'The Long Ride' Jock Sutherland in the New Yorker
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Thanks for that Stu. Always been intrigued by Jock. Thinks differently from the herd and does his own thing.
Love his switch footing large rights in Pacific Vibrations.
Thanks stu, I used to surf with gav a bit on the N S
"A surfer as famous as he was could have made enough money for an easy retirement, I thought, but Sutherland hadn’t cashed in. Surfing was never, to his mind, a job. Even when he was at the apex of the surfing world, he was unimpressed, stubborn. There was no pro tour in those days. “You could work for a board manufacturer, maybe have your own signature-model board,” he told me. “But that meant sell, sell, sell. That was . . . crass. I mean, the banality. It was antithetical to being able to enjoy being out in the water.”"
Great piece by Bill Finnegan on Jock. Covers a lot of territory, put some time aside, but unless you're a subscriber don't close the page with the intention of opening and reading it later. You get one article to read for free, and you can only open it once.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/jock-sutherland-profile-su...