Daddy gets candid on his dazzling boy…
Two days ago, I threw up a little interview I made with the shaper Matt Biolos in San Clemente. There’s something about stealing a man’s thoughts over the breakfast counter that brings immediacy and a candour you don’t get when you sit ‘em under a bank of tungsten lights.
On that very same day, I went to see Dino Andino, the one-time successful pro surfer and pops of Kolohe Andino, who lives a short drive away.
I had enough memory of the card of my little Canon G10 to record a few minutes of his thoughts. Would Dino, therefore, allow me to make an interview with him about his son?
There were things I wondered: what doesn’t Dino like about Brother’s surfing? How is their father-son relationship?
I imagined the house to be something extravagant, on the gaudy side of decorative and loaded with labour-saving devices that would virtually eliminate the housemaid, but with a garden that required half of Latin America to maintain.
What I discovered was a pretty, and welcoming, Californian-style bungalow. Dino, as ever, was a generous host, pointing out the various features of the house and the section where the noted Ho family, Mason, Coco and Michael, stay every summer.
This interview is a tight edit of a somewhat rambling, but illuminating, conversation.
so weird that you did this interview a few days ago but I watched this video last year…
right? Come on Derek, what’s up?
…oh, it does sound like that doesn’t it! No, no, I meant, on the very same day I interviewed Matt last year (click on link) I went to see Dino.
He is hell handsome like a movie-star with really cool personality. I always liked his surfing, even as a kid. But for a while, he was over-coached. Kolohe just needs to relax, be natural & freely & powerfully cut loose. His backhand top-to-bottom combos are best & that horrible Parsons-Lakey-Peterson forehand cutback-whatever-thing is the worst.