By all accounts the excitement around ‘The Africa Project’ was not just vacuous bullshit, the film delivered – big time! The 400 strong audience who attended the premiere were not disappointed by Jason Hearn’s latest offering. An epic travelogue with amazing imagery, incredible surfing and a superb local soundtrack make for one incredibly exciting surf film. More reminiscent of surf movies of old the audience was stooooked and hooted and hollered their way through the pretty long (for a surf movie) film. If you didn’t get to see it, this is definitely something you want in your Christmas stocking!
2. Michael Grendon.
Resembling someone more closely wanted by the nursing staff at Falkenberg Michael took to the frigid Atlantic waters armed with only his speedo, longboard, ladder and beautiful Movember tach. If you’d been surfing in the Atlantic in only a speedo you’d have also wanted a ladder to get as far away from the water as you could – it was that cold. That said Michael took out the honours in one of the divisions, landed himself on the front page of the Cape Times and took home a new Xcel wetsuit in the process. Niiiice!
3. Roddy Torr
There are a lot of wacky laid back individuals who choose to call Kommetjie home and that is why Kommetjie is, well, like it is, laid back and wacky... Rather than fight the stream, local surfshop owner Roddy Rorr went with the flow and organised a fun surf festival where it was all about been wacky and having fun. Little did he realise what a huge success the event would be and how many peeps would rock up and go off.
Nice one Roddy! If you are ever in Kommetjie go check out Roddy’s shop known fondly as you guessed it The Kommetjie Surf Shop. That place is so cool it should be declared a national heritage site. After you’ve bought something there go next door to ‘The Green Room’ and order a Green Room Burger – you’ll be so glad you did!
And Who Blew It?
1. Neil Zietsman.
You know how the day slips away from you and suddenly there is only a half an hour of light left and you still haven’t had the surf you’ve been promising yourself all day..? Well last week that happened to Neil.He finally reached the beach with his froth is overdrive moments before sunset. He was so amped to get out there and was checking out the sets that he did what no respectful surfer would ever admit to (even if we’ve all done it at least once). He put his suit on back to front in his haste to get into the water. Realising that the chest zip had now become a yogi back zip full flex and his knee pads were busy massaging the back of his legs he decided to bravely soldier on rather than turn back and sacrifice yet more precious minutes of daylight. So the normally very suave Mr Zietsman was rocking some seriously backwards fashion last week and apparently ran home backwards afterwards to complete the picture.
2. Jason Hearn.
If Jason had 400 copies of his film available for sale on Friday he would have surely sold out! Eish now you are just gonna have to rash him on Facebook if you want to try get a copy.
3. The ANC.
Pushing through the State Information Bill last week was so typically banana republic of the ANC, also it means we’re condemned to wearing black on Tuesdays for the foreseeable future. This is ok for Kommetjie locals in their Wetsuits (Michael Grendon excluded) but seriously sucks for the rest of us. Not to mention that a tiny thing called “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” is at stake here...eish ou’s common, seriously how much more gravy do you think there is in this train?
Sorry no.No comoassipn for anybody who actively sold their possessions in preparation for Camping's rapture.These people WANTED to be fooled. They weren't coerced. Camping is not all that convincing. He was WRONG ABOUT THIS BEFORE! Those people are morons. We don;t need to help morons continue to be morons. They sold their stuff and quit their jobs. Good for the economy!
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