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For nearly 30 years, Strider Wasilewski has remained a name and a face familiar to the surfing world at large, first as a professional freesurfer for Quiksilver who made his bones at Pipeline and helped pioneer Teahupoo, later as a surf company executive for the mountain and wave during the peak of its empire, and today, as an on-air analyst for the World Surf League.

Strider Wasilewski – Teahupoo Horror Experience – Quiksilver ...

All that time, all those hats, all that insider exposure—and still, hardly a word has been written about Wasilewski, personally, in the way even marginal surfing personalities are discussed, often ad nauseam. He seemed untapped.

And so, on a Tuesday afternoon in January, I meet Wasilewski at the refurbished barn that he, his wife, and children call home, to find out what the posters, magazine spreads, press releases, and the webcast can’t tell.

At 44, he appears every bit a man who has made a life and living out of surfing—still fit, hair still a shade shy of platinum, and skin a color that defies his Northern Europea World Surf League voice Strider Wasilewski savages employer ... HER