Capturing Cobley: Profile on Local Shaper Dan Cobley
Capturing Cobley “Becker came to me and was like ‘I love your boards but really Dan, taking out the beveled nose on the UFO?’ Photo by Mark Kawakami It took a breakfast at Tammie’s and a mid-week Malibu surf safari to really get Cobley going. His introduction to surfing, at age 8, was as unconventional as they come. “My Mom’s from Catalina. I first stood up at a beach break on the backside of the island,” he said. Photo by Mark Kawakami “I was ditching class to surf and smoke pot,” the now long time sober shaper laughed. “I went to every continuation school in the South Bay.” “Kent Wyatt was a bad ass who’d only go out if it was like double overhead at Manhattan Beach Pier,” the ’97 West High graduate said of his surf coach. “He’d try to rally us to surf contests on Saturday’s but we’re like, we’re going to party Friday night and wake-up around 2 p.m.” After high school, Cobley competed on the Professional Longboard Association series, a contest circuit with events up and down the coast. But the political nature of the organization left a bad taste. “You could do the best hit in the world and still lose to the bigger names,” he said. “It got under my skin.” Photo Cobley was riding…
Read this story on easyreadernews.com