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...

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.