More questions than answers.
Tom Curren re-introduced himself to a surf-entertainment starved world, days ago, in the form of a fifteen-minute work of art from the minds of Vaughn Blakey and Nick Pollet.
Free Scrubber may well be the finest surf film of the decade and if you have not yet watched you must pause, right now, and so do.
Marvelous and impossible not to love…
…for everyone outside the World Surf League’s Santa Monica headquarters.
Inside the virtually empty offices hurt and rage, vengeful thoughts and angry anger, must be percolating for the WSL posted the film, like all other surf media, but also stripped Curren of a title.
Enjoy a little of that old Tom Curren magic in Rip Curl’s new film “free scrubber” the headline reads, followed by, “From twin-fins to skimboards, the two-time World Champ’s quest to find the perfect…
Everyone, legitimately seriously everyone, knows that Tom Curren won three titles (1985, 1986, 1990) and free scrubbing one of them was clearly done purposefully but why?
Because World Surf League announcing is gently mocked in the film?
Because Tom Curren is not wearing a competition singlet?
Because the work is vastly superior to Unboxing with Koa Smith?
Currently, more questions than answers and also unclear which of the three titles was disappeared but, as always, more as the story develops.