DJ Fisher gets a hair transplant
DJ Fisher debuts new Caesar cut after nearly nine thousand hair plugs were inserted into his previously barren skull.

Randy property developer DJ Fisher debuts “Caesar cut” after 8369 hair grafts!

Mick Fanning says, “It’s a Christmas miracle!”

The crown of bawdy DJ Fisher, whose career in the limelight began as a pro surfer and who we last saw in these pages as he prepared to demolish a old beach shack to build a beachfront skyscraper, has long been as barren as a mountain top.

In lieu of the hair which had once adorned it, there was a fringe of dark locks on the sides which gave the bald part the appearance of an equatorial island.

Not that you’d know.

The thirty-eight-year-old, nominated for Best Dance Recording category at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards for the nipple-twisting hit “Losing It” and whose techno anthems include the wildly anti-work and sexually explosive Just Feels Tight, has long hidden his underneath the again-fashionable bucket hat.

Now, after 8369 hair grafts completed by Brisbane-based hair transplant expert Dr Rukshan Senanayake (Dr Ruk), DJ Fisher has achieved a classic Caesar look with short, horizontally straight cut bangs.

DJ Fisher unveiled the new look in a Christmas post.

HAIRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! BEEN KEEPING THIS ONE UNDER HATS

 

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A who’s who of world surfing celebrity were quick to pounce.

“It’s a Christmas miracle,” wrote Mick Fanning.

“Can’t wait til that one wears thin too,” teased Taj Burrow.

Dingo Morrison, “Wow them bucket hats gonna sell out. Sprouting like a pot plant under there.”

UFC hall-of-famer Luke Rockhold wrote, “Hahahaha it’s about fucking time.”

And Tom Carroll, twice a world champ and bald, effectively, since his mid-twenties lamented, “Santa’s Creepy Elves been at it again…wish I was serviced.”

Not mentioned is the bravery of DJ Fisher to go under the knife in this gory ballet of scalp manipulation where the surgeon slices into the donor area, usually at the back of the head, extracting strips of hair-covered flesh with a scalpel.

The harvested strip is then diced into tiny grafts, each one a clump of follicles with bits of tissue clinging on. These grafts are meticulously poked into bald patches with needle-like tools, causing more bleeding and swelling.

The scalp is dotted with blood, scabs forming where each graft has been implanted. The patient leaves with a head bandaged, hiding the macabre scene underneath.

 

 

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Landon McNamara (pictured) after epic Eddie win.
Landon McNamara (pictured) after epic Eddie win.

Eddie hero Landon McNamara arrested on old warrant after inspiring Waimea win

But sweet redemption at the end?

Surfers, near and far, are still buzzing about the ’24 running of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. The epic show at Waimea Bay on December 22nd has only grown in its legend in the ensuing days. Clips, for example, of Jamie O’Brien and Nathan Florence being uploaded to video sharing channels. Images of Ross Clarke-Jones having his hand re-attached, after wipeout, while hacking a dart and drinking a cold Modelo. And now, most cinematic of all, the day’s hero Landon McNamara has been arrested and subsequently let out on bail on an old warrant.

The incident leading to the arrest occurred last December when the 28-year-old broke a window at his family home and was detained by the police. When put in a holding cell, he proceeded to break his cell window and later kicked the plexiglass partition in a police cruiser.

The case for the home window was dropped and he pleaded no contest on the issue of the cell window thus being released on $2000 bail. He will be back in court, per Island News, on Monday, Dec. 30.

Landon’s father, the legend Liam McNamara, posted how proud he was of his son bettering himself over the past year and winning the most prestigious surf contest on earth.

His lawyer, Darrell Wong, released a statement reading:

Landon McNamara is charged with a matter that took place over a year ago. It was a matter that allegedly occurred contemporaneously with a misdemeanor matter of which he pled no contest to and was granted a Deferred Acceptance. Both these matters were related to personal issues and challenges that Mr. McNamara was experiencing during December of last year (2023). Mr. McNamara took immediate steps to overcome these challenges and for this reason, the District Court Judge in the former matter found him to be a qualified and deserving candidate for a deferral. Mr. McNamara has been free of any arrests over this past year and continues to overcome the challenges that once plagued him.

A comeback for the ages?

Redemption song.

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Longboarding maestro Devon Howard and the “silence” killing surfing!

"To me the mid-length represents a giving up, a throwing in the towel, a capitulation to nature, age, crowds, weakness."

The San Diego surfer Devon Howard, a “great style master” and famous for his non-sexual charisma, is the man credited with converting longboard hating Chas Smith to the use of the mid-length surfboard.

Chas admitted his apostasy in a post some years back:

“To me the mid-length represents a giving up, a throwing in the towel, a capitulation to nature, age, crowds, weakness. Quitters ride mid-lengths. Rebels ride shortboards, high performance, fishy-hybrids, twins while shaking a balled up fist at destiny and yelling, “I will NOT be undone!”

“Except…

“At night, when no one is looking, I hide under the covers and scroll Instagram until I find Devon Howard’s profile then drool, playing this clip over and over and over and over until I’m in the throes of absolute ecstasy.”

In this interview, which may have been a pro qui pro for a new surfboard, Devon Howard describes longboarding as the punk rock older brother of the shortboard shredder, details the sublime joy of being hated and urges all surfers to break through the code of silence that is killing surfing.

“Silence is violence,” says Devon Howard. 

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California surfers beg for relief as yet another super swell arrives

Surfline, save us!

The old chestnut “be careful what you wish for, it might just come true” has never meant more to California’s surfers who suffered through one of worst summer/autumn dry spells in recorded history are now entering their tenth consecutive day of mega swell. Shorelines being lit right up. From Santa Cruz’s Steamer Lane to Ventura’s Rincon all the way down to La Jolla’s Blacks, ten days of big and bigger surf and counting.

Early “stoke” and “glee” has given way to an overwhelming sense of dread as Golden State sliders check the forecast and see phrases like “new NW energy moves in” or “swell in water being reinforced,” wondering if shoulders can take any more. If marriages, family well-being, employment can take any more too.

A brutal run that, currently, has no end in sight.

California, recognizing an impending collapse, has urged residents to “stop going to the beach” though surfers, as is their wont, are not listening very well.

But do you live here?

Are your shoulders sore?

Is marriage failing?

More importantly, what have you been riding?

Share, please.

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Ross Clarke Jones almost loses hand in horror wipeout.
Ross Clarke-Jones gets on a heater while contest nurse saves his paw.

Big-wave legend Ross Clarke-Jones’ hand “close to being amputated” after wipeout on thirty-foot wave

Surf icon enjoys cigarette after wiepout that nearly cost him his paw!

The Australian big-wave surf icon, Ross Clarke-Jones, affectionately known in celebrity circles as Mad Dog, has narrowly avoided having his hand amputated after a wipeout on a thirty-foot wave at the recently completed Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational.

Ross, who was famously born on 6/6/66, has long eluded all methods available in the drama of nature to eliminate him from this earthly realm.

Five years ago, while appearing in a Celebrity Survivor series, Ross snapped his ankle on a rope swing, an injury so devastating he was “totally incapacitated, depressed, broke and anxious”.

Two years without surfing. Couldn’t even step on a surfboard. Was scared of even going into the water in case he fell and did more damage.

Says if he’d had a gun he would’ve shot himself.

At this year’s Eddie contest, Ross, who won the event in 2001, wiped out, snapped his board and the fibreglass shredded his hand so bad the contest nurse said he was this close to losing his paw.

Pretty minor injury for ol Ross, who busted his ribs and was knocked unconscious on this third visit to Hawaii in 1987. In 1992, he was nearly despatched to heaven while surfing in Indonesia. That same year, he busted his back surfing Off the Wall and in 1998, him and his tow buddy Tony Ray got belted by a monster set at Outside Log Cabins and were eventually found, floating on their flooded jetski, outside of Haleiwa Harbour.

Yeah, and in 2019, Nazaré almost got him.

What impresses most about this particular injury, this event, is Ross’ response, calmly enjoying a heater while the nurse pulls the shards of fibreglass out of his myriad wounds, and which was posted on his son Kanan’s Instagram.

“Edit goes hard,” writes Nathan Florence.

Ross’ old sparring partner Rob Bain, who nearly drowned at the Billabong Pro at Waimea Bay in 1986 and who celebrated his new shot at life with a cigarette on the beach wrote,

“Marlboro light and a beer at the bay. Brings back memories!! Onya.”

Glory days.

 

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