Exclusive new details emerge about
“provocative man fight” dominating conversation at U.S. Open of
Surfing in Huntington Beach!
By Chas Smith
Wild times in Surf City.
Earlier today, footage was released of a provocative man
fight at the U.S. Open of Surfing featuring one wearing no
shirt and one wearing a striped shirt plus shoes. The action begins with the
two speaking very closely before headbutts are given,
small umbrellas thrown, punches delivered. As the waves in
Huntington are, currently, 1 – 2 ft the man fight is assured to be
the biggest thing that happened this year, thus, dominating
conversation.
Once-proud Surfer Magazine’s AI bot declared the event as “deep,
profoundly sex sex.” Sam George, writing for The Inertia, stated,
“They obviously haven’t spent much time surfing Steamer Lane.”
Why were they tussling, though? Their chairs are clearly very
intimate when the whole business began. And what happened
afterward? Was there a wonderful make up or did the two remain
bitter?
Well, BeachGrit, the leading source of ultra hard surf
candy, just so happened to have a wonderful source witness the pas
de deux with own eyes and report.
“That fight you just posted, they were roommates and one guy
asked the other to move out. That’s what started it. Guy was
hospitalized.”
I was very curious as to which guy, the one who appeared to take
the lion’s share of abuse or the one who was not really moving at
the end.
It turns out the one who was not really moving at the end was
fetched by an ambulance and whisked into a medical facility where
he remains to this day.
How do you like that?
Thoughts?
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Open Thread: Comment Live on Day Three of
the U.S. Open of Surfing as public demands talky-talky!
By Chas Smith
Rocks local, this one goes out to you.
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Provocative man fight breaks out at U.S.
Open of Surfing cementing Huntington Beach’s reputation as
“toughest town in the west!”
By Chas Smith
What happens in Huntington Beach, stays in
Huntington Beach.
The U.S. Open of Surfing is entering its fourth
day and how much of the Challenger Series stop number four
have you watched thus far? Enough to see golden voice of surfing
Joe Turpel transition seamlessly from describing high performance
shortboarding to women’s longboarding? A searing Brodi Sale mush
climb?
Very cool but even cooler to be there on the sand, rubbing
shoulders with The People at the biggest surfing festival on earth.
Huntington Beach, the U.S. Open of Surfing’s longtime home, has a
hard-earned reputation as the “toughest town in the west,”
regularly pairing competitive surfing with riots or port-a-potty
tipping.
And Surf City, USA lived up to its billing, yesterday afternoon,
as two adults engaged in what is being described “a provocative man
fight.”
The action, captured to video, is picked up midway as the two
thirty-somethings are speaking very close to each other. One is
shirtless. The other is wearing a striped number that appears too
small. After chatting for a moment the shirted man, also wearing a
hat and glasses, headbutts his friend twice in the nose then socks
him twice for good measure.
After tossing a small beach umbrella aside like a small beach
umbrella, the two square off in a traditional boxing stance, hands
low though and not very defensive. The man with the striped shirt
goes for the body first, then a stiff left to the face followed by
a right that drops his partner. As fighting happens these days, it
appears the shirtless man has a Brazilian jiujitsu background. He
staggers up, grips his friend’s neck and takes him down, landing in
the power bottom position.
This is where it gets hazy for me. Bystanders move in to pry
them apart while a lifeguard wanders around wanting nothing to do
with it all. Eventually they do and it appears that the man who
became headbutted twice and punched five times is the victor as he
gets up and wanders around while the other man who only got pulled
down on top is out for the count.
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The weekender, main photo, O and K and kids,
left, and one of the $6.5 mill apiece town homes near The
Pass.
Staggering real estate portfolio of Surf
Olympian Owen Wright and rock star wife Kita Alexander laid bare
with reveal of Byron Bay beach shack weekender!
By Derek Rielly
“It’s sandy feet, it’s just coming back from the
surf, it’s across the road from the beach, it’s the ultimate beach
shack,” says Owen’s rock star wife Kita Alexander, mammy to his two
kids.
Only four days after breaking soil on his $26 million
dollar luxe townhome build near The Pass, the one-time
world title contender Owen Wright has swung open the door on his
Byron Bay weekender, which comes with a heated plunge pool and a
luxury studio.
The main house, four beds, swept all day by the sun and cooling
breezes, is called Drifters and the little studio is like a hotel
room out there in the back yard, perfect for lovers on a budget or
just-divorced daddies fleeing the chaos of their ruined families
with a run up north.
“It’s sandy feet, it’s just coming back from the surf, it’s
across the road from the beach, it’s the ultimate beach shack,”
says Owen’s rock star wife Kita Alexander, mammy to his two
kids.
O bought the joint fourteen years ago and the pair navigated the
hurdles of Australia’s COVID lockdowns to renovate, turning the ol
heritage listed house, dark as hell, sorta place you crack open the
cheap Sierra tequila at nine am, to the Instagramable home it is
today.
The house and studio, along with the $26 mill build just up the
road, is just one piece in the mighty Owen Wright property
portfolio, of course.
It hasn’t all been real estate success for O, howevs.
A sour note in Owen’s fairytale life, and apart from the brain
damage episode in 2015, was the theft of almost one million
bucks of his personal stash by a family friend employed as the
fam’s bookkeeper which led to his estrangement from Ma and Pa
Wright as well as friction with his siblings and his pop star
wife.
Owen said he was “emotionally worn down”, couldn’t sleep, was
perpetually pissed off and anxious.
Accusing his parents of ripping him, he said, off had lasting
ramifications.
“My relationships…are still damaged because of the anger issues
I had around this,” he said.
And, because of the theft, he couldn’t get out of the pro
surfing game despite his catastrophic 2015 brain injury, only
splitting when he was kneecapped by the mid-year cut.
“I wanted to retire but I couldn‘t financially (due to the
impact of the offending) and fought back into my career risking my
life in the process… I was still being stolen from while I
could barely walk and while the doctors were saying I would never
work again in my career. The physical risk I‘ve taken on to
keep surfing was a choice I made because I was not financially in
the position to stop my career.”
World marvels as WSL announcing legend
“Joltin” Joe Turpel transitions from high-performance championship
tour commentary to professional women’s longboarding!
