I saw the way Downie had played all game and I knew he was a player who played with an edge. We exchanged slashes, I saw him skating toward me and I was trying to be prepared. I didn't want to put a guy out of the tournament, but I didn't want him to pull anything on me.
When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.
I was always on that side of somebody who was good enough to be in the contests, but I was really happy that I decided to go to college instead of trying to pursue it, because I don't know if I would have had a huge career surfing.