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.
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Or you could write core surf brand continues to support surfing genius Tom Curren through his latter years allowing us to further enjoy his fluid surfing lifestyle.
Great work Vaughn!
I’m over you Bex. 50% of your comments are just trolling repeats and you’re sliding into just name calling. It’s boring and bringing down the commentary. Rooster made a valid point the other day.
Time to put the phone down for a bit.
oh please school me ol’ Pommy inbred!
LOL …Bigots lives matter…..good onya bexy….but me thinks youse BLM characters are certainly Trolling Tools of the finest proud boys , the BLM movement..alive and well here on BG!
Was drinking it out of the bottle.
Vivian. “bored, bored, bored, bored, bored”
I’m sure Tommy could give a rat’s ass about the WSL title, he’s probably laughing…even if it’s true.
Watching my dog take a shit is vastly more superior to watching (and listening to) koa Smith unboxing .
Curren schooling most of the top 44 at 57 with his surfing in this video, throwing spray, positioning and surfing with style , halcyon days of surfing right there, thanks TC !
There was some talk, true too, that big Hossegor heavily favored the Brazillian contingent and charging Hawaiians over the Slater Bot … well, GUESS WHO OWNS Hossegor TC is who does … lol
U really are a dickotomy
I just googled “Otomy” . apparently means cutting into a part of the body. bit harsh calling bex a dick slicer.
Ha, not really what I was going for but kind of fitting!
Actually, prob more fitting for Otto.
Reading his posts makes me want to cut my dick off.
He’s the same age as
His tongue and a bit older
Than his teeth – Jon Swift
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Perhaps the WSL is confused & thinks it’s the UCI & is also thinking that Tom is Lance
Lived with a guy from ZA that just landed in Oz.
He mentioned that Cottee’s was a bit sweet .
I was nice enough to mention he should mix it with water.
Shame we can’t GameStop the wsl… I bet dorks mates would short it in a second if it were publicly traded…
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I reckon he surfed
Exactly the way old men
Should surf, smooth and still
passages of time
are but our only Currency
searching for glide
As he stated he’s so bored of reading your comments he hardly looks down here.
were the baton twirler of a VAL to strip TC of a title would only exacerbate the coming cataclysmic battle of WHAT, WHO, and WHY surf even exists: to sell cold product hewed in southeast asian 4-way stretch-tech boardshort sweatshops, or to monetize v-logs, or to sorta be weird and attuned to temporal bands of atmospheric energy and to ride them stylishly. fucky’all who dislike this edit. respectfully, and with great disregard to others, that’s what’s up.
Meanwhile in Australia, the cannabis derivatives market has exploded and now requires specialised handling. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
“The art of moving”…if everything is art, then nothing is art. There is no art to surfing. Damn VALsheviks!
Still can’t bring indo to indo, tho’
I think he probably just left one lying in the sand somewhere while packing up the musical equipment.
Try not to ascribe anything to malice which is far more likely due to casual (land-based) incompetence.
I’d forget my arse half the time if it wasn’t bolted on.
Chopped it up and glued it on super Dave
I had a crazy Korean GF who tried to kill herself like that – with vitamins.