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Surf For Your Life

The Depth Test

Surf For Your Life

The Depth Test
Stu Nettle
Sunday 22/11  0
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!'

Slater the Dictator

Surfpolitik

Slater the Dictator

Surfpolitik
Stu Nettle
Wednesday 29/07  0

Fiji is home to the most jovial folk on the planet, and some of it's most perfect waves, yet it is a volatile little country. In the last twenty years the island nation has undergone four seperate coups (that's one every five years for those that don't have a calculator handy).

The fella who headed the last coup - Commodore Frank Bainimarama – said it was the 'coup to end all coups'. A warning, no doubt, to his enemies who were couping up for the next coup.