Where’s Steve? I don’t like it. he should be here by now!
Bali Strickland recounting the words of fellow On The Rock team member, Dave Sparkes. After two weeks of hurrying up and waiting for the Maui event to run and losing his mind in the process, Sparkesy had adopted a pet cockroach, which he named Steve. Every night Steve would turn up out on the porch, Sparkesy would pat him and talk to him about his day. On the last day though Steve never showed, and Sparkesy was freaking, thinking Steve had been on the wrong end of a can of bug spray.
I’d swim back to Kauai pretty quick.
Kauaian grommet, Koa Smith, on what he’d do if he ever accidentally dropped in on one of Da Boys out at Pipe and got “whistelled in”.
I was with two of the biggest locals on the North Shore, so I figured I’d be okay.
Wheelchair surfer, Barney Miller, after fading a local mal rider on his first wave out at Chuns today.
Davey, you’re my favourite Tasmanian Hawaiian.
On The Rock’s Jon Frank, getting emotional at photographer Sean Davey’s birthday dinner tonight. Frank is, albeit it, pulling from a somewhat limited pool of Tasmanians who have migrated to Hawaii... a pool of just one.
The Duke’s a living legend...
Mick Fanning does a Lazarus job on surfing icon Duke Kahanomoku.
They focus their surfing between Pipe and Off The Wall; hard, vicious, breaking-close-to-the-shore death pit kind of things.
Rip Curl founder and 36-year Hawaii-visa veteran, Doug “Claw” Warbrick, describing – with a flourish – what he’s seeing as the big shift in surfing over here in the islands over the past five years.
You really don’t want to pass out tonight with that stuff lying around!
On The Rock writer, Doherty, upon finding out Ben Ross was going to leave all his tattoo gear sitting on the fridge overnight.
I might get ‘Coolangatta Sands Hotel: admit one’ tattooed on my wrist.
Mick Fanning, debating options for a tattoo. It’s only been raining for three days and already people are starting to lose their minds. Stay tuned for the results of Mick’s tattoo tomorrow.
That wind doesn’t look real good. I think it’s the Corona wind.
Departing Rip Curl Pit Boss, Matt Griggs, discovers that the traditional North Shore devil wind – the kona winds – aren’t always bad news.
There was an American film crew who shot me once for some movie they were making, and they put subtitles on it. They subtitled me, the bastards!
The only Tasmanian to ever migrate to Hawaii, Sean Davey, after anchoring today’s On The Rock clip, recounts an earlier – and less successful – cameo appearance in front of the camera, when his Tasmanian/Hawaiian pidgin confused an entire Hollywood set crew.
It’s my one little bit of joy over here, and you’ve ruined it for me, Mick!
An anonymous redheaded Rip Curl video guy, who was caught hairy-palmed last night by Mick Fanning in, what shall we say, a somewhat compromising position with his laptop in the team house laundry.
Sick heat, eh? That sums up my year. Comboed at Pipe by a 13-year-old.
Bottle Thompson, frustrated but ever-willing to take the p*ss out of himself, minutes after losing to Hawaiian supergrom Jon Jon Florence today, a loss that cost Bottle his spot on the 2009 Dream Tour.
Do Femme Neu do gift vouchers?
An anonymous pro surfer, struggling for Christmas gift ideas. As i turns out, the Honolulu strip club only takes dollar bills.
This is making me a better human being!
Owen Wright, defending himself as he entered his third straight hour on the couch today without having moved. Having surfed eight hours a day for the past two weeks, today was his rostered day off.
I invented it, but it turns out it was already done.
Video vegan Bali Strickland upon discovering his automatic toilet seat closer had already been invented and patented.
Layne, thank you for making it okay to drink a margarita before your heat.
Steph Gilmore toasts the departing seven-time world champion at Layne Beachley’s party tonight, acknowledging the professionalism Layne has brought to the game.
Do you mind if I rest my boobs against you? The world’s luckiest grommet – Owen Wright – gets asked by the über-smoking naked model on today’s Rip Curl boardie shoot if he’s comfortable with a set of perky 34DDs wedged against his chest for the shot. Owen, who was wearing four pairs of undies as a restraint at the time, answered, 'Um, no, I don’t mind. No, no, and no. Rest away!'
'If you did a floater on that section over there, do you reckon you’d die?'
Dave Sparkes: 'No, but I think your legs would die.'
Matt Wilkinson, watching an eight-foot death slab explode in six inches of water down the beach from Off The Wall.
It’s three foot with 40 foot sets.
Photographer Jon Frank, describing the size of the surf today, island style.
She looks like Owen Wright with tits.
An anonymous team rider commenting on the lithesome female who has moved in next door to the RC team house. Owen will never look at the guy who said it the same way ever again. |
