Just Before His Accident at Pipe, We Talked to Kohl Christensen

Just Before His Accident at Pipe, We Talked to Kohl Christensen About the Dangers of Big Wave Surfing

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This week's podcast had a little more immediacy to it. Just a week or so after I sat down with with Kohl Christensen, he suffered a scary brain injury at Pipe after impacting his head on a closeout barrel. Thankfully, following surgery in Honolulu, he’ll be able to make a complete recovery. It was kind of crazy that he was talking me through the conditions as he assesses them before deciding to go out. I just happened to catch him on a night he was watching the sunset with his daughter and close friends

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