Ocean Beach is notoriously difficult to surf when it’s really and truly on. It’s heavy and cold, full of currents and shifting peaks. But if you’re able to stroke into a good one, it’s a wave you’re not going to forget for a long time. And Bobby Martinez knows that, which is why he makes the trek up to OB once or twice a year when everything lines up.
Bobby’s an interesting character. After his tour-quitting mic-drop moment (you know the one), there were at least a few people who thought Bobby might’ve shot himself in the foot.
“Following his brutally honest rant,” we wrote in the days afterward, “many people were swift to render Bobby as some batty lunatic who lost his shit and would suffer dearly for it. But he didn’t. He did quite the opposite, actually.”
He put his focus on the important things in life: his wife and kids. “I have all the time in the world to focus on them now,” he told Surfline, “and that’s what’s most important in life to me.”
Nowadays, we don’t see as much of Bobby’s surfing as we’d like. That, though, makes the surfing we do see that much better. The scarcity principle, right? Bobby is still surfing as well as he ever did — that famous backhand is just as powerful as it was all those years ago. Now, he’s surfing for himself instead of points. And it suits him very well.
Josh Pomer was on the beach, camera in hand, to record this session, and for fans of Bobby’s surfing, it’s a good watch.
