Welcome to Spit! with Scott Bass and David Lee Scales. It’s the exact same podcast you know and love (call it Down The Line, call it Surf News) where Bass and Scales spitball big ideas, spit vitriol, and discuss dudes getting spit out of waves. Spit! In today’s episode David sings the praises of the Baja roadtrip, Scott recaps the grom abuse story that created an Internet firestorm, they ponder what if the Fiji Pro is won by the event’s own sponsor (Kelly Slater/Outerknown), review Taylor Steele’s “Proximity”, Dukes and Kooks, and much more! Dang, it’s good to be back. Enjoy Spit!
BAJA OFFERS MUCH MORE THAN FISH TACOS AND SURF
David stayed in an AirBnB right at K38, dined in sophisticated restaurants and even toured their largely undiscovered wine region, Valle de Guadelupe. Despite the past decade’s instability and unsafe travel, David felt very safe and plans to return regularly.
Highlights of the trip include:
Read about craft brewing in Baja here: Outside Magazine Article
And don’t miss the Guadelupe Valley. Phenomenal food and wine.
THE OK FIJI PRO
If Kelly Slater wins The Outerknown Fiji Pro, will that undermine the exact credibility that WSL is striving so hard to establish?
Filipe is out. Can we finally #GetClayInFiji ?
Yago Dora gets the wildcard
TAYLOR STEELE’S PROXIMITY
Click to find a local screening of “Proximity”.
Game changing surf films . . .
Endless Summer
Momentum
Let’s Be Frank!
GROM “ABUSE” TURNS INTO A FIRESTORM
The link to the OC Register article detailing the story.
And here’s the post that started it all:
DUKE
Dick Catri, R.I.P.
From Surfer.com, “East Coast surfing pioneer Dick Catri passed away at his home in Melbourne, FL, on Monday morning due to complications from a recent series of strokes. Sometimes referred to as the Godfather of East Coast surfing, Catri played a major role in steering the sport’s burgeoning popularity on the right coast during the 1960s and continued to shape its development over the course of the next half-century.”
“Catri’s list of accomplishments is full of novel accolades. He was the first East Coaster to ride the Pipeline and Waimea. He appeared in Bruce Brown films. He opened one of the first surf shops in Florida and cultivated a team of East Coasters for Hobie Surfboards that could rival any Californian contingent of the day. He set the industry standard for surfboard shapers and helped kickstart the contest circuit on the east coast. In his later years, he mentored Cocoa Beach’s Sean and Kelly Slater, young up-and-comers at the time.”
KOOK
David and Scott for their deplorable FantasySurfer rankings. As hosts of this clubhouse, we are ashamed!!
Play along on FantasySurfer.com. Go to the Clubhouse and search “Spit!”