Hats off to Dan Ross

[scroopulis]

Dunno if any of you guys heard, apparently Dan (who doesn't have a major sponno) after recieving his semi final winnings ($2900 U.S.) from the Oneill World Cup donated it to Pancho Sullivan. Panchos daughter is in need of a major heart operation that is gunna be hideously expensive.

Dan didn't even know Pancho very well.
Nice form mate. Hope you have a faarkin huge year on the CT.

[mical]

So rare, an inspirational thing to do.

[boardscape avalon]

Dan Ross is champion!

[jimmy]

Dan has always struck me as being an honourable guy and a bit of a thinker.. That confirms it.. Great gesture..

[silvynn]

Wow. Talk about good karma. Guess he'll be scoring some drop-in free waves from the locals on his next trip to Hawaii?

[channels]

With Taj winning US$90k, Fanning US$50k and Parko US$50k, all with big sponsorships unlike Dan Ross, is there any news of any of those three donating to Pancho?

[GFM]

I'm pretty sure they did some donations during that Sullivan get-together last week. Didn't Mick also donate a few boards and other stuff for auctions also?

[mical]

With Taj winning US$90k, Fanning US$50k and Parko US$50k, all with big sponsorships unlike Dan Ross, is there any news of any of those three donating to Pancho?

I'd hope they're all helping in more ways than we'll ever know about.

There's the media attention getting stuff like dinners and auctions to raise some $$ and awareness of their plight, and then there's the mates looking after mates on the quiet as well I'd hope.