Flame-haired King of Pipe leaves swell of the year
to go tanker surfing in New York with the vlogger Surfer magazine
hates!
Of all the Jamie O vlogs, this captures, I think, the
essence of the weekly video: a mostly pointless snapshot
of famous surfers squeezing often unripe oranges for whatever juice
they can get.
Here, we see a cross-pollination of surf vlog stars Jamie
O’Brien and Ben Gravy as Jamie and filmer cross the Pacific Ocean
to meet Gravy in New Jersey and, later, to travel together to New
York.
Gravy, you know as the vlogger Surfer
magazine ghosted at their annual awards last month when they
refused to include him among the nominations for best web
series, which was eventually won by Rip Curl’s
The Search.
“(Rejection) formed me into the person I am today. I am a
self-made person. I started that way and I’ll probably end that
way,” said Ben.
Jamie’s vlog, of course, is a guilty treat like taking out
your surfboards and laying them tenderly on the bed or hard kisses
that leave little flecks of blood on your lips.
Watch as Jamie goes to New Jersey, gets cold, goes to New York,
follows squirrels and, as a finale, rides a one-foot wave next to a
tanker.
A highlight of the episode is his response to subscribers’
questions.
Morgan King writes, “Jamie comes off as a self centred tool to
be honest.”
Another asks how he handled being dropped-in on at Pipe by a
bodyboarder.
Watch!
