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With ‘The Drop,’ writer Thad Ziolkowski explores the connection between addiction and surfing
by Ryan McDonald
If ever a life called out to be transformed into a podcast, it is that of Rick “Raz” Rasmussen, a towheaded trafficker who jet-setted from jungle to red carpet before being gunned down in Harlem following a botched cocaine deal. He was 27, not far removed from a comfortable childhood in suburban Long Island. He was also a former U.S. surfing champion.
Rasmussen’s appetite for danger is apparent from his first appearance in Thad Ziolkowski’s new book “The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery.” It is September 1975 and Ziolkowski is on the beach in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, awaiting his heat at the East Coast Surfing Championships. He sees Rasmussen “kick-stall inches from the rusty steel groyne and pull into a meat-grinding barrel. Only the tip of the nose of his board is visible for an improbable stretch,
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Australians are fleeing Sydney and Melbourne to live in regional areas by the coast with lockdowns accelerating this trend.
The Commonwealth Bank, Australia s biggest bank, revealed south-east Queensland, the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales and northern Tasmania have experienced a population surge since the pandemic.
Intriguingly, residents of Sydney s picturesque Northern Beaches are the most keen to leave, as this area endures its second, extended lockdown since Christmas.
Grant Cairns, Commonwealth s general manager for regional banking, said working-age Australians and not just baby boomers were making the switch to a regional area, citing change-of-address data among the bank s 10million customers.
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