Your fifth favourite surf writer snowbound with ol pal Mick!
So I’m in Japan exploring what our Olympian surfers should do when they come for the 2020 games and they should do EVERYTHING!
They should go to Harajuku and buy rainbow cotton candies and to Comme de Garçon’s flagship and to a Shinto shrine. One thing they won’t be able to do is snowboard (since surfing is part of the summer games instead of the winter ones) but they should come here and do it in the offseason like me and Mick Fanning.
We are both at the same resort, right, like, this very minute!
Can you believe that? Can you even believe it? Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world!
I am not actually staying at this resort and, if his Instagram ain’t lying, neither is he but this is where we both are today.
I want to see him. To give him a hug and ask to be friends. I also don’t want to wreck his vacation. We’ll see how it all shakes out I suppose.
I don’t know how Mick got here but I drove a van because I’m the only one in my group with an international driver’s license.
Ken Block, one of the most famous drivers in the world, left his international driver’s license at home but is in my group and, this morning, in then van behind me.
Have you ever watched his gymkhana videos? Of course you have along with 20 billion others. He has elevated driving to a high art.
![[hoonigan] ken block's gymkhana seven: wild in the streets of los angeles](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5qanlirrRWs/0.jpg "Chas: &Quot;I'M In Hakuba With Mick Fanning!&Quot; 1")
Anyhow, Ken is in the van behind. I am leading. Driving over the snow but no big deal until I take my first left, slide off the road, and high center on a ditch.
Totally stuck.
Spinning tires etc.
Everyone piles out of the van. Ken comes to my window and explains so kindly how I can get out.
His advice worked! He is the patron saint of driving. A gift from God to us dumb bastards!
And now I am at the same resort as Mick Fanning. Can you believe that? Can you even believe it?
If I see him I’m going to hug him and ask to be friends!
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Comme des garçons, bordel à cul !
brothers don’t shake.. brothers hug!
ha ha Chas is in Japan at the SAME TIME as WSL CEO Paul Speaker quits! Coincidence?? yeah probably
Holy guacamole!
Direct quote from the man himself: “See you at the beach.”
Should we interpret that as a threat?
not as threatening as “see you in the water”
Or see you at Snapper
Dirk filling in as interim billionaire. why can’t he just buy a sports team like the rest of them?
That looks more like Eugene than Mick in the picture, pray you don’t meet up with Eugene, at least in front of the kids.
By snowbound do you mean wading through gack? Sounds dreamy. I didn’t know there was a market for it in Japan.
fluffy and nose deep pow
Mick will be down in the lobby wearing his MemRory t-shirt.
how is your hairline these days, chas? comb forward yet?
What a stupid comment
Yes. Yes it was.
I wonder which side Tim Baker would’ve broken to if Mick started swinging……..he knows where his bread is buttered.
It’s no question! Tim broke with Mick straight away!
Well, the “Mictory” cap and tee combo was abit of a giveaway…
Totally unrelated question: South island NZ autumn and winter, 4/3 or 5/4?
8/10
I wear a 4/3, but only surf if it’s sunny…
Thanks!
You must be a handy little saver being able to splurge on all these holidays, Chozzlos. I’ve been working a 9 to 5 for the last six months and today I still couldn’t afford both my doctor’s bill and the antibiotics to fix my likely chlamydia infection on the same day. Need to wait til tomorrow when I get paid to be able to buy the antibiotics or else I can’t afford to top up my train ticket to get to work. I’m going to be up pissing all night again. I’ll let you know the results of my blood test. It’s my first STD test since I became sexually active in 96. I might have cultivated a new strain by now. Have fun in Japan.
Well mate remember Chas has that Porsche!!! Am jealous as all fuck as cant afford a surf trip let alone snow one. Fuck that don’t want to hear any more
Three cheers for the public health system!
Who the fuck works from 9-5? What are you? a public servant?
missus paid for it fsure..
broke and infected. that new years eve binge cant have been a complete waste.
don’t forget to advise Mick that without an air game he will be doomed to being a journeyman , as those man turns are sooo passé!!
kids these days dont have a big enough attention span for linked turns
i still remember the first time i saw them actually fast-forward a portion of a wave before going back to normal speed for a lipper on the end section
steph gilmore there with him?
he is going to send wilko down to sit on your face
Are you keeping your meat and dairy separate?