DOWN THE LINE - SURFING PODCAST
Lighthearted look at an overly self-important surf culture. Rumor, Innuendo, parking lot hearsay & fodder. Hosted by Scott Bass and David Lee Scales features the latest surf news along with live interviews, local issues, and special guests from the WSL tour and industry leaders.
Episodes
WeedMaps video with Nathan Fletcher
“Yeah I Smoke Dope So What?”
Shows him rolling a joint, smoking it and going surfing, going to eat, going skating.
Socially, economically. It became a great escape from responsibility, school, work, stress, the future. IT MADE ME LAZY, MENTALLY DULL, PARANOID AND GENERALLY CHECKED OUT OF LIFE.
David:. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS NEW WEEDMAPS video with a surf pro who says “Yeah I smoke dope, ...
Felipe Toledo performs massive back to back complete commitment air reverses in 7’ wave. There are defining competitive moments in pro surfing’s history and this is one of them.
Top 5 greatest competitive moments in Pro Surfing's History
July 06, 2017 Having a nine-foot gun stuck in a two-foot thick lip on an eight-foot wave and landing directly on one’s head while one is deep in a backside barrel is, by all accounts, a nightmare scenario.
Luckily, Koa Rothman is alive and well.
Kelly Slater paid $7.8 million for a home in a town where everyone knows his name.
2017 Surfing Walk of Fame’s honorees
World wide wave parks update.
The waves themselves are the real stars.
Great waves are the most important factor;
This is why the WSL needs to adopt my new paradigm.
The new WSL - The Surf Dictates Our Future
Nine events: which focus on quality waves wherever they may be found within a given month.
Tour is dictated by swell and not by time. we can find great surfers to ride them. Great surfers are everywhere.
WSL focuses on great waves at each event. No matter ...
The new WSL - The Surf Dictates Our Future.
The Worlds Greatest Surfers Competing in the Worlds Greatest Waves
Broadcast to the World via the World Wide Web
Core Surfing Values & Beliefs
RIP John Severson, Jack O'Neill, Greg Allman
Outerknown Fiji Pro
It's the same show different name. SPIT - Spitcast - Scott Bass and David Lee Scales talk surf, music, culture but mostly surf. The same as Down The Line Podcast only it's the same. Thespitpodcast.com or spitpodcast.com is where you will eventually find all about the show, including the RSS feed, vids and images we discuss during the show.
David goes all big time on Scott
Olympic surfing talk
WSL A Hurley Pro Save Trestles Nuclear Waste Protest
A debate, no an argument- should David call the show Down The Line Surf Pod? or No? Surf News? Really?
Emails about f-bombs. Bells Beach is awesome once again. Would you pay for WSL premium subscription.
Save Trestles MY ASS
Some 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station at Trestles is all stored up with no place to go. AT TRESTLES AT SON ONOFRE
Edison officials overseeing the plant’s decommissioning have set a target date of the end of 2032 to remove nearly every remnant of the generating station, which hugs the Southern California coastline at the northern tip of San Diego County ...
Owen and Wilko oh my. Owen Wright winning feels Oh en so right! Judges.
The official line from the WSL website is that the judges analyze the following elements when scoring waves:
Which is the most important?
March 8, 2017 Down The Line Surf Pod
Scott and David talk all things WSL as we await the kick off of the 2017 season at Snapper Rocks in Australia. Mick Fanning, Owen Wright: which will go further in 2017? The Top 5 JJF, Jordy Smith, Kolohe Andino, Gabriel Medina and Julian Wilson: who has the most pressure to bring home a world title? Plus which surfers will be one and done? Which rookie will surprise us? Plus Alex Gray, Morocco a...
Gabby’s Without Daddy; Owen Wright Back on Tour; Another Shark Attack at Reunion Island; Ten Internationals Shapers selected to Honor Al Merrick; Alex Gray in Morocco; Cuba, Utah, Surfer mag, Dion Agyius, and much more.
The Mavericks surfing competition, the nation’s premier big wave event, has been canceled this year after organizers were sued by its sponsor and filed for bankruptcy, event representatives said Friday.
Held half a mile off Half Moon Bay in Northern California, the annual one-day contest features two dozen professional surfers competing on one of the world’s most dangerous surf breaks, where waves can reach 60 feet.
The event, offi...
January 24, 2017 - Down The Line Surf Podcast
NICK CARROLL: “Did he jump or was he pushed?”
We are year 5 years into the WSL experiment with competitive professional surfing
Speaker leaves on high note ; great broadcasts; increased pay for athletes; the co-opt of Slater’s wave pool; the purchase of the XXL Big wave awards and creation of the big wave tour; everything is quite rosy except for the finances.
NICK CARROLL: The origina...
Jan 11 2017 pod featuring Scott Bass and David Lee Scales. This episode discussion centers around surf coaches for the professional surfers on the WCT, plus boring tea conversation, meterological insight, Morrocco, Yadin Nicol, Levi Slawson, 1WaveChallenge, AL Merrick, Boardroom show, shapers, Hipstergram instagram Icon update. Life is good. Go surfing.
December 30, 2016 surfing podcast. Rules. There are attempts. We’ve all seen the carved wooden signs telling us how, when and where to surf with “etiquette.” Etiquette is fucking golf term. Surfing has no etiquette. Closest to the peak or surfer who’s been waiting? No one really knows. Regardless, rules, norms, ideals – they sound good on wood, but not in the water. Isn’t that part of surfing’s allure? The Wild West. No rules – jus...
In this pod we talk about upgrading the Pipeline Masters and Via the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. Have the bottom 10 surfers of the WCT relinquish their spots in the PipeMasters so that potential Vans Triple Crown winners and past Pipe Champion can compete; think JOB, Rob Machado, Bruce Irons, Derek Ho, Tom Carroll. Plus must have items for a Mentawai trip. We also talk about Dane Reynolds getting dissed by The Inertia and Dane...
Dane is saying,"I am not a competitive surfer; I’m a surfer."
Interestingly when I think of Dane Reynolds’ I often, not always, but often, I think of the Club Sandwich turn he threw down at Haleiwa a few years ago during the REEF Hawaiian Pro competition.
In Chapter 11 and other video clips Dane Reynolds has undoubtedly surfed freer, expressed himself more deeply, and more sincerely. But will history look back on Dane’s leg...
Nov, 15, 2016 -- Down The Line Surf Pod - This week Scott & David read viewer emails; talk about Jazz music; Trump's effect on surf hardgoods in North America & his denial of climate science; Paige Alms victory at WSL Big Wave Tour at Peahi jaws; why the Titans of Mavericks event did not run with a perfect day at Mavericks; evolving the WSL WCT so that the season ends in Hawaii and emphasizes the Vans Triple Crown; Maso...
Down The Line Vault: Way back in 2008 Fernando Aguerre was talking Olympics with us. I asked him point blank if surfing in the Olympics was a reality. he said Surfing in the Olympics in 2020. He predicated it! ISA President Fernando Aguerre plus some other good stuff from Marty Thomas and Scott Bass.
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