In a former life, on Easter Saturday I could be found down at Bells Beach in the media pit, fully accredited thanks to my mate Sharpy and the Rip Curl crew.

I'd hang out all day just to get a few words with Kelly Slater, the late great Andy Irons, Occy, Mick Fanning, Parko, CJ Hobgood and other BIG names on the World Championship Tour at the time.

Those interviews must have sucked!

Given my geography these days I can be found on the back of a boat, the back of a motorcycle, or more recently, on the ground, out cold after coming unstuck. We'll call that interview research, and I'm not sure if I'm still suffering the concussion, but I think it worked!

This interview and the one we got to do at the mental health awareness event, were pretty epic, but Toby made it easy!

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