“Oscar and Kalle are good friends but—you know that had to sting. Kalle also landed on The Surfer's Journal cover that same month in 2003 ... when it rains it pours I guess,” he adds.

Poking around in the trusty, old archive this afternoon, I unearthed an interview I did with Bobby Martinez for The Surfer's Journal. It's solid gold, mainly because Bobby's a solid gold human.

He has been described by The Surfer's Journal as "the finest longboard surfer of all time." In 1997 he became the first new-era longboarder to make the cover of SURFER. He transcended many ...