The Lineup with Dave Prodan - A Surfing Podcast

Kelsey González, bassist for The Free Nationals and surfer, joins The Lineup to talk about the connection between music and surfing. He starts with his experience in surfing, growing up in Orange County and surfing up and down the California coast, how he balances surfing with touring, his love for Bobby Martinez, his favorite surfers and stops on the Championship Tour, watching the tour from all over the world, and getting the opportunity to surf and play music at the Surf Ranch with Kelly Slater. Then he switches over to talk music. He describes the origins of Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals to winning a Grammy with Anderson .Paak, working with Dr. Dre, nerves when performing live in front of massive crowds, playing music and surfing with Flea, Anthony Keidis, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the difference between concerts in the US and abroad, and the career achievement he’s most proud of.Follow Kelsey here. Learn more about The Free Nationals and follow them here.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Re-Air from the March 2020 conversation with the 2023 CT qualifier, Ryan Callinan!Merewether Beach’s own CT star Ryan Callinan talks about being shaped by the legends of the Newcastle surf community, dealing with grief and loss while on tour, and discovering the confidence to compete with the world’s best.Learn more about Ryan and follow him here.Watch the Haleiwa Challenger presented by The Hawaiian Islands Nov 26 - Dec 7 on worldsurfleague.com.Check out the Challenger Series rankings. Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WSL Senior Manager of Tours & Competition and former Championship Tour surfer Travis Logie joins The Lineup to talk about the Challenger Series finale at Haleiwa. He breaks down the women’s qualification situation, what to expect from Macy Callaghan and Molly Picklum’s second stints on the CT, the new rookie Caity Simmers’ immense talent, and what Bettylou Sakura Johnson and others still need to do to seize their spot on tour. He looks at the men’s side, the reinvigorated Leo Fioravanti and Ryan Callinan, history being made with Rio Waida becoming the first Indonesian surfer to qualify for the CT, and the scenarios for Ramzi Boukhiam, Ian Gentil, and the other men on the cusp of making the tour. Finally, Travis answers fans’ Instagram questions, takes on the Lightning Round, and previews the Haleiwa Challenger at home in The Hawaiian Islands.Learn more about Travis and follow him here.Watch the Haleiwa Challenger presented by The Hawaiian Islands Nov 26 - Dec 7 on worldsurfleague.com.Check out the Challenger Series rankings. Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Australian Championship Tour star Jack Robinson is back to talk about the 2022 Rip Curl WSL Finals and the upcoming season. He dissects his heat against Italo Ferreira at Trestles, details his training regimen and strategy for the title-deciding event, and lists his top competition for the 2023 World Title. He looks back at his huge 2022 season, the importance of winning at home in Margaret River, the stress-free atmosphere around his win at G-Land, and his massive improvement over the course of the season. He talks about fitness and health, how to overcome the effects of regular travel, finding time to recover, achieving balance, and using saunas, nutrition like AG1 by Athletic Greens, and sleep to achieve optimum performance. Finally, Jack looks forward to the next CT season, his plans for Pipeline and spending some of the North Shore season in the Volcom house, potential rivalries on tour, the eight contenders in their prime, and his excitement to get back to competition.Learn more about Jack and follow him here.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Athletic Greens is going to give you a free 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/thelineup today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmaker and surfer Greg MacGillivray joins the pod to talk about his influential surf film Five Summer Stories, his new memoir Five Hundred Summer Stories, and a lifetime in surfing. First, he looks back at the early days of surfing, the joy and escape that it provides, the introduction of competitive surfing, and his personal beginnings in the sport in Southern California. He dives into his work with Jim Freeman and MacGillivray Freeman Films, directing and producing surf films like Five Summer Stories, Big Wednesday and more, working in Hollywood, developing some of the first IMAX films, and even contributing to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. He shares stories from filming in extreme places from Mount Everest to Mavericks to America’s National Parks and beyond. Greg also touches on conservation, innovations in film technology, the similarities between mountain climbers and surfers, and the upcoming screening of his new film alongside live music.Follow Greg here.Watch the screening of Five Hundred Summer Stories live at the Coast Film & Music Festival November 13 in Laguna Beach, California.Preorder Greg’s visual memoir now.Learn more about his films.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Current Challenger Series leader and former Championship Tour competitor Macy Callaghan joins The Lineup to talk about her big season. She dissects her success on the Challenger Series and how she’s made three straight Finals, changing her competitive mindset from past seasons, building up her mental game, traveling with a good crew of friends, and rediscovering her love of surfing. She looks back at her road to the CT, growing up in Avoca Beach, Australia, getting a scholarship for competitive swimming, ultimately choosing surfing as her career path, her long relationship with Billabong, burnout and taking breaks from competition to film content, and winning the World Junior Title before rising all the way up through the ranks. Finally, Macy looks forward to the future, her great chances of requalifying for the CT, her feelings on surfing Pipeline, her thoughts on the new format, and the events she’s looking forward to most. Learn more about Macy and follow her here.Rewatch her in the Final at the EDP Vissla ProJoin the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Stay up to date with the rankings and highlights of the WSL Challenger Series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Positive vibe warrior and free-surfing virtuoso Dane Gudauskas returns to The Lineup to share some stoke and discuss his transformative last few years. He talks about starting Positive Vibe Warriors Surfboards with his brothers Pat and Tanner with the goal of creating more access and getting more people into the water, and the process of learning business, production, and marketing. He breaks down his journey through surfing, the impact competition had on him, his evolution through different styles and boards, his journey inward, and how the unique sport changes the way you think. He explains the connectivity that the ocean creates and how surfing provides an access point for him to work with inspired community leaders around the world. Dane also touches on personal growth, getting into adventure mode while traveling, the big wave assessment group, The Matrix, and his work with Channel Islands Surfboards since becoming a part owner.Learn more about Dane and follow him here.Learn more and shop the Positive Vibe Warriors.Watch Dane in CI Pro: The Movie.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Re-Air of our November 2021 episode with former pro surfer and journalist Jamie Brisick.Writer, journalist, and former professional surfer Jamie Brisick talks about the many phases of his life in surfing. He starts by telling the story of his entrance to the sport, growing up in Los Angeles in the Valley and earning his spot in the lineup at Malibu, using surfing as the way to escape suburban mediocrity, competing as an amateur, and having big dreams to pursue surfing as a career. He details his experiences as a pro surfer, discovering the very real delineation between amateur and pro, traveling to new places around the world, enjoying the characters at the fringe of the sport, seeing the difference between pro surfers then and now, and working through the challenges of life after the tour. Finally, he discusses his long career as a writer and journalist, how he finds inspiration and creativity, filling the void left by surfing with writing, studying youth culture in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship, processing tragedy through writing, and his upcoming film “Becoming Westerly.”Follow Jamie on Instagram here.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freshly crowned Longboard World Champion Soleil Errico joins The Lineup to discuss winning her second World Title. She talks about winning at her home break, how wild it is to surf flawless Malibu with no one else out, the difference between this title and her first one in 2018, and her shifting strategy throughout the event. She breaks down the biggest heats along her road to the title, the boards she was riding and how she sources her equipment, and her goals for the 2023 Longboard Tour and beyond. She looks back at her journey to becoming a longboard champ, being born in New York City, moving to Hawaii and California and starting to surf First Point Malibu all the time, her greatest surfing influences over the years, and the moment she knew she wanted to be a professional surfer. Soleil also touches on balancing college with traveling to compete, working with young surfers through the Rising Tides program, and the wave she wants to surf most. Learn more about Soleil and follow her here.Relive the title-deciding Final at the Cuervo Classic Malibu Longboard Championship pres by O’Neill.Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Check out the 2023 WSL Longboard Tour Schedule.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pipeline legend and content king Jamie O’Brien returns to The Lineup to discuss the upcoming North Shore season and his newest project. He talks about what he does when the North Shore isn’t breaking, the difference between free surfing and competitive surfing, how he stacks up against the top Championship Tour surfers in the barrel, and being ahead of the curve on creating vlogs and Youtube content. He breaks down the all-new Jamie O’Brien Surf App, how it came to life, how every surfer can benefit from its info, and what it was like sharing all his secrets on technique and surfing. Jamie also touches on coaching CT athletes like Adriano de Souza, Italo Ferreira, and Carissa Moore at Pipeline, how he decides what board to ride out at Pipe, his passion for filming, and Kelly Slater and Moana Jones Wong’s historic wins at Pipeline to start last season. Learn more about Jamie and follow him here.Download the Jamie O’Brien Surf App now.Subscribe to Jamie’s Youtube Channel. Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel. Watch the EDP Vissla Ericeira Pro live October 1-9 on worldsurfleague.com.Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices