One of the sport’s elite veterans talks about the climate crisis, Indigenous culture, silver linings in the Covid crisis and the joy of beating Kelly Slater
Adrian Buchan gently closes the door to dim the hubbub from his pre-school-aged kids. As one of the longest-serving competitors on the WSL’s championship tour, behind only Kelly Slater, he had wanted 2020 to be a world title year. But the pandemic has limited him to school runs and staying in one place for more than a fortnight at a time.
“I think life isn’t that different, it’s just that I’m not going away every couple of weeks with my coach and competing in Bali or Brazil or South Africa,” he says.
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