Wade who? Who cares! He rides for Piping Hot!
Do you remember the classic Australian surf brand Piping Hot? How could you not! So color! Such 80s!
Well, they are back and piping hotter than ever thanks to Wade Carmichael, the Australian who comes from the same town, I think, as Ace Buchan. He is your 2015 Haleiwa Pro winner and might maybe qualify for the World Surf League main event next year if he does well at Sunset. Let’s read the press release!
Australian Dark Horse Wade Carmichael powered from Round 1 to claim a win at the Hawaiian Pro, and in so doing catapulted from 59th to 13th on the World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) ratings. This is clearly the biggest result of his career. Carmichael is now in a strong position to qualify for the 2016 WSL Samsung Galaxy Championship Tour and will be looking for a strong finish at next week’s Vans World Cup– the second leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. By virtue of today’s win, he is the early leader for the Vans Triple Crown title.
Employing brute force and classic power maneuvers, Carmichael, 23, was hard to match in the glassy, head-high waves on offer. The flamboyant aerials of Filipe Toledo (BRA) fell short of reigning in Wade on his determined path to the podium, leaving the Brazilian in runner-up place. Ezekiel Lau (HAW) was third, and the defending Hawaiian Pro champion Dusty Payne (HAW) was fourth.
Carmichael’s performance during this event closely mirrored Payne’s triumph last year – both athletes were ranked low on the QS series and used the win at Haleiwa to propel them toward the top, and in Payne’s instance, a spot on the Tour. It’s the kind of exciting turn of events that the Vans Triple Crown is most famous for.
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By the way, what happened to Reef’s title sponsorship of the Hawaiian Pro? But, really, don’t you love Hawaii for this? It launches heretofore unknowns into the spotishlight. Hope reigns supreme! I think I like the Triple Crown more than the tour. I like it so much I once wrote a whole book about it and you can buy it here!
Do you? Does Nick Carroll? Let’s ask him after he wakes up!
Wade’s the King! And it’s not Piping Hot unless it’s a smoothie that you picked up from a shed in Torquay around 1984. Like me and Joe wore dammit.
I’m surprised the hipsters haven’t caught on to Piping Hot. Or Mambo. Hot Buttered and Hot Tuna (not related, for you youngsters out there) are still plugging away. Perhaps something we could all do is support the actual core (albeit a little shit) brands as a rebuke to the sell-outs.
I’m all about supporting brands that sound more like porn sites than surf clothes.
Do not google piping hot. The things those Germans do – eugh!
sell outs? It’s an interesting idea that businesses created to make money can be deemed sell outs. That’s sorta the whole point of a for-profit business. Or maybe I’m more intrigued by the idea that certain business are intentionally more “core” than others when the all have the same goal (selling out).
Yeah – that’s a fair point. By sell-out I meant the companies that started as brands making stuff to aid surfing or identify the wearer as a surfer (remember when we wanted to do that!), then diversified into wetties, snowboarding, skiing, skating, moto X, bags, watches, shoes, boards, kids lines, belts, sunnies, hats, gloves, wallets, pencil cases, laptop sleeves, etc. etc. In an age where irony is king, sporting some hot tuna could be pretty flash.
Still better than poo stances “HD” sticker.
Wade surfs Hawaii each year & is always impressive with his power surfing & style. From Avoca Beach north of Sydney, same beach as Mark Sainsbury, Shane Powell & Ace Buchan and same area as Wilko & Glen Hall. Congratulations. Well deserved.
For his own good, I really hope that if he makes the tour that he surfs heats nothing like Wilko or Glen Hall.
As a lot of australians, he´s pretty good in right handers. Let´s see what he can do in barreling lefts.
Wade comes from Ross Clarke Jones territory (who was a big influence on Kelly at Pipe in the 80s). Nearby, there is the big left at Forresters Beach, the left at Copacabana (Wilko’s beach), the long left at Box Head and I assume the left slab in the old movie, Mad Wax on Youtube (I can’t recognize it). A little further away, there is a rock ledge left & beach left that can get super thick & hollow (surfed it heaps, when I was young, which I will leave unnamed). Maybe Wade surfs these, who knows? Wait & see. Wade is not like Mick & Joel, from Queensland right points.
Whatever happened to Shane Powell? Number 2 in the world in 95 was it? He just seems to have vanished…
Powelly lives in Iluka and goes fishing a lot, I almost bet he also smokes marijuana.
Spotted heading into the bottle shop in Yamba the other day. He lives there. He didn’t look stoned. Still surfs great and is a professional fisherman. Only surfer to have won the ‘QS and placed 2nd on the CT same year, bettered only by Slats’ who won them both one season.
Could it be that Pipping Hot will have a surfer on both mens and ladies world tour next year? Can this turd of a brand crawl back out of the toilet?
Let’s hope it’s the Piping Hot Hawaiian Pro next year!
2016 Piping Hot Pipeline Masters In Memory Of Andy Irons
Piping Hot is owned by Saban Brands (they also own Mambo, paul frank and more interestingly CirQue du soleil & the mighty morphing power rangers!). They recently made the lovely Sally Fitzgibbons their ‘brand ambassador’ but I’m not sure if thats the same as a team rider? It may crawl out but as my good dad always said ‘you can’t polish a turd’
But you can roll it in glitter (a turd that is, not Fitzy. Well you could, but, erm… you know…. Yeah).
But you can cover it in glitter
I’m waiting for the resurgence of Hot Tuna. All the graphics you can think of and some you can’t.
With Dog Marsh on the team?