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“Support the freaks as much as jocks.” From a conversation on the surf industry with Dave Rastovich in Europe

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Sometimes all it takes is a few minutes with Rasta and all seems right again. From a recent hang in Europe while watching sets roll through at a French beach break:

“Tell them how the groms don’t give as much of a fuck about contests as they used to. Heaps of surfers who groms look up to who aren’t in that world. And that they should be supporting freaks as much as the jocks. And if you look at things like fucking surfing going into the Olympics and wave pools and all that sort of shit, it’s going way more mainstream and straight, then we should also be having just as many bent, crooked, tweaked out crew in our culture being supported — unless we want to be turned into fucking baseball or tennis or some boring sport like that.” —Dave Rastovich  

As you were.

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