Watch: Dane Reynolds Quizzes The Reigning World Champ | StabMic Episode 02
Yago Dora on his title year, the Volcom x Dad split, EAST over SITD, CT surf wreckers, superstitions + the movie parts he still rewatches.
The sun is aggressively shining on Yago Dora.
World Champion. The Fresh Prince of Vissla. GQ Brazil’s Man of the Year. Stab High Monster Air anointed.
The Florianópolis native has every right to peacock and ghost interview requests from Stab. Instead, he drove himself two hours up the 101 from Aliso Viejo (Vissla HQ) to Ventura to sit in a hot studio with Dane and Dooma, and talk everything from his World Title year to his highly specific superstitions.
These sometimes involve hopping into freezing Portuguese fountains, wearing WSL jerseys on transcontinental business-class flights, and shaving horrific haircuts in homage to his Floripa homie Ronaldo (the bigger one, IYKYK).
He hands out more praise here to Dane, to his Brazilian peers, to his support crew, to the surf films that shaped him than a reigning World Champ strictly needs to. Which only affirms our inkling that he’s a dangerously well-adjusted individual on top of being one of the brightest-burning stars in our cultural firmament. The mutual admiration between Dora and Dane is warm, fuzzy bubbles.
It’s a bit of a rapid-fire, speed-dating round this one. Or a TSA interrogation, if you will.
If you hate it, you know where to go.
See you in the comments.
