Fairly sure he's a bit of a 'down the line purist' and up until the last year or so it could be argued the wave tour was basically favored towards onshore, port tack jumping? Could also be busy running club Kauli?
np seem to have a small and special bunch of sailors like kauli that they want to keep for ever, even though they don't appear to be very productive??
out of all of them, i wonder if long term they will seriously regret not hanging onto ricardo? - but at the same time maybe he needed this to happen to re energise the ricardo of the 2000's. i reckon he's a true natural, already the king innovator of the sport and a legend in my lunchbox