They're losing it.
Now, grumpy locals of a certain age hear the name DJ Paul Fisher and think one thing. Battle-tested QS warrior of some repute. Fisher, who hails from Australia’s wave-rich Gold Coast, once lived a rashie dream, paddling out against the likes of Bron Heussenstamm and Josh Hoyer in surfing’s halcyon days. Times were good, and money flowed from sponsors such as Reef and Creatures of Leisure, but our hero was meant to be shared with the world, and share himself he did.
Known today as FISHER, the king of the turntables draws mind-bending crowds, treating them to aural delights whilst he stands above them, on a raised stage, and flicks his tongue.
Some are so new to the show, though, that his first act as Qualifying Serial is lost and his ability to shred, a shocking surprise. And take it from a source that might should know better.
Teton Gravity Research, an “extreme sport media company” which launched in Jackson Hole, Wyoming as a snowboard vehicle, though opened its doors to our surfing lifestyle years ago, and has produced important surf films such as the Andy Irons documentary Kissed by God. You would imagine, then, that’s Fisher’s surf bonafides would be understood but millennials gonna millennial.
A clip of the Losing It sensation introduced thusly:
Between gigs on the endless rave circuit, FISHER found some time to paddle out for some cheeky beach breakers in Changgu – a beach town near the southwest tip of Bali. We’ve known for a while now that FISHER rips the decks harder than most on the DJ stand, but who knew this guy could rip almost as hard on a shortboard? Not I. No, surly not I. But with clips surfacing of Chris Hemsworth scoring overhead tuberides, and Nicole Kidman cruising on a log, I am starting to believe its just in the blood of our Aussie friends. So when’s the Keith Urban edit coming?
Imagine the stun in Jackson Hole when it is discovered that the actor playing Jimmy Slade on Baywatch has 11 surfing titles.
How fun does Chungoo look, in any case?
Wicked awesome.
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Strangely today Matt Biolis posted a snowboard/ski video thanking the son of TGR founder for giving his daughter a set of skis.
“its just in the blood of our Aussie friends. So when’s the Keith Urban edit coming?”
Keith Urban was born in New Zealand, before relocating to Australia, then America –
headline: VALcanic Eruptions Destroy Bali.
Do they know he rides on dicks?
The real story here is…. what happened to Sedz?
Cunt sold out when Fishtale’s was buried.
Xox
Unrelated, go ahead and try watching this only once
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Boooooo. Underwhelming.
Would rather see him rip through a few russian groupies.
And yes changoo is good fun, sweet peaks.
Used to live at a house that was named the pit because of all the non stop parties. One of my roommates did warehouse work at the skate company I worked for and got laid off.
I was worried about him because he was a dysfunctional weed smoking skater.
Next thing I know he’s traveling the world as a rave DJ
….and probably still a dysfunctional weed smoking skater
And what’s the matter with that ? Sometimes I wish I had’ve gone down that road
don’t think I made a judgement on that.
my very own son was a
dysfunctional weed smoking skater, and a really good skater at that and is now a very successful DJ, although he quit the weed thing, which is good because he now spends his cash on the funner things in life.Beeetches and hoes?
Or meth and MDMA! Seems to go along with the DJ thingy.
No.
Good times
nah, his sidekick is an absolutely wonderful and gorgeous girl.
not surprisingly she’s also the one that got him to get his act in gear, not by force but by he wanting to be a better person for her.
amazing how that works, if you let it.
My wife got me to stop picking my nose in the car.
yeah, I guess when she pulled the car over a told you “get the fuck out”, you got the point.
Little does she know where I wipe them when she’s not in the car!
indeed
I used to work at a skate company packing cardboard boxes. It was shit but all I cared about at the time was drinking and trying to get laid. They used to get some of the very famous Aussie skaters to work there from time to time. One of them went off the rails ala Gator. Wrapped himself in a rug and jumped off the bridge, poor bastard.
Yes shipping and receiving. Big excitement of the day would be when the new Thrasher or Transworld Mag would come out. We would all stop working for a half hour and pour through the pages.
Barely made any money but we had fun drinking beer at lunch and smoking weed. Skating around on little ramps when there was nothing to do.
Saw a documentary on the Papas brothers .
I’m guessing here that Chad has never been to Indo, not that it matters. But the place is called Canggu, not Changgu and definitely not Chungoo. See, in Bahasa Indonesia the letter C is pronounced as Ch. Also in Indo, Canggu is a complete shit wave, literally and figuratively. Dead fucking goats and cows float in the lineup after rains and the wave itself is nothing but a respite from the reefs around the rest of Bali and Indo. Had the hipster crowd not decided that Canggu was a good place to be an ex-pat, it would still be that nasty ass wave that allowed people to get away from the buzz of Kuta and the Bukit. As it stands, its VAL central.
I surfed Chungoo back before it was hipster, friend. Or maybe as it was transitioning.
I’m almost sure that’s yeh genge,down the road abit from there.
Real question is-was it before or after you transitioned?
Pre or post Deus I guess.
This ones better.
Good for Fisher to have found success, but can you imagine having to sit in a car with him on a long surf trip? I’d have to get out after a half hour.
I’d think you would need a break to let your cheeks and gut relax a bit from laughing so fucking hard.
No I can’t. Not big on spending a lot of time with people that constantly have the volume on max. I pretty much only do surf trips with the wife now. I like rolling solo vs with a pack. She loves to read and likes to take the occasional video of me surfing which I tell her to delete immediately after.
ditto
I would watch a reality TV show of him and italo surfing and ….