Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic Day Two: “Italo Ferreira stopped Mick Fanning stone dead; it was like watching the last Dinosaur suffocating in a mud bog somewhere!”
Wildcard Mick out, Italo continues to flame, John John Florence shaky.
Third scandal rocks two-time world surfing champion Gabriel Medina as sister-in-law and wife combine in apparent feud with his mammy Simone, “I hope you reflect all the evil you are doing… Time will never come back and the trust will not be the same”
"Love is to bring you peace and happiness and not a war"
Open thread: comment live day two Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic!
With shark cameos!
World’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater rips gloves off, goes toe to toe with muralist on satirical Instagram account: “Did I sleep with your girl back in the day or something? You’ve got yourself hung up over money. No wonder with that art of yours!”
From 0 - 100 in 3 seconds.
In unhinged screed, 3x World Champion Mick Fanning lays waste to Western Australia’s pride and joy: “To be honest, I actually hate the main break at Margaret River. I don’t think I’ll ever paddle out there again in my life!”
The big no-no.
Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic, Day One: “There’s now a real gap opening up on Tour, maybe the biggest ever; with Italo, Gabe and Filipe/JJF on one side and everyone else on the other!”
Australia's answer to the Brazilian Storm, Jack Robinson, is in the extremely weird position as an anti-Filipe:“I have to prove myself in little waves all the time,” he said in the post-heat presser with a certain grim irony.
BeachGrit habitué Offrocker aka Sean Mitchell, dead at thirty-six: “The world will go on, with or without me. Everywhere else I go, I’m surrounded by crying relatives, well-meaning do gooders who ‘have just heard the news, I’m so so sorry.’”
Come celebrate the short beautiful life of a gifted writer…
OPEN THREAD: COMMENT LIVE ON DAY ONE OF THE RIP CURL NARRABEEN CLASSIC PRESENTED BY CORONA!
It's opening day at Narrabeen, come and dirty your hands…
Warning: Australian man lands in emergency room with ruptured bowel after surfing near “brown sludge” in Port Fairy!
EPA on the case.
Tom Curren, Mason Ho and pretty blonde T-Girl combine homemade jams and action in “This is the death of western civilisation!”
"You can almost assume what you think you know about him,” Mason says of Tom Curren, “but don’t even think you know.”
Listen: Where do Gabriel Medina and Neymar Jr. rank on all-time list of sporting power couples? Both reaching peak potency, thanks to each other, in the same year?
History in the works.
Watch: Popular Oahu beach closed as fifteen-foot Tiger Sharks indulge in lewd bacchanal, feast on dead Humpback Whale carcass just off shore!
Life's a beach.
