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Parko wins the World Title and Pipe Masters, a python in The New Pier Lineup and some very dirty water in Durban. |
| 17/12/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
Joel Parkinson. There are not many people who win both The Pipe Masters and The World Title in the same hour. Kelly’s done it, Andy did it and now Parko has done it. I think the majority of the surfing world are properly stoked for Parko and so they should be. He has always been an incredible surfer, but this World Title is somehow the validation of an amazing career. Ever the consummate professional, he kept his head down and did the job one heat at a time displaying amazing BMT. He managed the pressure perfectly and he was also lucky that Slater was wave starved in his heat against Josh Kerr, but that is surfing. Parko is the champ and that ladies and gentlemen is all she wrote.
Josh Kerr. What a run Josh had in the Pipe Masters. Seriously injured (he was sent to hospital for scans after a bad wipe out) he soldiered on bravely putting his body back on the line wave after wave. His defeat of Slater in the semis was a seminal moment in the history of professional surfing. To end up in the final against Joel was an amazing result. Hopefully he liked the feeling of being in the final because it would be great to see more of him at that end of the draw on next year’s tour.
Dan Redman. Dan beat Shaun Joubert, Greg Emslie and Wayne Monk in the finals of the Guido’s Surf Classic in Port Alfred, taking home R4K for his efforts. Port Alfred is an amazing little town and it is great to see the event go from strength to strength in it’s second year. Congrats to Dan for winning it and to all those involved in making it happen.
Who Blew it?
The New Pier locals had a tough time with wildlife in the surf last week. You can imagine the surprise of of the surfers when they saw a live python swimming through the lineup. Authorities believe that the massive amount of rain and the flooding in KZN recently probably caused the large snake to be washed down one of the rivers. The snake was rescued from the lineup before it or any of the surfers got hurt. Then just as the surfers were recovering from that a big shark, believed to be a Zambezi, swam through the lineup. Yikes what’s next?
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John McCarthy. John was in Cape Town last week and lucked into a beautiful west swell while he was there. On the first day of the swell, just as the tide and wind were perfect, he rushed off from where he was staying drove all the way to the beach, frothing so hard to get in the water. When he finally got to the beach he realised in his haste he’d forgotten his wetsuit at home... Eish!
Transnet Port Authorities in Durban. Transnet Port Authorities should be dragged over the coals for letting this mess accumulate in the harbour. The scary part though is that this daily and is close to the very water Durban surfers and beach users use daily. The image was taken at The Fish Jetty next to Maydon Wharf 1 by BOMBsurf reader Warren Loom. |
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Big Cash for Surfboard Art, a dark horse on the loose at Pipeline and a very naughty Labrador. |
| 09/12/2012 |
Who Blew Up?
The Wavescapes Art Auction. These guys raised R234,000 to go to the NSRI, Shark Spotters and the HIV awareness project Waves For Change. All we can say is WOW! Aside from providing a platform for the surfing and art worlds to meet, raising that sum of money is an extraordinary achievement. TheBOMBsurf applauds the artists, the buyers and Wavescape for an amazing event. Notably Brett Murray’s (of The Spear fame) board pictured here sold for R42 000!
Richard Hambloch. Tonight many of you in Cape Town will get to see The Goddess Islands movie for the first time. Rich has been integral to the production of the movie. He shot most of the action footage, all of the links and he edited the entire project. What is truly remarkable though is that he did this all at night after already working a full day in his real job... Huge credit for this production needs to go to this man.
Kalani Chapman. Kalani won both his R1 and R2 heats convincingly in solid waves at the Pipe Masters, taking out Tiago Pires in R1 and Ace Buchan in R2. Those are 2 pretty big upsets in the event and with Jamie O’Brien out courtesy of some great surfing by CJ Hobgood Kalani must now be the underdog favourite and dark horse to continue to lead the trialist charge against the seeds.
Who Blew It?
Jamie O’Brien. As a former Pipe Master’s Champion and guy who lives in front of the the fabled break Jamie O made a huge mistake in his R2 heat against a very hard charging CJ Hobgood. With 60 seconds to go, holding down priority and only needing a low to mid range 6, O’Brien paddled over a cooker, leaving it to CJ and then the ocean went flat...
Kona. Kona is a 6 year old female juvenile de Labrador who belongs to theBOMBsurf ed John McCarthy. On Sunday morning when all the Durban families congregate down at Vetches Beach Kona usually runs amok robbing small children of their sandwiches and flicking sand onto tanning bodies while barking loudly at anyone and everyone and wagging her tail madly. She LOVES the ocean and the beach, but this weekend embarrassed her owners properly by deciding to relieve her self (we’re talking a major no 2 here) right in the shorebreak amongst all the swimming children. The exodus that followed looked like a scene from JAWS and was followed by much finger pointing and muffled laughter causing the entire McCarthy clan to slink of the beach in disgrace.
The City of Durban. After most of the showers on the Durban beachfront packed up The City finally sent someone round to fix them. It must be noted that while the majority of the upgrade has been a huge success the shower story is one long story of woe. When the upgrade took place, the old brass showers which had withstood decades of abuse were removed and in their place fancy new push button devices were installed. These of course broke down within a matter of months. Que the contractor laughing all the way to the bank because he’s been back several times since 2010 to repair and re-install them. Anyone want to bet on how long this latest round of repairs is going to last? |
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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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