Dave Rastovich & Dane Reynolds On The Meaninglessness Of Surfing | StabMic Ep. 35

Dave Rastovich has travelled the globe campaigning for porpoise welfare. He helped pioneer Shipsterns, appeared in some of the most impactful surf films of a generation, and managed to make surfing pay without getting too involved in the business of making surfing pay.

He’s also managed to go uninfected by internet brain rot. Never been exposed to the psychic debris of being online. He knows nothing of the daily nonsense that occupies the rest of us, and seems to have suffered no great loss as a result.

Anyway, Rasta has made it to the StabMic desk.

The last time Rasta passed through these parts was for his much-adored Electric Acid Surfboard Test. If you haven’t seen it, we’d recommend correcting that here. Otherwise, enjoy a particularly choice specimen of Rasta’s thinking below.

Our last documented Rasta sighting was two years ago. Reports from his Northern Rivers property of abundance have been scarce, but he’s now emerged in California to tour Sensing Home, his new film with Patagonia.

In ep. 35, Dave talks about getting stoned in Mundaka and realising he wasn’t going to pursue the tour, the parallels between surfing and sex (and why the viewing experience of both can be a little disheartening), and how surfing can be simultaneously meaningless and essential to a good life.

Mostly, though, it’s two of surfing’s more fascinating specimens, Dane and Dave, both famously elusive in their own ways, in the same room talking shit for two hours. A double feature for the romantically inclined, eye candy for the surf nerd. 

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