Bobby Martinez

Santa Barbara, 2012

I knew it was my time to hang it up, because the thing that I love was slowly being sucked out of me.

Derek Rielly talked with Bobby Martinez in 2012, not long after Martinez, following a live-streamed expletive-filled rant about the state of pro surfing, quit the world tour. He was 28. This interview ran in Stab issue #62, as part of a larger feature titled "Bobby's Closing Statement." * * * Wanna climb back in time and tell me how you felt about the tour? The tour, at first, when I didn’t rea...

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