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The Raging Bull puts on a show, Kelly crashes and burns and John John goes to town. |
| 25/03/2012 |
Who Blew Up
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1. John John.
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Talk about showing up and blowing up! John John not only won the Telstra Drug Aware Pro, but he collected five out of the top ten wave scores of the event and the top three two-wave heat totals. To say he was in form would be a polite understatement.
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| Courtney made it back to back wins in Margaret River last week. Her victory once again in the women’s event sees her cementing a good relationship with the Western Australia break and gives her some valuable ratings points to get the year started. |
Occy’s 3rd place finish in the event illustrates just how good a surfer he still is. Now in his early to mid 40’s he really looked like he could win the event. He was unlucky to lose in the semis but to see The Raging Bull back in action was pure poetry.
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And Who Blew It?
| While John John basked in the limelight all through the event Olamana flew stealth in a quiet campaign that got him all the way to the finals. With the pressure all on John John he could have snatched the title from his fellow Hawaiians firm clutches if he just paid more attention to the judging criteria. John John was rewarded for variety all through the event as he was again in the final, but Olamana just didn’t mix it up enough to get the scores he needed. |
| It must be tough being the king, but hey he wins far more than he loses, except that wasn’t the case last week. Not even making the quarters Slater’s uncharacteristic early exit from the event opened things up for John John. It is going to be fascinating to see what happens at the Bells event which is just around the corner. |
| Surfing against a rampant Courtney Conologue, Malia was always going to have to bring her A-game to the party to take out the win. Sadly for the young Hawaiian, the plucky approach so prevalent in her early rounds seemed to desert her in the finals and she was left with a pretty serious deficit against Courtney who ultimately schooled her 16.23 to 11.03. |
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A cool muso, a super hot playmate and a crazy Radio DJ all feature in this weeks BMT Rankings. |
| 18/03/2012 |
Who Blew Up
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1.Kai Linder and 2 Oceans Vibe Radio.
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This guy has got to be one of the coolest muso’s currently doing his thing in SA. He sings about the environment, he sings about the sea, he’s a partially landlocked surfer and his music rocks! If you haven’t heard him yet go check him out at www.rolandalbertson.com/. You can download all his music for free off his site. If you like it tell your friends and tell them to tell their friends...
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And Who Blew It?
| The pictures of these guys doing the rounds on facebook were nauseating. They were not actually breaking the law because it is legal to hunt in Southern Africa and yes hunting contributes gazillions of ZAR’s to our economy and to those of our immediate neighbours blah, blah, but this image is in the worst possible taste. A wealthy, young, Seppo brat hugging a beautiful adult leopard he’s just shot for a f@#$king photograph. In 2012? Words fail on this one and some deep yoga breathing is required to lower the blood pressure. |
2. Everyone who couldn’t make it to the St Paddy’s day party at The Coffee Shack.
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| There are parties that combust spontaneously and then there are full on vortexes that suck you into the Parallel Universe and spit you out dazed and confused with a good feeling all over your body the next day. The St Paddy’s day celebration was one such event. You can bet on the lineup there being empty for the next three days as people slowly recover. |
3. The surfers who swallowed sea water along Durban’s Golden Mile.
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| With an overloaded and antiquated sewerage system still trying to function along Durban’s Golden Mile it is not uncommon for Durban Surfers to be effected by ear, throat and sinus infections. This weekend the rain inland brought the Umgeni river down in flood to add to the bacterial cocktail that surfers have to brave to get barrelled. Unfortunately the surf was cooking too which only meant more peeps were subjected to it. If you are feeling dodgy get yourself checked out asap! |
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International victory, the most laid back man in the universe, a hard charging bikini model and some serious smack downs... |
| 11/03/2012 |
Who Blew Up
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1.Bianca Buitendag.
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The lanky Southern Cape ripper took out a star studded cast of the top JNR surfers in the world last week to ultimately emerge victorious at the Chiko Pro JNR Girls event which is part of the Newcastle Surfest which runs from the 7th to the 18th of March in NSW, Australia. This will be a great confidence boost for the talented goofy footer. An honourable mention must also go to Beyrick de Vries who bowed out in the semis after a blistering campaign through the event.
| The last couple of years Chad has stepped up his performance in the juice quite a bit. His extended stints in Hawaii have no doubt contributed to his confidence in waves of consequence. Last week he brought his A game to some seriously heaving pits between the piers and quietly went about making a statement. Check the lip on this beast? |
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If you walked past Emma on the beach you might be forgiven thinking she’s a bikini model, but what most people don’t realise about the softly spoken and friendly Emma is that she charges like a wild thing. Raised in Ponta she surfs the point no matter how big it gets. Visiting surfers are often gobsmacked by the pretty teenager’s approach to riding waves, as was the case this last weekend. She was sitting way out the back at second point pleasantly chatting to (and distracting most of the male visitors) when the biggest wave of the day reared up. She was so deep and the wave was so big and hollow that most of the visiting surfers didn’t even consider that she’d look at the wave let alone try and catch it. Her brother, Chris and friend Travis, know better as they surf with her all the time. Two or three guys had to pull back hastily to avoid going over the falls on top of her when they realised that she had indeed committed to the wave and was riding it like a crazy thing. After the wave she paddled back out chatting like it was no big deal, but her performance had installed instantly some real respect and appreciation that just because you are a pretty girl wearing a bikini doesn’t mean you can’t charge.
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| If there was a ‘most laid back’ man in the world competition Spiggles would would win by a country mile, leaving Bob Marley and Frankie Oberholzer far behind in the dust. Spiggles just flows with the universe. For the last 20 years or so he has crafted a life for himself in keeping to the rhythm of the tides. He is never far from a cold beer or a hot woman and he is in or on the ocean daily. Spiggles has decided that Ponta ‘Do Ouro is about the right pace lifestyle to match his disposition and he has been a fixture on the beach there (and in most of the bars) for as long as anyone can remember. Last weekend nursing a UPI (Unexplained Party Injury) Spiggles cruised out on a SUP to visit the boys and girls surfing on the point. After half an hour of throwing down comments from the peanut gallery Spiggles just couldn’t resist the temptation to catch a wide one himself. He says his paddle clipped the ankle of a young lass as he surfed past her, but more likely he was just distracted by the sight of her skimpy bikini. He lost his balance and leashless the SUP careened towards the rocks and certain disaster. Amazingly despite the spring low tide and the razor sharp rocks off the point the heavy SUP somehow washed up onto the ledge undamaged and was recovered by some pretty female spectators before it could come to harm. Then to prove that he is indeed in tune with the universe Spiggles got washed over those same razor sharp rocks without suffering so much as a scratch. He retrieved his SUP from the admiring maidens and promptly headed back out to sea. The second time he wasn’t quite as lucky though.... When he fell of his board it was washed towards the rocks and this time was trapped in a small cave below the ledge for several minutes while the waves pounded it mercilessly, rendering the expensive craft basically useless. Oops that’s nature for you, just when you think you’ve got her all figured out she’ll reach out and give you a klap. |
| Lula is the local Mozambican who has the misfortune of owning the eatery right next to Fernando’s Bar in Ponta. Misfortune? Yes, because most people who leave Fernando’s can’t even remember their own names let alone order food in a coherent way. Last weekend a contingent of hooligans descended on Lula’s to try and satisfy their ravenous hungers and stave off some of the effects of Fernando’s legendary R&R’s. Lula makes quite possibly the biggest hamburger in the universe, but like all good things in Mozambique these things take time... And lots of it. Unfortunately for Lula the 20 hamburger order nearly sank his staff who at times fulfilling the order had to head next door to Fernando’s to keep their courage up and stay focussed on the task. By the time the order was completed (2 hrs later) everybody (including Lula) could barely speak either Portuguese or English they were so well oiled. Yes the dawnie was fairly uncrowded the next day. |
| After working up the courage to paddle out last Monday, John shoulder-hopped a couple of peaks before emerging unscathed and satisfied that he’d at least ‘been out there for a while’ and ‘got a few’. The following morning the swell had dropped a bit. Emboldened by his exploits the day before John paddled for a medium sized wave to open his account. For reasons still unclear to him (and most people watching) he didn’t even get to his feet on what would surely have been an epic barrel. Instead he went face first into the trough, was sucked over the falls and pile-driven face first into the shallow sandbank, nearly knocking himself out in the process. Dazed and confused he was washed down to North Beach before being unceremonially washed in. He spent the rest of the day icing his shoulder and head and popping pain killers while everyone else on the Durban beachfront got barrelled of their heads. |
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A Sunset session from heaven, Taj pulls a Peter Pan on The Goldy and Steph is back in form. |
| 04/03/2012 |
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