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Jaws, desperate measures in the snow, a Jack Daniels shortage and a proper skunking.
02/12/2012
Who Blew Up?



Twiggy Baker. Twiggy received his official call up to the new big wave paddle event at Jaws. While most of us would consider that sort of invitation a curse, for guys like Twig who actually like to throw themselves off waves the size of triple story buildings it is a blessing and a way to continue to keep living the dream. We wish Twig well in the event.



Red Bull for actually stepping up and putting on a new Big Wave event at Jaws. In keeping with the way Red Bull approaches most things we’re pretty sure that if they get waves this will be something to behold. Also although we haven’t been able to ascertain the exact prize purse we are led to believe it is ‘significant’ and will set a new bar for prize money in Big Wave Surfing. Not all of the invitees have been announced yet, so keep holding thumbs that the selectors don’t overlook the current Mavericks Champion Chris Bertish like The Eddie selectors did, and possibly Josh, Frank or Andy might get a start too. Here is a thought, I wonder if they’ll give Jordy a slot?





Justin Pybus. Justin is a Durban surfer, currently knocking around the globe. Currently landlocked and hanging in Switzerland he does what he has to to get a surf. Justin is a cup half full kind of guy, so with some recent powder and a clear day he took the fins out of his board, donned his baggies and bombed the slopes. Then to polish it off he went for a paddle in a snow surrounded lake... And you thought your Surf Alert prognosis for this week looked bad?

Who Blew It?



theBOMBsurf movie production crew. After ‘discovering’ one of Twiggy’s secret finds out in the Indian Ocean earlier this year they set out on the mother of all missions to ride and document what is now known as The Goddess Islands. An all star cast of SA surfers proceed to get seriously shacked as they cut loose at Twiggy’s elusive find. All looking good so far for the world premiere next week (Monday 10 December at The Brass Bell) except that the movie is currently running around 20 minutes longer than the time slot allocated. Eish, back to the cutting bench for the boys... But what to cut?




Digger. Digger is the resident Sodwana surf consultant and purveyor of good times. Last week Digger headed to the big smoke (Durban) to stock up on vitals (Jack Daniels) for the long summer season ahead. In order to actually transport the volume of supplies he requires (20 cases of Jack Daniels is quite heavy) Digger had to borrow a mate’s truck which promptly blew up in Richards Bay leaving Digger with the task of having to hitch to Durban and then hitch all the way home with his stash. We’re not sure how successful he was so if you are heading that way and have room in your bag for a spare bottle of Jack we’re sure Digger would appreciate it. He also knows where all the best surf in the area is. We’re not saying he’ll tell you where it is but a bottle of Jack sure would help open the negotiations.



The three Durban surfers who booked a surfing weekend away at Scottburgh this weekend. We’ll call them ‘Tom’, ‘Dick’ and ‘Harry’. Despite warnings from reliable sources about the state of the water due to high rainfall and despite actually witnessing some of the torrential rain in KZN last week for themselves Tom, Dick and Harry persisted on the mission to get barrelled off the famous Scottburgh point. They arrived in the dark on Friday optimistic about what Saturday morning might reveal. Saturday morning dawned to reveal cooking chocolate brown waves, a river in full flood and conditions not even the most enthusiastic Zambezi wrangler would think of attempting. The boys spent the rest of the weekend morosely drinking coffee at the Wimpy watching chocolate brown cylinders peeling off the point.
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Posted by Black on the 03/12/2012 10:19
Don't cut it, just show it.
Posted by Henk on the 03/12/2012 10:22
Leave the "goddess island" as long as it is....
Posted by Dan on the 04/12/2012 17:10
Hey Jarvi. This TopTV, is it as good as it looks? Can I watch all the CT events live from the sofa as opposed to hunched over my laptop (at R39 per gig....thanks Telkom you c*&ts). The information is pretty vague but the advert publised says "great live surfing action". On a side note. Last week you ragged the ASP for the failure to run the J-Bay as a CT event but as far as I've read Billabong are the ones holding the license and they're not giving it up. Cheers
Posted by John McCarthy on the 05/12/2012 05:28
Hey Dan Yep at this point you can watch all the CT Events from the sofa on your TV on top tv. We don't know where the ASP is going wrt to pay per view moving forward or how the negotiations for broadcast of events will work out, so we're not sure if this will continue indefinitely, but right now, the answer is yes.
Posted by Dan on the 06/12/2012 15:35
Cheers John!
Posted by OJ on the 06/12/2012 20:09
Nice to see Digger getting a mention here. No one better to surf with when you are in Sodwana. He also has a tradition where divers have to buy him a bottle of Jack for every whale shark that he finds on a trip... never seen so many empties before!
Posted by OJ on the 06/12/2012 20:09
Nice to see Digger getting a mention here. No one better to surf with when you are in Sodwana. He also has a tradition where divers have to buy him a bottle of Jack for every whale shark that he finds on a trip... never seen so many empties before!
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