{"id":744,"date":"2008-04-23T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2008-04-23T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:43:04","slug":"obsessive-compulsive-surfer-still-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Obsessive Compulsive Surfer Still At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <strong>Dale Webster<\/strong>? He&#8217;s the completely spun surfer from Northern California who was featured in <strong>Dana Brown&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B0001FGBUC%26tag=sacklunch%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0001FGBUC%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Step into Liquid<\/a><\/em><\/strong>? Well, he&#8217;s still at it according to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/writers\/chris_ballard\/04\/23\/webster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> Chris Ballard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every day for the last 32 years, every single day, he has surfed. He heads out each morning in Bodega Bay, a blustery town on the northern California coast, and paddles into the 50&#176; water, a worn-out 59-year-old in a worn-out wet suit. He&#8217;s caught waves during howling storms, while wracked by kidney stones and, once, within snapping distance of a Volvo-sized great white (&#8220;never paddled so hard in my life,&#8221; he says). He&#8217;s gone through 35-plus wet suits and as many surfboards, and he&#8217;s scraped off 45 pounds of surf wax, all of it preserved in a gooey, browning mound in his backyard. All that cold water has narrowed his ear canals, and his eyes are bloodshot and glassy, in need of surgery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having surfed 96 days straight once before in our lives we can say this: running streaks like that is enough to drive a man deeply, irrevocably crazy. We don&#8217;t care what anyone says, Dale Webster is crazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/writers\/chris_ballard\/04\/23\/webster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Dale Webster? He&#8217;s the completely spun surfer from Northern California who was featured in Dana Brown&#8217;s Step into Liquid? Well, he&#8217;s still at it according to Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Chris Ballard. Every day for the last 32 years, every single day, he has surfed. He heads out each morning in Bodega Bay, a blustery town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}