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Doc: You're a legend in DK, one of our declared "Statesmen"... Tell us as much as you can about your years on the knee - the initial transition, the rides, the comps, your individual art and style.
KM: I've been drop kneeing, or what we called it when I was kid was jack stance, for as long as I can remember. I never separated it from prone riding it's all just bodyboarding. The fact that throughout these past decades or so it's been separated so much is gay to me. I like the fact that there is a DK division because it will push the competitors to DK waves that they would probably prone and helps to push the envelope on the knee. The fact that most drop knee guys or girls enter the quote "prone" contest which is actually an open contest, you can dk, stand up bodyboard or prone in these events if you want to, but they choose to prone so that they can advance that is totally the GAYEST thing that I can think of. I DK as many waves as I can in the open events and still give it everything that I have. DK is a part of what I do but it doesn't define what kind of bodyboarder that I am. I try to be as well rounded as possible but I'm not going to change the way I surf to please the judges or just to advance. Don't get me wrong if the wave that I'm catching determines that I should prone it then I will prone it. But I am definitely not going to prone every wave because it's an open event.
