Surfer

Editor’s Note

Source: Three world champs and one odd man out. From left to right: Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater, John Florence, and Joel Parkinson in France, 2012.

It was a warm September afternoon in Hossegor, France, back in 2012, and I was sitting on the sprawling deck of a vacation rental surrounded by Craig Anderson, Nate Tyler, Dion Agius, and Dane Reynolds—basically the freesurfing equivalent of The Beatles at the time. And yet between stuffing our faces with pizza and washing it down with frosty beer, our redfaced conversation managed to turn its focus to competition.

Reynolds told us

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