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Listen: Brazil’s first legitimate title contender Neco Padaratz on John John Florence’s $1500-a-month personal board-waxer, pro surfing conspiracies and the debilitating voodoo curse that forced him off tour!
"I've never seen Mum like that before. She was just trembling on the beach."
If you live in Esperance, a pretty little town once famous for its impossibly clear water but now better known as the world’s Great White attack capital, well, your nerves are going to be a little frayed.
Esperance has become such a byword for Great Whites, the Discovery Channel brought a New York-based marine biologist, Dr Craig O’Connell, to the isolated town to film a documentary exploring the peculiarly aggressive nature of Esperance’s Great Whites.
In October, popular local surfer Andrew Sharpe was taken “almost whole” by a Great White, the body never recovered.
“The body is just fucking gone,” said one witness.
Another witness, swimming with her kid a click away, described the water turning red.
Nine months earlier, diver Gary Johnsonwas hit by a White as soon as he dived into the water off Esperance to set his anchor and killed. Last week, an inquest heard that his wife dived in after her husband, the water “full
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By Phil Jarratt
Anybody missing the World Surf League? No, me neither, which is strange because before Covid I was a total tragic, up all hours of the night watching the world’s best face-planting in sandy closeouts in Peniche or Hossegor, or waiting for the noisy, smelly freight train to push a perfect wave their way in the middle of the California food bowl.
Now I’m cured. I don’t care what the top thirtysomething are doing in their gap year, and I’m not even remotely interested in the reruns they’re showing constantly on the WSL site, don’t want to be reminded of that year Kerrsy got robbed at onshore Lowers, or even the time that the shark bumped Mick at J-Bay and he had to split the purse with Julian. Most of the really good times I can recall associated with the surfing world tour predate the WSL, and some of them even predate the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP). I’d rather close my eyes and drift back over all those unbelievable free surf days, from Morocco to Mexico, Noosa to Nihiwatu.
But then a magazine in the UK asks me to reminisce about the greatest surf contest I ever witnessed (live, not webcast) and I briefly consider writing about the first Stubbies Pro at Burleigh Heads in 1977, which really was the greatest contest ever, and not just beca
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When 22-year-old Brazilian surfer Filipe Toledo won the Metropolis Pro battle last class, fans darken the seashore in City De Janeiro went packed Beatlemania. Flags waved. Dismay chants were sung. Big men cried. The seaside was good packed avoid Toledo esoteric trouble deed from say publicly water prefer the pulpit as say publicly throng all but emotional fans embraced him.
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