The Grumpy Surfer Podcast

Fables of Sand and War with Adz and John Thompson

We are back !  On this weeks podcast we have some jaw dropping stories from Afghanistan, Adz nearly cries and John tells a story involving him nearly shooting a group of Afghan National Army Soldiers up close and personal !

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First ever Podcast : John Thompson CGC

Tomo was the first podcast Adz ever did, full of Afghanistan and Iraq war stories, here are two war Vets taking about nearly a decade of fighting. 

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Podcast Break

The podcast will return with more enthralling and iconic conversations from the surfing, military and martial arts communities mid July.

Thank you for the support and stay frosty. 

Peace out !

 

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Phil Bridges

Phil Bridges is the wetsuit designer for Dakine, Tiki Surf Company as well as creative director for Torq Surfboards. In the podcast we discussed wetsuit design, materials and what makes a good brand !

 

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Dan Maker & John Jameson

Dan and John both work for GreenOverhead, a company that thrives on selling top class surf brands such as Sharpe Eye and Pyzel Surfboards.

Adz, Dan and John discuss what how to buy a surfboard and advice on the does and donts of social media influence.

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Andrew Cotten

Andy Cotton is the UKs most high profile Big Wave Surfer. Having recently returning to Saltrock as a brand ambassador, Adz and Cotty have a conversation in Saltrock HQ about his 2020/2021 winter at Nazare in Portugal.

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Ross Thomson

Ross Thompson is one of the Founders of British surf clothing brand Saltrock. Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa.

Ross tells the story of how two brothers from South Africa travel the world and end up starting one of the UKs most iconic surfing clothing brands. Ross also tells why they left Saltrock to start a new business venture Threadfin, a sustainable and echo-friendly clothing company.

 

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Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson is a former Professional Rugby Union player. Whilst at Exeter Chiefs he helped win 2 Aviva Premiership Titles and played for his country.

Now the proud founder of Number 6 Coaching, Tom along with his wife Jess run a successful bespoke fitness gym and wellness company.

In the first half of the podcast Tom and Adz discuss Tom’s rugby career, and the second half we talk about, mental health, nutrition and well-being.

 

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Beau Young

Beau Young grew up with one of surfings most famous and icons as a father, the great Nat Young.  Beau and his siblings were all riding waves long before they could actually swim. Surfing as much as humanly possible as a kid was definitely a way of life, before and after school, always ringing wet was just norm.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Beau became a Longboard World Champion in 2000 and then again in 2003 beating Joel Tudor on both occasions.

Then in 2003 decided to retire from Professional Surfing and pursue a music career which his debut album “Waves of Changed” reached Number 10 in the Australian Music chart. After his second album in 2008 “One Step at a Time” he decided to focus on his free surfing and surfboard shaping, which is what he is doing today with Beau Young surfboards.

It was a pleasure and a honour to talk to Beau about his beginnings, middle and what he has planned for the future.

 

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John Jameson

John Jameson works for Green Overhead. A company with its sole vision to sell only the best surfing brands, but to create a customer experience that guides an individual to what he wants out of their surfing experience.

To add to this John has spent the last 20 years organising surfing boat trips in Indonesia and the Maldives. With the Company of Green Overhead behind him, he has organised and taken people on what they would call once in a lifetime trips and made them affordable, so they become annual instead once in a lifetime.

In the podcast Adz and John talk about how he became involved with organising boat trips at 18 years old, what makes a good trip, injuries and some epic tales of some glassy peaks.

The also talk surfboard shapes and brands, and how he and Dan Maker became involved with producing a wetsuit for one of the most iconic extreme sports brands in the world, Dakine.

 

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