You like little waves and rockets? CJ got the beach house for you!
Many years ago, twenty or thereabouts, I met the world champion surfer Clifton Hobgood at a homestay in Teahupoo called Papa Teva.
I was struck, then, by the depth of his character and good humour despite my relentless barrage of theologically immature attacks.
And, a few years back, when Chas and I ate him up on Dirty Water ol Cliff was in classic form. He talked about the meth dealer who lived three doors down from him in Orlando, the infidelity that stomped his first marriage and why he refused to hide behind a public mask.
“The only way I can understand being free is to totally expose everything about me,” he said. “I want to be free in this world. That’s what fights off the depression, feeling super lonely, feeling what every human feels. I gotta face the unknown.”
How could you not love a man who possessed such candour?
Now, and following his success in surfing, a surf shop, his epic documentary (“And Two If By Sea”) and the clothing brand Salty Crew, Cliff and his wife Cortney have launched their own real estate team, Florida only at this point and specifically the Space Coast.
“Selling real estate relies heavily on people knowing and trusting you and CJ built up alot of friends and followers in his career as a professional surfer,” says Cortney, “so his transition to becoming a real estate agent was very seamless. I was already selling houses so it just made sense.
Cliff says he’s got more including selling real estate to surfers specific to their favourite kinda waves.
“I don’t want to give too much away right now, but I have something in the works to really capitalize on the growth of the sport of surfing and helping surfers around the world find a vacation home in a place that suites their surfing. More to come.”
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Haha you prolly should watch the show or at least get some insight from someone who has cuz you are wayyyyy off on this story 😂
World Champion*
The lightening bolt is in the LOGO of the bar this guy on the show Co owns. Has nothing to do with this surfer
Yes, and nowadays apparently both men & women have them.
hand jive…gimme some more
the surf doc ’bout the bros is the mostly confusing…consider the movie face/off…which is which and whom is whom…hard to get attached to either bro cause they are really just one!
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Hi I’m a realtor/surfer. Did you just move here? I’m willing to be your “friend”.
CJ is a good dude but the last thing this world needs is more real estate agents
That video is about as cringeworthy as Fanning’s home decorator reality show stint.
Those girls have zero talent
Most of the designers I deal with just send me instagram or Pinterest photos and say we want it to look like this. Most don’t have talent and are way overpaid. I like the green ones though. They are moldable.
Used to work for Carolyn Kreiss and developed an allergy to monochromatic sterility.
Also worked for Betsy Annendale at Sunnyland, Palm Desert. Prints, mixed and matched, textures, way more ambitious even though it became her trend.
Cathy Ireland was very nice to me, but she fired her staff half way through a gig in Ojai.
Mick’s wife’s “designers” were so bad. What a wash out…. oooooh, those big clunky chairs in dirt brown breaking up the sea of white? Seriously, awful.
Wasn’t there like three of them too? He probably paid out the ass. Sucker.
*2001
I was watching a doco made out on Hatteras about the retreat from the coast just last night.
No emo stuff. Only people’s reality of losing their houses. Tough stuff for those not wealthy. Happening here, too.
Oh and fuck the hobgoblin and his dreams of helping people. Lol
(we seek health o’er wealth.) an ancient clip of hobgood(s) surfing 3XOH morocco (?) as I recall is some of the best backside ever…I’ll go find it…
Slow comments day – Newie way today was absolutely pumping i surfed 5 1/2 hrs – likely where everyone else has been?? hope you all scored
I was hoping Cj was going to be selling real estate on the moon – spruiking it as next to epic waves !!
200+ comments on the tranny piece, DR. You win!
Ultra Hard Tranny Grit!
i will no longer comment on sush shite. trannies out! keepin it on the camino del real sol!
He’s milking a willing cow