Swell With My Soul: Recent Episodes
Donald Brink
Told through encounters on his travels, Donald Brink conducts conversations with professional surfers, clients, and strangers about surfboards and the value they add to one’s ocean going experience.
You a happy surfer. Conceptual marination of stoke. Asking questions, and openhandedness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Asking yourself you right questions. Maintaining balance. Pursuing design that brings smiles. Keep the tricks, choose an evaluation of your path Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eliminate variety. Embrace the learnings you cannot predict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Being a student of ones own surfing. Referencing honest bench marks and embracing variety to reveal constants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Building things you know won't work. Design paths and honest sensations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Self help at your fingertips, every wave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reset thinking to reset rail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Surf racks, creased boards, and momentum in new creative endeavors.
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Tentative imminent sessions after memorable flow days. Your surfing and the radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode we walk through the correspondence of the entire order process for Sean. Design a board to push him and suit his surfing stance. He calls in with honest frustrations, glowing memories from recent rides. Then we curate some homework for him to surf through too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Without giving advice, what would the top concepts be worth proving to yourself and bouncing to another. Cherry picked from a birthday perspective. Age and surfing. A letter to a young man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What was making the front foot land off center nine times out of ten. Was chasing the resonance in a board a mute point ? Leaning to relearn as we grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Variety of craft, friends filming, front feet and short sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pushing your self when things are going fast. Creating creative margins. Doing the long yards in the most focused seasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The mystery in craft. Going the extra mile. Process and wonder. Being dedicated when things go wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Same joys with a more granular appreciation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Observations from afar and a balance of positive tendencies forever. The depth in your surfing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Round nose pitfalls, resonance and the practicality of width. A phone conversation with Nathan about his custom order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A look into how JJ went through the order process. From initial inquiry to a phone call and video assessment too. Honest review of his surfing path and real expectations of where he wants to take it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Accessing your own challenges and settling at altitudes that make for real memories. It's all up to you. Surfing the constant magnifier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Things are designed to work better and promote ease. Experimenting with honest assessments on vintage concepts. Sometimes difficult things show simpler truths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Switching things up can be refreshing. Paying attention to the initial feedback can magnify the weakest areas in ones approach. Before things get camouflaged, rather than improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eighties down rails and Jame's first dozen surfs. Thinking about what you're doing and when to stop thinking and just surf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
African ,wild, crazy, honest and true. Big wave friend and community pillar. Dougal explains how he has come to find the thin spaces in his life. Surfing, photography and intentions. He pursues the highest echelons of them all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Targets and timing. Re-Surfacing observations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A conversation with Mario Wehle in Portugal. He offers insight on how he is managing his team and servicing surfers at this time. Magic Quiver, located in Ericeira, from surf shop, to lodge, breakfast deli, restaurant, oyster bar and more. They know surfers, serve them well and become a family to all who visit. A go to destination for European surf travelers, and a cross roads for creatives alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Setting realistic expectations for a return to surfing. Asher offers insight that can help us be kind to ourselves and one-another. Whilst acknowledging this severe global crisis; reflecting on all parts of life and the ties between them. Being removed from surfing and each other. Looking forward to days ahead and examining the depths that surfing can bring, has brought and the expectations for its role and the eminent return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Whilst acknowledging this severe global crisis; reflecting on all parts of life and the ties between them. Being removed from surfing and each other. Looking forward to days ahead and examining the depths that surfing can bring, has brought and the expectations for its role and the eminent return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Travis Reynolds about humility, balancing family life with productivity, and the benefit of finding a singular focus. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jay Nelson about the perils of perfectionism, the virtue of doing it yourself, and the dangers of developing an artistic style. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Derrick Disney about a youthful mindset, the joy of the Twinzer, and how to balance aesthetic and function when building boards. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Cliff Kapono about his science based perspective on how to cultivate creativity. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jason Woodside about his creative process and how nature is represented through the geometry and color of his style. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jeff McCallum about the fallacy of "sustainable" surfboards, the virtues of the twin-fin Egg, and the unimportance of legacy. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the mountains of Bonny Doon, California, Donald Brink connects with Jeff McCallum, Jason Woodside, Cliff Kapono, Derrick Disney, Jay Nelson, and Travis Reynolds to discuss surfboards, art, and the creative process. This is the introduction to our six part series. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First conversation with Asher King on why to surf for the right reason and when to do the wrong thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunny 100: Part 3. One turn sessions. Focused intentions through overwhelming tasks with pure expectations. Keeping sessions simple. Follow @DonaldBrink CREDITS Host, Producer, Writer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sampled look into Surf Mastery Podcast interview with host Mike Frampton. Discussing boards, technique and much more. Follow @Donald Brink CREDITS Host, Producer, Writer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Love letters to surfing written among dazzling lures; from surfers in the booth at the Boardroom Show. A precious insight to peoples perspective on surfing and the crafts. Surfing a gift. CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: Cello Concerto in E Minor By sir Edward Elgar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An asymmetrical conversation with Nick Carroll. The cans of worms and dedication to cohesion. Follow @DonaldBrink CREDITS Host, Writer, Editor: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: The Rival, The Best of Us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Collaboration project with Dane Gudauskas. An “Olo” inspired modern take on a long length. First board of 2019. A special shape embracing functional design. Follow @DonaldBrink and @DaneDamus CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lollipops and Roses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When you look at some one and tell them you love them and don’t care at all what they think of you. When you mean and feel it all. An epicenter of courage. Exploring vulnerability. Follow @DonaldBrink and BrinkSurf.com CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: George Harrison, Blow Away Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An introduction to a series dedicated to developing depth in your surfing. If you keep imagining how things should be, you can miss how things really are. Follow @DonaldBrink and BrinkSurf.com CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: George Harrison, Blow Away Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On again, off again, hold again. An honest telling of performance and the visualization possible when you focus. The ultimate positive vibe warrior. Patrick shares stoke and stories openly with a humble heart and offers lessons for all. Follow @PatrickGud and @DonaldBrink View this post on Instagram Ready for tomorrow whatever Mother Nature … Continue reading "005 – Dream Tour Year: Patrick Gudauskas 2018 Unpacked" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today’s episode is a behind-the-scenes discussion of the Positive Vibe Warrior’s South African surfboard drive documented in “Can’t Steal Our Vibe” presented by Vans. Donald discusses why it’s less about surfing and surf boards but how surfing can be therapy. Listen how vision is the start of all things and what the Waves for Change program … Continue reading "004 – Can’t Steal Our Vibe Movie Project: Behind The Scenes" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After suffering a broken collar bone while surfing, Donny reexamines life’s pieces and travels to South Africa to find the man who gifted him his very first surfboard. Follow @DonaldBrink and BrinkSurf.com CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Editor: David Scales @David_Lee_Scales Music: The Langley Schools Music Project, God Only Knows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The focus in his vision was obvious. The poise was better studied watching his careful body movements whilst holding the heavy vintage planer , dancing the cuts off, nose to tail. Was positivity simply a fuel and were surfboards only a tool? This was life and together they agreed that much of everything seems somewhat … Continue reading "002 – Lessons with Tanner Gudauskas" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Whilst we watched these massive waves barreling on our tiny hand held screens around the world, the warrior wrestled his broken heart over the ledge and locked into another lifetime wave. Because bravery was backed by preparation and a spiritual yearning for the big picture within his soul. Dane unwraps his mindset and describes the … Continue reading "001 – Dane Gudauskas Unpacks After Fiji" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
? Donald Brink is a lead proponent of asymmetrical surfboard design. A designer since youth, Donald paints, makes plywood fins, and as a surfboard shaper he believes that all board designs can be enhanced with asymmetrical adjustments. On today’s show Donald unveils his new collaboration board with Channel Islands and his new podcast venture, Swell … Continue reading "000 – Introducing Swell With My Soul hosted by Donald Brink" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices