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1. Chad Du Toit.
Totally ignored by the Australian media, Chad has been quietly ripping it up at The Hurley Burleigh Pro down under. With his progressive and radical surfing Chad has quietly emerged as the dark horse in this event. He’s through to the round of 16 and if he keeps surfing like he has all we can say is watch out Aussies...
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2. Steven Sawyer.
Surfing in team events has the added pressure of your team expectations on your shoulders when you paddle out. Last week Steve Sawyer shone brightly for Team SA at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Champs in New Zealand. He handled the pressure winning his R2 heat to become the sole SA team member remaining in the qualifying stream of the U16 boys division. Nice work keep it up!
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3. The Derevko North Shore Neon 80’s Party.
When CT’s pretty people come out to play it’s always gonna be big. Masterminded by ex-DJ turned wetsuit entrepreneur Donovan Marais from Derevko, pulled out all the stops to ensure that everyone had a really good time. With the boys getting jiggy and the girls even more so the tequila flowed, there were masses of give aways and the tunes pumped well into the early hours. One exhausted and hung-over pro surfer was overheard the next day saying “what a fo$$$$king jol ekse!”
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| And who blew it? |
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1. John McCarthy.
Note to self, Alaia’s don’t work in grinding 6ft Dunes! I learned this the hard way last week after running down the Dunes with only my plank under my arm. I arrived to a scene best described as a barrel orgy. Calmly shooting from the beach Simone Robb observed “you are gonna get klapped out there on that plank...there is a lot of water moving around out there and there are some heavy sets coming in out the back.” Frothing and without an alternative I paddled out watching ou’s getting shacked all around me. When I finally made it out to the back I spent an hour and a half chasing peaks, getting caught inside and getting smashed and when the dust settled all I had to show for my efforts were three very average wipe-outs and not one tube ride!
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2 John McCarthy.
Crashing a borrowed car has got to rank as one of those all time favourite who blew it kind of acts! As usual we were late for the airport trying to get a flight back to DBN on Friday arvo. Rush hour in CT starts at 3pm on a Friday which was around about the time we needed to leave for the airport. Crammed into Iain’s brother’s wife’s car we were weaving spectacularly through the Friday until I managed to wrap our borrowed car’s bumper around the driver’s door of some unfortunate girl on her way to the beach. Mellow thoughts of the weekend evaporated into nothingness and were replaced instead with stern terms like ‘excess, no claims bonus, liability, and police’.
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3. Jason Ribbink.
On a whistle stop tour of California while on business lately Jason went to the huge mission of lugging along from home a specially shaped board for one of his team riders. Dooma has been charging hard in Hawaii and along the California coastline this winter. Gradually bit by bit he has used up all his special Elton Fursman hand shaped Bilt’s and has had to settle for what he could get from the local shapers. The prospect of Jason bringing this board for him had him absolutely frothing. When he finally unwrapped the package he discovered to his dismay that the wrong board had been wrapped and packed and in fact he was now the proud owner of a a 5’10 for some kid he’d never heard of... Well at least it’s waiting for him when he gets home |
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