The Outsider: In Loving Memory Of...
Tuesday 30/08 108
Spirituality is not really a physical thing...it comes down to where your mind's at
billabong pro teahupoo
The Outsider: White Like Heaven / Black Like Space
Monday 29/08 10
If there is a God I hope he's looking after me
Billabong Pro Day 3 (+photos)
Monday 29/08 0
Jeremy Flores became the third surfer in history to surf a perfect 20/20 heat
Bruce Goes at Big Teahupoo
Sun 28 August 12:00am
It wasn't the expression session people had rallied the ASP for but Bruce Irons still found some solo time at Teahupoo. Bruce Irons, AI's younger brother, all alone in the endzone.
Photos by Steve Shearer.
More photos here or strap yourself in for an incredible highlights reel from this morning's session.
Bruce Goes at Big Teahupoo
Sun 28 August 12:00am
It wasn't the expression session people had rallied the ASP for but Bruce Irons still found some solo time at Teahupoo. Bruce Irons, AI's younger brother, all alone in the endzone.
Photos by Steve Shearer.
More photos here or strap yourself in for an incredible highlights reel from this morning's session.
The Outsider: Death Mask (pt.1)
Saturday 27/08 16
malevolent Teahupoo devoured one of its native-born children in the opening heat of the day
The Outsider: Ohana/utuafare/family
Friday 26/08 3
Papa has seen more perfect, unridden reef pass waves than any man alive.
The Outsider: Bruce Would Go
Wednesday 24/08 41
The reef seemed to spring out of the shallow ocean floor like the protruding fangs of some mythical beast
Teahupoo Forecast: The Lemon Next to the Pie
Tuesday 23/08 50
I said it's gonna get bigger
The Outsider: On the Seventh Day
Monday 22/08 12
"Life is at the roots, embedded in simplicity, asserting itself uniquely" - Henry Miller.
The Outsider: Down The Rabbit Hole
Sunday 21/08 16
"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead' Remember what the doormouse said, Keep your head!"
Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit.
Day 1 of the Billabong Pro Teahupoo wasn't quite epic but in the context of 2011 it was damn close. Only the lingering feeling that what we saw today would be a mere shadow of what is to come eminently robbed it of its stature. Minus Andy there was a weird feeling in the channel and a general feeling that Bruce should have been given a wildcard in honour of Andy.
Teahupoo Forecast: How Big?
Friday 19/08 11
A very strong S-SW swell will make landfall on day 6
Last words from the competitors
Thursday 18/08 0
I plan to ride quad-fin setups in Tahiti