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Yasha Hetzel brings us along on a surf trip to a remote and rugged area with surf to match. The tale is as much about the long arduous trip and the people they meet along the as the great surf they eventually find.
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Ep. 68
On growing up at Waikiki, competition, traveling the world, and family.
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Scaling up: Treating heavy waves like head-high Lowers.
Located midway along Ecuador's coast is Montañita, a real surfer's paradise. There you will find "Rasty" Moreira's Balsa Surf Camp, which he constructed from the native materials at hand. If you send Rasty your board specifics, he will have a custom balsa board waiting for you when you arrive.
Surfer Bill Wise, paralyzed by a wipeout in 1965, gets his first chance to ride a breaking wave– on Mickey Munoz's catamaran at Lower Trestles– and has the time of his life.
A United States surf citizen charts his path.