"The guy’s got a big mouth and never stops whining about the WSL. Let’s see that dude step up!"
The great Shaun Tomson, a man who redefined backside tuberiding at Pipeline in 1975 and who won a world title at twenty-two, has hit out at the Australian surfer Noa Deane for his since redacted anti-WSL stance.
In a wild harangue on podcast The Boardroom, which is oiled by Surfer’s former online editor Scott Bass, Tomson, now sixty-six, is led into a discussion about the WSL, wildcards, and so on.
Tomson is a a clean-skin with a fiery anti-drugs stance and was once described by Kelly Slater as the “ultimate pro”.
Fifty-three minute in he fumes.
“I’d love to see these wildcards, you know, the big mouths like Noa Deane, big mouth, I want to see that dude, give him a wildcard at ten-foot Pipe. I want to see Noa Deane with his big mouth come up against Italo Ferreira and let’s see what happens.”
A theatrical pause.
“Let me tell you, the dude will be savaged! He will be cryyyyying… with his body… he will be flayed. The guy’s got a big mouth and never stops whining about the WSL. Let’s see that dude step up! People just let these dudes chirp. Step up and put up or shut up!”
It’s a pretty good effort to get a little emotion out of Shaun, he ain’t one for stepping out of his usual boundary lines of positivity, surfing-for-everyone etc.
Sadly for Shaun, ol Noa set his anti-WSL trip aside two days after the Surfer Poll awards in 2014 when he described his “fuck the WSL” moment as “incredibly stupid… I’m meant to be a role model in surfing and my actions on the night were not appropriate and that was not the time or place to voice that opinion.”
Wildcards at Pipe?
Three years ago, he took down world champ John John Florence at the Volcom Pipe Pro… at ten-foot Pipeline.
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Shaun who?
Couple of issues:
a) Noa RIPS at Pipe and, as good as Italo and Gabe are there, I’m pretty sure Noa wouldn’t look out of place in any heat against them.
b) Fuck the WSL
Noa Deane is the best transgender surfer in the world
Bwhahahahahh
God bless Noa. Pissin’ off boomers since…
John Peck defined backside tube riding at Pipe long before Shaun ‘re-defined’ it, but no one ever mentions that. Lots of great surfers blazed a path there before him, Sam Hawk and Owl Chapman for example, but somehow he gets all the credit.
You gotta excuse Drek. His only point of reference is EOS. I think it was bruddah Astro who said it very well here some time back that the surf media created many false gods back in the late 70’s. We used to laugh how Shaun and others would show up on the north shore for 3 weeks with photogs puppy dogging them while non-pro locals, and others, ripped the north shore full time all day every day all season.
they busted down the door in Hawaii , insulted their Hawaiian brothers , couldn’t back up their big mouths , and when confronted with their insults…ran home with their tail between their skirts….and actually destroyed a beautiful part of surfing called , “Spirit of Aloha ” and then to add insult to injury they did Bustin down the Door II….never apologised just kept making money and alienated themselves from Hawaii……a couple of years ago Rab asked Eddie if he could surf Hawaii with his son…….NO…the stench of egos and money still lives on!
Very cool.
Just a touch more details…..please?
Shaun was one of the main instigators , was all ego and disrespect ..alienated Australia/South Africa and even Californians from Hawaii….fired up the Hawaiians , created Da Hui and in turn the Wolfpak . Hawaiians became very aggro towards whites, Haole became a derogatory term .
I think Shaun is just looking at trying to be relevant , but I still think that he and PT cannot go back to Hawaii because of the bad blood they created….it’s a really long story the next 20 years re-establishing respect and forgiveness , where there were a handful of surfers who just went surfing with the locals and learnt more about local culture , so that’s what we see now…so much better than the Wild west days of the Nth Shore.
Shaun is the most boring pro interview that I’ve ever listened too, and he thinks he has a talent and a calling to “inspire others.” Ninety percent of it was self promotion. Too bad because this was my first new board. 6’4″ single fin, 1979. I still have good memories of that board at least.
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Always loved the fact that his logo depicted the Pioneer of Poo Stance so accurately.
Watching regular foots on pipe lefts back then was rough. Michael Ho with a cast on his arm changed the game.
You are tripping
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Drove eighty five miles south to se it at the Santa Cruz civic auditorium. Not a fan of him nowadays though.
Shaun blows fuckin doors.
Shaun charged big Sunset at a time with a major crew. You are high….
Not talking about his surfing. Listened to an hour long interview with him and it was all all self promotion bullshit. I think it was Chris Mauro’s podcast. Not positive.
Sick looking board.
It was a great board. I had more slides of it but I lost all the other ones. I wish I had one of the entire board still.
How did the board go C4 ?
Great board, lasted forever. I sold it to a friend after a while because I wanted to try twins, and he rode it for a couple years. Rode a Town and County swallow tail twin and a Haut round pin, but hated them and bought a 5’8″ single fin again. Then thrusters came out.
My first thruster had a beautiful orange spray …. But was a piece of shit ….
The second was a game changing toothpick with a very small sawn off square tail from KC , very similar to Gary Green’s …possibly the best board I have ever had .
Awesome. I got lucky with my first thruster. You’ve probably never heard of them but it was a 5’8″ Caster from a shaper in San Diego. Orange spray with a white deck.
I still remember the first day we all paddled out on thrusters for the first time and it was what I had been looking for since I started surfing, having a board with a wide tail and being able lay the board on the rail as far as you want without worrying about spinning out.
I remember a centerfold I think of Gary Green at Black Rock in a Camo wetsuit back then. Mental pic.
There were many more board brands in the day …. We had 4 or 5 majors in Cronulla and a heap of backyard and underground shapers … one remains .
I remember the photo of Greeny …. Cover of Tracks April 1984
Riding a Force 9 and a Piping Hot Wetsuit
I could be wrong, coz the law of averages says I’m wrong a fucktonne, but I do believe:
1. Noa Deane is pretty fucking good at Pipe
2. As stated, Noa Deane retracted his statement. Sad, but prudent if you wanna keep your sponsor dollars coming in for doing fuck all of fuck all
3. He doesn’t seem to have a beef with Italo or others competing, more the shitshow that is the corpo commodification of pro surfing. Preaching to the converted here on the Grit
Thus, wtf is ST actually drivelling about? Is he actually claiming the wozzle is the shizzle and should he lauded? Good lord
I kind of like Shaun for his honesty. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Has a touch of the figjam though.
I don’t know anything about Noa Dean. Perhaps he’s a wanker but I do know Shaun and he is a world class wanker. You show me someone who claims to be a Rincón local who likes Shaun and I’ll show you a poser. Unimpeachable resume so respect there but universally reviled for his attitude and talk.
On the Former Top Level Pros who Frequent the Joint list, he’s the least liked. By far.
He thinks it’s a privilege to watch his old spastic ass in front of you if your wondering what his thought process is like.
‘ e…for those people
Free Ride v morning of the earth
Wayne Dean spawned a free surfing freak… actually on a free ride.
ST had a son who passed away and ST is still coming to terms….
ST is still on the 70’s hussle, still trying to sell surfing to the corporates for his own back pocket with a pinch of virtual signalling and a dash of pseudo surf spiritual guidance
Funnily enough Matt Banting probably pushed Noa on to this lucrative non contest professional surfer path , having kicked Noa’s arse that many times during their respective junior competitive careers …..
Leading to Noa’s utterance of “fuck the WSL” , and him remaining on the payroll, while Banting towed the company line, and after suffering badly from injuries , got fucked by the WSL and Quik . Go figure ….
Dude.
Mother always said I take jokes too far.
I am so curious
It’s never as exciting as you imagine. Just poor taste.
Thanks for deleting it
Pheww!!
Yeah, would have to say i’m pretty sure Noa is quite capable of handling himself at Pipe.
Maybe old mate Shaun is developing dementia in his old age? A fear of of ever increased obscurity some 4 decades after being relevant in a niche sport is probably more the case though.
And Instinct? Pfffft. Good luck cunt.
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What I just left in the site dunnies definitely does
Solidarity Brother Turts ….. I hope you remembered that the site agreement categorically states that all Turts ….ooops Turds over 1.5 kg must be lowered into the correct receptacle by hand INSTINCTively .
Shaun the Prawn , great surfer and handsome 70s / 80$ playboy , has just rereleased INSTINCT and is looking for Team Riders …( I read in a recent interview) .
I don’t suppose the son of Coolangatta’s Wayne Deane will be jumping ship from Volcom anytime soon .I remember Shaun’s long time feud with Coolangatta’s MP in the mid to late 70s claiming MP was holding Pro Surfing back from its true potential …… looks like somethings never change ?
I am wondering if this is a Durban V Coolangatta thing or just personal ?
Just an old man yelling at a cloud.
I must be getting old .
Caddy Shack …. The Bishop !
Watched his old boy thread butterbox like no one else….Watched Noah throw his sled at a brown snake on way down to point at Lenny the ox…blows my mind how incredible surfers have the innate sense that cannot be taught…genetics ? Kids a boss!
Surfing World ran a photo of Wayne cutting back at DBah …. Possibly mid to late 80s ….He literally blew the back out of the wave , all the way to the Qld border at Snapper .
Brown snake story is classic
Fuk, who hasn’t done that?
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Hmmm…
I thought this was what a World Champion T https://uploads.disquscdn.c… uber looked like…
A potato chip off the old block …