Tom Curren is a surfing legend, fact, so I think it’s fair that we spend five minutes of our time watching him slide and glide. Classic effortless style and precision lines that have defined and era in the oceans. Smoother than silk and cooler than a polar bear in an ice bath, Curren has managed to be a figure that both underground surf punks and corporate crew love. This is surfing at its best, its purest, this is Tom Curren, nice.
Another take on the recent Pipe swell from the man who has it at the bottom of his garden – Jamie O’Brien.
It's not every day you get a last-minute call to go to Ireland with one of the guys from the WCT.
In fact trips with CT guys are pretty thin on the ground for us folks dwelling on this little cluster of rocks slowly drifting away from Europe. We don't get to bathe in the glow of the annual WSL circus like they do in France and Portugal. The month bonanza of surfing from the world's best at a level so high it makes your eyes sting.
So an opportunity to hit Ireland with genial Gold Coast based power monger, Wade Carmichael, while very last minute, was welcome. Sam Smart and Ollie O'Flaherty rounded off the home crew, and Wade came over with his entourage: filmer, Jesse Little, and mate Ben Jones.
Check out the latest issue of Carve for the full feature.
Photo: Sharpy
With a recent Mechanical Engineering degree under his belt, Michael ‘Waterspider’ Darling is balancing the life of professional surfing as an entrepreneur in Tofino, BC, Canada.
Come join Nathan Florence for a Pipeline session featuring big barrels and the kind of caught inside situation you really don’t want to ever face…
