How a unique upbringing and a metal mindset led to set waves at Mullaghmore. elsewhere // Dec 13, 2022 Words by Holden Trnka Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve surfed with Tom Lowe. Quite a bit actually. And no, I’m not talking about leaping over the ledge at Mullaghmore, or Jaws, or really at any waves that will get your adrenaline flowing — unless you’re terrified of cutties and head-dips. I lived in the same town as Tom for a couple years. We’d get our dings fixed at the same place, surf during the same windows of time, and say hullo at the pie shop. Of all the talented surfers in said town, Tom had probably spent the most time on the homepage of Surfline or MagicSeaweed, but you wouldn’t have guessed it. In fact, the tatted up fella from the UK hardly gave indications that he even surfed, much less that he was a certified lunatic. He would sit quietly under the local pack, and talk candidly for hours with anyone — traits that stand in stark contrast to the polite briefness of many ‘pro surfers’. I remember an early morning — bombing swell — with just a friend, myself
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