Four-time world champ meets world's most demanding wave.
A movie scene that still gives me shivers is the opening gambit in Blue Crush, a Hollywood take on the North Shore surf scene from 2002.
The film’s protagonist, Anne Marie (played by Kate Bosworth) is surfing the lovely beach break next to Pipe. Her ex-boyfriend, played by Chris Taloa, a stand-up bodyboarder who famously beat hell out of Bruce Irons on Bruce’s eighteenth birthday, tells her that since she’s surfing in an upcoming Pipe contest and she’s dang uppity about it he’ll block the pack for her and call her into a set.
Oh, god, it’s the stuff of nightmares.
Can you imagine?
The paddle stutter as a bonfire roars in your little endocrine gland, flooding your body with adrenaline and cortisol?
The horror? The paralysis?
Thank God, it’s only a movie, right?
For the Hawaiian Carissa Moore, a four-time world champ, it’s a nightmare breathed into reality by Jamie O’Brien, a carrot-topped vlogger who is 190 pounds of rock hard muscle with 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat and who grew up at Pipe.
In this sobering short, watch as Carissa bravely attempts to ride the world’s most demanding wave on a solid-ish four-to-six-foot day.
Watch as Carissa gets strung up on a rack of desire and frustration.
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I welcome unknowns into the lineup with a cheerful “welcome to the arena girl.” Makes me giggle at least
the bali ones are good ambient video when drinking.
Dumb. What’s up with those southern drawl accents? Thought they were from Hawaii, not Texas.
Know as many women as you can …… before you marry one ?
“Skimming” has got to be the gayest water sport, next to sup. Why is it that I watch EVERY skid kids video? I would never skim, or sit at the beach and watch. That vlog must have some mystic mind trance music in the background!?
BAW
Is that your current pet social justice movement?
We could make it more inclusive:
Believe All Women, Believe All Guys
BAWBAG.
CB if you added Lovingly after Women ….
you could have made a scrotum ? at least phonetically…..
From the looks of this video the only advice Jamie gave her was ‘get to know the reef’. And every time he took off on that fucking soft-top I was wondering where’s Koa Rothman when you need him?
How’s some of the Bali girls.
They surf real good and look even better.
Kelly agrees!
The official vlog rankings have been released: Nate Florence > Alana Breastard > Ben Gravy > JOB >>>>>Koa
I was hoping for your opinion on the matter.
It looks suspiciously Shaka-like, but then again, whenever I fart I blame the dog.
They kids remind me that we don’t have a dog.
I then proceed to blame: their mother, the cats, the kids themselves, the kettle, ducks under foot, and finally the weather.
So perhaps the perceived shaka is merely a byproduct of another malaise.
Or perhaps mayonnaise.
Very Groucho Marx, “It looks suspiciously Shaka-like, but then again, whenever I fart I blame the dog. The kids remind me that we don’t have a dog.”
It’s a pretty yawnful episode, Carissa was rather lacking in both effort and skill.
Can you please show footage of Bruce and/or Andy getting the hell beaten out of them ?
We’re in need of some decent entertainment here..
Cheers
Footage of won ton whooping Bruce would be worth a watch if such footage existed
surfermag had a full page spread of bruce getting barreled at OTW while bleeding from the right cross from wonton..
I bet warshaw can find it somewhere
Yeah Matt, get to work!
There’s a photo kicking around of Bruce taking off on a wave during the session, blood pouring from face wound.
He is becoming a walking advert for efudix. (Incidentally, efudix is the best drug name ever.) I’m guessing in 15 years his psych counter will be counting the stitches as the surgeon carves out another piece of that majestic hide… power to him.
#legitworldchamp
Good on Carissa, for trying to up her pipe game, and if I knew J.O.B I would definitely call him and ask him to give me a few at pipe.
Check out
Moana Jones
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I could watch her all day!
I think he has a girlfriend!?
I’m never gonna watch that, does she die in the end?
Any “virtue fisting”?
Something something ‘softtop in the Pipeline’?
Made it go soft, huh!?
How come Koa didn’t burn her?
She is Moore Core Division …..
With your gift for puns, you should be a sub-editor at a Brit tabloid.
Thanks D …..but for some reason your compliment makes me feel like the part time model in this little ditty from The Flight of the Conchords …. giggles
On a far more serious note, is Amber Heard licensed to trow shakas like this?
What are her Bona Fides?
https://www.theguardian.com…