Here's ironic. Never-realeased documentary on
surfers/drug running has been stolen, pirated…
Sea of Darkness, Michael Oblowitz’s documentary on the
70’s Indo surfer/smuggler scene, its release long delayed
due to difficulty securing distribution, has finally leaked
online.
Its appearance on public torrent trackers this past weekend came
as a surprise to those of us who occasionally remember to search
for it.
Rumor long held that various copies existed outside Oblowitz’s
control, yet in an age where everything is available online if you
only know where to look, its absence from the online piracy scene
led many to believe such speculation was unfounded.
A surprising response from the person who originally uploaded
the documentary confirmed the existence of said bootleg DVDs,
stating that the copy uploaded had been passed along to them during
a trip to Bali.
A surprising response from the person who originally uploaded
the documentary confirmed the existence of said bootleg DVDs,
stating that the copy uploaded had been passed along to them during
a trip to Bali.
In a far more salacious bit of online leakage, full-frontal
nudes of Justin Bieber have also found their way onto my hard
drive. It seems the little pink pucker nugget was snapped
cavorting with his trimmed and slightly tumescent mangina swinging
in the breeze during a recent trip to Bora Bora.
I won’t be linking to Sea of Darkness, that’d be a real prick
move, but if you’d like to see what the Biebs’s dong looks like,
you can check it out HERE
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"This might've been the biggest air I've ever done,"
says Gabriel Medina. Ten? Yeah, it was. | Photo: WSL
Lazarus: Gabriel Medina, Quiksilver Pro,
France!
By Derek Rielly
World champ’s elaborate pageantry; title contenders
rise to surface…
Far from being dead, and as predicted on these
pages, Gabriel Medina has become a modern Lazarus of Bethany.
Want to see what Gabriel can throw into the wind when he feels
the judges want elaborate pageantry and not six window-wiper
re-entries at three-foot Hossegor? A backside roter so complete
even his competitor Owen Wright was compelled to applaud?
Let’s examine.
Now let’s pause amid the drama and ask Gabriel to describe?
“I felt really high! This might have been the biggest air I’ve ever
done, ” he says.
Julian Wilson cried out for attention, aware that the law of the
jungle is all that applies in competition. Kolohe Andino, Jadson
Andre, mauled.
Defending Quiksilver Pro France champ Pro John John swung into
the quarter finals with this.
And Mick Fanning? Of course he’s there.
QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE QUARTERFINAL
MATCH-UPS:
QF 1: Julian Wilson (AUS) vs. Italo Ferreira (BRA)
QF 2: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Bede Durbidge (AUS)
QF 3: Adriano De Souza (BRA) vs. Owen Wright (AUS)
QF 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA) vs. John John Florence (HAW)
QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE ROUND 5 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Italo Ferreira (BRA) 16.23 def. Jadson Andre (BRA)
15.07
Heat 2: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 18.30 def. Kolohe Andino (USA)
10.20
Heat 3: Owen Wright (AUS) 18.50 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 16.17
Heat 4: John John Florence (HAW) 16.80 def. Matt Wilkinson (AUS)
14.87
QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE ROUND 4 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Julian Wilson (AUS) 17.37, Jadson Andre (BRA) 12.93, Kolohe
Andino (USA) 10.47
Heat 2: Mick Fanning (AUS) 16.67, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 15.43, Italo
Ferreira (BRA) 13.73
Heat 3: Adriano De Souza (BRA) 18.50, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 14.00,
John John Florence (HAW) 13.37
Heat 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 19.83, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 16.00,
Owen Wright (AUS) 15.56
On paper, there is no way Kelly Slater can beat Kolohe
Andino in three-foot, one-hit righthanders. Kelly knows
it, he’s been there before. He saw his mortality in the crisp
autumn lineups of France and Portugal two years when he was stomped
in consecutive events, in similar conditions, by Filipe Toledo
(France) and a week later by the wildcard Frederico Morais
(currently 54th on the WQS).
It’s why he wasn’t coming to Europe. The forecast for eight-foot
barrels got him as far as France.
“Kelly’s airs are nineties style,” said the commentator Ross
Williams in explanation.
And, therefore, in the three-foot, offshore retarded and
therefore slowish waves, Kelly had zero chance of winning, not even
if he’d squeezed the sex and balls of the head judge and allowed
him to spurt sperm on his breasts in a sentimental wank the night
before.
But, ah, the mystical ecstasy of Kelly Slater!
Kolohe greets the heat with a straight air, much float time,
eight point five.
Kelly finds a tube, as he tends to do, but a (generous) seven
points is, clearly, as good as it’s going to get.
Kolohe snatches another score via an air reverse, landing
greased.
In response, Kelly moves a couple of hundred metres down the
beach, among a gang of kids surfing, to a crummy, backwash-ridden
right. And it freaks Kolohe out. Priority is useless.
Kolohe bangs the water, he raises his hands, he makes shapes in
the air.
The waves Kelly gets are sub-standard, but he’s inside Kolohe’s
head and it’s so…mystical!
Eventually, physics prevail, and Kolohe wins. Afterwards, he
fumes: “I asked 10 different people if we could surf the other
right. They told me I couldn’t.”
Kelly, who is abnormally sensitive to losing, even when it’s
obvious it has to happen, explains his loss with, “I got hurt
ribs.”
Watch Kelly Slater nearly construct artificial win out of heat
with Kolohe Andino here.
Italo Ferreira was anything but psycho-rigid! Unpredictable! “I
thanked God for that last right!” said the good Catholic.
Bede v Ace, nines everywhere. Tenacious fascination!
John John Florence gives more ecstasy than an versatile
artificial vagina with radiometric sensor that allows the
prediction of ejaculation and the consequent modification of
stimulation!
Dane was the most beautiful thing in the contest, but
he… lost! Slapped on the head by Owen Wright.
Oh, Mick! His nerves are immobile. Fifteen seconds left and he
rides the wave of the heat, a nine, and slings past the French
wildcard Max Huscenot.
Watch six hours of surfing compressed into one minute!
QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE ROUND 4 MATCH-UPS:
Heat 1: Julian Wilson (AUS), Jadson Andre (BRA), Kolohe Andino
(USA)
The much-loved, if racist, surf website makes
poetry!
The Inertia, surf website for the emotionally
intuitive, enjoys flowery prose as much as any
twelve-year-old girl. Adjectives dance with adjectives dance with
even more adjectives in every post. Surfing’s “definitive online
community” has feelings! It has…feelings!
But they outdid even themselves with a recent piece titled
New York Surfers Live for These Moments. Maybe if you
watch TV, you think New York is a tough place where people bark at
each other in brassy accents. Maybe you think New Yorkers get
straight to the point. But apparently New Yorkers have feelings too
and don’t get straight to the point at all.
I present you the first paragraph:
All summer New York surfers daydream of hurricane season,
lust over barreling waves, ocean size, the possibilities of a
perfect storm. Surfline is our addiction, hope and despair.
This time around we got it all. New Yorkers played hard. No jokes,
no foamies. Spikes, walls, free falls, tubes, sweeping currents,
dark and stormy horizons. The line up cleared, with only the brave
and experienced…
And the last:
On the beach everything is raw, uncontrolled, and
spontaneous. The light changes constantly and every wave is
different. The surfer is my art form, and the ride is their
expression. Photographs are creative conversations. When all the
variables line up, we share a perfect fleeting moment. The beauty
in the madness. Being out there in the elements, capturing the
raw beauty of nature and the surfer’s moment on water is my
creative fuel and salty intoxication. Giving back these moments to
the surfer and documenting a piece of New York surf history is
precious.
"Was driving by as it happened," writes @jdbaluch.
"Complete amputation above the left knee. We got the TQ on and he's
still awake. Be careful boys."
Graphic: North Shore Shark Attack!
By Derek Rielly
Surfer hit by a shark at Leftovers. Above the knee
amputation. Critical condition, obvs…
The quarter-mile stretch between Leftovers and
Marijuanas ain’t what you go to the North Shore for.
Fun, sure, but, mostly, you’re there because you don’t wanna
deal with the mind-fuck of the Rocky Point to Off the
Wall crowd.
I’ve always found the area a little creepy, sharky as hell,
big Tigers chasing big turtles. Four attacks in the last 10 years
doesn’t really aid my peace of mind.
…Leftovers is a crummy wave just down from Waimea
Bay.
A few hours ago, 25-year-old surfer Colin Cook was hit by a
shark, I’d guess a Tiger cause what else is there, at Leftovers,
and was rushed by paramedics to hospital where he remains in a
critical condition.
According to Hawaii News Now,
“First responders said the attack happened about 10:30
a.m. in waters off Leftovers Beach Park, at 61-385
Kamehameha Highway.
“One witness told Hawaii News Now that the man was a surfer, and
he was apparently sitting on his surfboard with his legs dangling
in the water when he was attacked. The witness said bystanders used
a surfboard leash as a tourniquet to control the bleeding. The
victim appeared to have lost his leg to above the knee, the
witnesses said.
“The man also apparently suffered injuries to his hand after
attempting to swat the shark away.
“Officials are patrolling North Shore beaches near the scene of
the attack, and advising people to stay out of the water.
“From January to September, there were four shark attacks in
Hawaii: two on Maui and two on the Big Island.
“”In the most recent incident, a 27-year-old Kohala man suffered
severe leg injuries when a 13-foot tiger shark bit him.
“The other incidents were:
On April 29, a 65-year-old woman was killed
while snorkeling off Maui’s Ahihi Bay. The woman was in 20- to
35-foot-deep waters, and was about 200 yards offshore.
On March 18, a 60-year-old man suffered cuts to his forearm,
left arm and thigh while standing in 4-foot-deep water off Hapuna
Beach on the Big Island. Authorities said the man was bit by a 8-
to 10-foot-long tiger shark.
On Jan. 27, a 20-year-old Maui man was bit by a shark he
had caught while fishing in Lahaina.
Meanwhile, three LA beaches have been closed after a shark
charged a surfer.
