Who do you see?
Earlier today, much earlier for I spent most of it negotiating the horrors of Australia’s urban sprawl to find a once-isolated wave, which was subsequently onshore, I received an email from Matt Warshaw asking one question.
Who is the surfer, far right, in this photo?
Is it Bruce Irons or former world number two Shane Powell?
Easy, Bruce, I wrote.
Matt replied that his immediate response was Bruce as well.
“But,” he wrote, “having spent the last few days hammering together a Powell clip I’m now 65% convinced it is Shane.”
The photographer is the great Steve Sherman so the correct answer is only a telephone call away.
But who wants easy?
Shane or Bruce?
(Click on the play button for a primer on Shane Powell.)
back under the bridge troll, you are boring and spineless
find another way to entertain yourself troll
coward
It is Bruce. Dingo Morrison on the left. Both used to ride for Volcolm. So probably shot in Hawaii one winter.
would you say that to his face, wanker?
Nah, Shane.
or getting shacked at big backdooor whiile you wank on the couch
We need more Shane Powell edits on this site…
the irons bros were surfing last rock stars.
Somehow the one in the middle looks like Todd Chesser
Looks like Andy
The way I remember it was he took a fish out in a contest as a ‘fuck you’ to the ASP for making them surf in junk. And then he went and beat Matt Hoy (I think it was) in the next heat. I don’t think Curren invented the sub 6′ board thing that we have today, even though he rode a very short board in that famous Rip Curl video. Guys were still riding 6’4″s with huge rocker as contest boards well into the 90s. If you look at that famous triple 10 point rides that Shane Beschen got at Kirra in 96 the board looks way too long.
What I think is weird is how almost no-one was riding quads with the exception of Glen Winton.
I remember when Shane Powell got dropped by Rip Curl and then started getting some results on tour. Would have been about 1996. Tracks reported it in that news section that used to be at the front of the mag. But of course Rip Curl were paying the bills at Tracks, so they had to put this grovelling addendum “But well done for Rip Curl giving Powelly the kick up the arse he needed”
Bruce
wow this made my day, regularly day dream about making surf edits to that song. that Shane video really just blessed my Sunday. 10/10, and that’s obviously bruce but I’m more curious to know who’s in the middle
Dingo Morrison?
That’s Kanoa Igarashi supporting his presumably native France in the World Cup 2018.
Billie Holiday according to google image search. Not sure that really helps though.
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Well…….Ol’Brucey is”allegedly”also quite the fan of adult libations so go figure ……….
Yes – it always cracks me up when you see footage from that era and they have so much board between the nose and the front foot. I re-watched Curren’s (apparently) first wave at J-Bay recently. It just looks so wrong. Imagine the lines he would have been weaving on a shorter board in his prime.
Utter blasphemy! The lines he drew were immaculate. Sublime by any measure. Only a heretic would besmirch
the holy grail of the longer rail as practiced by Saint Curren.
Repent or be damned to an eternity engulfed in the futility of the wiggle.
Bruce. Powelly’s jaw is about 40% less chiseled.
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