Let's Poddy with Kalani Robb
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- In this episode, Kalani gives a full update on the progress of and his future vision for the new wave pool, Palm Springs Surf Club. From restaurants, to lazy rivers, to world class waves, this club will have it all.
Blair and Mason almost broke the Texas wave pool! Love the catch surf crew, Beefs rocks 🎉 yeah you for keeping surfing fun!
Two of the legends of surfing in my day and to this day the pioneers. I am in on all this magic of a podcast, great work..
Kalani is the worlds best body border.after watching raw beefs.truely inspiring.Blairs insane too
Golfing then surfing in the desert. Fired up!
Besides that what an epic Podcast. I’ve been watching these cats ever since the beginning. Great to see you guys talk story and crack me up like you always have.
These two together is legendary, can't imagine what it would've been like in the 90s
I think the magazine that did that futuristic move feature (with the associated drawings) in their mag was ASL (Australian Surfing Life)… artist who did the superb drawings was Rosco Kermode 👌🏽
I agree to some extent. Skating can make a surfer more stylish, and they may come in with prior knowledge that allows them to cross over some tricks pretty easily, that said, the ocean and surfing are different beasts. I grew up in CA in the Mecca of skating in NorCal, competed a little in CASL, and was a better than average skater at the time. I also snowboarded all through high school and took a job at a ski resort straight out of high school so I could get in over 150 days of ride time a season. I was good, never fell, but also didn’t get into trying to rotate past 360 on anything over a standard table top. My rail skills on a skateboard helped my jib skills. Long story short, I moved to Hawaii shortly thereafter in the beginning of the 2000s. I started longboarding in Waikiki, progressed pretty rapidly out at Pops, then started to attempt shortboarding at Big Rights and Concessions. Nothing really transferred over at that point. Fighting guys for waves was hard, localism/racism was weird, surfing boards with lots of rocker made the transition very difficult. As a skater and snowboarder, you’re front foot dominant, and it’s hard to force teach yourself to push through your fins with back leg dominance and at just the perfect time on an ever changing surface that you’re not really great at predicting if you didn’t grow up in the ocean nor watching it. Then take that to the North Shore, almost drown a few times and get seriously humbled like a fish out of water, and you realize surfing ain’t just something you just start doing cause you rip on a skateboard and snowboard. And, guys that grew up in the ocean in Hawaii don’t seem to get that cause their normal is getting pounded at Sandy’s. A great case in point is Koston. He’s the greatest, most adaptable, skater of all time; the most natural hands down! We’ve all seen him flounder around like a fish out of water as he tries his hardest to transfer his abilities to surfing, but it’s not happening!! Period. Learning curve for riding may be slightly smaller, but it ain’t gonna be easy. I spent 2 decades a fair weather longboarder in Waikiki, I was a paddler, a lifeguard, a swimmer, and dabbled in some body surfing, before I had the sorta legitimate confidence and understanding I needed of the ocean to actually give shortboarding another go again in life at 40 years old. At 42 I’m progressing way faster than my peers in the water, but not without a lot of work, focus, and paying attention to details. And my first winter back shortboarding, after I moved outer island, was a slugfest of wipeouts and pushing the limits of what might be just over my abilities. But the main thing was my desire. I think a skater indeed has the grit to persevere because anyone who can constantly hit the concrete over and over to land a single trick, can deal with the unknowns of the ocean and still want to go forward. But!, I think a lot of people don’t have the physical upper body strength initially, don’t want to spend two years paddling and getting beat up to develop it, and are more likely to say f this and throw in the towel otherwise…especially if they’re gonna use a real shortboard and not f around on foamies or longboards. Because the truth is, only Kalani rips fucking foamie pieces of shit as hard as a regular shortboarder. But he’s like the Koston of surfing except he’s also the most underrated surfer of all time too (and that’s why there’s no Nike deal).
Hey Benji, Tell Kalani to build a wave park here in Phoenix please!
Yah u’s!
Who the fuck are these old dudes?