I’ve only read about 3 books since I left school, but the Michael Peterson bio was the best of them. This guy was a legend, he was easily the best surfer in Australia in the 70’s but was an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic.
Micheal was driving to Noosa when a police car with siren blaring came by and it set him into a panic and he drove off as fast as he could. He had not realized the police car was actually going the other way. The policeman saw him and took up a pursuit.
The pursuit turned into something straight out of a Hollywood movie, 20 police cars following, two side-swiped, and pedestrians nearly killed when he mounted the footpath at one point. The chase went on at high speed all the way to Brisbane where a further 15 police cars setup a roadblock on the Story Bridge, at which point Peterson stopped. It made national news and became known in surfing circles simply as “the chase”.
Michael ended up in Jail for a year and on his release never surfed again.
Finally there is a movie coming out telling MP’s story. Check it out on www.searchingformichaelpeterson.com.au
A bunch of hippies turned up today and wanted me to take some photos of them. I still have no idea what it was for….
Boogie boarding is not gay…… at all.
I am quite jealous of those Oakley Blades though, those things are sick! Sounds like they got one of those hip 80’s christian super groups to compose this epic track, my favorite part is the breakdown at 2:08. “El Rollo!”
15 year old Brazilian kid Gabriel Medina puts on a crazy display of futuristic surfing to win the Quiksilver King of the Groms in France this week. I think the WCT guys would be struggling to have beaten him in this heat.
I just completed a lap of the North Island for work. Seeing how it was the 3rd one I’ve done in 6 months it was pretty boring, but stopping to take the occasional photo kept me sane.
I checked out the Wave Box website a couple of weeks back and almost everything had been taken down, just a coming soon opening page and an ability to sign up to email updates. All the cheesy graphics and claiming how rad it was going to be were gone and also they had removed the option of paying $1000 for a lifetime pass. The promo vid is still up on youtube complete with Nu-Metal style sound track. Lets go!
The Wave Box was originally scheduled to open in December this year so while in Auckland this week I scoped out the site to see what sort of progress they’ve made. I was surprised to discover they had started construction, this thing is actually going ahead. It was a lot smaller than I imagined, I would estimate the Wave Box is around 1/6th the size of Snow Planet which is about 10 minutes further north up the motorway.
Here’s a couple of photos I took in the rain.
I’ve emailed the Wave Box crew and have secured a media pass to the opening “later this year”. So I’ll be there to let the world know if this thing is a success or a failure. I sent Surfing Magazine’s “Jimmicane” a link to the Wave Box a while back and he has posted an article on the Surfing Magazine website.
This kid is only 13! What were you dong when you were 13? I was stoked on standing up in the white wash and possibly still wetting the bed. Hopefully everyone can stop wacking off about that Jon Jon kid now. Video ripped off from Stab Magazine.
When I lived in Raglan I always used to joke about getting a dolphin burger from Hong Kong kitchen. I was horrified to learn that there is a secret cove in Japan where they slaughter 20,000 dolphins a year and their meat is sold, often labeled as whale meat. This movie follows a group of activists as they attempt to infiltrate the heavily-guarded cove to show Japan and the World what is really going on.
Registration is now open for Canon’s EOS Photo5 Creative Photography Competition and this year they’re also taking submissions from NZ. Go to Canon’s website to register and they’ll send you a box of 5 objects which you’ll base your photos around. Can’t wait until mine turns up.
There were a few alright waves around tonight but it was super cloudy. I was keeping myself entertained while walking the dog by taking photos of birds, but that damn pesky Alex Dive kept getting in the way with his vert reos.
A few buddies and I used to have a music blog, but it got pretty neglected so I’ve absorbed it onto this site. Look out for music vids I like down the right side of the page there.
Blair Stewart turned up to a pumping day at Matakana Island last year and got some sick shacks. Unfortunately due to the high number of good photos from this day, none of these made it into the magazine. So here they are, deep from the rejected files for your viewing pleasure…
Push play and use your arrow keys to scroll through the images.
