement on his website today about leaving the World Tour:
and so here i am. 26. officially off tour. wasted talent. blown potential. refusing responsibility. ‘all he wants to do is sit at home and play with crayons and ride fucked up boards.’ but wait! but wait! that’s not true! don’t listen to chris mauro. he’s a dinosaur. doesn’t get it. this may be the end as a wct contender, but its also a new beginning. i feel like a baseball. the skins been carefully pried off and there’s a thread and i’m gonna pull it and i’m gonna end up a pile of string on the floor. but then maybe i’ll be knit into something more useful, like a sweater. or perhaps something beautiful, like a hand embroidered masterpiece of a deer and two fawn drinking cold clear water out of a creek. but you never know. i hope to achieve some sort of balance. yeah, i do like riding fucked up boards, but i also like doing airs and taking some aggression out on a cutback. and competings rad if you can stay inspired, but rankings and trophy’s mean very little to me. i wanna learn, i wanna make things, things of purpose, be productive. travel. new experiences. new sensations. and most importantly explore the outer limits of performance surfing. i’ll still compete. but its not going to consume me.
Dane last week on the North Shore seemed perfectly content to body surf 15 foot pipe without a judge, jersey or ‘fucked up board’ in sight. Well Done.
I have to say it is refreshingly honest. Check out Dane’s site for the whole letter.
“Come Hell or High Water” Mark Cunningham + Keith Malloy [portraits taken at Sunset Beach Elementary, North Shore, Oahu]
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