Thank you for your understanding.
Shit. Hell. Damn it. What did I do? I mean what did the Committee on Choosing the Best Brother Combinations in Surfing do? Clearly they failed by announcing that Justin and Chris Cote were winners. Clearly they fucked up.
I mean, I personally know that Justin and Chris Cote are deserving but how could the Committee forget Nick and Tom Carroll?
Like, how?
All they had to do was read the first paragraph of each of their entries in the Encyclopedia of Surfing and let us do that together now.
Nick Carroll
High-output Australian surf journalist and editor from Newport, New South Wales; Surfing magazine editor from 1993 to 1996; Deep magazine editor from 1997 to 2000; regarded by many since the mid-’80s as the sport’s most popular and knowledgeable writer.
Tom Carroll
Dynamic and durable power surfer from Sydney, Australia; world champion in 1983 and 1984, and one of the sport’s premier tuberiders. Carroll was born (1961) in Sydney, the son of a newspaper editor, raised in the beachfront suburb of Newport, and began surfing at age eight, a few months after his mother died of pancreatic cancer. Hawaiian style master Gerry Lopez was an early influence on Carroll, as was hard-turning local surfer Col Smith.
I’ve been around the Encyclopedia of Surfing long enough to know that Matt Warshaw writes the best first paragraph, first few words even, in not only surf but history. He boils everything down to its purest essence.
Nick Carroll is a high-output Australian surf journalist. Tom Carroll is a dynamic and durable power surfer from Sydney. Derek Rielly is a bright and mischievous surf journalist, originally from Perth, Western Australia. I am a bright, hyper-ironic surf journalist, author, and bon vivant from Coos Bay, Oregon.
Justin and Chris Cote don’t even have entries.
Maybe it is just ego speaking but Warshaw’s catalog is worth subscribing to, if you haven’t already, for the first word of each entry alone.
Do it today asshole!
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I heard Maurice Cole thought Taj was his bro , till Taj dumped him.
Derek and John. C Reilly?
I agree with this decision.
The brothers Marshall for the QuikBongRip shirt
Greg and Bobby Brady?
F##k N. Carroll and D. Hynd the Best surf journalist alive, by far, is Longtom. Where the fuck did this guy come from? I’m nominating him for a Pulitzer.
Ol’ Matt Warshaw is losing it if he didn’t include editor of Tracks Magazine in the first paragraph.
Nothing will beat Liam McNamara who said “i’m the best surfer at Pipe and my brother is the best surfer at Sunset; it’s not very often that two brothers are the best in the world at something.”
I reckon the Blakeys deserve a podium finish too
Boo hoo!
I have no brothers!!!
How am I suppose to get on the CT at the age of 47 (with no sponsors or indeed surfing talent) without a brother!!!
Friendship bracelets?
Taj is an only child ? And occy had only sisters ?And if you pay jake p enough money he will wave the orange towel for you so you will never have to choose your own wave ever again . So now your on the best two waves of the heat use the channelbottom’s speed and superior spray throwing capabilities and you’ll be on tour before you can raise your bat for the 1/2century ( being American or Japanese would help your cause with sponsors ) .
Hmmm.
My spray-throwing capabilities have gotten me in trouble before.
reincarnate yourself as the good spray thrower?
Brody Jenner and Rob Kardashian are the best brothers in surfing now and forever.
Coming in a close second are Rob Machado and Oscar the Grouch.
Brody’s getting married in Bali this weekend? Anyone score an invite… the who’s who of Coolangatta are going..
Bali is selling things a little short, old mate’s booking out Nihiwatu…
Well shit… that explains #JennerIsland…does Brody actually surf well?
He goes alright apparently. Studied on the Gold Coast in his early non-celeb life, hence the friendship with Dingo and co. Runs the Mad Hueys operation in the US, which isn’t exactly the Gucci stylings of some of his siblings but hey, he’s probably having more fun than them too.
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Roger that Peter.
TC doing his best MP.
You again fail to acknowledge Nik Karol and Tomas Karol’s place in surfing history. It’s a travesty.
Hell hath no fury like a Nick Carroll forlorn.
Nor a Nik Karol.
I’m actually just an angry pacifist.
Sam, Tom and Chris Hawk
Michael and Tom Peterson
Dane and Michael Kealoha
Titus and Alikai Kinimaka
Stevie and Tony Hawk!
Well fuck, we gotta go Sam and Matt George too.
Aikau braddahs !
Ho braddahs ! Cmon jeez.
no we don’t
Chas, Col, Col and Davey Smith
Steve Hawk is not discussed nearly enough in our world. A true gem of a man.
Andy + Bruce Irons
Shane + Gavin Beschen
Sean, Kelly + Stephen Slater
Chris, Keith + Dan Malloy
Timmy, Josh, Nathaniel, + Taylor Curran
This thread’s made me wanna go for a session soon with my own lil’ brother,
thanks Beach Grit! Yea!
Shea and Cory Lopez
The Webber Bros
Simon and Spot Anderson ( I know they are not bros )
Ho bros!
Derek & Michael vs. Tom & Nick in a heat.
A pro bro throw, if you will!
A bit unfair seeing Michael Ho is still on the tour ?
Fletchers?
Hi Ol’ Kook!
Cool moniker, btw, if I do say so, yea!
A buncha brothers had gotten named on the previous original article Chas wrote, in the comments section includin’ The Fletchers, etc. Check it out, see who we’re still missing, the WSL’s Gudauskas brothers, the Coffin brothers?
Lend a hand,
+think old school though, for there’s gotta be some gnarly brother combo’s that we’ve all forgotten, who deserve a f^^^in’ shout~out! Yea!!!
Jake and Paul Paterson
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next time i have to write a damn contributors’ blurb i’m hiring matt warshaw for reals. here is all my money write the thing please so i don’t have to.
Nick also won the Pulitzer Prize. A lot of people dont know that.
Barbarian Days my fav book by Nick Carroll!
Both of em – surfed like wild bastards.
Stumpy fux.
Fuck! I should have known this would happen
ah fuck they even forgot mention you were an Australian open champion , how dare those Cote’s even think about breathing the same air as Tom and You , how about Gerry and Victor ??
Dang! Look at all that hair on you + your lil’ bro’s heads! Yea!
I can’t tell if Nick’s eyebrows are digitally enhanced or the real deal.
So nothing since Deep magazine?
He’s been balls deep in various comment sections…