pipeline pro
Hawaii
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
In just over a week I will be boarding one of those big metal birds bound for Honolulu Hawaii. I’m looking forward to touching down and catching up with my hawaiian friends Spencer Skipper and Jeff Hubbard. Hopefully get a few good waves out Pipe and enjoy competing in the Pipeline Pro. I could say that Hawaii has been very kind to me in the past, I feel Hawaii help boost my career as a travelling professional bodyboarder. From the very first season I spent on what the surfing world calls the seven mile miracle, I just couldn’t get enough of what Hawaii had to offer. I think I surfed every break on that seven mile stretch and probably some waves that people wouldn’t even consider waves but i was loving every minute of my time on the north shore. This probably worried my parents a little because I didn’t want to ever leave. On my return home to the Gold Coast where big Duranbah didn’t seem so big anymore and school just not getting the attention it deserved due to constant daydreams between maths equations, I managed to receive quite a lot of publicity in the bodyboarding magazines around the world. I even impressed Mike Stewart enough for him to offer me a contract to ride for his company Science which i was just over the moon about, I mean what grom wouldn’t be so i signed the contract. I then re-signed with Billabong and everything was just fantastic.That first season in Hawaii i will always remember as my first big adventure and every year after that i still find it exciting and challenging.
Pipeline pro
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Dates are locked in for the first stop of the 2010 IBA World Tour at arguably the worlds most famous wave, the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Hawaii. From the 16th till the 26th of February the world’s best bodyboarders will converge and compete in bodyboarding’s longest running event which started back in 1982. Twenty seven years later and it is still the most coverted title a bodyboarder can hold besides the the world title. To have your name up alongside the list of greats such as 9 x Pipeline Champion Mike Stewart, Guilherme Tamega, Steve ”bullet” Mackenzie, Eppo, Andre Botha, Damien King and Ryan Hardy has always been a goal for any aspiring professional bodyboarder. Come the 16th of February Pipeline will become the focus of the bodyboarding world!