As Kelly Slater wins an unprecedented 11th world surfing title at the Rip Curl Search event in San Francisco, hope for all middle aged, balding men surely has to augment.
Category Archives: surfing
Retro skate freak
August 26, 2011 – 10:13 am
Kilian Martin is an out and out freak of nature. I mean that in a good way of course. His mother must be very proud… His beautiful skills are finely displayed here by Brett Novak’s consumate film making abilities. A fine combination. Rather like a freshly seared steak of yellowfin tuna with a delicate spattering [...]
Size doesn’t matter…
July 6, 2011 – 5:58 pm
‘Size doesn’t matter!’… a puzzling phrase that my father used to mutter to himself a lot whilst rummaging in his man-shed. Very true of course in many respects…
Sunburnt and surfed out
April 25, 2011 – 11:25 am
It could be said that ‘sunburnt and surfed out’ is the perfect state of being. In an ideal world that would mean you’ve spent half the day getting rockrush over a Bali reef, hooking into headhigh screamers and the only shade you could find is a coral blue crystal curtain feathering over your sunkissed brow…
Andy Irons I surf because…
November 3, 2010 – 10:11 am
I was inexplicably moved by the death of Andy Irons yesterday. Not so much by the actual event (I’ve never actually met him) but by the tragic irony of his return to form and final happiness after years of self torment. This was compounded by a wave of compassion and condolence that spread across the [...]
A moment of contemplation…
October 15, 2010 – 2:06 pm
As I lie under the gearbox of my 7.5 tonne truck the rhythmic tick-tocking
A moment of solitude…
September 3, 2010 – 3:01 pm
According to the International World Games Association (a well known and authoritative body in all matters of Global gameyness)