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...

What were you doing?

What were you doing on this dark and gloomy day in July?

There were some HELL ones at the Rock...

JJB and I held up a rainbow.

Todd Rosewall set the precedent and found some water funnels.

Josh Johnson-Baxter got in on the act and found a warped cavern.

Even I found myself a lost in a time tunnel.

I am not sure what you were doing but our day was pretty good...

Boardcam Preview...

Couple of cheeky waves at Winki filmed by Glen Hurst...

38 Degrees South 3 - World Domination Trailer

JJB Bali 2009

josh johnson-baxter from josh johnson-baxter on Vimeo.

Missing Out

Weeks ago I agreed to judge the Victorian Longboard Titles over the weekend of 8th and 9th of May. What a mistake. While I was forced to watch old boys pretend to nose ride in fat rights at Pt. Impossible, all of my mates scored pumping waves all over the coast. My phone was ringing flat out, everyone thinking it was hilarious to tell me what I was missing out on.

This place usually a full burger, but the conditions on the coast were that good it was almost resembling a quality lineup. All weekend I was horrified to think about how the real reefs were looking.

Back in Business

The TOKEN VICTORIAN did not die, I just took a few months off posting updates. I am back and will be bigger and better than ever. Stay tuned.

Dance Off Your Face

Dance off. Alisha vs Screech. from Cahill on Vimeo.

Between Two Coors

Check this interview I did with team MOBORUSH on another slow Hawaiian evening. Nic wrote the questions and Adam couldn't see them until he asked me. If you get over it skip to end to see an amazing bonus section.

Todays guest: Cahill Bell-Warren

US vs THEM

Vote for LAURA, OWEN or GARRET in the Surfing Magazine US vs THEM poll.

Surfing Magazine have tried an interesting concept, putting three of the top juniors from both the USA and Australia on a boat, film it and bring it to their readers to decide which country is in control of junior surfing.

The surfers they selected are...

Australia: Owen Wright, Garret Parkes and Laura Enever.

America: Nat Young, Kolohe Andino and Alana Blanchard.

Their audience is strongly American based and we need to do what we can to support our Australian representatives.

Follow the link below and vote for Australia.

http://blogs.surfingmagazine.com/video/us-vs-them-voting-begins/

Surfline Clip

Dropped a wave in a FOX clip on surfline.com. Check it out it has a heap of waves from Jarrad Sullivan and Eric Geiselman. The waves have been shithouse but we have managed to get some keepers.

http://www.surfline.com/video/featured-clips/north-shore-a-week-in-november_38826

Moborush Quiver

I know it has been a while since I have posted anything, since the Philippines I went to the Goldcoast for a few (wave starved) days. I am now in Hawaii and instead of going to the effort of producing something post worthy, I am stealing content from www.MOBORUSH.com. Check it out if you want to see my Hawaiian quiver, honestly it is missing a 6'1 and a 7'2 but it does the job.