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Poll: Who Do You Want Commentating Stab High?

Let’s make Stab High sound as beautiful as it will look!

style // Aug 25, 2018
Words by Stab
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The purpose of this post is to get our readers’ opinions on who would make a good commentator for a surfing event, specifically for Stab High.

Our request for commentator submissions are, in order of importance, that he/she is:

  • Not going to call airs based on degrees of spin

  • Opinionated but not a dickhead

  • Talented on a surfboard

  • Charismatic and funny

  • Objective in their analysis

  • Tangentially famous

  • Especially sexy

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Only after constructing this list did it occur to us that we’d epitomized the great Rosy Hodge! Photo: WSL

Admittedly we’ve already got a few folks officially signed on, but we’re open to your suggestions in the poll and comments below.

Here’s who you’re stuck with already:

  • Bobby Martinez

  • Shane Dorian

  • Todd Richards

  • Dooma Fahrenfort

  • Austyn Gillette

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MC4WQmc-O4k

Come Sept. 22, Bobby will adopt the tennis side of the mic!

Now let’s talk wildcards, in the poll:

And please leave your (better) suggestions below!

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