I felt a shiver of awe watching Vance's clips and something else, dim and remote, which might have been a thrill of hope.
They call these sorta things life goals, a little boy, long grown up, and his daddy, the man who put him into waves when he was three, sharing empty barrels at a luxury wave pool resort in the United Arab Emirates.
Vance Burrow, eighty or thereabouts, maybe seventy-five, but eighty sounds more profound, octogenarian etc, moved from San Diego to Yallingup, Western Australia, with his surfer wife Nancy fifty years ago, back when it was all rolling green fields and blue water and Great Whites were still a little iffy about getting close to human beings.
Vance earned his money as a music teacher and pro guitarist, toured with Taj Mahal at one point, and was so impressed by the sexy Afro-Americano he named his kid after him thereby unwittingly spawning several generation of kids in California and Australia to be called Taj.
![Taj mahal • “john ain’t it hard/oh susanna” • live 1970 [reelin' in the years archive]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uSBc93xtl1Q/0.jpg "Taj Burrow And 80-Year-Old Daddy Vance Shred Abu Dhabi Wave Pool In Epic Father-Son Session 2")
In the clip from the Abu Dhabi tank, Vance shows age certainly does not weary those ancient bones, sliding into backside tubes with the sorta style that only comes after a lifetime of chasing backside curtains.
A blessed harvest on a balmy Abu Dhabi afternoon and more fun than being buggered behind the woodpile, as they used to say.
I felt a shiver of awe watching Vance’s clips and something else, dim and remote, which might have been a thrill of hope. A hope that life doesn’t end at sixty or whatever.
Thoroughly essential.
Heartwarming 🫶
Oh wait, i forgot its a petrostate dictatorship building environmentally ridiculous sportswashing projects with slave labour.
Sick
One funny thing I noticed in that clip is that Vance has spent 50 years down here now and still sounds fully American which is awful news for you seppo cunts. It means no matter what ya do, or wherever ya go yous are all stuck with that shit, whiney accent of yours for good haha
One funny thing I noticed is that as soon as Australians step on American soil they lose 1/2 their money. It means no matter what ya do, or whereever ya go yous are all stuck with that shit currency.
Remarkable. I don’t really do social media so I rely on you lads for this sort of interesting stuff
Would have loved to have a pops who surfed , or even took me surfing back in the day.
Pool looks fun in this context. Shit pool for a WSL stop, especially compared to the other ones out there where people are punting 5 foot tweaked airs.
As bad as it is as a WSL stop it was way worse for the slaves that built it.
Was Caviera their foreman?
caveira…
Said a few times on here already how Taj is one of my favorite Strayans of all time. Just a no bullshit cunt who appreciates how he has lived the dream
Funny thing is now his old boy Vance might now be one of my favourite seppos. Only 75 and seems a fucking sick cunt too who is younger than the geriatrics you cunts over there keep voting in. Vance for POTUS
Wait a minute. You mean Vance Burrow, correct? Not that other fat faced little bitch with initials for a first name? Nothing much cuntier than going by initials for a first name.
CJ Hobgood is secretly hurt by your comment. But he buries it deep down, and tries to act like he’s not hurting inside.
VB
Vance is the opposite of Steph Gilmore, doesn’t go right
Taj Dane A.I. and Noah best ever. Kelly who.
Don’t forget Buttons
nothing like surfing with your kid.
wonderful.
I think this is the only time I’ve agreed with your application of the word essential. So good