Bells Beach

[Davros]

Let it be so gate keeper

[Beanpole]

Real surf style consultant there, Davros...

[channels]

45 seconds, yep that is a fking long time

it sure is davros. me old mate.

I thought so too.

My wife disagrees.

[steve shearer]

has Carroll filed yet?

I have but god knows when they'll post it

well where is it? Surfline or CW?

[crabmeat thompson]

I want a new name...how'd you do that Crabmeat?

You think of a name and then ask tardg to amend!

[Nick Carroll]

has Carroll filed yet?

I have but god knows when they'll post it

well where is it? Surfline or CW?

http://2.bells.surfline.com

[Rustt]

So the young lad was Russell Bierke?

Yeah, had a few texts to him last night, seems okay. He was lucky someone was watching, everyone else was watching the approaching set. That's a positive tick for the jetski circus.

[steve shearer]

has Carroll filed yet?

I have but god knows when they'll post it

well where is it? Surfline or CW?

http://2.bells.surfline.com

Whoosh! out of the park. I was hoping to a: pick up a few things I hadn't seen on the webby, and b: get a sense of what it felt like to be there, the mood, the light, etc etc.
that was a great read.

[Cranked]

Nick Carroll, writing the mythology of surfing into existence right here and now!

[steve shearer]

One thing left unanswered for me.

I know what I think and feel, what Crabmeat thinks and feels, what Carroll thinks and feels after the best aussie leg ever.

What I'd like to know is what CEO Dirk Ziff thinks and feels about it.

[crabmeat thompson]

Dirk is somewhere wearing an immaculately pressed, light tan and white cotton pants (rolled up from the ankle) and shirt ensemble and sipping a caipirinha, while his wife, wearing designer short shorts, and showing off her fabulously tanned and taught legs, picks up droppings from their careless, but nevertheless pedigree Pekinese.

Which I might add, they illegally flew into australia via their private jet.


That's how i imagine dirk to feel about it all.

[alakaboo]

I liked the article, Nick, but it just seems to stop suddenly?
Could be a phone thing.

[Beanpole]

So that's what happens when they let surf journos loiter around contests. Great read.

[PeepeelaPew]

...

[Nick Carroll]

I liked the article, Nick, but it just seems to stop suddenly?
Could be a phone thing.

It's just me deliberately avoiding the cliche souped up ending paragraph.

Plus it's cool just to finish sharp like that, on Jordy's simplest response to his win.

If it jars the reader a bit, makes he/she go back into the piece, so much the better.

[Nick Carroll]

What I'd like to know is what CEO Dirk Ziff thinks and feels about it.

christ who doesn't.

The magnificently enigmatic Dave Prodan promised me an audience with CEO Dirk Ziff, however it is yet to materialise, possibly because I am barely ever in the same place at the same time as any billionaires, I mean look at me for fcuk's sake.

But I have hopes. By all accounts he's a nice man, very sharp and intellectually curious etc etc, then again, if somebody's giving you millions of dollars a year to play in a sandbox, you're hardly gonna bag him out are you.

[Nick Carroll]

Nick Carrol, did Führer TargG change your name on the article credit with his moderator powers?

I wish. I was thinking of changing my name to Dogmeat Bristow, but that'd just be weird.

[crabmeat thompson]

nothing at all out of whack with dogmeat bristow.

but i may not be an authority on such matters.