Who blew up?
1. Pierre de Villiers.
We’re not sure exactly how old Pierre is, but we’d be guessing that he’s around 50. On Friday we paddled out at The Crayfish Factory. A couple of the heavyweight big wave crew were out, Simon, Barry and Pierre leading the charge. For two Durbanites who haven’t seen a wave of consequence since we last surfed the Factory about 2 moths ago it was a rude reminder of the power and energy on those Cape Reefs. While we were busy dodging the BOMBs those guys were taking off late and making it look easy. On that day though Pierre was the standout. He was always in the slot and absolutely charging! Taking off deep and late with absolute commitment. It was an awesome display of surfing acumen and seriously inspiring to watch. Respect.
2. Stefan de Clerk
Good things happen because of good people. Stefan is one of these people. He is a BOMBsurf fan who happens to work for Universal Music and was the man behind the free Jack Johnson screenings that we enjoyed last week. Stefan didn’t have to do this, but he made a plan and in the process hooked us all up. The cool thing was that everyone who went to the screenings left feeling a bit of the love that Jack Johnson is so good at spreading. Hopefully those of you at the screenings took that good vibe and in turn passed it on. Thanks Stefan, you are a legend!
3. Hanli Prinsloo and Simon Lowe
As the Cape Town big wave crew breathhold training reached the end of it’s 8 week course the boys have been doing some gnarly times underwater as they explore the limits of what they are capable of. Last week though one of the boys took it a bit far when he he blacked out having swum around 75m underwater. Luckily for him his training mate Simon Lowe and coach Hanli were on hand and quickly rescued him before he sank to the bottom and drowned. Shew, nice one guys and a serious reminder that breathold training should always be done under the watchful eye of someone who can help you if you black out.
And who blew it?
3. Alana Beales
Alana was in Cape Town last week for the launch of the Rip Curl H-BOMB wetsuit. Alana is the marketing guru at Rip Curl. Based in Durban Alana likes to wake up early and surf before work most days. This early to rise routine also means early to bed. We warned Alana that the Capetonians don’t think much of this kind of behaviour and that for them the party only gets started way after midnight. Alana assured us that she was up for it and in fact challenged theBOMBsurf crew to a late night rum drinking session. After the H-BOMB launch we hit the town (as we do when we’re in CT) and pretty soon the daggy dancing and rum fuelled shenanigans followed (as they do in CT), there was only one person missing at the jol. Alana. After her big talk the early rising Durbanite couldn’t keep her eyes open and ended up crashing early at her B&B. Eish Alana, I think a forfeit is due...
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2. All those who missed the Jack Johnson screening.
Snooze you lose was the lesson last week with getting tickets to the Jack Johnson screenings. It was a really cool evening with the crew treated to the behind the scenes of Jack and the band on tour in Europe. The next screening that gets organised we suggest you keep your finger on the trigger to avoid disappointment!
1. John McCarthy
After a crazy 10 days chasing swells from Mozambique to the Transkei and then down to Cape Town where we got to jump off some gnarly ledges to get out and got washed over some serious muscles and barnacles to get back in I had no wounds on my feet. I couldn’t believe it, I was so stoked, no reef cuts at all. For the spots we’d been surfing that was amazing. Back in town for a few days I went for a surf at North Beach. As I jogged past the Wimpy a hot chick cruised past on rollerblades. I turned to admire her fine rollerblading form and in so doing fell off the steps and fully trashed my toes in the worst toe stubbing I can remember. I fully smashed the nail on my one toe, lacerated my little toe, so it felt like it was gonna fall off and gashed a huge hole in the underside of my foot for good measure. I know there is a moral in this story somewhere, but right now I’m facing the prospect of the longest spell out of the water I can remember while I give all these wounds time to heal.
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