Still beautiful, even at the rim of seventy!

Mark Cunningham, you know. Described by Warshaw as being “amphibious” and “unchallenged as the world’s best bodysurfer from the mid-1970s to the early ’90”, winner of the first two Pipeline bodysurfing contests etc. 

Pipeline Master Rory Russell said, “If Charles Darwin were alive today, Mark would’ve blown his mind and sent him back to the drawing board!” 

Now, in an interviewee with Outrigger magazine, a promotional arm of the famous hotel chain, the former North Shore lifeguard, a well preserved man at the rim of seventy and mentor to John John Florence, has been described as a “surfing-legend-cum-artist.” 

See, when he retired from lifeguarding after thirty years in the game in 2005, Cunningham switched gears to art.

Cunningham’s more recent adventures-at-sea illustrate this deep-rooted passion — literally. He now hunts for what lies beneath the waves, searching the surf for lost treasures like board fins, sunglasses, and even designer watches. Cunningham stores this menagerie of long-forgotten items at his garage-turned-art studio in Kāhala, where he assembles them into three-dimensional sculptures. Through his art, he seeks out each object’s hidden story and honors how they’ve been shaped by the passage of time.
But just like his surfing glory, Cunningham is reluctant to claim a title as an artist. “Mother Nature is the real artist,” he tells Flux Hawaii Magazine. “I’m just putting it all together for everyone to see.

Gallery owners, critics, and art lovers seem to disagree. Cunningham’s sculptures have been on display in galleries from New York to San Francisco and even featured on the TV series Hawaii Five-O.
Getting Stoked in Waikiki

What’s up next for Mark Cunningham? We’re beyond proud to invite this local surfing legend-cum-artist to join our Surfers in Residence program. As the birthplace of modern surfing, there’s no better spot for Cunningham to share his deep love for the sea with wave-chasing travelers from around the world than Waikiki Beach.

A man impossible not to love.

"I can no longer be silent"

Former world number six and inventor of the alley-oop Ventura’s Tim Curran, has taken to social media to attack Australia’s COVID response likening the lockdowns, vaccination requirements etc as the sorta thing the bad old National Socialists woulda done. 

Curran, who just turned forty-four and whose arrival was announced to the surfing world in 1995 by Taylor Steele in the opening gambit of his game-changing film Focus, writes, 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSu9-A3JzzP/

I pray for FREEDOM from tyranny for my fellow Australians & New Zealanders. Many of us are WIDE AWAKE. Our hopes, dreams, and everything we have is worth nothing without our God given Freedom. We are dealing with it here in the US as well in some states. There are major human rights violations going on all over the world. We must call them out.

The atrocities of the Nazis are unfathomable, and we must never forgot that history can repeat itself. Never let anything close to that happen again to any race color gender or religious group. 

Covid Camps, and kids being forced to get the vaccine without their parents sounds alarming to me. People loosing their life savings, businesses, homes due to lockdowns is even more very alarming.

Please research the great reset and the world economic forum and see what their agenda is… also in the US do some research on VAERS which reports vaccine deaths and adverse reactions. It is all public knowledge and may even be under reported.

SHOT OR NO SHOT it’s your choice not the gov, not big tech, not corps or the celebs. If any of these require you to take the vax you should be able sue any of the above if you have any adverse reaction or death from it.

I can no longer be silent.

New Zealand funnyman Luke Cederman responded,

It’s appalling here in New Zealand at the moment, our Netflix catalogue is limited to Australasia, so we can’t get access to every show unless you have a vpn, so staying at home for a week while being paid has become a real challenge, the oppression is real. This is the first I’ve heard about ‘COVID camps’ or mandatory vaccinations, but if it’s on the internet it must be true, thanks for the heads up.

Gritty!