With RVCA co-founder Pat Tenore!
Yesterday, Lyndie Irons, the widow of Andy Irons, announced she’d climbed back into the love game with RVCA founder Pat Tenore.
Lyndie, who is thirty five years old, rang in the new year on Instagram, writing:
“So lucky/so in love with you @pmtenore … #dreamguy ❤️ 2017 has been such a good year. I’m the happiest and healthiest I have been in a really long time and I owe it to this guy ! thank you for loving me for me and making me feel like the luckiest girl ever.”
And ain’t it time!
It’s been seven years since the Great Love, the man who pushed her against a tree on his twenty-fifth birthday in Encinitas and kissed her breath away, a week later telling her he loved her, died in a Texas hotel room.
“From that first kiss I knew he was the one. In that first second. I knew we’d always be together,” Lyndie told me. “My life with him was like a movie. It was unbelievable. I don’t think, I know the guys on tour, they all travel and do their thing, Andy was just… he had so many demons, I guess, that set him back a little bit in life, but I never felt that way. That’s who he was. He got dealt these cards and he was just trying to figure out life the best he could. He had a lot of ups and downs but it came along with who he was. He was up high and on top of the world and then he’d falter a little bit and then every day was like a movie. I think back now and wonder how I had the energy to keep up with him. I don’t even have the energy to keep up with baby Ax and Andy was on a whole other level. He lived every minute to its fullness. He was the only person so far that I’ve met who actually lived that quote. He really squeezed everything he could out of every day and it was game on the second he woke up. It was crazy, but I loved every minute of it and I wish I could… still have it.”
Lyndie’s new boy, Pat Tenore, co-founded RVCA in 2001 with the pro surfer Conan Hayes, sold it to Billabong in 2010 for an undisclosed amount and is its current president (Conan’s trajectory has been very different).
Pat, who is forty-four, is very good at jiujitsu, has a gold tooth, owns some very expensive and rare luxury cars, has three kids and, is as fine a man as there is to refloat Lyndie’s broken heart.
It’s a gorgeous day! Happy new year!
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I am kinda pissed…PM Tenore doesn’t deserve to fully Andy’s shoes. The guy has it all, fuxkin still, you CANNOt fill Andy’s shoes dick
What happened to pats wife? Seemed like they were high school sweet hearts, young parents before the rvca success and seemed happily married and then all of a sudden this.. Don’t get me wrong I have been a fan of lyndies and pats separately for a while so I couldn’t be happier but just was not expecting it and wonder what happened
My guess is that Pat grew tired of his wife wearing all these ridiculous head wrap things (sort of like what women wear when undergoing chemotherapy) except she did have weird helmet hair. Here’s a guy who is around beautiful women and his wife looks like a new age farmer or some shit, sorry, that’s not appealing to most men. Look at Lyndie, she couldn’t be prettier if she tried, very feminine and sexy and seems to have a great personality, I think he lost his attraction for his wife as well as got a boner for Lyndie. This is ALL speculation but makes sense to me.
the ai bong royalties have dried up. on to “greener” pastures…
When is the Andy movie suppose to drop, or did it flop?
My stepdad can kick your stepdad’s ass…..
Passion to fall back on south of mex, demons north.
Pat has demons too. Trust me on that one.
Dude rocks a man bun and still looks bad ass. That is a beautiful couple.
Am I the only Surfer in the World that doesn’t know how to choke someone out in the Octagon?
Yes
I think in Oaxaca they still just tell their cousin to shoot you. Refreshing!
I know in a theoretical sense. Watched my kid get in his hooks in, wrap his paws around necks for the last seven years. But I think in battle situation, I would flail.
Maybe ask your kid for some pointers.
He just jumps on my back and deflates my wind pipe. Terribly effective.
Who needs choke holds when a shovel to the back of the head is so much more effective
The thin white line between fraternizing and franchising
No heaven without hell.
Don’t forget the bells. Hell’s.
Well, I’m very happy for her, having walked a similar road.
Oh tell me, tell us, about your road!
I like how you hedged that request. Left the private message option open. Did Bob Hawke teach you that one? I mean that in a great life skill manner.
This thing has private messaging? How exclusive!
Not really worth telling at any length. Typical story of drugs, drink, infidelity, mental illness, aimless wandering and finding beautiful redemption in the arms of a very special woman. Love can certainly heal a damaged heart and soul.
Yeah good for them, mazel tov!
a single mum with a kid?
or one of the worlds best surfers , going too hard a leaving a family?
Well, both obviously.
damn my mate was right , you are …..Lisa!
Mona!
Is there a guess-who-Nik-Karol-is contest?
For the sake of keeping this fun going, yes. What’s your guess?
I don’t even know half the time so you have fuck all hope of pinning me down!
Chris Davidson
I do have similar visage and build but I watched him beat Kelly from the beach at Johanna so I’m pretty certain I’m not him.
We are all Nik Karol….
yes , as I thought Nik was the Neanderthal big brother of a famous dwarf ?
Reminds me of Festivus. Specifically, feats of strength and the airing of grievances. Must have been some journey for that guy. Good for them. He best not bring Droid any where near Axel and have the kid end up with a shitty haircut.