Get Away

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Baby Blue

Never Meant to Hurt Ya

Moving On

Cheap Thrills

Welcome to CUSP (the Currently Untitled Surf Podcast), where Stab writer Michael Ciaramella and Championship Tour coach Stace Galbraith dissect the minutiae of competitive surfing, occasionally in a combative fashion. This is the first episode of our new, contest-driven podcast, so let us know what you think.

For the impatient types:

0:33 podcast and host introduction 
2:50 Honolua bay intro
3:48 Mike's conspiracy theory part 1 (Lakey)
8:19 Stace's rebuttal 
9:25 Mike's re-rebuttal 
11:25 Mike's conspiracy theory part 2 (Caroline)
13:17 Stace confirms that match-fixing happens within WSL events
15:06 Jack Freestone burns Heitor Alves on purpose
17:32 Stace talks Hawai'i
18:51Carissa wins Honolua, Stace offers insights from the ground 
20:43 Lakey's missed wave... again
24:53Tyler Wright's triumphant return
29:25 the Tyler wildcard snafu
33:30 Sunset beach intro
34:46 Zeke Lau's Sunset requirement 
36:28 the Zeke x Jack collision 
42:01 Ethan Ewing's Hawaii performance
43:34 Matthew McGillivray qualification
44:18Morgan Cibilic: where did he come from and what has he done in Hawaii?
50:39 Stu Kennedy: ignorance is not (always) bliss. 
51:22 how Stace's numerical mind helped jack freestone get on tour
53:17 Stuart Kennedy pt 2. 
54:46 2019 QS qualifiers 
57:01 Is the QS a true test of who should be on the CT?
58:50 Pipeline intro
59;26 Pipe predictions
101:55 Do Jordy and Filipe have a chance?
104:56 What about Kolohe?
106:05 CT requalification situation 
1:08:36 observations from the Pipe lineup 
1:10:04 Willian's declaration of fear
1:12:11 Will fallen CT surfers revert to the QS?
1:14:20 The Olympics: what's its value to surfing?
1:18:41 Kelly & John
1:24:21 2020 CT wildcard options (Mikey Wright, Leo Fioravanti, ADS)

CUSP Episode 1: WSL Conspiracy Theories, Sunset Collisions, and Who's Gonna Win Pipe?

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