Sitting in the meticulously-clean lobby of the Shorebreak Hotel, just across the street from the 2017 U.S. Open in Huntington Beach, Calif. where Carissa Moore had just been unceremoniously ousted in the fourth round, I caught the three-time World Champ in a vulnerable state.
Agreeing to sit down for a far-ranging interview, we covered everything from what she’d be doing if she wasn’t surfing, to parental involvement in the sport (more on both later) and of course, her year on the world tour thus far, one that has her openly questioning everything about herself … More