Paraplegic Pascale Honore made headlines surfing while strapped to Ty Swan…
You would’ve been caught up in the viral fingers of the Duct Tape Surfing a couple of years back. How could you not? It plucked heart strings like nothing else! Cute surfer delivers the thrill of the ocean back to a middle-aged woman who’d busted her spine in a car accident.
The surfer was South Australian Ty Swan (boo of BeachGrit favourite Brinkley Davies) and the woman was his pal’s French-born mom, Pascale. Ty figured, “I wonder if you can surf on the same board? I could duct tape you to my back and surf, I don’t see why not.”
Pascale said, “It’s shown me you can still have a dream and things are possible… I remember looking up, the colour, the sound, being part of everything, being part of the water.”
Pascale, who was 52, died over the weekend of complications following surgery.
“Ty and I have been in a lot of places in the last few months and we have met so many people who know of Pascale and are amazed and speak of her as an inspirational and a beautiful soul,” said Brinkley this morning. “We had a free-dive for you today and then listened to live music on the beach here thinking of you and could imagine you sitting there with us, Coyote, Morgs, Tom and the whole west coast crew… I’ll forever take you with me in my mind wherever we end up on this planet.”
Duct Tape Surfing from Mark Tipple on Vimeo.
And through all the internet bullshit of 0’s heats, whose got the shittest stance, why kids all wear day-glo wetsuits and whether Bells should exist, something that was actually inspiring slips away.
Back to the usual same old shit then I guess.
God damnit.
🙁