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"...there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove the nine to five, shove the rules... we're just going to follow our hearts, treat each other well, eat well and enjoy the ocean. It was not for money and it wasn't for fame... that's what we're gunna do... purely because that's what our hearts want to do. That was amazing."
Jim Banks (quote from the Switch-foot book)
"I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went, shit, I'm still alive!"
Greg Noll (on surfing Waimea Bay for the 1st time)
"Okay, shit, I guess this is a good day to die!"
Gerry Lopez (on towing into Peahi/Jaws)
"There are no more committed people on the planet than surfers. We fall down a lot. We turn around, paddle back out, and do it over and over again. Unlike anything else in life, the stoke of surfing is so high that the failures quickly fade from memory."
Gary Sirota (surfer, ocean advocate, rich in love)
- Incubus
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Feeder
- Deftones
- Switchfoot
- Something Corporate
- Jack's Mannequin
- Dashboard Confessional
- Ryan Adams
- Hell Is For Heroes
- Linkin Park
- Finch
- 3 Doors Down
- Lifehouse
- Lostprophets
- Hoobastank
- Funeral For A Friend
- Rage Against The Machine
- Bruce Springsteen
- Gensesis
- Audioslave
- Angels & Airwaves
- Blink 182
- Riding Giants
Don't watch it ever...
"I find television very educating, every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book" (Groucho Marx)
- Eddie Would Go
- Switch-foot
- Any and all surf literature
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Eddie Aikau
- Brandon Boyd