Big Wave Surfer Tom Carroll on Being a Maverick, Honesty, Risk

Tom Carroll (0:00)

I'm reflecting right now as to times when I was really finding the mastery of my love of surfing, finding that mastery, I demanded to me to be honest with everything I was doing, most importantly with myself first, because I needed to be honest to get forward.

Michael Gervais (0:31)

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Now, this week's conversation is with the Tom Carroll. And I'm a geek about this because some of you obviously, if you're in the surf community or action support world, you know exactly who he is. But those of you who are not familiar with world class surfing, I can't wait to introduce Tom to you. And so he's known as one of the great surfers and sportsmen in Australia. And I was first exposed to Tom Carroll when I was just a little grom. That's a fun little term for kids who just flat out love surfing. And when I was able to get glimpses of the best in the world surfing, we had to wait. We had to wait for video features that maybe came out, like, for a year. You know, it's not like it was now. Obviously, I'm dating myself in many ways. But so I was like when the best in the world would show up and we got a quick little video, Beyond Blazing Boards was the one that I remember mostly. And Tom Carroll was in. It was like his imagination, what he was able to do on a wave was so different and so distinct from so many. And I got to see him surfing live once. And it was just as a little kid. I was like, look at that. Like, that's what it's supposed to look like.