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Conner Coffin - Margaret River Pro - Dolphins!

Postby billie_morini » Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:48 pm

Santa Barbara surfer Conner Coffin, 25, launched into a barreling wave alongside at least five dolphins on day three of the Margaret River Pro, south of Perth on Saturday.

Kelly Slater, 47, said Coffin's ride with the dolphins was one of the 'coolest things I've ever seen in my life.

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Re: Conner Coffin - Margaret River Pro - Dolphins!

Postby billie_morini » Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:11 am

Maybe this video clip is better. It shows more angles and more slow motion. It ends with comments by Kelly Slater. Kelly is mentor to Conner. I remember Kelly attended the showing of a surfing film featuring Conner and his brother, Parker. The film was shown on the back patio of the Channel Island Surf Shop located in the Santa Barbara Funk Zone. I have the t-shirt!

One more tidbit about the Santa Barbara surf community. Pro surfer Lakey Peterson is also from Santa Barbara and is a contemporary of the Coffin brothers.

(This is all fun stuff :D )
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Postby billie_morini » Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:25 am

forgot to post it:
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Re: Conner Coffin - Margaret River Pro - Dolphins!

Postby dtc » Sun Jun 02, 2019 11:03 am

Ah, that happens all the time in Australia.... (well, sometimes).

I have this photo on the wall of my beach house - I didn’t take it but it’s of ‘my’ beach

Ok, so there wasn’t actually a surfer there, but there could have been...

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Re: Conner Coffin - Margaret River Pro - Dolphins!

Postby LostAtSea » Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:03 am

I saw that on Instagram - super cool.

I've been meaning to get around to watching the heat analyzer of Mags, this reminded me. I will tonight. Thanks for the clip.
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