This is a double overhead deep in the barrel of an interview! In early July 2019, CJ Nelson sits down with Longboardarian to discuss longboard surfing. Longboardarian focused on his memories and anecdotes of his beginnings in surfing and longboarding but also talked about surf competition politics and controversies regarding The Surf Relik Tour which he is a contributor too. He did not shy away from answering any questions.

Topics discussed on this episode but not limited to were:
His beginnings
Longboarding When It Wasn't "Cool"
The Surf Relik Tour
Thunderbolt Technology
LB Competition Criteria
Rapid Fire Q&A and the Shoutout segment.

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BREAKING NEWS /// Surf Relik scam uncovered. Loggers got dooped!


More madness from the Relik. Check out this news report below obtained by Innocnts

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One of the surprises of the event, which brought together the best longboarders in the world to the surf mecca Malibu, was the Hawaiian Sally Cohen, who stole the scene. At only 18 years old, the competitor landed a spot in the championship by winning the most votes on Surf Relik's video submission contest. Surfing the board of double world champion Phil Rajzman, she managed to reach 3rd place in her debut event. Sally is the daughter of surf photographer Paul Cohen the "Gordinho", who is one of the legends in the subject on the North Shore. Source / Author: Luciana Figueiredo
The first stage of the Surf Relik Longboard World Tour was First Point on Malibu Beach this weekend (June 22nd and 23th). The winners of the $100,000 prize-giving event were Soleil Errico and Taylor Jensen .

French surfer Edouard Delpero was given 2nd place and bid farewell to the championship by losing to Taylor Jensen. Third was given to Harrison Roach.


Harrison Roach - Photo: Surfing With Ben

In the women's category, Chloe Calmon finished with second place, Soleil Errico taking the top spot.


Soleil Errico - Photo: Brian Asher



Chloe Calmon - Photo: Surfing With Ben

One of the surprises of the event, which brought together the best longboarders in the world to the surf mecca Malibu, was the Hawaiian Sally Cohen, who stole the scene. At only 18 years old, the competitor landed a spot in the championship by winning the most votes on Surf Relik's video submission contest. Surfing the board of double world champion Phil Rajzman, she managed to reach 3rd place in her debut event. Sally is the daughter of surf photographer Paul Cohen the "Gordinho", who is one of the legends in the subject on the North Shore.


Sally Cohen - Photo: Paul Cohen

"Sally surprised me and surfed a lot, she used my board throughout the event and she did very well, I've been with Sally in my trips to Hawaii and I've done some coaching work for her. She will shine brightly. " Phil commented.

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Check out this video form Wes Swartz of the longboarding before and during the Relik contest.

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Here's the complete live stream of the second day of the Relik longboard contest at Malibu.

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Here's the complete live stream of the Relik longboard contest at Malibu. Forward to the 18:00 minute mark, that's when the contest stream actually starts.

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According to Surf Relik and the self-pro-claimed "definitive voice of surf", The Inertia, no other surf contest ever did video submissions before.

Never.

Not until 2018 when Surf Relik "pioneered a unique video-submission format", as The Inertia's non-fact checking writer claims.

Another The Inertia writer states, "Finally something different, something that’s never been done before. Relik’s Video Submission Open Qualifier".

This is probably coming straight from Surf Relik themselves though, as Pacific Longer Boarder wrote "Relik’s first-of-its-kind video submission open qualifier".

Appears like Surf Relik's PR Team is just spouting off some BS, And Of Course The Inertia would never question it (not the first time they published lies).

Come on now, not that all surfers would know, but a surfer writing for a surf website, especially one claiming to be the "definite voice of surf", should know video submissions for wildcard spots in surf contests have happened many times before Surf Relik's.

Back in 2013, the Hurley Pro Trestles held a video submission contest for a wildcard spot for the CT event.

In 2018, Gopro held a video submission contest for the OSSC National Championships.

In 2011, there was the Volcom Pipe Pro Wildcard Video Challenge

Oh yeah, the video submission contest to be a Wildcard for the O'Neill Coldwater Classic was held in 2014.

In 2017, INNOCNTS held their 1wv1fn, a longboarding video contest where the winner got an invite to the Vans Duct Tape Invitational.

And there's been others.

So NO, Surf Relik you did not create, pioneer, or do any first-of-its-kind deal with video submissions for a surf contest wildcard spot.

Surf Relik is trying to win y'all over with this chance to surf a spot you already surf.

But instead of fighting for waves with 40 people, it'll just be 10.

They throw in some other perks, as well as some wonky tonk rules you gotta follow in order to be eligible. Here's their press release:

Relik’s video submission open qualifier gave eight unseeded competitive surfers a spot in the 2019 Malibu event. NOW IT’S YOUR TURN. Enter our digital raffle, engage online to earn tickets and you could be one of 10 lucky surfers to WIN A 40-MINUTE SESSION AT MALIBU with nobody else out. Not only that, but you’ll be given an all-access pass to the entire Relik Experience, hanging with 48 of the world’s best surfers, with all the perks, in an casual, luxe, beach vibe atmosphere. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is available only to the growing Relik online community so ENTER NOW and join us on the beach, and in the water, at Malibu.

ALL ACCESS PASS
40 MINUTE EXPRESSION SESSION
RELIK MERCHANDISE
GOURMET CATERING
MEET THE COMPETITORS
CONTENT SHOT BY OUR MEDIA TEAM

So how to you enter? They want you to do several things, and their "rules" are somewhat WTF (yeah, we mean What The F@#k).

First here is what they say on how to enter:
TO ENTER:
1. Like this post
2. Save this post
3. Tag at least one friend on this post
4. Share this post to your story


Easy enough, just like all Instagram giveaways. NOPE. Because they list the "terms & conditions" separately, here they are:

Terms & Conditions:
- Must be following our @Surf.Relik Account
- Must follow all the rules for valid entry
- Must enter the raffle via LINK IN BIO
- Winner may pass their winning ticket to a friend
- Any rules or actions missed will VOID your entry
- Contest will run until Thursday, June 20th @ 11:00am PST
- Earn more entries into the raffle via LINK IN BIO

You can visit the Malibu Expression Session From Surf Relik page for more and you have anyways if you want to win.

Some of us here at Shacked went ahead and entered this raffle, but if any of us win, we are going to give our winning ticket to Brooke Carlson aka BrookieBu

Originally it was to start The holding period on June 18th and last till the 28th, but now Surf Relik is saying their Malibu Event is from the 21st to 24th, with the "Final event dates will be confirmed shortly".