Mick Fanning ended 2009 as a winner & the two-time world champion has begun this year in the same fashion, leading Kirra Boardriders Club to victory in ideal one metre waves in the QLD
In 2003 Kelly Slater was giving a speech in front of a room full of industry movers and shakers at the Surfer Poll Awards in California. Mid-speech Mick Fanning climbed the stage unannounced, pissed to the eyeballs on vodka and Red Bull. Slater, somewhat taken aback asked Mick, 'what would happen if I did this to you in Australia'. To which Mick replied, 'You'd get laid!'