In this episode, Coach Chris and Coach Ev are discussing one of the more common impairments surfers face...blindness!

Time Stamps:

• (03:14) - Observing before you hit the water
• (04:12) - How far away are the walls of your vision?
• (05:28) - Physical requirements
• (09:07) - Are you obsessed with your nose ?
• (11:15) - What you say with your eye-line
• (12:48) - See better while you set up waves
• (19:12) - Why you keep getting pitched
• (21:08) - How to overcome getting pitched
• (22:40) - Simplify the take-off
• (26:33) - Looking without seeing
• (28:57) - Look for details

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

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For the first episode of 2025, Coach Chris and Coach Evan reunited over Zoom with four other friends to record one of the greatest adventures of their life attempting to score a pumping Mexican point break only accessible by boat. 

This one will not disappoint, and for an even better experience head over to www.thesurfcontinuum.com/undergunned to watch the video version of this episode along with the photos and videos we share from this day none of us will ever forget. 

Special thanks to Cole Olson, Corey Senese, Gavin Krug, and Chance Whalen for making time to record this episode with us during the holidays.

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

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In this episode, Coach Chris and Coach Evan are joined by a few members of the Crooked Surf Team to talk about some of the tricks they have up their wetsuit sleeve for keeping warm in the coldest of sessions. 

Timestamps:

• (04:48) - Guest introductions
• (28:27) - Ken’s wetsuit history
• (33:00) - How Cate shoots with gloves on
• (36:21) - Tricks and tips for staying warm

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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This week on KookCast, Coach Chris and Coach Ev are chatting about respect and how to earn it from other surfers, especially the old heads and long time locals. 

Timestamps:

• (02:33) - How you show up to the beach
• (05:29) - How you get in and out of the water
• (07:42) - Check your pace
• (10:12) - How you show up to the line-up
• (11:38) - Surfing inside and wide
• (13:41) - Smile !
• (16:30) - Coach Ev’s story about following the rules
• (18:37) - Coach Chris’ story about a friend who did not follow the rules

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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This week on KookCast, Catherina Duval de Navarre jumps on a Zoom call with Coach Chris to share screens and talk us through a clip she shared of herself getting absolutely burned during a session of a lifetime.

If you're a member of thesurfcontinuum.com, be sure to login and watch it over there so you can see the clips we're discussing. 

Time Stamps:

• (03:10) - How Cat started surfing
• (08:05) - The Crime
• (21:30) - What could Cat have done?
• (27:26) - Cat's Kooky story
• (32:26) - Cat's wetsuit brand - Naluka

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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In this episode of KookCast, Coach Chris and Coach Ev are talking about their approach to surfing, specifically speaking on the dynamic of how they move through the line-up.

Time Stamps:

• (03:39) - The Surf Continuum and surfing in circles
• (05:54) - Connection to your equipment
• (06:35) - Staying on the move and in circular patterns
• (07:53) - Circles, to spirals, to rhythm with the ocean.
• (09:01) - Circumferences of circles
• (09:56) - Seeing this principle in the micro and macro
• (10:53) - Circular vs Linear surfing
• (15:09) - Why surfing leashless helps you surf circles

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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This week on KookCast, Sid Abruzzi joins Coach Chris to discuss his new documentary with the Kinnane Brothers, Water Brother: The Sid Abruzzi Story. The world premier is July 26th at the Angelika Theater in NYC. Details for other premier locations below. Premier or not, make sure you watch this film. It was epic.

Asbury Park, NJ - August 8 House of Independents

Narragansett, RI - August 9 Narragansett Casino

New Smyrna, FL - August 17 FLA Surf Film Fest

Nantucket, MA - August 21 Dreamland Theater

This week on KookCast, Coach Chris and Coach Ev got Adam Davenport back on the phone after he was dropped halfway through the first call with Kris Carlow in part one of this now two part series.

Time Stamps:

• (01:41) - Adam’s family and beach life growing up
• (03:47) - How Adam came to be a shaper
• (06:47) - The basic foundation of a good longboard for novices
• (08:41) - Mastering the importance of mastering the basics
• (15:11) - Innovation vs. Tried and True
• (18:31) - Elements of traditional design
• (23:01) - Coach Chris’ Hobie story
• (24:51) - Hobie Cat background from Adam
• (26:43) - Coach Ev shows an old Hobie to Adam
• (29:38) - Adam’s kooky story
• (32:43) - Ordering a Hobie surfboard

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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This week on KookCast, Coach Chris and Coach Evan are joined by Kris Carlow and Adam Davenport of Hobie Surfboards to celebrate the brands 70th anniversary. We're first introduced to them through their surfing background before Kris, the brand manager at Hobie, takes us through the life of Hobie Alter and how the Hobie brand came to be. 

Next week in part 2, Adam describes his job of lead shaper and how we has a passion for preserving Hobie's standards and many of the traditional elements of surfboard building.

Time Stamps:

• (02:23) - Kris Carlow’s Surf Background
• (09:45) - Adam Davenport’s Background
• (13:18) - Hobie Alter and the Hobie Brand history

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

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Emma Bukowski, creator of Nose Rider Surf Club, joins Coach Chris to talk not only about her surfing journey, but the effort it took to reach the starting line of that journey.

Coming from Wisconsin, it might not have seemed like surfing was in the cards for Emma. Tune in to hear how Emma played her hand and now gets to live her dream. The discussion eventually turns a little more serious as we hear Emma's perspective on being a woman surfer and shares her worst experience while surfing.

Stick around to hear the one thing that gave her surf confidence a huge boost and how a homemade bathing suit that stayed in place during wipeouts was the start of her brand, Nose Rider Surf Club.

Time Stamps:

• (02:13) - Emma’s surfing background
• (10:30) - Being a woman in surfing
• (14:06) - Her worst experience ever as a woman in the water
• (34:45) - Emma’s confidence boosting challenge
• (38:04) - Noserider Surf Club
• (43:13) - Emma’s Kooky Story

KookCast is brought to you by Coach Chris and Coach Evan of The Surf Continuum. Find unedited pre and unreleased episodes on through their membership website: thesurfcontinuum.com

Sponsored by:

www.crookedsurf.com