The surfing community rally, a surgical strike pays off, a mysto virus and some amazing craftsmanship.
25/02/2013
Who Blew Up?
The surfing community who have rallied around the Nicholson's. It is truly incredible to see how the global surfing community has rallied around Jessica Nicholson, the wife of stylish Durban Surfer Simon Nicholson. Jess was recently diagnosed with brain cancer and has had to undergo serious surgery and ongoing treatments. The result has been an incredibly generous outpouring of support for the Durban based family as they gear up to fight this terrible disease. Surfboards from Mick Fanning, Parko, Jordy and Travis have all been offered for auction to help raise money for the spiralling medical costs. You can help to if you feel you’d like to. If you are in Durban there is a fundraising party on Thursday night upstairs at Spiga. Wok and the boys will be going big, so bring your dancing shoes or you can help fund Jess via their funding page http://www.gofundme.com/23g1nw.
Sam Edwards-Working off a reliable tip-off Sam boldly dropped what he was doing in the real world and headed off on a surgical strike into a neighbouring country looking for waves... and boy did he find them. In 2 days he clocked so much water time he couldn’t move his shoulders and his tongue was so swollen in his mouth that even copious amounts of the local brew did little to slack his thirst. His reward was more wave time than most people have in a month and some beautiful time in the green room to boot. With the surf pumping he didn’t hold back and the price he paid was a snapped longboard courtesy of a grinding keg of a barrel swallowing him whole. You should have seen the smile on the face of the stoked local he gave the pieces to though and besides a snapped board for Sam means another order for Hugh Thompson. Sam is proof that you can be a responsible hard working businessman and still surf when there is surf.
David Constance and the WAWA crew- When it comes to making handplanes David Constance is in a league of his own. Each of his custom creations is both a highly evolved, functional piece of design and an incredible work of art. His attention to detail and his skill working with wood must make him one of (if not the best) hand plane shapers in the world. The amazing thing is that he lives right here in SA. If you have ever thought about owning a handplane you might want to check out one of his creations. You can find out more at his website http://www.wawawave.com.
Who Blew It?
Durban surfers who haven’t taken advantage of the crazy run of recent swell. If you are one of those guys who just hasn’t got it together to get down to the beach and go for a surf in the last 2 weeks, sorry for you! It hasn’t been big, but it has been so much fun. The waves have literally poured in for the lucky and the committed. You know the first rule of surfing. Surf when there is surf! If you missed this you blew it.
Spiggles - Spiggles is a well know and colourful character who lives North of the border. He has chosen to live there so he can take advantage of the ridiculously long peeling waves in tropical water at this time of the year. Last Friday night Spiggles even sacrificed the jol at a certain well known watering hole in order to save himself for the dawnie, which years of local knowledge told him would be cooking. His local knowledge proved correct it was cooking, but sadly for Spiggles he awoke to fever, cramps and fits of retching brought about by some mysto-tropical virus. For the first time in years he couldn’t actually surf his beloved point on the dawnie. To ad insult to injury it wasn’t self induced and Spiggles had to content himself hiding in the shade, shivering and shaking watching everyone else getting shacked off their heads. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Digger - Digger lives in the chilled out village of Sodwana and recently placed his order for a custom made David Constance designed handgun for those barrelling waves at The Lighthouse which he likes to ride. Getting things to Sodwana is not as simple as one might imagine and after many planes, trains and automobiles involved it looked like a 3rd party could drop off the long awaited handplane on the way past. Anyway his cell phone crashed just as the car delivering his long awaited handplane entered his hood. Thankfully for him the quick thinking deliveryman left it at the local Spaar. The manager of which took one look at it and said “Jissis man, maar that is one hellova strange looking breadboard!”
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The lure of fair Irish maidens, some seriously hard charging and one big beard that is no more!
18/02/2013
Who Blew Up?
Twiggy- Twig bagged himself The Biggest Slab award at the Aussie Big wave awards recently for his mental wave at The Right in Western Australia. Twiggy’s accolades are piling up and he doesn’t look ready to slow down any time soon. Go Twig!
Danilo Couto - It was the lure of more than fair Irish maidens and Black Velvet that drew hard charging Brazilian born Danilo Couto to the Emerald Isle. Danilo bagged himself a Billabong XXL nomination for this really big and heavy left he rode at Mullaghmore. We reckon he earned every inch of it.
Dane Reynolds - Mostly when guys drop off the tour they slowly fizzle out into obscurity. The sheer explosive creativity of Dane Reynold’s surfing ensures that he remains the exception to the rule. He is that good that he continues to influence the rest of the surfing world by the latest drops on his Marine Layer Website. ‘Discharge’ is his latest offering and if it is inspiration you are after to up your own game watch this clip.
Who Blew It? The New Pier Locals - Mostly these guys are amongst the most dedicated wave riders you’ll find anywhere and their daily routines will have them squinting in to the sun as it rises over the Indian Ocean. Last week most of the boys were exhausted after nearly 14 days in a row of waves. Seeing a light onshore the crew took it as a sign from the sea gods to take a rest. The result was they missed the display that Jordy Smith put on when he paddled out at The New Pier with only 2 other guys out. “Mind-blowing”, pretty much sums it up. We hope Jordy takes that repertoire on tour with him this year.
Everyone in CT who missed the rolling retro contest at Llandudno over the weekend, yeah it’s a contest but really just an excuse to have fun while we take a look at the equipment and fashion of the past while chilling out with mates. Beautiful day, beautiful beach, fun waves. If you were not there you missed out!
Josh Redman - Josh Redman’s fashion statement via his facial hair on The North Shore over the last couple of months has made nearly as much impact as his hard charging approach to some seriously heavy waves. That is no longer as Josh has (sadly) cleaned up his act by shaving off the big beard. Lets just hope he he doesn’t loose those hard charging powers in the process.
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Posted by Rian on the 18/02/2013 19:39
No worries bru, they did the same to David's warriors.
(2 Samuel 10 ;4-5) So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.
When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Aloha.
Posted by ann wright on the 23/02/2013 18:27
About time we see that gorgeous face again!
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Turning your back on perfect surf, broken boards and a solid thrashing.
11/02/2013
Who Blew Up?
1. Sarah Baum - Sarah ended up a creditable 5th in The Breaka Burleigh Pro last week on The Gold Coast. The Goofy footer from Toti put on a display of radical surfing and was unlucky to fall short in her quarter final match up against eventual runner up Malia Manuel. Sally Fitz took the top spot.
2. Owen Wright - Owen beat Adam Melling in the finals of the Breaka Burleigh Pro in what will count as a great warm up to the Quik Pro at Snapper in a couple of weeks time. The Talented Gold Coast Goofy Footer last won an event in New York in 2011, where he took out the all time mondo paycheck of US$ 300 000 and beat Kelly Slater in the finals.
3. The J-Bay Boardriders club team - comprising of Dylan Lightfoot, Emma Smith, Dominique Abersalie, Kelvin Zehmke and Shannon Ainslie. After a long drive from half way up the east coast to half way up the west coast the boys from J-Bay trounced their rivals and gained bragging rights in the Inaugural Billabong Interclub event that went down in icy little waves at Yzerfontein on the wes-kus. Nice work guys, safe drive home!
Who Blew It?
1. Casey Grant, Chris Leppan and Beyrick de Vries - After having one of the most memorable sessions ever recorded at a slab up north these three barrel hounds bailed leaving behind 2 more days of cooking waves and some very bewildered locals who now knew what was technically possible at their spot but wanted no part of the wave that these guys had opened up to charging.
2. John McCarthy. After jinxing himself solidly by posting pictures on FB of a blister he gained on his feet while surfing in Mozambique last week he followed a false lead this weekend to go and surf the dawnie down the south coast. He arrived to dirty water lapping along the rocks and sharky conditions. He decided to try and salvage the day by taking his prized Alaia out for a spin. On his way out he slipped off the rocks, stubbed his toe and cracked the nose of his beloved Alaia. Bleeding and with a broken board his session lasted exactly one wave before he retreated back to Durban with his tail between his legs.
3. Brett Burcher. If you think you are having a bad Monday, then watch this video of Aussie charger Brett Burcher getting napalmed at ‘The Right’ and you’ll feel a whole lot better about your current predicament. It is no wonder he got a XXL nomination for best wipeout!
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Posted by alias on the 11/02/2013 10:04
sharky conditions WTF is that????
Posted by gman on the 11/02/2013 10:29
I dont know where he surfed but south coast was super fun all all weekend, i think he surfed town and tripped on the promenade
Posted by mark on the 11/02/2013 10:31
Watch for Owen Wright for the world title this year,he's got a very full repertoire and is surfing like 2011 all over again.
Posted by jared on the 11/02/2013 15:09
karma john....
while us ous work hard, and we see bragging blisters, you know karma is gonna come looking...
hahahha...
Posted by slightly stoopid on the 12/02/2013 12:17
that wipe out is beyond hectic!! 10 /10 for having the pose to body surf it but how the hell did you think it was going to end son?? hectic.
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Some serious charging, both conventional and otherwise and a bunch of non surf related injuries.
03/02/2013
Who Blew Up?
Dale Staples - Dale undertook the near 48 hour journey back to the North Shore of Hawaii to compete in the 5star Volcom Pipe Pro at the Banzai Pipeline. After three days of solid Pipeline surf Dale finished with an equal 9th place to set himself up for a solid year on the QS. A ninth place for one our boys atPipe is a solid result the whole surfing community can be proud of.
Mike Godfrey - Mike is one of the most stoked surfers you’ll ever meet. He froths at the prospect of every swell, is not afraid of towing at sharky river mouths and if there is juicy swell around he’ll be out there paddling into the bombs. He puts groms to shame with the stoke that he radiates and he does all this at the age of 61. It is great to see Mike proving that age is just a number and that if you want to keep charging there is no reason why you shouldn’t do so into your 60’s.
Garrett McNamara - He is brash, he claims himself a lot and he has that seppo vibe that would get most saffa’s backs up, BUT and it is a big but, this guy really does charge! He backs his words up with some pretty extreme actions and for that he earns our respect.
Jamie O’Brien - You have to hand it to Jamie O, he certainly keeps us entertained. His recent board swap antics at seriously heavy Pipe sets a new record for that kind of tom foolery, however it also takes serious skill and a solid set of balls to be trying things like this in waves like that.
Who Blew It?
Chris Vaughan-Jones - On the eve of the first proper cyclone swell, which is about to smash into his home town of Ponta in Southern Mozambique Chris comes short on his bike. 6 stitches later and he has to watch the boys from the beach as line after line of swell flows down the point.
Joe Cools - Monday morning after the typical Sunday evening blow out and surfers arrive to the sight of overflowing dustbins and trash spread all over the North Beach Car Park. If you are going to make so much rubbish, get bigger dustbins!
Spike - theBOMBsurf’s favourite surf forecaster has just had to undergo reconstructive knee surgery which will keep him of a surfboard for about 9 months. How did this happen? A 10ft wave at his beloved 365? A crazy Dunes barrel that went pear shaped? No. It happened playing soccer... Eish. All we can say is that he is going to get really good at bodysurfing this year.
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Posted by Macgwav on the 04/02/2013 09:23
It is so lakka to see so many stoked old bullet groms busting out big time: Mike Godfrey, Dave Fish (he rips), the Paaramans...the list is long.
Go ballies go!
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Posted by Pierre on the 04/02/2013 11:16
Joe Kools only need to order more refuse bins from the muni or report this to the relevant health authority
Posted by Roland on the 04/02/2013 11:30
Joe Cools have to sort there kak out! i've got two pieces of glass in my foot sa a result!
Posted by slightly stoopid on the 04/02/2013 12:08
yeah Dale Staples, good to see the hunger and commitment reaping rewards. Now if Jordy could just ignite some of that Umbilo DNA of his, get pissed off and claim what is rightfully his, then all would be right with the world.
