Waterpeople

When did your body last tell you to bolt? Did you listen? Astronaut Christina Koch holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman: 328 days aboard the International Space Station. In April 2026, she flew around the Moon on Artemis II, the first woman to do so. The crew travelled nearly 253,000 miles (406,000 kilometres) from home, farther than any humans have ever gone. Christina is a surfer and sailor. One of her personal projects on the Space Station was photographing ...

Have you felt the difference a magic board makes in your life? This episode, Dave sits down with the man behind the core of his current magic carpet. Daniel Treloar is a waterman and the founder of Grow Blanks. Daniel was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. He grew up with a severe stutter and dyslexia to boot, and his approach to both was to throw himself into the deep end. He studied agriculture and planned to farm, but the ocean pulled him in other directions. Travel, handcr...

Who talks you out of your worst ideas, and into your best ones? For the first time, we hand the mic to our mate Chris “Mysto” Miyashiro: surfer, artist, voyager. Mysto takes us into Hawaiʻi’s underground voyaging communities, where backyard builders keep canoe sailing traditions alive with humility and resourcefulness. In four vignettes, we hear stories of friendship, loss, healing, and bold dreaming. Mysto sits down with some of the men who shaped him: Cromwell Day, Uncle Kiko Kitazawa...

What do you need to change to still be surfing in 20 years? Performance and longevity coach Rodrigo Perez is practical about what it takes to keep surfing as we age, from mindset and community to the unglamorous basics of strength and mobility. He is the author of The Art of Longevity. Rod’s path to coaching is built on lived experience. He grew up in Brazil and struggled with respiratory issues that kept him sidelined from sport. He learned firsthand how movement, breath control, and p...

When everything is taken from you at once, what is left? Shaun Tomson is the 1977 World Surfing Champion, the author of Surfer's Code, and a keynote speaker whose work has reached Harvard, Google, Disney, and SEAL teams. He was shaped by his upbringing in South Africa, by the pro tour's formative years, and by the loss of his son Matthew at fifteen years old. In this conversation, Shaun connects surfing to faith and prayer through his Jewish heritage and his mother's World War II survival sto...