8/1/2023 0 Comments Corky corbin family surfThere are some really great local longboarders in Saladita too aren’t there?Ībsolutely. So yeah, there’s a little bit more congestion in the water but it’s still ok! Then they started coming and sending all their friends too. All the pro longboarders who didn’t know about this place came and realised what a cool spot it is. Yeah, that kind of contributed to the lot-of-people-in-the-water thing. That break is exceptional isn’t it? It was home to the Mexi Log Fest for a number of years as well. And ever since then I’ve had people come to stay with us, I teach them how to surf, I give them a lot of drinks and I tell them stories… some of them are true!Īmazing. One day this property became available and it was too good of a deal not to take it, so I decided I’d live here and bring people to me to surf instead. The guy I went with loved it too so from then on he hired me for a week each month for around five years, to meet him there and teach him how to surf. It was about four to six feet that day, an amazing wave and we were the only guys out. He was a beginner and Peter had told me that some of the spots in Mexico are pretty easy, so I said ‘Hey, let’s go to see Zihuatanejo!’ We both flew in and Peter picked us up and drove us out to La Saladita. Then a couple of months later, a guy that I had met at a surf school in Costa Rica called me up and said he’d like to take a surf trip somewhere that was warm and had good lefts. I asked him if I could get hold of the artist and he said ‘If you buy the painting’…it was a great painting and it was only $300, so I figured I’d buy it! He didn’t give me the phone number of the artist but a couple of weeks later the guy called me up and it turned out to be by one of my friends, Peter Schworer, who told me the painting was of mainland Mexico and that I should come and check the place out. I went there everyday for two weeks but nobody was ever in and eventually when someone was, it turns out he didn’t know either. There was one of an awesome, left-peeling wave with a little cantina and palm trees in the foreground – and I really wanted to know where that wave was. It was actually from a painting! I was walking up the street in California one day and a restaurant that had closed down had paintings in the window. And it’s the same again the next day.įunny you should ask. Then it’s time for a Corkarita on the deck while I watch the sunset, I have dinner with my beautiful wife Raquel, then I go to sleep. I’ll have my afternoon nap after that, which is essential when you get to be 180 years old like me. I’m becoming a starving artist so I’ve been doing a lot of painting these days. I’ll catch a wave or two, come in and have a little breakfast, then disappear into my studio and work on music or paint. Well, I usually wake up around 7, grab a coffee, check my messages and then I’m ready to go surf. So what does a typical Corky day look like right now? Hey Chris, I’m fine! It’s another day in paradise here in La Saladita, mainland Mexico. It’s not everyday you get to meet the world’s first ever professional surfer, is it? I’m honoured to have had this chance to chat with American surf legend, musician, author, artist and all-round good guy Corky Carroll from his home on the west coast of Mexico.Īnd from being named ‘The Best Surfer in the World’ by SURFER Magazine, to joining The Endless Summer premiere tour, to having a cameo part in Spongebob Squarepants, he has some pretty epic stories to tell from his 60+ years of surfing.
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