HB:
If I gave you $100,000 tax free, what would you
do with it?
KL: Oh man! Wow! Pay off
my education that my parents are paying off, and
my brother's education. Let my parents retire.
Would that be enough to let my parents retire?
They need to retire, they work too hard!
HB:
Ok, we'll give you a million since you've got
such good causes.
KL: Sweet, so yeah, get
them all sorted, and then go on a big trip somewhere
with as many friends as want to come. I don't
know, maybe have a meeting and all talk about
where we want to go and like try to figure out
some kind of cause we'd go for and then backpack
around somewhere and then go help some little
town out or something. And then I don't know maybe
I'd have enough money to buy a house somewhere
on the beach in front of a good surf spot?
H: Where do you go?
KL: Oh dear, I don't think
I could leave my family. North County somewhere,
maybe like Leucadia, Encinitas or Carlsbad somewhere,
no probably like Encinitas, Leucadia.
HB. Considering your current
jet-setting lifestyle do you think you would be
happy settling down in one place like Carlsbad
for a good long time?
KL: Nope. But to have that property, and you could
rent it out. Maybe make it into a little commune
and have all the friends hanging out there, turn
it into a little permaculture, a little self-sustainable
little permaculture. It'd be sweet. That's the
dream right there. Have somebody shaping organic
surfboards in the garage and just growing all
kinds of vegetables and stuff.
HB: That's sick, I'm in.
KL: Perfect, come on by.
Show me the money!
HB: Let's say you could
pick any wave that exists in the world and pick
it up and transplant it and put it out front of
your commune. Which wave would you choose?
KL: Ooooo...... that would
be - that's a tough one.... I would choose.....Trestles
is close to home, but I love Trestles! No, but
there're better waves than that....
HB: This is the wave you
are gonna check everyday, watch the sunset, Kyla's
gonna own this wave.
KL: Yeah, Trestles-ish,
for sure. Just a peak left and right, fun walls
to play with, long.
HB: And you've got the full
quiver of garage boards to rip it up. Whose are
all those boards in your garage?
KL: Um, my dad's, my uncles,
mine, my cousins. Mostly the family's. 
Kyla's
garage quiver
HB: Are there any particular
favorites that you take out when you don't feel
like riding your standard?
KL: Yeah, for sure. There's
a super fun Dick Brewer in there, nice and hearty,
catches waves super easy and really fun to ride.
Also this single fin Hobie, catches waves super
easy. When it's small and junky you can just go
straight even on whitewash, like I like to do,
and it's fun!
HB: Do you find that riding
boards like that helps your surfing?
KL: Yeah, for sure. Just
helps you mix it up you know, and like draw different
lines and things and think about waves differently,
and how to get speed differently.
HB: You tried any airs on
the Brewer lately?
KL: I don't know if I've
tried many of those. Maybe once I get 'em down.
HB: Get it wired on the
thick board and then you get on your board and
it's like nothing.
KL: That's true. Good strategy.
I'm enlightened.
HB: I'm planning a surf
trip to Indo - we've played this game before -
all the boards are there, sunscreen, food, all
the necessities. What's the one thing you are
going to bring to the party?
KL: Music. An iPod or something
with big old speakers.
HB: A guitar maybe?
KL: And then a guitar....nice!
HB: Stepping out of the
surf world, what's one place you really want to
check out?
KL: India. For sure. Just
old and rootsy. That whole area, really. I haven't
really thought about wanting to go there until
really recently. Just seen some photos of beautiful
places and all the wise tales that come from there.
Go check it out. Seems pretty foreign, like as
foreign as a place could be.
Kyla Langen
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