And being slapped by Hawaiian lifeguard and having rail bitten by famous big-wave surfer…
God bless the great Mark Occhilupo, and I mean that sincerely. Surfers come and go, light up an epoch and then disappear, usually without glory.
Occhilupo, however, turns sixty in five years time (“Sixty in five years time? Don’t say that!”) and still lives a surfer’s dream.
He has a “little nook” at Rainbow Bay and is up at three-thirty every morning, and never with a hangover for he quit drinking three years ago (“It was my nemesis”), chasing the four am Gold Coast sunrise and those precious few uncrowded runners.
Warshaw’s EOS describes Occ as being “built like a duck” and surfing “like a big cat.”
He has been largely ignored by the ravages of ageing and is a finely balanced combination of enthusiasm and confidence.
He is a world champion and a runner-up to the world title, is still regarded by most as the best surfer ever at Bells, and possibly Jeffreys Bay, and has a spirit that bristles with a scorching flame.
In a wonderful profile by Sean Doherty five years ago, Occ self-described as a “little cross-dressing Italian Scotsman from Kurnell.
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“yeah, no”
dont meet your heros because you will be disappointed.
i want to hear about doing rat tails of blow off gerlachs lower back with a Champagne cork up his ass.
nothing dirty about that water.
MAKE CHAS A DICK AGAIN
Occy is so core he still doesn’t have an email address
“You know” “Ya Know” “Yeh No” and other variants between every sentence.
Occy’s biography put me right off the guy. a ripper, yes… a good cunt, no.
With the Podcast called “Dirty Water” how doesn’t the name Paul Sargent get bought up?
Sarge and TC tight as , might explain a few things eh.
Occy is hilarious in how he freely admits that he can’t remember half the things that happened to him, and just laughs like “it may have happened, I don’t know!” Was surprised that you didn’t ask him about his time with that creep Sarge, since Occ seems like an open book. What a likeable fellow.
And on the other hand you get this cunt.
I will listen to it later
The guys has 9 kids that u never see around him, lives @ rainbow just like all the bum hipsters, quitted drinking cuz he can’t control himself ever since he started, is broke as hell.
Just to be brief…
And u guys are trying to make him look cool?
That’s the joke of 2020!
IT IS WHAT IT IS….
Ding ding ding. Winner. Occy is a bum. Bog rail turning, seed spraying bum.
The Bum Hipsters live in Byron. Coolangatta is just ancient southerners waiting to die and derroes.
You’re kind of right that being a great surfer doesn’t make you cool but being cool doesn’t make you a good surfer either. Which one are you?
9 kids? cant believe a woman willingly had sex with this guy
Oioi
Seems Oc had a posse, really looks like he’s got some pussy!
Mate were you sober when your were shaggin making all them kid’s?
Met you in Japan on Niijima Island…. You were a good Cunt!
Stay that way….
Occy on Dirty Water could be a 12-hour episode..this was great… the man is a legend to put it lightly… please have him on again Derek and Chas… questions/topics for next round with Occy:
1. in-depth discussion about relationship with Curren in the early 80’s
2. in-depth breakdown of Occy’s recollections of the “Sarge” years on tour and those videos he made and other “reports” of Sarge’s activity…
3. (if Billabong allows it) a friendly offering from the Dirty Water team on how to improve the Occ-cast…
Nice words about the goat from Occ. Despite his, pool of death, social media weirdness and Chinese girlfriend remarks, Kelly seems like a legit nice guy.
Great pod lads. Occ is such a cool cunt.
I’m only half way through but you guys should have asked him about his line for the ages in North Shore “I was wondering if you’d make into the lineup”
Every line of his was a line for the ages. My personal favourite: “hey alex, come jump in with us”
Few lines in Occs life
oh yeeeeeeaaahhh
What a crazy soup that hot tub would have been!
Enjoyed this. The anecdote about Ken Bradshaw sending him in and Eddie Rothman sending him back out = lolz
Amazing isn’t it. Being sent in by a Texan and sent back out by a Jew from Philadelphia.
And if they’d known he was a cross-dressing Italian Scotsman they’d probably have left him alone.
A lip smackin good time!!
Sounds like he was working his way through a pack of Minties.
I didn’t listen cause if I wanted to hear someone smack their lips every 15 seconds I’d listen to Occast which I don’t.
I can summarise it for you, if you are interested in the story but don’t want to hear him work some sticky lollies out of his back teeth:There was no mention of his stint in the clink as alleged by surfer-artist Brett Fairbank. Nor was there any mention of the Wavepool in Yeppoon.
Another ELOesque interview.
Pussies.
Curren made Occy look like a fool at Jbay. Worse than that, but I am a very kind man.
Mortifying. Humiliating. Ok, I’m being kind.
His “title” was during Ke11y’s hiatus too.
Life time achievement award.
Beautiful surfing in his prime, but the hyperbole is pure Aussie Oy.
Can’t deny he was an 80s icon–probably the embodiment of day glow surfing excess crossover cool. 9 kids though–overpopulation is a thing, Occ. Pull out or wrap it, huh?
Curren put the Free ride generation to bed and Occy challenged Curren, talking too much shit and backing up some of it.
Loved his surfing and the Mc Coy movies were amazing. Just never won a title when he was surfing at his best. And spare me the best at J Bay bullshit. Even Bells.
But that’s a reflection of the over hype, not the man.
Yeah, 9 kids means a lot of work and multiple mommies? So what does he do for work? Those Ninetie’s paychecks could not have been THAT good.
Mc Coy movies were iconic.
Best I’ve seen at Bells
Not over a length of time
A one day comet!
Curren won at Haliewa , but not Pipe ? Could he have won at Chopes or Cloudbreak as Occy did years later ?
Occy , with all his foibles , could and did win everywhere , in everything ….. from dribbling H Pier to Pipe to JBay ….makes talk of token world title sound cheap
No kook has ever won a world title ……
The 9 kids thing puts me off him completely. Anyone who has that many children (voluntarily) is a selfish arsehole.
Most are step-kids, if we’re to be accurate.
World champ, dealing with sloppy 7ths…
I’ll take it occys raw aggression and unique lines over Curren any day. Best backhand surfer ever. You talk about hyperbole Apart from having good style and sliding into some tubes I can’t recall Curren doing much ha ha.
Yeah but the backhand surfing he did at 97′ Bells Skins event was so beautiful.
Curren is probably my favourite surfer ever (but I am a Natural foot) but you can’t just dismiss Occy like he’s some kind of kook. He’s probably the greatest goofy footer ever.
Fuks sake
Gmed makes him look pedestrian.
So does Italo
You really have shit for brains don’t you. Shall we compare Rod Laver to Federer or Hubert Opperman to Cadel Evans? Gee whiz, the new guys are better than the old guys I wonder why.
Greatest ever.
Your words.
Maybe, one of the best ever.
Why am I shit for brains?
Occy …. So , I am totally biased , having been run over by him when he was riding a single , then Huzza Wuzza twin fin ( RIP Herbie ) then saw him do things no one could do at the time on the Black Jim Banks’ thruster before he absolutely scared the shit out of everyone at JBay in 84 and seriously dented reining world champ’s , Tom Carroll’s , parade , riding the indestructible Rusty ( which apparently he didn’t even put in a board bag on flights and it would just turn up at arrivals in mint condition ) …… Then won Pipe….. and only a total mental breakdown denied him of a World Title ( possibly multiple ) in the 80s
This is not , denying Curren’s ability , but when did Curren surf at J Bay for the first time …. not in 84 and in a sport which was progressing technically ( both boards and performance ) , in leaps and bounds , can you compare what he did later on ….as a seasoned pro , to what Occy did as a brash teenager , who set the bar and pushed the limits of the possible to another level
I will listen.. now
whats that in Chas paw?
hard seltzer?
Looks like a Claw in his paw.
Desperate time. Desperate measure.
You obviously haven’t read my quit-lit offering yet. Edit–saw your comment.
The high/low water mark.
cheapest piss
Once at Johanna
I tried to shake his hand then
Saw he was pissing
Occy gouged so hard
in Bunyip Dreaming that the
waves got scared of him
Fuk, close call there Eddie, given the fecundity you’re lucky you didn’t get pregnant!!
Was wearing rubber
Head to toe but imagine
His genes are crafty
😂
I reckon his sperm have got swim fins and could cut through a shield of plastic like his rails cut through water !