23. Professional Surfer from Ireland - Gearoid Mcdaid

Gearoid Mcdaid is a professional surfer from Sligo on the west coast of Ireland, home to some of the best waves in the world. Gearoid grew up surfing the local beach breaks of Strandhill before progressing to world class waves such as “The Peak”, “Aileens” at the foot of the cliffs of Moher and the world renowned big wave surfing spot, “Mullaghmore”. Gearoid competes in surf contests all around the world as well as free surfing and creating video features. With Surfing now part of the Olympics, Gearoid has his sights set on representing Ireland at the 2024 games. In this episode we talk about training for the demands of surfing, physically and mentally, what surfing in Ireland is really like, and how having years of surf footage of himself taken by his Dad has played a big part throughout his development to becoming Irelands top surfer.