Jamie O’Brien made the most of a trip to California, managing to squeeze in two radically different surf sessions and save a struggling swimmer.
His day started with a check of the Wedge in Newport Beach, linking up with local surfers Sage Burke and Kai Thompson. O’Brien’s brand, Fun Day Surf, which is launching a line of soft-tops in June, sponsors both Burke and Thompson. They found some sand-sucking barrels, and, as often is the case at the Wedge, were launched over the falls plenty of times, too.
At the end of the session, O’Brien noticed a young swimmer in distress and handed her his board. The lifeguards jumped into action soon thereafter and escorted her to shore…