Dave and Laura Macaulay Video

Got my film on during the Open Australian Titles...

Dave and Laura Macaulay, Australian Titles 2010 from THE TOKEN VICTORIAN on Vimeo.

Aussies Highlight Video Appearance Day 6

Landed a few clips in this highlight video. It shows the ONLY two waves I caught in my quarter final loss. If you want to skip straight to me, I make an appearance at the 1.15 mark of the video.

Unfortunate Moments In Surfing Part 4 & 5

*EXCESS LEGGIE STRING

Leggies are an integral part of surfing. People have made careers from designing them, and

there is more technology in them than most people would know. When put under pressure the leggie string can pull through the tail of the board, making a mess. It has happened to me in the past and I have seen it happen to others, which is why the railsaver was invented. The railsaver is wider and thicker than the humble leggie string, meaning it spreads pressure across the tail when put under pressure, resulting in a massive reduction in tail destruction.

The picture below is of a standard leggie, with the long black section on the left being the railsaver, and the bigger black ankle strap on the right. Click the image below to check the Creatures of Leisure leggie range.

This brings me to part 4 of Unfortunate Moments in Surfing, Excess Leggie String.

Pulling up to a freezing cold Victorian carpark, I looked through the window in the car next to mine and saw this surfing atrocity. Check how long the leggie string is. The board was newish and I will put money on that string pulling through the tail. It is an accident waiting to happen. A crying shame really.

*THE MISPLACED TAIL PAD

The poor bloke who owns this shooter had an absolute shocker when preparing it for war with the waves. We all know that the "sweet spot" on a surfboard is hard to find, and this lad has made things harder for himself to find it because he has lost 4 inches tail to place his back foot. I call this the Josh Johnson-Baxter...

Anglesea River Sunrise

Watching the sun rise is one of the special things in life. I everyone should do it more often, I am guilty of sleeping in too much...

Taken while standing in the Anglesea servo.

Vote 1. JEFF ROWLEY For The EDDIE!

Your vote can help Jeff Rowley to be invited to this year’s In Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave surfing competition, held at Waimea Bay, Hawaii!

This means so much to him- this is what he is passionate about!

Jeffs Promise:
When he gets in the event he promises to keep a blog and send you email updates of his journey- from his training at home before the event all the way through the event. He will share his stories and experiences along the way with you!

Here's how:
1. Log onto www.polls.quiksilver.com (15 seconds)
2. Enter your basic details- name/birthday etc (30 seconds)
3. Tick 25 invitees and 25 alternates. If you don’t know the surfers please tick from top to bottom- it’s quick & easy. (2 minutes) TVIC also suggests Paul Patterson and Tony Ray.
4. “WRITE IN A RIDER”: at bottom:
First name: Jeff Last name: Rowley Then click “Add”. (10 seconds)
5. Click “Continue” button to finish. Total time 3 minutes!
*Please do it today- entries close August 31st.

A final message from Jeff...

"I WANT TO BE THERE, IN THIS EVENT TO INSPIRE OTHER PEOPLE TO LIVE THEIR DREAMS!!!"

Unfortunate Moments In Surfing Part 3

*THE EMPTY PIE WARMER

The humble Australian meat pie can contain beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit and sheep. The Average Australian consumes 12 meat pies a year. My personal record is 9 in one day.

No other food makes me feel better after a surf and a meat pie. Nothing to extreme, it doesn't have to be gourmet or anything. A stock standard pie is perfect. This brings me to the third instalment of unfortunate moments in surfing... The empty pie warmer. Milk bars and general stores cannot prepare for the onslaught of a car load of hungry surfers, and thus they cannot be blamed when they run low on pies. A first in first served approach applies and there is nothing worse than being "that guy" who has to have a sausage roll, or even worse, some rank potato cakes because you were a bit slow getting out of the car.

I took this shot in Lavers Hill, fortunately after we had made our pie purchases. I feel for the next surfer who came in and found this horrifying sight, the empty pie warmer.

Who Is Rodd Rosewell?

Cruising through the heat draw for the final Pro Junior event of 2010, I was alerted to a fresh name; Rodd Rosewell.. He must be someone, he has a round of 64 seed. I am confused.

Who the flip is Rodd Rosewell?

Sounds like some form of back room child porn fiend, or the type to commit a school yard massacre. Im pretty sure I recently read that Rodd Rosewell was actually born a girl and was given the name Mary...

I think the man in the white singlet for Heat #14 of the round of 64 at the Dripping Wet Pro Junior is actually TODD ROSEWALL.

Thank goodness for that, because there is no use for the kiddly fiddling mass murderer Rodd Rosewell on the Junior Series.

Here is a shot of the real Todd Rosewall, hiding behind the curtain at a secret Mundaka like left that everyone claims but no one actually knows about.

Big thanks to Codie Klein, the self proclaimed number one fan of the Token Victorian, for bringing this unfortunate miss identification to my attention...

WA Shark Attack

Mental shit. Check the news story here at the Perth Now website.

Unfortunate Moments In Surfing Part 2

*THE REEF KISS

Shyama Buttonshaw, aka. The Dalai Lama, is a vegetarian. He has never eaten meat. We give him shit about it all the time. I know that he loves his salad and he proved it by trying to eat some organic sea weed growing on the reef at a cheeky right we surfed last week.

The Dalai didnt worry about ice for his swollen lip, he just prowled the bushes for his next meat free feed. He looks happy doesn't he...

Hawaiian Video From Moborush

I know I keep stealing posts from my fellow Vic Mafians at Moborush.com, but this one involves me being in a heap of pain so I thought they wouldn't mind. Check here for what they had to say about the clip.

The short story is that Adam Robertson was playing around with his new video camera and somehow nailed a clip of me being a dickhead on the walk to see American comedian Dane Cook live in Honolulu...

CBWatch out for the.... from Mobo Rush on Vimeo.

Disssention In The Azores!

You may or may not have heard that the 6 Star rated Billabong Azores Islands Pro WQS event was cancelled because it was dead flat.

The official quote from the event website is "The Billabong Azores Islands Pro presented by Nissan an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) sanctioned event was forced to cancel due to a lack of contestable waves. Event officials and surfers were greeted at dawn by a flat ocean as the expected overnight swell increase failed to eventuate. Contest director Rodrigo Heredia made another call mid-morning however this proved fruitless leaving the remaining 96 surfers of round two unable to compete further in the 145,000$US event."

This has all sorts of repercussions for the competitors. The most obvious of these being the financial outlay to attend the event that never was. The biggest issue here is the crazy number of ratings points the surfers are there chasing are no longer available.... I sussed twitter to see how some of the competitors are feeling about the whole thing.

After being injured for the first half of 2010, Julian Wilson is one surfer desperately chasing the ratings points.

Josh Kerr approached the situation a little differently.

Mick Fanning fortunately did not go to this event, but was still interested by how it would effect is mates.

Vic Mafian Jack Perry summed it up well.

Dayyan Neve was clearly over it, but he was able to shed some light on how the ASP had decided to deal with the ratings points and event prizemoney.

Once again the boys at Moborush nailed it.

To see video highlights of the womens final won by Laura Enever click the image below.

Vote Surfers Into The Eddie

This year you can have a say (I am not sure how much they will listen) on who surfs in the next Quiksilver In Memory Of Eddie Aikau.

My suggestion is to vote for Paul Paterson and Tony Ray, get these two Aussie mentals back into one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

Click here to vote.

Unfortunate Moments In Surfing Part 1

*STICKER ISSUES

The first of what I dare say will be many posts relating to unfortunate moments in surfing. I was recently at Phillip Island doing more filming for the First Love movie, while waiting for Georgia Fish to finish an interview I had a bit of a look at her new Emery. Nice looking board, but what I saw on the nose shocked me. The most air bubbles in a sponsor sticker I have ever seen. I know its not the end of the world, I have copped heat from team moborush for even noticing these sorts of things, but I thought I would share it anyone who may be interested. It was hard to get a shot that truely captured what was going on but I think you will be able to see what I am talking about.

I'm not writing Georgia off here, she is a legend, it just happened to be her name attached to the board. If you want to know more about her click here.

Teahupoo Fantasy Team

Just locked in my Fantasy Surfer team for the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo. Im feeling pretty good about my selections too. Let me know your thoughts.

Buoyweather Wig Out

Buoyweather is one of the most trustworthy swell forecasting websites going around. With areputation for accuracy, this image shows that even the best can have an off day. The top level of the graph shows the wind direction and speed, the bottom the swell direction, size and period. The first few days in the image are standard for our area in swell size, period and direction, have a look at Friday through Sunday.....

Pop Magazine Eddie Article

Topic: The 2009 Quiksilver in Memory Of Eddie Aikau.

Author: The Token Victorian.

Photos: Clare Plueckhahn.

Published In the Shaun White Edition of Pop.

Click the images of each page to view the story at a size large enough to read...

The Otway Sasquatch FOUND!

The Otway region has a reputation for keeping mythical creatures secret. Many people have allegedly seen the Otway Panther, but we have conclusive evidence that the Otway Sasquatch exists. Also known as the Ginger Swinger, the big red sack Swiv has been making a few runs down south with the boys. Todd Rosewall nailed this shot before the big fella could sneak off to his natural habitat; inside the barrel. Here is concrete evidence of his existence!

The Amity Affliction

Just got my hands on the new Amity Affliction album, "Youngbloods".

Consider my mind blown. Check them out here.

Simply Simpo

Dont want to look like I am jumping on his bandwagon, but check out Simply Simpo. Brett Simpson just won his second consecutive US OPEN, which had $100,ooo USD prizemoney each time. His site has some sick videos and kind of breaks down his 2009 into parts. There is some really insightful words in interviews and some great surfing clips. Check it out.

Boaties Love #3

The last edition of my 2007 Margaret River Memories. These shots are from Hugh Davis. For more gold from Hugh check his "Weekend Warrior" website.

Steps?

Locked in.

Boaties Love #2

Here is the only two waves I had captured from our memorable week towing this semi secret slab in Margaret River. Apologies for the video quality, it was filmed off a tv on my phone. I found these clips on my old computer...

2007 Memories, Margaret River from THE TOKEN VICTORIAN on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for photos from the session....

Boaties Love #1

I found theses photos when looking through my old computer. Around 3 years ago Dave Delroy-Carr and myself had a mental run of waves in Margaret River. We towed this joint for 6 days straight by ourselves. On the last day of the swell we had two waves filmed each, stay tuned for footage. It looks perfect, but once you got out there and up close to it you could see that it was far from easy. You had to fade around some steps and then pull up into the unpredictable hollow section. Think the Box without an option to paddle into it. On the day of these photos, I hit the bottom really badly and thought I had broken my leg. Nothing was broken, but I had trouble walking for a few days. The joint was mental, however after some of the cans we had out there a fat leg was a small price to pay....

Shoulder hopping on a smaller one.

My legs are tweaked and bent anyway, this is the swelling hours after impact.

Stay tuned to the TOKEN VICTORIAN over the next few days for some HD water photos and land footage from this semi secret slab...

Westerly Burgers

Surfcoast lineup shots from 05.08.10.

Ended up having the worst surf of my life at Juc.

Fat Winki.

Even fatter Bells.

Perfect Empty Waves

A secret Surfcoast right hander, reeling perfectly with no one around to molest it.

Secret Surfcoast Perfection from THE TOKEN VICTORIAN on Vimeo.

Whips. Why not?

Southies Whips from Cahill on Vimeo.

A sly video thrown together after we stole Jamie Powell's GO PRO camera during a recent whip session on a secluded beach.

Hit the button to the left of the word vimeo on the player as this clip looks better in full screen...