Rescue board takeoffs to skim!
This is old. I ain’t gonna pretend. Made in February 2016.
It flew onto my radar just then by virtue of, I don’t know, my search history of old men roaming nude beaches?
Whatever it is, it’s a fine piece of short course cinema that documents the three-time world champion Tom Curren returning to the joint he made famous back in the eighties (took a wife there, too, Marie, their kid Leanne Curren rips) and sloshing around on ridiculous surf equipment. You know the sort, the busted-in-half rescue board Tom uses to catch the wave before abandoning and jumping into a deep squat on his skimmer. It’s all very kooky, but all very cool.
I mean, you’re mid-fifties, you nailed riding the usual sleds, why not shake it up? Tom is remarkably coherent in the clip, something that always surprises me, given the times I met him in the nineties and the most I ever got was a simian grunt and eyes so red I wanted to lick them back to health.
The waves, meanwhile, don’t it make you want to bivouac at one of these beaches for the summer?
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The good ole days when Tom wore wetsuits instead of sweatsuits!
Howlin’ Wolf, Motzart, Tom Curren.
ha 25 years later , he still outshine todays leg ends!
Was Tom Curren being rude, or was he just elsewhere? Were his eyes red from surfing for a long time?
Surely someone got smoked by a flying rescue sled