The world's second favorite South African grabs the mic and flows!
And have you been listening to Dave Prodan’s podcast Kill the Messenger? It is a garden of aural delight! Dave knows his pro surfing like few others and brings such a thoughtful approach to the mic. Not shrill. Not gossipy. Easy like Thursday morning and a happy addition to the surf podcast space (feat. such gorgeous stars like Down the Line, Kooks of Komedy and our very own Rory Parker’s Everything is Always Terrible.
But back to Dave Prodan. His guest on his latest episode is one of my very favorite characters in all of surf. Damien “Dooma” Fahrenfort! The handsome South African with a face like Val Kilmer and a voice like fresh-off-the-grill boerewors.
I love him!
Do you remember when he busted onto the scene? When he got busted alongside Jake “The Snake” Paterson for spitting truths?
Such fun!
And now he is a mogul. Part owner of a Venice skate/surf store called General Admission that is causing Supreme-like meltdowns on California streets. Part head of Stab magazine’s United States operation.
Except he has recently pulled away from Stab, telling Dave, “I don’t know… ever since BeachGrit came around Stab just doesn’t feel… I don’t know… good anymore. Bruh.”
Just kidding!
He says, “About three years ago, and this is where I’ve learned everything after pro surfing, was Stab magazine. I came on and launched it here in the U.S. And since Sam McIntosh has moved to the States and since I’ve got other things going on full-time I’ve kind of stepped back from it a little bit…”
A world without Dooma is cold, grey. And a Stab with less of him definitely kinda sucks.
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Prodan’s podcast is good, but he needs to sort out the audio, must be using one microphone, im turning it up one second and turning it down the next. The content seems to be improving, wish he would leave out the fantasy surfer picks
Sorry Dooma, but I just can’t trust any man who wears fresh white trainers.
What about the Surf Splendor podcast? Do you not enjoy them recycling your material every fortnight?
Apologies, Down the Line is Surf Splendor!
They need to sort that shit out… So confusing when I was fresh fan.
Venice legend Peter Schroff @peterschroff (follow him) opines
He is a legend. He does live in Venice. But in no way shape or form is he a “Venice legend”. Just for the record.
General Admission causing “Supreme-like” meltdowns? That’s almost as funny as a couple of South African’s selling “gentrification is genocide” t-shirts out of their carpetbagging boutique hipster wanna-be, overpriced shit shop. And no, who made them doesn’t dampen the irony Bruh
I wish it would close down already.
How does Stab go from being dead to mostly sucks? Camawwwwwwn
“A Stab with less of him definitely kinda sucks.” A Stab with more of him definitely still sucks.
P.S. I keep reading his last name as “Fahrenheit,” which then gets me to thinking he should change his name to Kelvin Celsius.
stab sucks for several reasons nowadays, one of which is doomas awful writing. apparently being the best friend of one of the worlds best surfers somehow qualifies you to work for stab.
Dooma, my colleague at Stab’s international staff. But i’m way smarter.
James, just because you wrote one summary for one contest doesn’t make you an employee. Anyway, you in Peniche for the pro? Lets meet up and kiss on the lips!
Ok, agreed… Maybe i’m not an employee. But still, i’m way smarter than him.
Being smarter than a low-level pro surfer is like being taller than Glen Hall. Ain’t that hard.
C´mon, Glen almost made Wilko world champ!!
Did Micro grow 2 cm for every heat win that Wilko notched?
And potentially a better surfer, giving your career as a “former pro-surfer”…
Indeed.