How the hell?
You can’t put fight in a man’s guts if there’s no fight in him. You got it or you don’t.
In this two-minute short we see the Basque surfer Aitor “Gallo” Francesena, whose eyeballs got wiped three years ago from one of those genetic disease you hear about and pray to god never happens to you, surfing the Wavegarden in Spain.
Gallo starts slow, someone has to paddle him into a wave, but soon, human intervention is gone and he’s working the waves like a billy goat, surfing with passion and a timing that suggests it was imprinted on his brain; a habit that never deserts a man.
If you’re a sentimental kinda guy or gal, you’ll lose control of the tear ducts.
“If you could open up my head thousands of love hearts would fly away,” says Gallo.
2015 Video Test Series Nº 3: Blind Surfer Rides Wavegarden from wavegarden on Vimeo.
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“whose eyeballs got wiped three years ago from one of those genetic disease you hear about and pray to god never happens to you”
He lost one eye due to a disease
He then had a gnarly freak surf accident that left him blind
Yes!! Rather watch that guy grinning his arse off just trimming than Ando looking glum while getting shacked off his brain.
Without sarcasm … he was awesome.
That’s pretty sick. I think we all forget from time to time why we surf – simple answer is that it’s just so fucking fun.
WCT/WQS coach that is blind, and surfs…….. righto that will do me for today
So the reason Aritz surfs like he does is because his trainer is blind?
So cruel, but clever!
I have always struggled to detect sarcasm in written text.
…even if I had the mythical sarcasm font, none would be apparent. I found your remark caustic and very witty.
clever? not insulting ant party but how is that not the first thing that popped into anyones head when they heard he was aritz trainer